Osamu Dazai. Confessions of an "inferior" person (№ 80738)

Society. I think I managed, finally, to some extent, to comprehend the meaning of this concept. Only the rivalry of individuals, competition
immediate and specific, in which every certainly tends to win - that's what it is. People never will submit to another person; a servant and he tries to win, even at the price of low servility. That's why people in order to survive, couldn't think of anything better than to cut each other's throats. They advocate something great, but the goal of the efforts of each "I" and "me". The problems of society are problems that each "I," the ocean of people - not a society, it's a lot of "I".