The symbiosis that exists in sustainable personal and intimate relationships sets the design for a sustainable symbiosis between citizens and their society. “Society” is defined as any activity or organization that involves people. That includes all social, political-governmental activities, and all economic/financial activities and organizations and everything in between; and includes all for-profit, non-profit organizations, corporations and foundations as examples.
Caution: Do not think of this sustainable symbiotic relationship between society and citizens as a social contract. It is far more evolved because it is adaptable and includes learning processes that record wisdom from successful social policies and programs and from what causes and results in their failures. Here, this is not a political discussion of the rights of government and the rights of citizens. It is a discussion of what works that supports the continuity of a socially sustainable society into the centuries ahead.
The urge to design sustainable societies, democracies and economies emanates from our individual source of empathy, compassion and “love” for humanity – particularly for the future generations of our own children and their families and the generations of all other people globally, as their lives of peace and stability are equally as valuable as our own today. Our innate compassion for other individuals in distress is not limited to just other individuals, but all individuals. Truly socialized individuals are capable of embracing all others in distress as they are for one individual. The reality is that as individuals we can only reach out in empathy and compassion to come to the aid of only a limited number of people.
As a society of empathic and compassionate people, we can come to the aid of millions of individuals, families and communities by designing socially sustainable social, political-governmental and economic/financial organizations as systems of organizations. The capacity of communities and families to produce socially sustainable next generations is hugely dependent upon the symbiotic relationship between societies and their communities, families and individuals. Just as there is a responsibility of the individual to act morally to help sustain their society, society has a symbiotic moral responsibility to support the development of the potential of each individual of each new generation to assure the sustainability of future generations. Sustainable individuals and sustainable families are the bedrock of sustainable societies.
Caution: Do not think of this sustainable symbiotic relationship between society and citizens as a social contract. It is far more evolved because it is adaptable and includes learning processes that record wisdom from successful social policies and programs and from what causes and results in their failures. Here, this is not a political discussion of the rights of government and the rights of citizens. It is a discussion of what works that supports the continuity of a socially sustainable society into the centuries ahead.
The urge to design sustainable societies, democracies and economies emanates from our individual source of empathy, compassion and “love” for humanity – particularly for the future generations of our own children and their families and the generations of all other people globally, as their lives of peace and stability are equally as valuable as our own today. Our innate compassion for other individuals in distress is not limited to just other individuals, but all individuals. Truly socialized individuals are capable of embracing all others in distress as they are for one individual. The reality is that as individuals we can only reach out in empathy and compassion to come to the aid of only a limited number of people.
As a society of empathic and compassionate people, we can come to the aid of millions of individuals, families and communities by designing socially sustainable social, political-governmental and economic/financial organizations as systems of organizations. The capacity of communities and families to produce socially sustainable next generations is hugely dependent upon the symbiotic relationship between societies and their communities, families and individuals. Just as there is a responsibility of the individual to act morally to help sustain their society, society has a symbiotic moral responsibility to support the development of the potential of each individual of each new generation to assure the sustainability of future generations. Sustainable individuals and sustainable families are the bedrock of sustainable societies.