Abstract
The power of a human being to create society is such a spirit of depending on others. A human being is not independent, so cannot live without the help of others. But it is interesting that only when he depends on others, a human being can develop his ability freely and become any kind of man, because he is released from acquiring food that is most hard work in life. So Division of work and trade and society have been based on the man’s nature to depend on others.
But there is a serious problem. If the nature of man is as I have mention above dependency, the population of man who is unwilling to acquire food by himself is increase more and more, and the society have to be ruined some day. So the leaders of pre-modern society made many regulations against man’s desire, and prohibited almost people to leave from agriculture, and built up the status society. But the leaders of modern society destroy those regulations and permit everyone to select any job freely.
Why is it possible in modern society to do so? Because in modern society they put a confidence on the ability of market to coordinate between job and job, demand and supply. It has been thought that market had the ability to control the desire of man.
But in the latter half of 19th century, the confidence on the market collapsed, because such a man lost his job began to kill himself very easily. It became clear that the harmony between a human being and market was illusion. Anything has been needed to adapt man to market. For Durkheim it was the power of gild. And for baron de Coubertin it was the educational power of sport. This is why Olympic Games started in 1896.
