A perfectly just society could still leave individuals unable to flourish.

Evidence

That fact seems to be related to neglect of an insight that was poignantly expressed by Walter Benjamin: one can imagine a society in which basic needs of order and security are met and human relationships and social structures are ordered in perfectly just ways, but in which individuals are dreadfully unhappy, in which there seems to be grave difficulty in finding “meaning” in individual and collective life, in which human beings do not seem to find it possible to genuinely flourish, but instead live lives of quiet, though unresentful and even dignified, desperation. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 45

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes Ambedkar’s point that Hindu society lacks the endosmosis that makes democracy a mode of associated living, not merely just ordering — justice without shared meaning.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing whether Rosa develops a positive account of meaning/flourishing beyond justice here, or stays critical.