We are all individuals

Society as the existence of a collective, does not exist. What we call ‘society’ is the name given to randomized individual interactions taking place on a large scale. A society is nothing more than the sum of its individual actions. All of the phenomena attributed to a ‘society’ are nothing more than large-scale individual interactions. This is best illustrated by comparing humans living in a small town with those living in a large city. Humans from a small town tend to dress, speak, and behave in a very similar way. This is because in small towns, humans tend to build stronger bonds. They have a longer period of time to build an impression of someone and the relationships are emotional. In a city, where meetings are fleeting and often brief, people might dress differently, speak differently, and behave differently. This is because humans in large groups need to adopt strategies to earn the attention and interest of others. With such limited interaction, city dwellers have less time to form emotional bonds and the awareness of others must be grabbed. The easiest way to grab someone’s attention is to fill an unusual position.^[1] The examples above show how a ‘society’ that others believe shares a culture, language, or behavioral traits, does not share any of these. It is merely the collection of individual interactions playing out across humankind.

[P1] Society is nothing more than individual interactions taking place on a large scale. [P2] Therefore, society as a concept beyond collective interaction does not exist.