The SUSTAINABILITY of a Civilization depends heavily upon What fractions of the leaders in the civilization have Won Their-Own COLLUSIVE GAMES OF MUTUAL SELF DECEPTION ABOUT HOW HONORABLE THEY ARE BECAUSE - - - They are SUPERIOR-PEOPLE WHO HAVE: 1. Been chosen by God to be Great-Leaders. 2. Achieved Great-Missions on their own. 3. Control over Great-Truths-and-Mysteries which are hidden from Inferior-People. 4. Control over Great-Wealth and/or Great-Powers. 5. Far More-Luxuries than most other people have. 6. Been Born-Into a Royal-Family. 7. More Powerful-Technologies than inferior people have. 8. Control over Unlimited Energy-and-Material-Resources. 9. Control over the Absolute-TRUTH. 10. More-Rights than other Inferior Have-Rights-Unto. 11. The RIGHT to be as Dominant-and-Violent as they may need to be. 12. The RIGHT to be as ADDICTED and CODEPENDENT as they may need to be. 13. Transcended the risks of exponential growth in economic and resource consumption within God's Astronomically Tiny-and-Materially-Isolated SPACE-SHIP-EARTH. 14. Transcended the risks of corruption and death. 15. Become Eternally-Good-People through the mysteries of "salvation" and/or "redemption". 16. Can be trusted to do what is ABSOLUTELY-RIGHT. 17. Control over the World's Greatest Civilization. 18. Been Predestined to be the Best-Dominant-Bully among all Dominant-Bullies. 19. Been Predestined to Defeat all challengers. 20. Arrived! 21. Defeated Many-Evil-People and so have become GOOD in SUPERIOR-WAYS. 22. HAVE BEEN HONORED AND TRUSTED DUE TO THEIR OUTSTANDING DEMONSTRATIONS OF PROFITABLE/USEFUL: Greed Hoarding Clinging Arrogance Self-Righteousness Consumption Domination Coercion Violence Torture Prejudice Ignorance Dishonesty Pretentions Collusions Wealth-Concentration Power-Concentration Militancy Loyalty Tenacity Certainty Confusion Bias Simplicity -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THINK TOGETHER in SHALOM! Be-Together within Shalom's Sanctuaries Discerning through Open-and-Honest-Dialogues - - - What-IS and What-is-NOT ESSENTIAL-TO-CIVILITY-AND-SUSTAINABLE-CIVILIZATIONS!