Do you think your society will succeed and be considered a "free nation" on the Map of Freedom? (That is having good political and civil liberties)Explain.
1. In my opinion, our society will be very successful since we have a small amount of inhabitants in the island so we can start building our society since the beginning step by step with the knowledge we already have and experience from living in a large society. Apart from that, we made our society in a way that mixes the ideals of all ideologies, for example, we are applying some capitalism by saying that everyone should be able to own amount of land, but we are also applying some factors of communism by saying that there is a democracy so everyone has the same rights. In a special way, we are saying that everyone has the same rights but everyone is also allowed to own their own things. Politically, we are making a society not completely fascist, nor we are doing our society completely anarchist. In this case, we also attempted to do the perfect balance between anarchism and fascism, by putting a leader that is able to make all decisions, but having that leader as completely managed by people, in the way that they cannot only vote for them, but they can also take leaders out of power if they are not doing their job well. Additionally, we tried to make a leader ideal, and totally controlled by people, so everyone would make the right decisions and by the majority, the leader’s actions would be indirectly controlled.
What do you think it will be like to really live as a citizen on your island? Explain
2. I think that for a citizen to really live in our island would be a good thing since there are few people so everyone would be able to make agreements since they have a small society to control. Apart from that, we have predetermined a set of instructions in order for the society to have a better balance and organization that what we have nowadays in our actual societies, for there is a mixture of today’s ideas, making the perfect balance for a society to live comfortably in. in a political map, our society would be more or less in the middle, meaning that we are not having any extremes or any balances so there is nothing to be very disgusted with or very pleased, but a middle point so everyone will be ok with the way of managing the island’s society.
Which issues were the most frustrating to decide on? Which created the most interesting discussion? Explain.
3. The most frustrating issues to decide were the leadership ones, since some students argued in favor of having a leader while others preferred to have an anarchist society in which there was no leader. The arguments for both where strong but it was a more logical idea to have a leader, and the decision of having one was made. On the other hand, the decision in property owning was the one that caused the most interesting discussions since there was a lot of strong arguments on having a communism society and having a capitalism society. Some people said it was better for people not to have differences, while others said everyone deserves the right to have their own things. Finally, we decided to make a capitalism society but not so radical, meaning there were going to be some aspects of communism applied as well, such as democracy, or goods sources, but this theme was difficult to decide and had very interesting ideas and discussions.
What have you learned about creating and managing a society? Explain
4. From creating and managing a society I have learned that it is very difficult to do this task successfully and to satisfy everyone in the process, since everyone thinks differently and people’s desires are very varied. Apart from that, I have learned that democracy is a very good way of making decisions since everyone wants their own ideas to be taken into consideration and everyone wants their opinions to be valid, so it is better to simply make people vote and the majority wins. Additionally, I have found the job of managing a society very hard since every small detail has to be covered, for there are a lot of aspects in an individual’s life, worse, in a society’s life. Creating a society is also a hard task for trying to guess what will work and what won’t is really hard, and again, trying to please people and make everyone live satisfied is really difficult, almost impossible because everyone has different expectations and it is hard to fulfill them all.
By: Maria Virginia Velazquez Hammerle
I would like to agree on eerything that you said on the reflection question number 4 because i also think that it's ery difficult to create a society knowing that people think in a variety of ways and that coming to an agreement is really difficult.
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