Similar to Charles Darwin’s theory of the “Survival of the Fittest”, naturally, the strongest of the group will segregate from the weakest, breaking off into hierarchical groups or classes. Within these groups, the struggle for power continues, thus resulting into competitive separation: the need of an individual group to be the best. Populations, whose entity consists of diverse and large amounts of people, will continue this endless cycle until the individual has reached a point of satisfaction, or telos. In Politics, Aristotle argues that the individual seeks a purposeful end, however, this ideal concept of individual conformity is nearly impossible to achieve because of the natural tendency of competitiveness that reflects the identity of humans as social …show more content…
These rights were to be known as unalienable, and later on, the reason for why America is thought as the best country in the world. The American Constitution and Declaration of Independence can not only be seen as a “moral foundation” that support the individual rights of its citizens, but a set of documents that are a product of competitive separation. This idea can be seen within the first sentence of the Preamble of the U.S. Constitution as it quotes, “We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, and insure domestic tranquility”. Because of the colonial capability to overthrow the British Monarch and declare independence, the American people sought to agree that their nation is, and was to become, the greatest country in the world through the practice of “freedom”, “opportunity”, and “individual rights”. These ideas have transformed into a solidary concept called “The American Dream”, one in which individuals can thrive in wealth and prosperity, only if they work hard and reach for their dreams. This ideology has appealed to many generations of Americans and immigrating foreigners, encompassing the ideal concept of one great individualistic