Sanchit,
"monist idealism in my opinion is similar to the concept of infinity and void in Vedanta."
The problem is the liberal ideal is the infinite, while the conservative ideal is the absolute. Both entropic. The tension is pretty intractable, when there is no recognition they are two sides of the larger coin.
The thing is that societies do necessarily function as organisms in the international ecosystem, as individuals are organisms in the ecosystem of society. Layers.
Government, as the executive and regulatory function of society, is its central nervous system, while money and banking are the blood and circulation system.
It is hard, once one has matured into a particular society, to easily transfer to another. Yet societies, like individuals, have their youth, middle age and sclerotic stages, if they insist on functioning wholy as a unit, rather than a process, an ecosystem of coming and going. As we are ecosystems on the cellular level.
As individuals, we are inherently mortal and so the real focus shouldn't necessarily be on the individual, but their relationships and context, in order to be part of that larger, longer lasting whole.
It is a two way street between the individual and the community and one of the great questions of Western culture is finding one's meaning and purpose. Which is not an issue, if one has taken root in one's world and smudged the line between the inside and the outside. Like a book or a tool becomes part of us, our world should be part of us. Like a seed taking root in the ground it finds itself.
There will necessarily always be hierarchies, or we would all just be a puddle of protoplasm. Some people will be part of the brains and some part of the hands and feet. Personally I've spent my life as labor, in the horse racing industry and various other sectors of agriculture. For one thing, I was fifth of six kids in a competitive family and wasn't obessed enough by the family business to effectively compete. Since I realized early on that the larger world was not only more competive, but on the road to self destruction, I had no desire to be part of it. To be labor, you have to sell your body. To be management, you have to sell your mind. To be of the elite, you have to sell your soul. So I've put myself more in the role of hands and feet in this society, than try to be part of the brains, as they are currently given over to egotistic hustlers. Allowing my mind the freedom to sit back and study the ins and out of the situation.
One shouldn't just go along to get along, but that one should try to steer the world in a better direction, if it is apparent there are pathologies in its current situation.
Life is the journey, this kaleidoscope of experiences, which we need our own compass, between desires and judgements. The heart and the head.
I think that life on this planet is evolving toward being a more singular organism, with humanity as the central nervous system. Yet the function of the nervous system is effectively sustaining the health of the larger organism, not just catering to its own immediate desires and addictions. We are obviously still in an adolescent stage.
