In arithmetic and mathematics we know that the rules are consistent.  2 + 2 will always = 4.  If you do the math in Saigon, Saipan, Singapore, or Saint Louis 2 + 2 will always = 4.  We take that for granted.  The rules provide us with a means to predict what will occur when we go to the grocery store or when engineers design buildings in one nation and construct them in another.  Inconsistencies in the rules of mathematics would make our personal and commercial life almost impossible.  Of course people have been known to add the numbers and end up with an inconsistent result, fully believing they are right.  Such occurrences are obviously incongruent with the rules, aren’t they? 

On the other hand, the “rules” of social conduct whether for an individual, national government or international corporation are quite inconsistent.  In fact, there are no agreed upon rules for social conduct.  That is why societies, organizations and governments peak, decline, collapse and eventually disappear.  Is it any wonder that we have so many difficulties managing our own societies without a global standard for consistent social behavior? 

What would our world look like if we applied a set of social rules for personal and social conduct that had the consistency, conceptual integrity and predictability that is as universally applicable as the rules of mathematics?  Let us discern this a bit more closely.  In the economic and financial industry, the math is as predictable as they are for geometry, physics and chemistry for examples.  Yet, this industry has immense difficulties making sound decisions using those immutable laws of mathematics in finance.  Why?  The financial travesties of the 20th and 21st centuries have not been due to the use of consistent financial mathematics, but the result of decisions made by financial managers who chose to make those decisions, usually for personal benefit.

What I have proposed in the last 52 Posts must surely seem radically impossible to imagine, yet it is actually quite easy to design a system that can produce consistent results.  If we are going to re-interpret any social issue so that consistent results can be achieved by anyone of any race, ethnicity, culture or nationality, then those results would be universally applicable to anyone and everyone.  (Here I want you to think of using this system for judicial interpretations.)  That is what a Unified Theory of Human Motivation based on the three core values of social sustainability could provide, as I proposed in Post #2.  Is anyone ready for peace?  Or, do we want to keep sending our children to die in unending wars?