Best of Spherical Model, Part III

This is the third in our series celebrating the 400^th Spherical Model blog post. Part I covered the basics of the Spherical Model concept, as well as posts about the Political Sphere. Part II covered posts from the Economic Sphere. Today will look at the Social Sphere, or Civilization, which is the goal.

Civilization requires a righteous people; the self-government of freedom also requires a righteous people; and a prosperous free market also requires a righteous people. Freedom, prosperity, and civilization all hinge on having a critical mass of people willingly living the rules of civilization and not giving in to savagery.

So I probably write more on the Civilization Sphere than the others. Choosing favorites is a challenge. Sometimes I have written series on topics that underlie civilization: valuing life, valuing family, parental responsibility for education, and others. Today’s list would be even more unwieldy than it is if I include those here. So my plan is to limit today’s posts to some favorites; I’ll guide you to the various series some other time. The list is in chronological order, as the lists of the past couple of posts. The * means it’s one of the most re-read posts.

·        *Peanut Butter News (March 24, 2011)

·        Speaker for the Dead and Civilization (April 28, 2011)

·        Why I’m Not Quite a Libertarian (May 17, 2011)

·        Words on Civilization (July 11, 2011)

·        *Community Service Is Better Than Community Organizing (July 19, 2011)

·        *Ultimate Questions (September 6, 2011)

·        Ultimate Right and Wrong (September 14, 2011)

·        Two Revolutions (September 28, 2011)

·        The Way Back Up to Civilization (October 3, 2011)

·        Charity (October 6, 2011)

·        Ye Shall Know Them by Their Fruits (October 13, 2011)

·        *Two Hundredth Post [on the First Amendment Freedom of Religion] (January 13, 2012)

·        War on Women and Children (March 19, 2012)

·        *He Is Risen [celebration of Easter] (April 6, 2012)

·        More on Marriage [A list of posts on family from the first year of the blog—Most of June 2011 was dedicated to family and marriage] (April 23, 2012)

·        Overruling God [on abortion] (June 11, 2012)

·        Happiness Quotients (July 9, 2012)

·        Belonging (September 7, 2012)

·        Parents Bring About Civilization (October 15, 2012)

·        *Think on These Things (November 7, 2012)

·        *Each Life That Touches Ours for Good (December 3, 2012)

• *By Small and Simple Means (January 2, 2012) 

·        Life Matters (January 28, 2013) and Another Word about Life (January 30, 2013)

·        Civilized Manliness (February 25, 2013)   and Women Who Civilize (February 27, 2013)