Man, I dream of a better society every day! I never stop dreaming of it. Be that as it may, I consider the mainstream society to be deteriorating in many ways and I don't frankly know what I can do about it except govern my own activities as wisely as possible.

I think the problem may be that there are simply too many people sharing one planet at this point. Too high a density of population and a diminishing amount of land and resources.

It's harder to get along when you're in a crowded cage. Consider the example of lab rats. They start to lose their good relations when crowding passes a certain point.

When you're living in a very small town you can park your car wherever you like. The town gets bigger, more traffic, and they put in stop lights and meters. Life gets more complex. The town gets bigger yet and they put in all kinds of "no parking" zones and the price of the meters triples, and you start worrying about getting expensive parking tickets because you got delayed a few minutes doing your shopping.   The town gets bigger yet, and it takes you an hour of totally frustrating driving to even GET downtown at all, and when you finally do you have to pay $20 to park your car in a lot, and then somebody breaks into your car and steals your radio! Furthermore, you have no idea who that somebody could be, because there are so many people in the town now that everyone is lost in an anonymous haze and nobody cares about anyone else anymore!

And so it goes...just awful.

To escape it you have to go either where there are fewer people (and fewer jobs, though) OR you have to join an ashram or some other little society of like-minded people who have set themselves apart from the mainstream. In that ashram you will not find anyone dealing dope, needless to say.

I do not expect more laws to solve the problems of mainstream society. I think its problems are beyond solving at this point.

I don't blame people for still trying, though...