The construction of a perfect society requires more than vision.
It requires confrontation—with the two forces that most persistently obstruct coherence: ignorance and greed.

Ignorance
Ignorance is not the absence of knowledge.
It is the persistence of error—the refusal to adjust in the face of verified truth.
Where logic has spoken, and contradiction remains, ignorance is present.

Most ignorance is correctable.
But when it fuses with greed, it hardens. It resists reason. It defends itself with structure.

Greed
Greed is the pursuit of gain divorced from consequence.
It seeks accumulation—of wealth, of control, of consumption—without regard for coherence, for sentience, or for structure.

Greed is not power. It is misalignment.
It converts curiosity into domination, and advantage into permanence.
It builds systems to preserve its flow—and these systems must be broken.

This is not a violation of the Golden Rule.
The Golden Rule contains its own correction:
If a system oppresses, and you were inside it, you would will its dismantling.
To act in service of this reversal is not betrayal, but fidelity to ethical coherence.

Thus, a second principle is made explicit:

“The good achieved by your actions must be greater than the harm they cause.”

This is not license—it is obligation.
A rule of intervention, not of domination.

To build a perfect society is not to wish it into being.
It is to live its principles now—fully, wherever possible.
To realign what is broken.
To resist what resists reason.
And to make coherence not a dream, but a structure.

The path begins with a simple act:
Live as though the perfect society were already here.
In doing so, you help to bring it into being.

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