The awareness of nations

We are living in an age where societies need to have self-awareness. It is no longer sufficient to react on instinct, tradition, or habit. Society, as a problem-solving entity, needs to know its own strengths and weaknesses in order to survive and succeed in the globally connected world. And for this it needs to face its own behaviour critically and make rational decisions for self-improvement.

Many features of society will be questioned by this new awareness:

• Mass media: a tool for imprinting the collective mind, and such power should be aligned with society's goals instead of falling into the hands of manipulators.
• Dogma: the centuries-old spiritual authority has also been subverted. The knowledge contained in dogma needs to be separated from the associated authority, to be studied ontologically and for its own sake.
• Corporations: those economics-based nation-like entities that transcend national borders exist currently at a predator-prey stage. Its prey are individuals and other corporations, and such an adversarial stance does not benefit society. This attitude follows from the myth of scarce resources, which urgently needs to be deconstructed.
• Political action: it is hard to argue against the fact that power corrupts individuals, and that the best leaders accept their responsibility reluctantly. But politics are only useful when the masses are not aware, and thus need decision-making to be performed on their behalf. With awareness, hierarchical democratic groups can be formed to address decision-making at any level without the need for political action.
• Legal system: it has long been shown mathematically that any human system of rules will end up being inconsistent and incomplete. Jurisprudence hasn't yet caught up with that fact, and as a result the law is being turned into a game of experts looking for loopholes and omissions for monetary benefit, at the detriment of cooperation and progress.