Here are two question we all need to ask and answer

[malaise]

What exactly is this Social Contract our ancestors signed up for. If there is no society and everything can be privatized, hasn’t the contract already been broken?

[2naSalit]

1. Very good and important questions to ask!

Will require some...

Wait a minute!

You're asking us to think, I see what you did there!

[malaise]

12. Clarence says you're trying to bully

them - that is pretty stunning.

[2naSalit]

14. All I can do...

Is SMH. I just don't know how to respond anymore.

[malaise]

16. Ditto

[Martin68]

2. I don't follow you, malaise. We have no society? Everything can be privatized? What country are you

referring to? Certainly not the U.S.

[malaise]

3. Tke essence of the Social Contract is SOCIETY

Social contract theory, nearly as old as philosophy itself, is the view that persons' moral and/or political obligations are dependent upon a contract or agreement among them to form the society in which they live
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[jaxexpat]

4. The questions arise every election.

Is a social contract an inheritance item? Are contracts based on future value renewable? I have this question to add. If a social contract is possessable, does that mean it's valuable, does that mean it's for sale?

[Delmette2.0]

11. Great questions.

[malaise]

13. Looks like the billionaires bought it

and the contract is with them - we are merely peons

[Martin68]

5. So on what do you base your premise that we have no society?

Is it possible a minority of the people living in the US do not subscribe to the contract? Does that mean we have no society?

[malaise]

6. Read the Reagan/Thatcjer doctrine

Markets replace society and this is not just about the US. The social good is under attack. They don’t even want public schools. We’re seeing the rise of private militias who are infiltrating both the police and armies.

[Martin68]

9. OK, I get it. But as you note, society is under attack, not non-existent. Yet.

If your point is that we need to be aware of the danger unregulated capitalism poses to society and democracy, I completely agree. The Koch brother's program to fight off social services anywhere they are proposed, such as mass transit or broadband internet, is one such direct threat.

[malaise]

10. Yes you got it

Society is under threat BIGLY

[Emile]

7. The next thing they'll privatize will be Medicare.

[malaise]

8. That is on their agenda

The coup is ongoing on several fronts.

[ananda]

15. It's been broken for years.

We haven't had fair elections for at least 22 years.