* Solutions to the challenges of modernity will require greater consensus, cohesion and shared communal values than has ever before been realized.
* This in turn will require that many long-standing human divides be resolved, transcended or sufficiently minimized.
* And this will require new foundational values drawing upon both conventionally liberal and conventionally conservative values, and others.
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A world of significantly greater economic justice, ecological integrity and technological responsibility will need to be a world of significantly greater consensus, cohesion and shared communal values than is presently or has ever been the case. If in turn we are to realize a world of such consensus and cohesion we'll need to resolve, transcend or sufficiently minimize social, cultural, religious, racial, ethnic and other divides that have characterized human societies for decades, centuries and millennia. This is a major challenge and how we address it successfully is a raw open question.
Concern for economic justice, ecological integrity and technological responsibility has in past decades been associated largely with left, liberal and progressive values and sensibilities. But a future world in which these concerns are being successfully addressed, and especially one in which economic growth may effectively have come to an end, will likely need to draw upon a mix of both conventionally left/liberal and conventionally conservative values and, importantly, upon values that don't fall neatly within either category. Such trans-categorical values and sensibilities might include, for example, frugality, simplicity, modesty, temperance, quietude, reverence, mindfulness, hospitality, humility, fidelity, filial piety, discipline, honor, respect for legitimate authority and respect for tradition properly understood. If mishandled, discussion concerning values can be explosively divisive, which is precisely the opposite of what we want and need to have happen. How can we get this right?
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For more see the Working Paper Expanded Outline Section IV, Discussion Notes 121-142, 164-171, 187-210, 211-221 and 236, and Attachments E3-E.5 and G.1.