You can’t step into the same river twice. — Heraclitus
All things flow. Society is a constant stream, never permanent. Someone wrote the rules we play by. Now it’s our turn to rewrite them. ‘Society’ might come off as an insurmountable monolith. Certainly its ossified structures can trap you in vicious cycles. In the downward spiral, people often put the blame on themselves.
I call it Society of One to claim three objectives. First, society is what each one of us radiates as its constituent. Representative democracies are preliminaries. Second, society can be, and should be, organised into manageable units in space and time. “Projects” are modular social systems for it. Third, unification of society doesn’t come from a single perfect social system. Conversely, it comes from pluralising and differentiating into diverse social systems we can experiment, iterate, and archive.
It the following chapters, we are going to discuss what it means in detail.