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I have become interested in the idea of liberty and freedom being reliant on a well disciplined populace to sustain itself. The idea that when the people wrested power from the old hereditary lords, they promised to place the burdens of that power on their shoulders, and accept the discipline and restraint it would require to wield it. I am talking about things such as:
>The right to vote being dependent on a populace disciplined enough to actually pay attention to elections and vote.
>The right to free public education requiring a population ready and willing to serve as tutors, chaperones, and aids at any time they are called without hesitation.
>The right to a fair trial is dependent on people not dragging their feet when called for jury duty.
>The right to access to water depends on you not trying to use limited supplies to flood a field in a desert.
What literature should I read to dive deeper into this idea?
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I'm also wondering how this ties in with the social contract?
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>>9772768
You're striving for a fundamentally materialistic system; you can't make people be a certain way. that's a very teenaged mistake your making.
There are, and have been, societies that have functioned synergistically and productively without someone standing over them with a gun and it's because they wanted to. People will only act in proportion to the depth of their emotional investment.
The system is never more important than the people.
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>>9773153
I don't mean to force people into action. I just mean to understand how the unspoken societal obligations which all cultures have becomes effected by the implementation of enlightenment ideals.
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rousseau
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Discourses on Livy by Niccolò Machiavelli
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Good books on authority and social order.
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