The ability for individuals to act in coordination and cooperation requires each individual to obtain a certain level of focus, through which the collective can also exhibit focus towards the intended goal.
Connections
Self-Discovery Requires Dialogue With The World
Link Explanation: The linked note discusses how the discovery of one’s own self identity can only be achieved through interaction, conflict and collaboration with society and nature around them. It is loosely related to the idea of an unfocused society being unable to function, because without focus, individuals are not able to collaborate or even really engage with the world. With out focus, therefore, each individual becomes lost, losing their sense of their own role as a cog in the universe and thus their own importance. As a result society itself becomes an unconnected, drifting mass of parts, rather than a coherent whole.
Reference
� How to Do Nothing