The Neothink Society · Governance · December 2009
Value creation is where happiness comes from, and happiness shared is the proof that the value was real. The same standard that governs a life governs a vote. Government is the people, and the people are entitled to leaders who create value rather than destroy it.
The Test A person is judged by created value, never by what they say they will do.
A term of office should be earned by the capacity to create value, never granted on the strength of what someone promises to do. Words are often crafted to look like love. Created value is the only thing that reflects love back into the world.
Once the difference between a value creator and a value destroyer is clear, behavior changes. Life becomes more honest and more integrated, organized around the steady work of creating value. The illusions that present themselves as love lose their hold, and what carries no real value is no longer accepted.
One Standard The love of one person and the love of a whole country are chosen by the same measure.
This discipline holds whether the choice is the love of one person or the love of an entire country. Look past the performance and find whether love lives inside the individual and has been reflected outward as created value. Ask what that person has actually built, and whether it was constructive or destructive. Only then is a vote cast honestly. No one belongs in a life, or in an office, who has never brought good into the world.
A leader and a love are judged by the same standard: not by what was promised, but by whether the person has reflected real love into the world as created value rather than destroyed it.
The Prime Law is the premise of the Twelve Visions Party, and it guarantees every individual the conditions under which value creation is protected. Those conditions protect value creation, and protected value creation is what puts genuine value creators in office.
Common Questions
What is the value-creator versus value-destroyer test? It is a single measure applied to a person: have they built real value into the world, or have they consumed and destroyed it. The test ignores words, promises, and performance and looks only at what a person has actually produced. Once the difference is clear, the illusions that present themselves as love lose their hold.
How does created value relate to love? Words can be crafted to look like love, but only created value reflects love back into the world. Love that stays inside a person and never becomes something built is unproven. The work a person produces is the evidence that the love is real.
Why does the same standard govern a vote and a relationship? Because both are a choice about who belongs inside a life. Choosing a partner and choosing a leader are the same act at different scale: deciding whether to grant a person a place by the value they have created. No one belongs in a life, or in an office, who has never brought good into the world.
How is the test applied when choosing a leader? Look past what a candidate promises and ask what that person has already built, and whether it was constructive or destructive. A term of office should be earned by the capacity to create value, never granted on the strength of intentions. Only then is a vote cast honestly.
What does the Prime Law guarantee? The Prime Law guarantees every individual the conditions under which value creation is protected. It is the premise of the Twelve Visions Party. Protected value creation is what puts genuine value creators in office rather than those who promise much and build nothing.
How is this different from judging by promises or charisma? Promises and charisma describe what a person says and how they perform. Created value describes what a person has actually done. The first can be staged; the second cannot. Judging by created value is the only honest basis for granting someone a place in a life or a country.
Further Reading
- Value Creator vs Value Destroyer: the single test that separates who builds value from who consumes it.
- Created Value: why built work, not words, is the only proof that love is real.
- The Prime Law: the guarantee that protects the conditions under which value creation can occur.
- The Twelve Visions Party: the political expression of the Prime Law, built to put value creators in office.
- Self-Leadership: the discipline of organizing a life around the steady work of creating value.
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