Every society that has ever existed has had some kind of cultural enforcement, including America in its 19th century heyday. This would be what you refer to as busybodies. Church ladies shunning whores, small towns freezing out degenerates, people looking suspiciously at outsiders. Aid societies, music societies, temperance societies. Was the enforcement perfect? No. But it was necessary. Wishing for a society without an order is as fantastical as communism. That society cannot exist.
I mostly agree with your thesis, I simply believe a society can exist without people going out of their way to be tattletales and narcs. People have bent the rules of society without causing harm since the dawn of man. trying to stamp out all dissent and deviance for the sake of stamping out dissent and deviance is just totalitarianism.
Every society that has ever existed has had some kind of cultural enforcement, including America in its 19th century heyday. This would be what you refer to as busybodies. Church ladies shunning whores, small towns freezing out degenerates, people looking suspiciously at outsiders. Aid societies, music societies, temperance societies. Was the enforcement perfect? No. But it was necessary. Wishing for a society without an order is as fantastical as communism. That society cannot exist.
I mostly agree with your thesis, I simply believe a society can exist without people going out of their way to be tattletales and narcs. People have bent the rules of society without causing harm since the dawn of man. trying to stamp out all dissent and deviance for the sake of stamping out dissent and deviance is just totalitarianism.