Oooops! I’ve had a couple of comments from readers that 350-450 words per day, every day is more than they can read, digest and reflect on, and would prefer to have them half the size and far less often. Fair enough.

Producing posts of this size is not prompted by over 40 years of working on the development of sustainable democracies, or half a million words in WORD folders and files relating to social sustainability and democracies. It is prompted by the draw of the future to provide peaceful, constructive and evolutionary alternatives to what seems obvious to me that will inevitably occur in the future by 2030… only 16 years away.

You don’t need to have a prodigious memory of history to review the course of nations and societies for the last 8,000 years to know that very, very few alternatives were available to the public to motivate their government(s) to improve their performance and to become more humane. Violence is a theme that has been repeated thousands of times in hundreds of societies, and almost always by the underprivileged, unrepresented, propertyless and disenfranchised masses – those who yearn for a better quality of life, and to grow into their innate potential equally as the 1% does.

The Occupy Wall Street and Arab Spring demonstrations and uprisings were the squeaky wheel that will squeak again in another revolution of the wheel of prosperity-recession-prosperity-depression cycles. It will continue such until the axle of society breaks and the wheel becomes cocked to one side and the whole carriage of society comes to full stop and overturned.

Having had the uncomfortable faculty of prescience since my childhood, what is ahead will require us as individuals and collectively to seek alternatives to violent repetition. If there are no alternatives, then there will be violence. As these Posts reveal, there is now an alternative. My chore is to write and to bring social sustainability forward not only as a peaceful alternative, but an alternative that developmentally and evolutionarily brings about greater social stability — peace. My writing and your support are necessary to bring this alternative to the awareness of citizens in every democratic nation of the world. For those who pray for peace, do as Professor Abraham Joshua Heschel said in 1965 when asked why he would be marching in Selma, Alabama with Martin Luther King, Jr. He replied, “When I march in Selma, my feet are praying.”