The Daily Drucker: January 19 - The Purpose of Society

Society is only meaningful if its purpose and ideals make sense in terms of the individual's purpose and ideals.

For the individual there is no society unless he has social status and function.  There must be a definite functional relationship between individual life and group life.  For the individual without function and status, society is irrational, incalculable, and shape less.  The "rootless" individual, the outcast - for absence of social function and status casts a man from the society of his fellows - sees no society.  He sees only demoniac forces, half sensible, half meaningless, half in light and half in darkness, but never predictable.  They decide about his and his livelihood without the possibility of interference of his part, indeed without the possibility of his understanding them.  He is like a blindfolded man in a strange room playing a game of which he does not know the rules.

ACTION POINT: Make time to reach out to a "rootless" person who may be unemployed or retired.  Drop them a note of support or take them out to lunch.

Quoted from The Daily Drucker, January 19 , Page 21