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I think that citizenship may be the most important managable factor in our effort to facilitate  humane sustainablility.  This creative $1million  contribution might well be spent in explicit effort to promote understanding of the meaning and practical use of the comcept, "THE COMMON GOOD." This  insight  would empower people with confidence of being authentic in their thought, valuing and action in  being a citizen.  The effort would need to identify the channels and processes most likely to bring about societal education on the concept and furnish the initial effort on those channels and processes which appear most likely to be successful.

As to content and topics which can make the concept workable  in the citizen's practical thinking and action:

THE COMMON GOOD, as defined as broadly as the word 'common' means, and 'good' defined as an individual thoughtfully chooses can function as the value matrix against which options and issues  are measured for  relative desirability. 

COMMON GOOD in increasing wide circle:  family,  neighborhood, city, state, nation,............planet

the useful merits of a FREE MARKET system

individual and minority HUMAN RIGHTS

GLOBAL WARMING, or more broadly, ECOLOGIC SURVIVAL OF LIFE

workable structures and processes for SOCIETAL DECISION MAKING

worthy purposes for  TAXES

fairness and practical collection of TAXES

nature and importance of community support of  CHILDHOOD

Concluding, we need lists, to understand them accurately , and to place in priority.

posted 1 year, 10 months ago
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