111. Public Issues of Distinction

Public issues of distinction are those issues that have the potential to affect the social, political and/or economic/financial stability and sustainability of a city or nation, for examples.  As we progress in these Posts, we will discover that because of the universal nature of the three values of social sustainability all public social issues that are relevant to the sustainability of even a small community are simultaneously relevant to a nation and even by extension to the global civilization.

It is now close to the mid-term elections across the country.  We have seen and listened to weeks filled with useless, vapid, political rhetoric of either-or, linear-minded, male-dominated thinking.  Have we heard any substantive arguments concerning issues of public distinction?  No, probably not.  Whenever you hear political rhetoric, it should trigger an avalanche of intuitive questions.  For instance, “What is it about our election process that prevents meaningful discussion of substantive options to public issues of distinction?”  (Remember, this is an intuitive question which will produce intuitive answers rather than knee-jerk, quick-draw, empty, meaningless answers.) 
 
As you can see, if you have become enculturated with the prior 110 Posts, is that the answer(s) to this question must relate to the three values that have sustained our species for almost half a million years.  Here is the answer to the question above, “No meaningful public discussion of public issues will ever be brought into public campaigns until a consistent, universal and timeless standard is used to discern, weigh and deliberate those issues and the suggested options for their resolution.”  Just as the length of a meter is defined as “the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during the time interval of 1/299,792,458 of a second,” the three values of social sustainability provide the ultimate, timeless and universal standard to discuss and interpret all social issues for all societies.  They are the ultimate, timeless and universal arbiters of “What works?” and what does not.  They provide the timeless definition for measuring social wisdom by learning from social policy successes and failures.  

This standard requires that everyone be treated as being “equally valuable to the survival and sustainability of individuals, families and societies.”  Said another way, it does not allow for any special advantage to advance the personal, political or financial ego-benefits of politicians, other individuals, groups or corporations.  “…equally valuable to the survival and sustainability of individuals, families and societies.”  Hmmmm.