Integral Society: Social Institutions and Individual Sovereignty - Paperback

by Gordon L. Anderson (Author)

This book is a manifesto for an integral society in which sovereign individuals are served by social institutions, not exploited by them. Social institutions have a valuable place in an integral society, but they must be kept to their mission, sphere, and level of society. This book is about creating social institutions and a constitution for sovereign individuals to pursue life, liberty, and happiness in a sustainable world.

Key Points Made in Integral Society

• How the rise of social institutions threaten individual sovereignty, self-sufficiency, and human rights.
• The relationship between human nature and the nature of social institutions.
• How social institutions belong to different social levels and spheres, and why they must be kept in their place.
• The importance of institutional culture and values.How social institutions created to serve individuals end up exploiting them.
• How government/bank cabals cause money to be taken from the working class widespread distribution of capital.
• Importance of a large middle class and opportunity for upward social mobility.
• How political parties hijacked the legislative process to distribute money from the treasury to donors.
• The importance of integrating traditional, modern, and post-​modern knowledge in the search for truth.
• A Declaration of Integral Society builds on the U.S. Declaration of Independence.
• A Constitution for an Integral Society that limits the misuse of social institutions, power, and money.

Author Biography

Gordon L. Anderson, Ph. D., Claremont Graduate University, President, Paragon House, former Adjunct Professor, California Institute of Integral Studies. He is an expert in world social systems, organizing major international conferences and publishing books on the Soviet System, the Chinese system, and Liberal Democracies. He has served as President of the Legislative Evaluation Assembly of Minnesota.