Episode 4: The Chicken or The Egg

Which came first the chicken or the egg? An age long debate that is still unanswered. The subject of episode 4 of the Comrade Contrary files poses a similar question, what came first, people or society?

*DISCLAIMER*
THE VIEWS OUTLINED IN THIS ARE SOLELY MY OPINION AND I AM VERY OPEN TO DISPUTE THIS WITH ANYONE SO LONG AS THEY UNDERSTAND I AM NOT CLAIMING THAT THE FOLLOWING IS FACT BUT RATHER EVIDENCE INTERPRETED IN A PRAGMATIC WAY TO SUPPORT MY IDEAS.

Every person on the planet has an agenda, this is what influences what we say and how we act. This agenda is influenced by this thing we call society.
But what about outliers? What about the people who rebel? What happens with them? Their actions are not fueled by societies influential agenda.

Now that's where you're wrong. Without society, those people wouldn't know what to rebel against. People underestimate the power society has over people's actions.

But why is the initial idea of rebellion there? It's not society causing the rebellion, simply giving rebellion shape. It doesn't explain why people rebel, simply giving them a model to rebel against. I'm not disputing society's importance in defining what to do and what not to do, I'm simply questioning how the basis of the idea came around in the first place. Society was formed by something, but where did the idea of that something come from?

An act  cannot be considered rebellious if there is no codified or otherwise accepted code of conduct. Society is an aggregate collection of people living together in a harmonious group. Whether people like it or not, as long as people have lived together society has existed. Even those that rebel, are only seeking to change the rules to suit a society that they want. Unless you are a hermit living under the earth in an impenetrable cave everyone is a member of society, outliers and rebels included.

I guess coming to that conclusion also defies this as a chicken or the egg question. Whether you accept creationism or evolution, there has always been society.