The Three-Branch Way in the Unified Society

The Three-Branch Way

Human Social History

The Three-Branch Way in the Unified Society Nonpartisan Unified Society Partisan Unified Society

三支道

The Three-Branch Way in the Unified Society 三支道 Abstract Diagrams and Tables Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 The Three-Branch Way The Five Factors in Social Life The Social Life System for Primates The Properties of Social Lives Ape Evolution and Social Structures Hominid Evolution: The Evolution of the Conscience Instinct The History of Human Society Love The Seven-Step Conversion to the Harmonious Social Life Postmodern Economy Postmodern Unified Political Systems Sustainable Modular Production with Reusing and Recycling The Sustainable Smart Grid with Bi-directional Information and energy Flow

Grand Strategy Introduction 1. Divided Society and Unified Society 1.1. The Two Worldviews 1.2. The One Way and the Three-Branch Way

Part 1. The Three-Branch Way 2. The Development of Social Life 2.1. The Five Factors 2.1.1. The Gender Factors 2.1.1.1. Social Role: Bond and Systemization 2.1.1.2. Social Relationship: Wellbeing and Achievement 2.1.1.3. Social Unit: Collectiveness and Individual 2.1.2. The Non-Gender Factors 2.1.2.1. Intragroup Contact: Passive and Dynamic 2.1.2.2. Social Flexibility: Rigid and Flexible 2.2. The Social Lives 2.2.1. Yin and Yang Social Lives in Social Group 2.2.2. Group Social Relationship: Expressive and Domination 2.2.3. The Property of Yin and Yang Social Lives 2.2.4. The Property of Harmonious Social Life 2.2.4.1. The Origin of Harmonious Social Life 2.2.4.2. Cooperation - The Hyper bonding Instinct 2.2.4.3. Detection – The Detective Instinct 2.2.4.4. The Conscience Instinct 3. Ape Evolution and Hominid Evolution 3.1. Ape Evolution 3.1.1. The Original Ape: the solitary ape 3.1.2 The First Split: the peacemaking ape 2

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3.1.3. The Second Split: the loyal ape 3.1.4. The Third Split: the harmonious ape 3.1.5 The Fourth Split: the aggressive ape 3.2. Hominid Evolution 4. The Interaction 4.1. The Interaction of the Social Lives 4.1.1. The Interaction of the Social Lives in an Individual 4.1.2. The Interaction of Social Lives Among Individuals 4.1.3. The Interaction of the Social Lives in a Group 4.2. The Enforcement of the Social Life

Part 2. Human Social History 5. The Prehistoric Period 5.1. The Prehistoric Harmonious Society 5.2. The Religious Prehistoric Harmonious Society 5.3. The Exit from the Harmonious Society 6. The Early Period 6.1. The Early Collective Society 6.2. The Early Individualistic Society 6.3. The Revival of the Harmonious Society 6.3.1. The Reasons for the Revival 6.3.2. The Conversion to the Harmonious Social Life 6.4. The Conversion of the Non-Harmonious Social Lives 6.4.1. The Conversion to the Collective Social Life 6.4.2. The Conversion to the Individualistic Social Life 7. The Modern Period 7.1. The Modern Individualistic Society 7.1.1. The Renaissance 7.1.2. The Industrial Revolution 7.2. The Modern Collective Society 7.3. The Modern Constitutional Two-Party Society 7.4. The Christian Church 7.4.1. The Early Church as the Harmonious Society 7.4.2 The Church as the State Religion 7.4.3 The Reformation: the breakdown of the intermediary 7.4.4. The Puritan Movement: the breakdown of the collective society 7.5. The Three-Branch Unified Society of America 7.5.1. The Decline of the State Religion 7.5.2. The Separation of Religion and State 7.6. The Harmonious Moral Religions

Part 3. The Postmodern Unified Societies 8. The Postmodern Unified Economy 8.1. The Economic Equation 8.2. Industrial Economy 8.2.1. Individualistic Economy 8.2.2. Collective Economy 8.2.3. Adaptive Economy

