Social capital is a concept which was announced in the 1980es and practiced by humankind since its early days as a political species. Proliferous societies were those who controlled the basic political nature of humankind, by suggesting a voluntary social order which promises reciprocity to their members. The social order is forced by an entity which its followers choose to follow - and therefore increase its power and their own social capita. Rousseau called these social phenomena a ‘social contract’ - which is based upon the mutual understanding of the survival inclination shared by human as a species, in the presence of complex awareness which desires reciprocity. Reciprocity and justice are not natural partners (when surveying sapiens history and the state of nature), but modern social order conducts us to believe so. Another chapter that could be added to this document is of Social Capital in the age of digital social networks, though I believe my words in numbers had already evaded their formal limits. Currently, science had never found evidence for the existence of a great entity, superior to human. At the same breath - social order and added meaning construct artifacts (such as God) which have vast physical implementations on earth. And therefore - the non-physical artifact exist by the belief of its followers. In my perspective the gap between those who believe in science, or liberalism and equality (non-religious polytheism? Each human being is a lord) - and those who believe in the one Ribon (identity, someone greater), and wish to see themselves as part of it (of the shared identity) is growing. There is a structured bias in this perspective of mine - which is probably caused by my Israeli identity. The modern nationalists' movements are the practice of a sovereignty trying to ease the social gaps between its subjects, in a survival act to maintain their power in front of the new social orders created by the global community - the post-national regime.

 

Essay heads:

1. Social Capital - Concepts History and Morphosis

2. The Authority as seen by Hobbes and Rousseau and the ‘post-national regime’

3. Religion, Sovereignty and Social Capital

4. Social Capital and Utopia - The study case of the collapse of social utopia in the neoliberal age as practiced by the Israeli Kibbutz.

5. Conclusions​