The Universal Body

If we were to imagine the human, environmental and cosmological world as a gigantic body, we can begin breaking down the parts of the body into its respective pieces in order to better understand its function and form.

To begin with an incomplete listing of the parts that we have, we begin with the individual cell, which is the singular person within society. Each person has social, psychological, environmental and physical needs that have to be met if they're going to be as healthy and successful as possible. We can think of these in terms of axes of well being, similar to what is used in psychiatric diagnosis.

The economy is like the circulatory system that supplies the cells with the goods, services and money that is needed for them to be well. It is important that only clean goods and services get added into the bloodstream of the economy, or else it will poison the cells and kill off the presently existing society in question. Goods, services and money also needs to flow throughout the system in a reasonably equitable manner, or else parts of the body will be without goods and services, thus increasing the likelihood of infection (rebellion and unrest), in addition to bloating the other parts that are receiving more of the blood that the other parts (bad for their physical and psychological health).

The government is like the brain of society that operates all parts of the body. It must serve the rest of the body in order to preserve the body in question, else, it will become open to infection, and the rest of the body will likely begin attacking it to remove its members from office (either through elections or through overthrow). Therefore, the brain must be aware of the body and the environment (through the sense organs and mechanisms internally and externally) and must be appropriately responsive to the needs and wishes of the rest of the body, as well as effective at responding to the needs and wishes of the body/environment if its members want to stay in office. The idea is to do as much good for all, while doing as little harm as is possible for all.

The brain (government) controls the heart, which pumps blood (goods, services and money) throughout the society, preventing it from bunching up in specific areas. It also produces the legal framework for the society, which acts as the muscular and skeletal system of the body that is human society. It also makes the ultimate decisions about how the body interacts with the environment that is around it for the body's sake, as well as makes choices about how to interact with other societies under other governments.

Eventually, it would be ideal to have one government for all of humanity, but that is a long way off, and we have many kinks to work out before that.

All of this is done, for the sake of the individual cells which compose the body. Without them, there is no body of society in which the brain can govern, and without the brain to govern the body, there is no effective functioning within the body on the tangible and empirically demonstrable level.

This is an incomplete picture of my analogy of the world as being like a body.

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