| History focuses on governments most often, but when you look at the history that doesn't you'll see that my point is well supported by history. But you don't even need any knowledge of history to see it. Just look at the world around you today. Despite the growth of government most interaction between people isn't government interaction. Families, clubs, literature, friends hanging out together, games, discussions, privately run television, movies, and radio, privately funded fine art, private web sites where people interact, various e-mail sites, web sites on millions of different subjects, charities, small medium and large businesses, churches... All of this is society. To say that society and government is the same is either to say that all of this doesn't exist, or that its all government. |
