rwh@aesat.UUCP (Russell Herman) (12/06/84)
I'm pretty bewildered by those who maintain that "society is an aggregate
of individuals". When someone says "aggregate" to me, my free association
is "concrete". You know - sand, gravel, stuck together with cement - little
pieces of inert matter rigidly locked in place. That's not a terribly good
analogue for society. At minimum, I'd call society a "system". If I'm really
in a good mood, I might even call it an "organism". But "aggregate"?
Sorry, doesn't fit, any more than my body is an aggregate of organs.
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