photo by N.K. Hoffman
The purpose of this website is to present a model for decision making that is based upon seven values that have been held in common by almost all known societies in recorded history.
The world is now at the point of interconnectivity where the failure of any of our major civilizations would be a catastrophe for all. The model outlined on this website offers a system of validating rules, laws, procedures, etc. used by families, organizations, corporations and governments to determine their sustainability for the long term. This model can also be used to design self-supporting, sustainable systems to replace those that are no longer functional.
This model can be used by units as small as a single family and a large as any major modern civilization or organized governmental unit. It is our intent that this model be made available to as many people as possible and to bring stability and sustainability to all our institutions.
Peace and the Human Holism
Abstract: The Chinese symbol depicts opportunity in times of crisis, and we are in those times, now. We know from the current state of the social, political, and economic factors of our global civilization that all nations are in advancing states of crisis. Yet, when we take a Planetary Manager’s perspective, we can see that this time, too, is one of immense opportunity. The crises are only too evident that we cannot avoid looking at them as they are all around us all of the time. The opportunity of this era is that the staid and crystalized social institutions, (democratic process, finance and the economy, justice, healthcare, and education), are incredibly ripe for failing completely. This rare opportunity lies in wait for a set of integrated concepts that will provide integrated social systems to replace the outworn linear social processes and consciousness that are barely holding our democratic societies together.
What is proposed in the text is the use of a set of “social constants” that are innate to our species and act similarly as the constants of the physical sciences such as pi, e, and many others. The timeliness of the current declining state of our global civilization, and the discovery of these constants, encourages us to create social programs that possess the capability of making immense proactive contributions to the faltering social, political, and economic stability of our nation’s societies and our global civilization.
Not so ironically, the same designs that we create will become a “recovery plan” for nations to reinvent themselves while also becoming more operationally reliable in the coming centuries and millennia. This may appear to be wildly optimistic, but consider that our civilization came into being many thousands of years ago and did so without an organizational development plan. There was no forethought about it coming into being. No plan. No vision. No intention for its continued development to sustain its existence into the future millennia.
And, though the Homo sapiens species has successfully sustained its survival and a thriving existence, for over 200,000 years, the organizational existence of former nations, cultures, civilizations, empires, and societies have all failed. The intense juxtaposition of our species survival and the consistent failure of ALL nations, governments, and administrations over the last 20,000 years is the poignant issue of this text.
Where once our civilization came into existence unconsciously and without forethought or intention, the current era of the volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous situations of all nations offer us a conscious opportunity to re-create our civilization to become socially, politically, and economically stable and eventually a pleasant and peaceful place to live for our children’s future generations. Read the entire text here.
Human Motivation
This dissertation is a direct continuation of Abraham Maslow's Theory of Human Motivation. It definitely is timely for our civilization's need for a major reboot of consciousness, philosophy, and the care of our families, communities, and societies.
Page 14 and following are significant.
As page 2 reveals, you are welcome to copy, forward, adapt, etc from it as this is an open, no-copyright document.
I suspect that it may be of interest to any closely related social science involving human motivation, ethics, and so on.
This document provides the cultural leadership that is so desperately needed now in all nations.
What are values?
Values are the standard by which we conduct our lives. Values are the yardstick by which we measure our actions, and determine our decisions. Values are the way we choose to get along with one another in society.
What are the Seven Core Values?
The Seven Core Values are irreducible principles that could guide our behavior into a sustainable future.
These are not new concepts. The Declaration of Independence of the United States talks about Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness as well as Equality. These values have sustained civilizations for years. These are not religious; they are not political. They are human, and when used as a benchmark for our individual actions, society thrives. Civilization becomes stable—socially sustainable— as well-considered decisions can be valid for decades.
The first, and essential, value is Life itself. The first three values are the Quality of that life, the ability to Grow and express one's potential, and the opportunity to do so Equally with all others. This aspect of the recognition of equality evokes the values of Empathy, Compassion, and Love for Humanity, expressed through care and consideration of others. Taken together the Seven Core Values are what defines us as human beings.
Life
Life is the ultimate value that works as the pivotal element for the existence of the other six values that create a system of values. Decisions made about life are qualified by the other six values as the criteria for human decision-making.
