Loss in the American West

Chanda Cooper

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Since the very beginning of time when mankind first banded together for hunting gathering humans have searched for an

eden, shangrila, what we would consider an ideal society. Many societies have managed to flourish for many centruies, but

they have always had created tragic flaws that allowed their social structre to rot from the inside out, as well as everyday economic, and

social differences that led to their eventual downfall. I believe that this dream of Nirvana is unatainable no matter how hard a group of

people might strive for it, but by examing the structre of society from the bottom up I believe we will see that the finished product of a

ideal society might be unattainible but just but striving for that that common goal we can make time a better place as well as the

qualifications to be an expectations of an ideal society.

To truly understand what would be an ideal society we must start with the idea of a basic moral fibre, thus letting society have

an inate sense of right from wrong. This would mean that the human species has some sort of unspoken law, a type of behavior that we hold all ourselves accountable to. C.S Lewis explained this

theory in his philosophical

writing Mere Christianity, "Now what interests me about all these [argumentative] remarks is that the man

who makes them is not merely saying that the other man’s behavior does not happen to please him. He is appealing to some kind of

standard of behavior which he expects the other man to know about. And the other man very seldom replies: “To hell with your

]standard.” Nearly always he tries to make out that what he has been doing does not really go against the standard, or that if it does

there is some special reason in this particular case why the person who took the seat first should not keep it, or that things were quite

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different when he was given the bit of orange, or that something has turned up which lets him off keeping his promise. It looks, in fact,

very much as if both parties had in mind some kind of Law or Rule of fair play or decent behavior or morality