What is the Concept of Society? | The Legalist

What is the Concept of Society? | The Legalist

Hey it's Lee Davis attorney and owner of Lee Davis Law and I'm back here with another kind of quick-hitter video just about some basic thoughts that I've been having recently during the Covid 19 crisis and just kind of... it all really dovetails into what our society and what our system of laws is really based on. So there's been a lot of talk about individual liberties and what we should do and what we should be able to do and is the government overreaching and so it just has me kind of thinking about all of these different concepts and really the whole reason that we have a constitution in the first place and that is the concept of society. Now I know we use the word Society all the time but Society really is a concept that's more complicated than the way we typically use it. The concept of society is actually an evolutionary step in human beings and that is there's a point at which people stopped making their day-to-day efforts at bare subsistence and you know it used to be at one time that people lived on a plot of land and they spent all of their time basically providing food for themselves providing water for themselves the bare necessities of life and at some point probably I would say during the Industrial Revolution and the things that followed. Humanity started being able to divide up into different segments and it provided a lot more freedom. So I don't I'm a lawyer I don't have to spend all my time growing my own food or growing or raising animals for food. There are other people in society that do that and because of that society is really like a really big jigsaw puzzle. I'm just one small piece the farmer is another small piece and doctors are another piece and all of us have the ability to be specialized in the different things that we do because we are all part of a society and at the center of that society is an unwritten societal