Many seeming advances for the betterment of society are made because people strive to overcome what they regard as their competition. Children often exert torturous efforts to compete with and/or surpass an older sibling. Young people tend to choose role models from among the popular sports, music or Hollywood actors to emulate (compete with).

Competing seems to be the thing to do. Does it work? Well, if it did, would there be the drive-by shootings, illegal drug use, DUI accidents and deaths, unwanted pregnancies and other teenage escapades reported regularly?

Later as professionals, business executives, or industry workers, the same competitive spirit moves young adults to do whatever it takes to forge ahead, with passion, in the game of life. The truth is that life is not a game,

and passion interferes with rationality. Life is a learning experience, and when it is so regarded, the education gained is just what a person needs to succeed.

The fact is that all the genuine discoveries since the discovery of fire, and perhaps before, were stumbled upon or resulted from a calculated study of nature and its laws. Despite that fact, in general, society is reluctant to consider that social activities are also under the control of a natural law.

After half a century, professionals in the field of behavioral studies still compete with material developed by the late Richard W. Wetherill as a result of his having identified the social law. They change the wording somewhat, and present it as their own. For example, Wetherill's coined word unthink is changed to unlearn. The command phrase technique developed by Wetherill is twisted into "a process of retrieving and deleting some of the earliest life-lesson programs stored on the internal hard drive of the heart." They instruct people to erase those early programs such as "most people will hurt you," "people are lazy," or "people will cheat you if you let them."

Where their versions really deviate from Wetherill's information is when the professionals advise people to reprogram themselves with commands such as "when you share, you will be rewarded tenfold," and "do to others what they want you to do to them."

The social law stipulates that people should not program themselves with their own ideas—however right they may seem. Rather they should dump the contents of their internal behavioral data bases. Then they can contact reality and let the needs of each situation indicate the right action to be taken.

The social law states that right action gets right results, whereas wrong action gets wrong results. It is wrong action to form unfounded judgments—something everybody starts to do at the moment of birth. Why not? How could an infant know what is happening nor how to respond. Surrounded by everything that is new and different, the infant does the best he/she can to cope.

As people mature, they go on assuming the burden of personally coping with whatever happens. That decision keeps their attention directed inward to their feelings and/or to their desires. Do people make decisions based on feelings and desires with regard to gravity or momentum? Not after they experience the hurts inflicted on them by their disregard of those natural laws.

It is essential for people to know that their wrong results are traceable to their wrong action which is traceable to their wrong thinking. It is even more vital for people to know that right results are traceable to their thinking when it is logical, appropriate and moral as specified by the social law.

There is a popular delusion that gratifying one's wants or desires gets right results, and it is that delusion which is fueling society's global chaos. The wants and desires of roughly six billion people worldwide, are compellingly motivating the global community for all the antisocial behavior being reported daily.

The tragedy is that the fighting, killing, starving and suffering of society will not be stopped by philanthropy, legislation or any other human effort. It will be stopped when people strive as hard to be socially right as they are now striving to satisfy their wants and desires—however noble or ignoble they might be.

Not only is our universe controlled by laws of nature, but our societal affairs are also under the direction of a natural law. Be Right or Go Wrong is the title of one of the books we publish, and that title expresses a warning to the foolish as well as a heartening disclosure from the creator to all who honor its message.

 

 

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