Considering the welfare and stability of future generations, their communities, and societies, most public leaders and many of the “boomer” generation have as much value for forethought as they do for their lost childhood. As I’ve observed in the last eight years of working with social sustainability in workshops and in many dozens of discussion groups, there is little interest in the future beyond how the individual can satisfy their hierarchy of needs. Incredibly, millions of “baby boomers” and X Generation citizens have absolutely no concern for the community and societies of their grandchildren and future generations. Several mantras come to mind: “I’ve got mine, and I’m keeping it!” “My grandkids? Nah, I don’t worry about them. They’ll figure out something for themselves.”
The intention of the past 155 Posts has been to anticipate the needs of future generations for more stable social institutions, organizations, democratic institutions and processes; and to provide a guide for the public today and tomorrow for rebuilding stable and sustainable communities and societies during and particularly after any collapse of social, political, and economic structures. Only we at this current time can prepare for that eventuality. That will require a sound philosophical and pragmatic means for the design and implementation of designs for socially sustainable societies, democracies, and economies. The one thing that those designs, methodologies, and philosophies cannot give people is the will to initiate the process of social re-invention.
It is realistic to cynically speculate that until the very existence of the public, their public leaders, and the operation of their societies and economies are threatened with extinction by some mega-cataclysm will any thought be given to re-inventing their communities, societies, democracies, and economies with a pre-conceived design that will bring to an end of the decline and collapse of dynasties, nations, societies, empires, and all of their governments, administrations, and policies that have littered human history from its beginning. The crash and clash of social, political, and economic change is so rapid, now involving billions of people, that although I am 71 years of age, I feel quite sure that I will witness those cataclysms. These will be followed by much hand-wringing and dithering by public executives who have no clue how to proceed into the future except to re-build the same UNsustainable social institutions and political processes that have littered history of lost societies and civilizations of human history.
The will to create socially sustainable societies, democracies, and economies can only be exercised by those who are living now and to be enjoyed by those who survive.
The intention of the past 155 Posts has been to anticipate the needs of future generations for more stable social institutions, organizations, democratic institutions and processes; and to provide a guide for the public today and tomorrow for rebuilding stable and sustainable communities and societies during and particularly after any collapse of social, political, and economic structures. Only we at this current time can prepare for that eventuality. That will require a sound philosophical and pragmatic means for the design and implementation of designs for socially sustainable societies, democracies, and economies. The one thing that those designs, methodologies, and philosophies cannot give people is the will to initiate the process of social re-invention.
It is realistic to cynically speculate that until the very existence of the public, their public leaders, and the operation of their societies and economies are threatened with extinction by some mega-cataclysm will any thought be given to re-inventing their communities, societies, democracies, and economies with a pre-conceived design that will bring to an end of the decline and collapse of dynasties, nations, societies, empires, and all of their governments, administrations, and policies that have littered human history from its beginning. The crash and clash of social, political, and economic change is so rapid, now involving billions of people, that although I am 71 years of age, I feel quite sure that I will witness those cataclysms. These will be followed by much hand-wringing and dithering by public executives who have no clue how to proceed into the future except to re-build the same UNsustainable social institutions and political processes that have littered history of lost societies and civilizations of human history.
The will to create socially sustainable societies, democracies, and economies can only be exercised by those who are living now and to be enjoyed by those who survive.