Cultural dissonance.  Were you put on edge when you read the re-interpretation of same - sex marriage in Post #55?  If so, that is the appearance cultural dissonance between the value system of the traditional democratic culture that you hold in your mind, and that of the first evidence of a socially sustainable democratic culture.  That edgy feeling is actually a good thing.  It is good because it is evidence of disagreement (dissonance) between the old culture of our enculturation and the values of a sustainable democratic culture. 

On the other hand, if you saw the logic and rationality of the Social Sustainability re-interpretation of that social issue, then you are well prepared to engage forthcoming re-interpretations of other social issues that give our society so much grief.

Speaking of social grief, this is also evidence that there is a cultural dissonance within our existing democratic social issue belief systems.  It is evidence that within the democratic society of the U.S. there is a dissonance, disagreement, between two conflicting cultures.  One side says it is “right” and the other side “wrong.”  The fundamental reality of this situation, which is very typical of whether we are talking about same-sex marriage, gun-control, right to life, right to death or any other hot-button social issue, is that none of the sides have a universally common basis for their arguments.  The cultural disputes that often become open, physical confrontations will continue until opposing parties realize that their arguments are just so much rhetoric.  Without a universal standard to point to that supports their argument and also demonstrates the unsupportable arguments of the opposition, there will be disputes into the future without ceasing.

Until there is cultural harmony through the agreed use of the three core values of our species’ sustainability as the fundamental “global standard” of social validation, these social issues will continue to flood the judicial system into the foreseeable future.  Unfortunately, the courts will be no better off either until they, too, accept this global standard for their interpretations.  All of this traditional “monkey-motion” gets nothing done that is sustainable, and takes a lot of energy away from other social issues of far greater importance to the social sustainability of every democratic society.