Harrison Bergeron: What Makes A Successful Society

Viewing mistakes as learning opportunities makes a person successful. People and government are alike in this circumstance. Pre-existing governments have both failed and succeeded. Learning from mistakes and successes result in a more prosperous society. We created a new society by blending systems and ideas from former governments to create our own. Our government thrives on ideas of equality and prosperity. By blending beliefs and systems from other prosperous societies we created our government. The idea of equality impacted the creation of our government greatly. All members of our society should be treated equally. Every member of our society would be given as much as they need to survive. We understand that everyone has different qualifications and capabilities. Each member has a job for the government to function. These jobs are given to each member with skill level in mind. In Harrison Bergeron …show more content…
Each member’s job contributes to the well-being of the entire union . Everyone must work hard for the good of all citizens. Order is needed for this to function. We strongly believe in Classical Republicanism, absolute power resides in the body of the people. We believe the duty of the government should be to promote the furtherance and protect the common welfare. This would result in our society being more prosperous and enterprising making the state wealthier and stronger. The system would work well because our community is small and all citizens have similar beliefs and lifestyles. We descried against the idea of natural rights, because in our society all we have is one another. Working together is the only way to achieve success. Rousseau states this idea, “The state of nature is a primitive condition without law or morality. Humans must leave this state of nature to discover the necessity for cooperation.” Beliefs of trust and the system of classical republicanism aided us in the creation of our