Natural vs. Social

by Stephen Chafi

There are two view points for interpreting the world these days. The natural world and the social world. Both of these worlds are different but still result in something happening. The results can be as small as an argument between two people or as big as a hurricane. The point being that even if these two worlds are different they both effect our world and how we live in it. But which of the two effect us more in the current time we live in?
In any view points of the world, things happen that is out of our control. The natural world view point focuses on occurrences to be undirected or out of our control. In the Stone book, they use the example of a cold front hitting a warm front. A storm occurs and can destroy everything it touches. It could destroy people homes and lives, but there is no willful intention of that. No human made that storm and focused it on the town to destroy it. It was a natural occurrences out of anybodies control. The natural world is made of fate, chance, and unforeseen accidents. Some my choose to believe that there is a higher being that does all of this for a reason, but the fact remains that it is still out of our hands. As a community we accept the fact that stuff is going to happen that is beyond our control and do our best to work around it.
Now on the other side of the spectrum; we have the social world. The social world is directly influenced by human will. This world is not based of chance, instead it is based off control and intent. To understand it completely, one must understand that you must be able to identify the motives of a group or person and link them with there actions to understand what they want. Because of this we can influence people many ways. This includes flattering, bribing, threatening, helping, fighting, and loving. People use these things to change the course of events so they can benefit our needs more. In the social world, there is no chance or random accidents; there is only what we do to influence people.
So the question comes up, which of the two effects us more in the current world. I believe that both co-exist. There are things in this world that we cant control like hurricanes. But think about after the hurricanes, we choose to send more money to those states hit hard and help rebuild what they lost. We use the social view to solve the things we can not control. With out one, I do not think that the other would exist. We as people are just going to have to live with what we can not control and then take advantage of the stuff we can control, and hope that it all works out for the best.