The Importance Of Order In Society

Our civilization as a whole prides itself on the adoption of utopian like characteristics. These are derived from our supposedly unparalleled development of our societies and one of its fundamental pillar of order. Yet, we seem to neglect the fact that we share almost identical concepts of order in society as our primitive ancestor tribes. We pride ourselves on our ability to impose order into our ‘modern’ societies and yet throughout history and even today, we consistently witness instances of anarchy that have directly contradicted the values of which we have formed our societies upon. However, it remains biologically instinctive that we seek order within our lives, this is the fundamental mechanism engraved in our human nature that has

Our brains are heavily evolved pattern-recognition systems that have major tendency to connect the dots and interpret it in order to generate meaning and association from the patterns. Connecting the dots of nature that involves the categorization of anything and everything from social stratifications like status, power and wealth that are often ordered in a hierarchy structure to race and religion. Despite the naturality of it, dogmatic ways of thinking has led to the rejection of people’s ability to interpret patterns in nature thus inhibiting our ability as a species to broaden our perspective and gain knowledge for the progression of our development as a species. Furthermore, the strong tendency can occasionally lead to patternicity, the tendency to find meaningful patterns in meaningless noise which generally describes the illusory correlation of patterns of which refers to the fabricated relationship of non-associated variables as triggered by our natural instinct to seek

The implementation of conformity is an integral concept and factor in our natural desire for order. Society can’t exist without order however, the contradiction of our desire to seek order with our ‘beast within’ requires the imperative implementation of conformity to subdue our innate ‘beast within’. The implementation of conformity relates to enforcing and promoting societal expectations placed on to members of society to be preserved in order to enable the efficacy of the social structure that governs the order in our society and lives. The implementation of conformity occurs primarily through societal and peer pressure to follow socially approved norms / rules. The social compliance that is caused by the societal pressures result in a structured and ordered