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Social Interplay

In a formative context, Mass Trance as I have described it casts a shadow of interplay

where institutions and aligned special interests of the Oligarchy class structure conflict over

government power and capital allocation to direct or distract attention away from their controlling

interests, whereas the imaginative framework shapes the preconceptions about potential forms of

human interaction that are made possible in regards to citizen network formation, empowered

comradery and shared vision of positive potentials.

Through this exchange made theoretically through evolved Community Conversations that

harness greater participation and involvement, a formative context could counter the COGs further

creating and sustaining control of roles and ranks, which mold conflict over the mastery of

resources and the shaping of the ideas of social possibilities, identities and interests. Unless we as

the public in dialogue can realize the formative context shaping our society and the challenges of

overcoming the oppressive control of democracy from the oligarchs it is unrealistic for change, for

example, if you include the organization of production through managers and laborers we also

need to analyze the set of laws put in place that are administering capital, we need to question the

structure of political representation as a dialogue analyzing the state of democracy and look at the

legislative system in relation to the citizen, and as a social division of labor. (Unger, 2001)

False necessity, or anti-necessitarian social theory, is a contemporary social theory that

argues for the plasticity of social organizations and their potential to be shaped in new ways. The

theory rejects the assumption that laws of change govern the history of human societies and limit

human freedom. (Unger, 2004) It is a critique of "necessitarian" thought in conventional social

theories (like liberalism or Marxism) which hold that parts of the social order are necessary or the

result of the natural flow of history. The theory rejects the idea that human societies must be

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