Illustration D – A Social Sustainability Culture Changing Force Field

Social Sustainability Culture Changing Force Field

This illustration represents what will develop in the term of 3-5 years for technologically developed democratic nations, when these democratic technologies are installed.

Both the Institute and Emanation provide non-aligned, non-political, non-partisan, non-position-based operations that facilitate the development of democratic societies into Type II, double-loop learning organizations: Something that has never intentionally or accidentally come into existence before.

The Institute’s first purpose is to provide training to teach citizens in any democratic nation how to develop socially sustainable solutions to public issues. Its second purpose is to provide a repository for all socially sustainable historical wisdom, and for the collection and organization of new wisdom that supports social sustainability. This second source will be generated by Teams in local communities from their efforts to develop sustainable organizations and sustainable social policies, for example.

Emanation’s purpose is to provide a mechanism for measuring public opinion concerning public issues; to provide non-aligned educational materials concerning those public issues; and through its public media site facilitate citizen participation in public dialogue concerning those issues.

For any society and nation to move toward social sustainability it must be capable of training hundreds of millions of citizens to participate in making selections among the options for survival that they will have to live out in times of great social distress that do NOT replicate historic choices that were not socially sustainable.

The Illustration D:

Operationally, this force field illustrates a rational and intelligent means of engaging public issues in a highly constructive manner by applying the intelligence and wisdom of its citizens to select options for survival, existence, social stability and social sustainability that are invested with the three core values of social sustainability.

“Axis hub” of I4HS and Emanation are depicted as stable and unaffected by the “rotation” of current events at the perimeters. I4HS facilitates the movement of public issues through its processes to produce socially sustainable options to those issues. Emanation facilitates a public dialogue relating to those public issues, while providing related educational materials that allow its subscribers to make educated choices concerning the options available for those issues.

The arrowed perimeter of I4HS represents its public media subscribership (TIS) of individuals and teams. This public medium enables individuals and teams around the world to collaborate on social topics and the development of sustainable designs; and to validate the socially sustainable morality of existing social topics and policies as well as proposed designs and policies; and developmental plans for the implementation of those designs.

The arrowed perimeter of Emanation represents its public medium subscribership (EM21) of individuals. Its operation is very similar to social media sites but allows individuals with similar opinions concerning public issues to form networks of measurable opinion that could then exercise its influence in the traditional democratic process of their elected and appointed public executives.

Both organizations and their related public media sites offer the public of any technologically developed democracy the opportunity to reframe social change into an intentional process that learns from its success and failures as it moves toward social and democratic sustainability.

“The Raphael Laws of Social Physics”: As the momentum of social change increases (mass x velocity) the capacity for a society to anticipate its destination is inversely proportional logarithmically, thus becoming less and less likely. (Mass, being the increasing size of any population, x the duration of its traditional existence squared, [or something like that!]) Conversely, stable social movement into the future is directly dependent upon the decrease of viscosity of communication between and among all social elements (citizens and social institutions) x the movement of the loci of public issues through the democratic process. (Wink-wink)