Quality of Life
While life is fundamental to survival and continued existence, it is the quality of life that makes life worth living and gives life meaning. In a democracy, access to the quality of life is provided when a person not only has an equal right to life, but that person also has an equal right to growth as anyone else. This is what makes immigrants so excited to move to a democracy—they seek freedom to experience the quality of life that makes life worth living—to control their own destiny and to explore their innate potential with the opportunities that a democratic nation provides.
The world is now at the point of interconnectivity where the failure of any of our major civilizations would be a catastrophe for all. The model outlined on this website offers a system of validating rules, laws, procedures, etc. used by families, organizations, corporations and governments to determine their sustainability for the long term. This model can also be used to design self-supporting, sustainable systems to replace those that are no longer functional.
This model can be used by units as small as a single family and a large as any major modern civilization or organized governmental unit. It is our intent that this model be made available to as many people as possible and to bring stability and sustainability to all our institutions.
Peace and the Human Holism
Abstract: The Chinese symbol depicts opportunity in times of crisis, and we are in those times, now. We know from the current state of the social, political, and economic factors of our global civilization that all nations are in advancing states of crisis. Yet, when we take a Planetary Manager’s perspective, we can see that this time, too, is one of immense opportunity. The crises are only too evident that we cannot avoid looking at them as they are all around us all of the time. The opportunity of this era is that the staid and crystalized social institutions, (democratic process, finance and the economy, justice, healthcare, and education), are incredibly ripe for failing completely. This rare opportunity lies in wait for a set of integrated concepts that will provide integrated social systems to replace the outworn linear social processes and consciousness that are barely holding our democratic societies together.
What is proposed in the text is the use of a set of “social constants” that are innate to our species and act similarly as the constants of the physical sciences such as pi, e, and many others. The timeliness of the current declining state of our global civilization, and the discovery of these constants, encourages us to create social programs that possess the capability of making immense proactive contributions to the faltering social, political, and economic stability of our nation’s societies and our global civilization.
Not so ironically, the same designs that we create will become a “recovery plan” for nations to reinvent themselves while also becoming more operationally reliable in the coming centuries and millennia. This may appear to be wildly optimistic, but consider that our civilization came into being many thousands of years ago and did so without an organizational development plan. There was no forethought about it coming into being. No plan. No vision. No intention for its continued development to sustain its existence into the future millennia.
And, though the Homo sapiens species has successfully sustained its survival and a thriving existence, for over 200,000 years, the organizational existence of former nations, cultures, civilizations, empires, and societies have all failed. The intense juxtaposition of our species survival and the consistent failure of ALL nations, governments, and administrations over the last 20,000 years is the poignant issue of this text.
Where once our civilization came into existence unconsciously and without forethought or intention, the current era of the volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous situations of all nations offer us a conscious opportunity to re-create our civilization to become socially, politically, and economically stable and eventually a pleasant and peaceful place to live for our children’s future generations. Read the entire text here.
Human Motivation
This dissertation is a direct continuation of Abraham Maslow's Theory of Human Motivation. It definitely is timely for our civilization's need for a major reboot of consciousness, philosophy, and the care of our families, communities, and societies.
Page 14 and following are significant.
As page 2 reveals, you are welcome to copy, forward, adapt, etc from it as this is an open, no-copyright document.
I suspect that it may be of interest to any closely related social science involving human motivation, ethics, and so on.
This document provides the cultural leadership that is so desperately needed now in all nations.
What are values?
Values are the standard by which we conduct our lives. Values are the yardstick by which we measure our actions, and determine our decisions. Values are the way we choose to get along with one another in society.
What are the Seven Core Values?
The Seven Core Values are irreducible principles that could guide our behavior into a sustainable future.
These are not new concepts. The Declaration of Independence of the United States talks about Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness as well as Equality. These values have sustained civilizations for years. These are not religious; they are not political. They are human, and when used as a benchmark for our individual actions, society thrives. Civilization becomes stable—socially sustainable— as well-considered decisions can be valid for decades.
