1. Introduction

"Society is a system of human relationships. It builds itself spontaneously as a matter of free choice of its members but can also be built by domination and force. It may be created as result of conquests, wars as well as by political or economic extortion.

Societies have existed since the beginning of human civilisation. They resulted from natural human way to live in groups. Societies were usually grouped people sharing the same specific region, culture, language and religion. Currently this term may be used for any group of people sharing something in common. Example: Facebook society.

Many processes in large societies have unpredictable chaotic character. To understand them it is useful to analyse societies and their parts as systems. This is the way to spot some general tendencies for any given factors playing role in society evolution.
 
2. How do the social system works?

Human beings are autonomous systems which means that they govern themselves in their own interest and the society is expected to be system functioning in similar way i.e. in the interest of its members. Unfortunately, it usually consists of different groups which may not follow common interest, acting in a selfish way at the expense of the rest.

We observe such phenomena like exploitation, domination, lack of good will and lack of cooperation. If there are no efficient regulatory mechanisms it leads to inequalities, confrontations and fights.

Societies are key elements of the progress of our civilisation. Our progress is possible thanks to social inheritance. Without this social heritage our civilisation could not be built. There are two main kinds of social systems hence societies, Centralized and Democratic. They are very different, especially if it comes to the way of controlling them.
 
3. Governing Society

Governing complex system like society is a difficult task. These difficulties increase with the increase of the size and diversity of it. The attempt to solve this problem by centralization of control is a common misconception and there were many well-known examples of failures of such methods in the history of humanity. In centralized system its parts have little or no autonomy. We observe dependency, enforced control, little cooperation and low efficiency of the society as system.

Centralized control system works well if its parts are specialized and able to control themselves. They do not have to be autonomous as they do not work independently. They are controlled. The structure of the system must be hierarchical which requires several levels of control and several levels of access to information. System is rigid, unadaptive. In the case of human societies its stability depends on existing norms of obedience and punishments; such systems easily become totalitarian.

Many technical and biological systems are decentralized but most advanced have central processing unit, brain. Such systems require specialization, autocontrol and cooperation of its parts. The parts themselves are very sophisticated and self controlled. Nevertheless, they are not autonomous, they need each other to survive, they must be coordinated and controlled to stay as a whole, one, integrated system.

Human societies are the most complex systems and they can be extremely efficient. They can be organized in many different ways depending on tasks to be done. In practice they are not easy to govern. They should be autonomous to progress and they should use their parts in the best possible way in the interest of individuals and the society as a whole. If they are not autonomous they are controlled from outside and they function in the interest of the external controlling agent.

Whether societies are autonomous or not their parts remain autonomous at least potentially. This autonomy may be sacrificed and replaced by autocontrol for the good of the whole body of society but only to certain limits otherwise we can talk about slavery. In any real situation there is always a compromise between the good of society and the good of individual.
 

4. Human factors in social systems

There are several factors, human characteristics, which should be considered while analyzing society. All of them are encrypted in our genetic make up, the effect of our evolution. Here are the most important of them:

1. Autonomy means that humans function in their own interest. However, this may be suppressed by instinct or conditioned by extortion.
    
2. Domination is a natural tendency of individual and is present in every human relation.
    
3. Hierarchy is present in every human organization and is related to domination and obedience to authority.
    
4. Obedience to authority results from hierarchy, domination and exemption from responsibility.
    
5. Behaviour copying is typical for children but also true for adults.
    



6. Tribalism and sense of belonging system seems have evolved for our survival.
    
7. Creativity is exclusively human and is necessary for the health of society. Lack of it leads to downfall and regress.
    

A newborn human child mind is in a blank state. His brain has some genetic structure ready to absorb and process information. It has to learn and memorize experience continuously creating new structures and new associations in order to adapt to the external world.

We are born to be autonomous but we are shaped by our environment which means by parents, society and its culture. We have to learn Hierarchy, Obedience, Domination, Behaviour, Creativity. We can be everything or nothing depending on the process of our mental development.

The first stage of this development takes place inside family and what is created during that time is later difficult to erase. The following stage belongs to schools and environment, neighbourhood and other influential factors, example: television. colleagues etc. The role of parents may be suppressed or even eliminated. This may lead to anything... Sometimes the mix of opposite influences creates confusion and instability of person's character.
 

5. Developing future society

Observing world tendency in development of modern societies we can spot more chaos and uncertainty than any rational efforts. What do we want to have in the future? - Let's analyze some symptoms. Here is what we can spot:

1. We decrease authority of the parents and diminish the role of the family.
We lower the preschool education age and give the rights to rise our children to specialized organizations. Do we want our children to be more uniform?
 
2. We leave our children to be educated and formed by violent games and toxic movies.
Are we conscious of the results?
 
3. We remove the authority of teachers from our school and we make education a matter of choice.
Our children are less and less educated. Should they rather learn from the street and television? What we want them to copy?
 
4. We feed our children with information about violence and fraud every day.
What kind of creativity we want teach our children?
 
5. We diminish the role of local societies and autonomy of countries.
What kind of global social system do we want?
 
6. We globalize the economy, we set rules for the countries and give them specific roles to play while they loose their autonomy and creativity. Society is not a group of production workers at the factory belt and countries are not simple narrowly qualified workers.

Do we want centralized system? How do we expect to build one out of poorly educated people, disintegrated societies, non autonomous countries.

- What kind of hierarchy would it be?
- What kind of democracy if any?
- How shall we deal with different cultures and religions
- How shall we be politically correct?
- Shall we divide people into creative and non-creative?

We do not have to continue with other questions. Everybody is able to formulate them for themselves. So far we create something with no future. We are using our knowledge to make things happen but before its to late, we should use it to examine possible effects of our actions and replace visions of ignorant utopists by scientific analysis.

W.W.