Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars!
Not since the digital revolution in the early '90s has technology placed such a comprehensive burden on business employees and individuals to reinvent their business plans services and products and themselves to keep pace with the changing marketplace.
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business its activities or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively a God who does a wholesale not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.
What strikes me is the fact that in our society art has become something which is only related to objects and not to individuals or to life.
Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society that man alone is weak and adrift that he must seek strength in common action.
Look the center right coalition in American politics today is best understood as a coalition of groups and individuals that on the issue that brings them to politics what they want from the government is to be left alone.
Non-disclosure in the Internet Age is quickly perceived as a breach of trust. Government corporations and each of us as individuals must recalibrate how we live and share our lives appropriate to the information now available and the expectations of others.
The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.