The three values of our species’ sustainability provide a timeless and reliable gold-standard for measuring the contributions of our efforts for our own personal fulfillment and the progress of social evolution of our families, communities and societies… and all organizations of our societies. They also provide a timeless measure for all social actions that are detrimental or do not make a contribution to the sustainability of individuals/families, communities, societies or nations.

Consider the “Occupy Wall Street” phenomenon that swept through our and other cultures, and the “Arab Spring” uprisings. While these cultures, societies and movements are vastly different, they both failed for almost identical reasons. They both failed to have an inarguable basis for their protests. They had nothing to compare their protests to except the material circumstances of the 1%. What the three values provide is a universal and timeless QUALITATIVE basis for comparison for all societies.

These three values could have provided the protesters with a means to argue their cases from a position that is common to all people. While these three values are absolute and their application is universal, they are also relevant to all people of all circumstances. The motivation for a better quality of life for the Occupy Wall Street protesters is the same as the protesters in the Arab Spring Uprisings, even though the circumstances of the Wall Street protesters was far and away better than those in the Arab Uprisings.

This is not an irony, but one which is relative to circumstances: The three values are universal to all people, but our needs that emanate from them are relative to us, individually. As example, while many Americans chafe under the regulations of the US government, people in Central America and many other regions would be thrilled to live in such circumstances. This universal-relative factor is one that will continue to cause untold decades of social, political and economic/financial distress for all nations well into the future until societies, governments and economies realize that social evolution is perennial. Until those values become the basis for all social program planning, the relative needs of everyone will exaggerate racial, ethnic and cultural tensions.

Until democracies, old and new, incorporate the means to address social change peacefully, there will be protests, revolts, rebellions and revolutions, all of which will make peaceful social evolution impossible.