I define sustainable history as a durable progressive trajectory
in which the quality of life on this planet or other planets is
premised on the guarantee of human dignity for all at all times
and under all circumstances. Many of the great achievements in
history that are commonly attributed to one geo-cultural domain
often owe a great debt to those of others. In this sense, some
of the greatest achievements of human civilisation have been
collective efforts and are part of the same human story. What
makes our existence meaningful is highly subjective and
ultimately determined by sustainable neurochemical
gratification. The history of human civilisation is a history of
mutual borrowings. There is only one collective human
civilisation comprised of geo-cultural domains and cultures. A
set of global values in keeping with human nature and dignity
need to be identified and developed Human beings are “emotional
amoral egoists”, driven above all by emotional self-interest.
All of our thoughts, beliefs and motivati