The capacity of societies to meet their basic needs can also be a guarantee of individual happiness.
Human beings are liberated to the extent that they are able to build the living conditions appropriate to their existence within social relations.
What ensures that social control does not turn into neighborhood pressure is that the individual has a personality and protects his/her own will. In this sense, a strong personality complements an organized, solidary society.
Approaches that pit the two against each other and pit them against each other neither ensure personal security nor create an environment for social peace.
In the relationship between these two subjects, it is necessary to position the role of politics and the state correctly, and to define a definition of authority and duties according to the conditions of the current environment.
The state cannot allow individuals or a minority to subvert the common good in the name of the market and private enterprise, nor can it allow the majority to stifle individual development by suppressing individual rights.
If the role you assign to the state is realistic and appropriate, your expectations from politics can be positioned correctly.
Politics is not the mechanism and process of using the state apparatus to subordinate the public good to your personal interests, or to seize the power to dominate the differences of individuals.
If you define politics as a social responsibility and personal obligation within the limits of what it should be, then there must be a reasonable balance between the purpose of life and the meaning you attribute to politics.
When you think of politics as the seizure of certain positions and ultimately the state, after a while it becomes such a fundamental goal that it replaces and surpasses almost all other goals.
“When your purpose becomes your god” This is precisely the warning of balance at this point.
Being motivated and focused on being successful in politics is valuable, provided that this framework is maintained. Otherwise, ambition not only consumes all values but also destroys social relations and even personality.
Political goals are valuable to the extent that they are the bearers and protectors of human values.