Personal Rights of Sustainability — Societal Rights of Sustainability.  Now that you have a personal appreciation for the cultural dissonance between our traditional democratic enculturation and that of the culture of social sustainability on a personal level, let us take this one step farther.  In the case of same-sex marriages, it was a case of redefining personal rights between differing value systems.  Yet, both represent a dissonance that has not yet been explained or appreciated — between the rights of self-determination at the personal level and the rights of society to protect its sustainability.  Because no one represents society, the protection or society can only be assured by everyone who conscientiously makes decisions that proactively support the sustainability of society.

In the light of socially sustainable values, a society has a greater value for being sustained because society is the whole population plus sustaining organizations.  In the perspective social sustainability, society is valued greater than that of the individual person because it carries the weight of their collective cultural heritage for all of the future generations.  Only a society that teaches social sustainability to individuals/families is capable to enculturating current and future generations with the wisdom that has been earned throughout its history.  For a socially sustainable society to come into existence, each individual must make decisions that benefit the sustainability of the whole of society, as well as individually. 

This may seem a bit odd until we come to appreciate that a society is the vehicle that carries our culture into the future.  We as individuals must make decisions that proactively support the sustainability of society.  Organizations are as responsible for contributing to the sustainability of society as every individual/family.  Societies are the catalyst for the continuation of our species (individuals/families) and organizations.  Societies are none dimensional and immeasurable, but act as an energetic field of consciousness where individuals and organizations can interact to produce the transcendence of a culture and nation.  This will not occur until individuals WITHIN organizations apply the three values that have sustained our species in all of their daily organizational and corporate decisions. 

Because our contemporary culture does not recognize the “right of societal sustainability,” over time the decisions of individuals/families and organizations that do not support societal sustainability will have a detrimental effect on the sustainability of nations, as we are seeing today.