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Global Civilizational State: the application of the Scale of Global Rights to the most important global issues threatening humanity's survival worldwide.(with videos)
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Theme for this month February 2021:
Global Civilizational State: the application of the Scale of Global Rights to the most important global issues threatening humanity's survival worldwide.

Global Issue 4, sections 1,2,3,4,5, and 6 affected: The need of Evolutionity and Global Civilizational State leadership to educate Peoples for humanity survival, and to emphasize moral virtues and a healthy intellectual development.

For hundreds of years, the nation states of the West formed a multipolar world within Western civilization. For a long time, Americans have defined themselves, their society, by building up positive links across different cultural groups of the West. America was the land of freedom, equality, opportunity, the future, and a distinct civilization. Democratic societies of the West were led by the United States. During those years, not so much ideologies, but economics and politics were differentiating peoples of different civilizations. Their cultures, their ways of life, ways of doing things have been their most distinguishing characteristics and which have been defined by religion, language, and ancestry. In modern era, Western civilization, the West, is referred to the European-American civilization. 

The future of the United States and of the West depend upon Americans reaffirming once more their commitment to Western civilization. When Americans look for their cultural roots, they find them in Europe. As Western countries increasingly interact with increasingly powerful non-Western societies they become more and more aware of their common Western cultural core that binds them together. If North America and Europe renew their moral life, build on their cultural commonality, and develop close forms of economic and political integration to supplement their security collaboration in NATO, they could generate a renewal of the Euroamerican phase of Western economic affluence and political influence. Meaningful political integration would in some measure counter the relative decline of the West in the world, and revive the power of the West in the eyes of the Peoples of other civilizations.

The most important characteristics of the Western civilization include:

a) Western Christianity, namely Catholicism and Protestantism, is the most important characteristic of Western civilization.

b) Language is second only to religion as a factor distinguishing people of one culture from those of another.

c) The separation between church and state that typify Western civilization have existed in no other civilization. This division of authority contributed immeasurably to the development of freedom in the West.

d) The concept of the centrality of law to civilized existence has laid the basis for constitutionalism and the protection of human rights, including property rights, against the exercise of arbitrary power, autocratic, totalitarianism, or despotic.

e) Historically Western society has been highly pluralistic and that was a distinguishing characteristic, the rise of diverse autonomous groups not based on blood relationship or marriage.

f) Social pluralism gave rise to estates, parliaments, and other institutions to represent the interests of the aristocracy, clergy, merchants, and other groups. These bodies provided forms of representation which in the course of modernization evolved into the institutions of modern democracy.

g) Over time emerged a sense of individualism and a tradition of individual rights and liberties unique among civilized societies, even claims for equal rights for all individuals. Again and again both Westerners and non-Westerners point to individualism as the central distinguishing mark of the West.

Because of modernization, global politics today is being reconfigured along cultural lines and civilizations. And of course, Global Civilizational State is finally giving its historical place as the global solution to saving humanity from complete extinction. Peoples and countries with similar cultures are coming together. Alignments defined by ideology and superpower relations are giving way to alignments defined by culture and civilization.

A successful Global Civilizational state for all Life on Earth is on the horizon. Let us lead the world toward a Global Civilizational state.