in the decisions they will have made yesterday, last month, and in the last decade. When we discern that all human cultures have accepted failure as the cultural norm for organizations, governments, societies and whole civilizations, then the acceptance of perennial failure should sting our awareness to ask, “How is it that our species has sustained itself for so many tens of thousands of years?” And, “How would we apply those answers to our organizations so that they, too, become self-sustaining into the centuries and millennia?” What has been missing in order to answer those questions are the ultimate, timeless, irreducible, and universal values that underlie all human behavior — the source of sustainable decision-making and social sustainability. Using those three values will provide a constancy and consistency within the political dialogue that has been missing. Finally, the values that have sustained our species for over 250,000 can become the bridge for rational and effective dialogue between Progressives, conservatives, and liberals. It is our socially sustainable moral obligation to represent future generations as we dialogue about the design of socially sustainable policies and programs, today. Future generations must be represented in the discussions of the conditions and course of our future communities and nation. What is provided in The Progressive’s Handbook is an introduction to the socially sustaining empowerment of citizens, with pragmatic instructions how to form large blocs of public consensus. The security of civilization itself still rests on the growing willingness of one generation to invest in the welfare of the next and future generations.
in the decisions they will have made yesterday, last month, and in the last decade. When we discern that all human cultures have accepted failure as the cultural norm for organizations, governments, societies and whole civilizations, then the acceptance of perennial failure should sting our awareness to ask, “How is it that our species has sustained itself for so many tens of thousands of years?” And, “How would we apply those answers to our organizations so that they, too, become self-sustaining into the centuries and millennia?” What has been missing in order to answer those questions are the ultimate, timeless, irreducible, and universal values that underlie all human behavior — the source of sustainable decision-making and social sustainability. Using those three values will provide a constancy and consistency within the political dialogue that has been missing. Finally, the values that have sustained our species for over 250,000 can become the bridge for rational and effective dialogue between Progressives, conservatives, and liberals. It is our socially sustainable moral obligation to represent future generations as we dialogue about the design of socially sustainable policies and programs, today. Future generations must be represented in the discussions of the conditions and course of our future communities and nation. What is provided in The Progressive’s Handbook is an introduction to the socially sustaining empowerment of citizens, with pragmatic instructions how to form large blocs of public consensus. The security of civilization itself still rests on the growing willingness of one generation to invest in the welfare of the next and future generations.
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