The Purpose of Society.
Society is only meaningful it its purpose and ideals make sense in terms of the individual’s purposes and ideals.
For the individual there is no society unless he has social status and function. There must be a definite functional relationship between individual life and group life. For the individual without function and status, society is irrational, incalculable, and shapeless. The “rootless” individual, the outcast—for absence of social function and status casts a man from the society of his fellows—sees no society. He sees only demonic forces, half sensible, half meaningless, half in light and half in darkness, but never predictable. They decide about his life and his livelihood without the possibility of interference on his part, indeed without the possibility of interference on his part, indeed the possibility of his understanding them. He is like a blindfolded man in a strange room playing a game of which he does not know the rules.
~ Peter Drucker, The Future of Industrial Man