1.1 Man and Society; The Art of Living Together, pg. 1-5

1.1.1. Though humans have lived together for centuries, very little progress has been made in solving the problems associated with living together as a society, chief among them being equal distribution of "stuff," that is, physical and cultural goods.

1.1.2. The technological revolution has certainly solved many of our problems, it has also increased injustice--and exacerbated social conflict--by unevenly distributing power to the few.

1.1.3. While human nature has given us the tools to navigate social relations, such as the natural impulse to consider the needs of others when they compete with our own, solidarity with groups larger than our immediate kin group remains difficult to maintain.

1.1.4. A social utopia, where an enlightened education system teaches people to grant to others what they claim for themselves, is illusory because it's based on all people thinking and acting rationally.

1.1.5. Any cooperation on a scale larger than an intimate social/kin group requires a measure of coercion, though coercion alone is not enough to hold society together.

NUT: Though we are moral beings, we've always had unjust societies where coercive power in the hands of the few enables the unequal distribution of goods.