The first, and essential, value is Life itself. The first three values are the Quality of that life, the ability to Grow and express one's potential, and the opportunity to do so Equally with all others. This aspect of the recognition of equality evokes the values of Empathy, Compassion, and Love for Humanity, expressed through care and consideration of others. Taken together the Seven Core Values are what defines us as human beings.
Life
Life is the ultimate value that works as the pivotal element for the existence of the other six values that create a system of values. Decisions made about life are qualified by the other six values as the criteria for human decision-making.
Quality of Life
While life is fundamental to survival and continued existence, it is the quality of life that makes life worth living and gives life meaning. In a democracy, access to the quality of life is provided when a person not only has an equal right to life, but that person also has an equal right to growth as anyone else. This is what makes immigrants so excited to move to a democracy—they seek freedom to experience the quality of life that makes life worth living—to control their own destiny and to explore their innate potential with the opportunities that a democratic nation provides.
photo by N.K. Hoffman
Growth
Growth is essential for improving our quality of life. To be human is to strive to grow into our innate potential. Our yearning to grow ensures that our innate potential becomes expressed and fulfilled, and collectively encourages an improving quality of life for everyone that results in social progress.
This value ensures that the inherent potential of individuals, societies, and a civilization becomes manifest, which encourages an improving quality of life for everyone. Without growth, there would be no possibility of social evolution and social sustainability.
Once the population of our global civilization is balanced with our planet’s natural resources, then growth has everything to do with improving the quality of life of individuals, rather than the quantitative growth of populations to support economic growth. Until then, difficult moral decisions will have to be made that move our communities and societies toward that balance.
Equality
Equality is inherent in the value of life. We give equal value to each individual, and we would seek to provide more equitable opportunity to every individual to develop their innate potential, as we would our own. Even those with less potential than others have equal value to live life to explore, develop, and express the potential they do have. Without equality, life is a competition where the resources of one’s living-potential is squandered in competitive warlike existence. Then is there no moral equity available.
The first four values have sustained our species for all these years, but what will sustain our civilizations are the next three.
Empathy
“Empathy is the experience of understanding another person's condition from their perspective. You place yourself in their shoes and feel what they are feeling. Empathy is known to increase prosocial (helping) behaviors.” --Psychology Today
Compassion
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” ―Albert Einstein
Love for Humanity
“Our greatest power as nations and individuals is not the ability to employ assault weapons, suicide bombers, and drones to destroy each other. The greater more creative powers with which we may arm ourselves are grace and compassion sufficient enough to love and save each other.” ―Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
Growth is essential for improving our quality of life. To be human is to strive to grow into our innate potential. Our yearning to grow ensures that our innate potential becomes expressed and fulfilled, and collectively encourages an improving quality of life for everyone that results in social progress.
This value ensures that the inherent potential of individuals, societies, and a civilization becomes manifest, which encourages an improving quality of life for everyone. Without growth, there would be no possibility of social evolution and social sustainability.
Once the population of our global civilization is balanced with our planet’s natural resources, then growth has everything to do with improving the quality of life of individuals, rather than the quantitative growth of populations to support economic growth. Until then, difficult moral decisions will have to be made that move our communities and societies toward that balance.
Equality
Equality is inherent in the value of life. We give equal value to each individual, and we would seek to provide more equitable opportunity to every individual to develop their innate potential, as we would our own. Even those with less potential than others have equal value to live life to explore, develop, and express the potential they do have. Without equality, life is a competition where the resources of one’s living-potential is squandered in competitive warlike existence. Then is there no moral equity available.
The first four values have sustained our species for all these years, but what will sustain our civilizations are the next three.
Empathy
“Empathy is the experience of understanding another person's condition from their perspective. You place yourself in their shoes and feel what they are feeling. Empathy is known to increase prosocial (helping) behaviors.” --Psychology Today
Compassion
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” ―Albert Einstein
Love for Humanity
“Our greatest power as nations and individuals is not the ability to employ assault weapons, suicide bombers, and drones to destroy each other. The greater more creative powers with which we may arm ourselves are grace and compassion sufficient enough to love and save each other.” ―Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
"Do to others as you would have others do to you."
--The Golden Rule
--The Golden Rule