147. The Intentions of Sustainable Democracies, -7

So, let’s begin to write a universal intention of all democratic societies.  This is not as daunting a task as it might seem at the outset.  It is simply a matter of identifying the elements that are necessary to support a sustaining society, its political-governmental operations and the economic-financial processes that support the opportunities and responsibilities of fluid, ongoing, stable and sustainable democratic nations.  When we are through setting out these necessary elements, we should be able to formulate a clear intention in a paragraph of less size than this one.

Our first underlying assumption is that the people of all democracies want to provide stable and sustainable democratic societies for all of their future generations.  The second assumption “…governments …, derive[e] their just powers from the consent of the governed;….” (Declaration of Independence)

Individually, what elements are mandatory for an intention as this?  (*) Surely freedom that allows the expression of self-determination — self-determination that grants the individual the capability to pursue an improving quality of life, to grow into his or her innate potential, and to do so with the same equality as any other person would or could.  The individual’s responsibility is to follow that yearning to fulfill those values without jeopardizing the capability of any other person to do the same.

In the next paragraph we will focus on the three pillars of an increasingly functional society.  For a society to become more stable and sustainable, the 1) social, 2) political-governmental and 3) economic-financial pillars must become more fully functional to make contributions to the stability and sustainability of that society.  “More fully functional” means an increasing obligation to contribute to the social sustainability of a democratic society, which in time will include the societies of all democratic nations due to the universal nature of the three core values of social sustainability.

What elements are mandatory for an intention as this?  First, the greatest development of an individual to grow into his or her innate potential can only be accomplished with the fewest social, political-governmental and economic-financial restrictions.  [Here, you will begin to see the requisite symbiotic relationship between the individual and their society that is necessary to support a sustainable democratic society.]   Organizations in the three pillars of society have as their responsibility to proactively provide a continuum of programs from pre-conception through the elder years to fulfil (*) above.  Society also has the responsibility to eliminate any individual and social, political-governmental and economic-financial influences that would hinder, jeopardize or prevent the individual from fulfilling (*) above.