The Social Construction of Reality

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What are the practical implications?

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The practical implications of the societal changes described include significant political and domestic transformations. In politics, the preponderance of the women's vote has led to wars being declared illegal, with foreign difficulties now adjusted by arbitration [1]. Domestically, women have gained independence and can run houses single-handed, with most machinery powered by electricity, requiring only a few hours of work daily [5]. The fashion of having numerous ornaments has also declined because men could not invent self-adjusting, non-destructive dusters, leading to women refusing to be "hand machines" for aesthetic purposes [5].

Furthermore, the passages touch upon the practical implications of anarchy. While the principles of anarchy, such as the abolition of private property and authority, prevailed, it was discovered that anarchy itself had to subordinate to some form of order to enforce it upon others [3]. The belief in anarchy was found to be different from its practice, leading to a period of disorder, rapacity, crime, and cruelty due to the absence of restraints or punishments [2, 3]. Ultimately, the people themselves called for a form of government that included…

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She has gained her independence at the expense of her strongest appeal to man, her power as mistress, wife and mother. How can a man get up any very vivid or profound sentiment or affection for these men-women--who are neither mothers nor housekeepers, who differ in no smallest degree from themselves in their pursuits and occupation? Constant and perpetual companionship, from earliest infancy to manhood and old age has resulted in blunting all sense of any real difference between the sexes. Whatever slight inequalities may still exist between men and women in the matter of muscular…
Passage [29]
ut now the leaders discovered that a belief in the reign of anarchy was one thing, and its practice was quite another. For a time, as you know, there was a terrible period of disorder, during which the grossest excesses were practiced under the name of “Perfect Individualism,” “a common property, common freedom, common distribution for all.” After a few years of the wildest indulgence, rapacity, crime, and cruelty--for, of course, there being no government, there could be neither restraints imposed nor crimes punished--the people themselves at last began to cry aloud for some form of…
Passage [39]
teenth-century American as a very shrewd and ingenious way of utilizing elements which otherwise might prove dangerous. The policy was, in truth, a fatally short-sighted one, as was proved later; since it was the enormous accumulation of fortunes in a few hands and the supposed tyranny of capital which wrought to a frenzy the envy and anger of the foreign poorer classes, then under the sway of the anarchist revolutionists. After the American statesmen had made peace between the conquering but quarrelsome anarchists, these latter set about organizing the new society. Anarchy itself,…
Passage [38]
r the material comforts and necessities of its vast population, its own internal duties really absorb all its energies. Then, in a government, founded as this one is, on a principle of equality, which principle is the sworn enemy of ambition there must of necessity be a lack of initiative, a feebleness in aggressive attack, and a want of determination in the pursuance of any given policy. It is only ambitious stable governments which can command and maintain a definite policy of national action. Even the American Republic found it difficult, with its recurrent changes in official…
Passage [53]
t the expense of the state, during their youth; when they take the management of a house they can run it single-handed. Most of the machinery goes by electricity. A house can be kept in perfect order by two hours’ work daily. The only hard work which we still have to do is dusting. No invention has yet been effected which dusts satisfactorily without breakage to ornaments, which accounts for the fact, also, that the fashion of having odds and ends about a home has gone out. It was voted years ago by the largest women’s vote ever polled, that since men could not invent self-adjusting,…
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