Fascinating … but are you not beginning with an unworkable premise? Values, are an effect, not a cause of how people act and correspond. This has been shown for quite sometime now not only in philosophy but modern psychological experiments. For example, take a man who has outstanding values as a father and community leader. Put that father into a war then notice how even the best of people can become rapists and murderers over ‘values’ that appear contradictory and nonsensical. War is only a limit case to bring out the problem of beginning with any system of values and meaning: ultimately they inverse, fall apart,become nonsense, etc. around any human ACT. What is crucial is getting clear on the reasons of ACTS of War and Depression that contradict any system of values — not avoiding this by trying to ‘design’ around them. It is a bit like introducing the act as the characteristic of a Boolean Algebra where 2x=0 and the ‘2’ is inaccessible according to its 1,0 binary code.

In the end, there was first the ACT, then the value.

Cheers,

S