covered by bandages

In political philosophy, there's a very big discusion subject: what's the perfect political system? (the issue is purely theoretical, it's philosophy rather than politics).


One of the possible approaches in order to give an answer sounds like a sort of game: imagine yourself in a hospital bed, you are covered by bandages and you don't remember who you are, you don't recall anything at all, but you do remember enough about the world and society and people. Then they ask you the question, and you are the perfect one to give an answer: you are going to be fair with everybody since in a few days you're going to be outside struggling being whomever you are in the system you've figured out.


I was interested in political philosophy when I was in my twenties, I read a lot and there were many subjects which I found appealing; existentialism in particular, and it was not only about the philophers and writers in the mid XXth century. There's many novels in a similar line, some older than that and others quite new, even pop songs e.g. "there has to be more than this" (Soulwax). Could be a rationalistic expression of the feeling of being in a cage, of a complain which may be expressed like this: "why it had to be me that happenned to be myself".




But then, one could apply the same technique: back at the hospital bed under all the bandages, the existential question does not make sense anymore because you've forgotten who you are; even though you still have no idea if there is more than this, anyway what is that "this"?, is there anything outside?


I guess the point is to realise these two questions (amongst many) are quite difficult ones, but purely theoretical.