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8.3. Postmodern Economy 116 8.3.1. Individualistic Economy 117 8.3.2. Adaptive Economy 122 8.3.2.1. Economic Evolutionary Change 122 8.3.2.2. Cohesive Society 123 8.3.2.3. Sustainable Economy 127 9. The Postmodern Unified Society 138 9.1. Modern Partisan Unified Society 138 9.1.1. Modern American Partisan Unified Society 138 9.1.2. The Partisan Political System 139 9.1.3. The Different Constituents 140 9.2. The Viability in the Postmodern Partisan Political System 140 9.3. The History of the Nonpartisan Unified Society 143 9.4. The Postmodern Nonpartisan Unified Society 143 9.4.1. The Formation of the Postmodern Nonpartisan Political System 143 9.4.2. The State and the Private Sector 146 9.4.3. The Viability of the Nonpartisan Political System 148 9.5. The Postmodern Partisan and the Nonpartisan Unified Political Systems 150 9.6. The Postmodern Balanced Unified Society 150 10. The Post-Cold War Military 154 10.1 Offensive Military 154 10.2. Defensive Military 154 10.3 The Abolishment of Offensive Military 155 10.4. The World Peace 159 11. The Postmodern Religions 163 11.1. The Diminishing Dominance of Religion 163 11.2. The Modernization of Religion 165 11.2.1. The Postmodern Modernized Religion 166 11.2.2. The Postmodern Dominating Religion 166 11.2.3. The Postmodern Complementary Religion 167 12. The Postmodern Harmonious Religion 168 12.1. The Core Value and the Bridge Value 168 12.2. The Harmonious Society of God 169 12.2.1 Human 170 12.2.2. The Interaction 170 12.2.3. The Organism Structure of the Harmonious Society of God 171 12.2 4.The Harmonist Manifesto for the Harmonious Society of God 172 12.3. This Life and Afterlife 173 13. The Global Narrative 175 14. Summary 182 15. Reference 183 Website: https://sites.google.com/site/sanchihtao/ Facebook page: The Three-Branch Society in the Unified Society http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Three-Branch-Way-in-theUnified-Society/202571459761756 Twitter: sanchihtao http://twitter.com/sanchihtao#

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Abstract In the divided society, the one way (单向道) of good over evil prevails to reflect the fighting for survival in the divided world worldview. In the unified society, the three-branch way (三支道) of balancing yin-yang-harmony (阴阳和諧) prevails to reflect balancing entities in the unified world worldview. In the one way, good eliminates evil. In the threebranch way, yin, yang, and harmony balance and check each other instead of eliminating each other. The postmodern society is the unified society particularly among major powers. The Postmodern Unified Society fulfills the end time prophecies of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The end of prevailing divided society is the beginning of prevailing unified society. The world peace can be achieved. The book is divided into three parts: (1) the three-branch way, (2) human social history, and (3) the Postmodern Unified Society. (1) The three-branch way consists of the three basic human social lives (interactions): yin, yang, and harmony for feminine collective wellbeing, masculine individualistic achievement, and harmonious cooperation, respectively, derived from neuroscience and psychology. The harmonious social life that lowers conflicts in social interactions and exists only in humans is maximum eager cooperation without lie. The origin of the human social lives is explained by human psychological development. The emergence of the harmonious social life and society occurred during human evolution, including ape evolution and hominid evolution. (2) The prehistoric hunter-gatherer society in the Prehistoric Period was the harmonious society. The harmonious social life was evolved to adapt to the small social group in the prehistoric hunter-gatherer society. In the Early Period starting from the Neolithic Revolution, the inevitable large civilized social group of the agricultural-nomad society destroyed the prehistoric harmonious small social group. As a result, the collective society and the individualistic society were formed separately. In the collective society, the state collective religion (Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Confucianism) dominated. In the individualistic society, the state individualism (Greek mythology and science) dominated. Later, the harmonious religions (Christianity, Buddhism, and Daoism) emerged. In the Modern Period starting from the Renaissance, the modern mass printing and increased literacy led to communication and understanding among the three branches of human society for the modern three-branch society. (3) In the Postmodern Period starting from the information technology revolution, the postmodern economy is divided into individualistic (capitalistic), collective (socialistic), and adaptive (unified) economies. The inevitable outcomes of individualistic and collective economies are economic corruption (debt and greed) and economic stagnation (apathy and mismanagement), respectively. Adaptive economy involves economic evolutionary change in cohesive society to adapt to sustainable economy. The Postmodern Unified Society is divided into the Partisan Unified Society where the political parties represent separately the collective and the individualistic societies and the Nonpartisan Unified Society where the state represents both societies. The harmonious society is represented by the harmonious religion. The world peace can be achieved by the WTDO (the Trade-Defense Organization) to abolish trade barrier and offensive military. The postmodern harmonious religion complementary to modernity is the most suitable postmodern religion. The global narrative tells the human story of the real past, prevailing present, and optimal future.

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道生一，一生二，二生三，三生万物。万物负阴而抱阳，冲气以为和。The Way gives birth to one, one gives birth to two, two give birth to three, and three give birth to all things. All things carry yin on back and hug yang in front. The forces collide to become harmony. (Chapter 42 Dao De Jing)

Diagrams and Tables The One Way and the Three-Branch Way

Part 1. The Three-Branch Way

Part 2. Human Social History

Part 3. The Postmodern Unified Society

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The Three-Branch Way THE FIVE FACTORS IN SOCIAL LIFE social role social relationship social unit intragroup Social flexibility (Bond(Collectiveness- interaction (Wellbeing(Rigid-Flexible) (Passive-Dynamic) Systemization Achievement) individual)

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yin (Bond-Wellbeing-Collectiveness = collective wellbeing for social bond) and yang (Systemization-Achievement-Individual = individualistic achievement for systemization) Passive – Dynamic intragroup interaction harmony = high Flexible to minimize conflicts in social interactions

SOCIAL LIFE

yin passive social life (amiable)

yin dynamic social life (expressive)

harmonious social life

yang dynamic social life (driver)

yang passive social life (analytical)

bond

expressive

hyper bonding+ detection

domination

systemization

SOCIAL STRUCTURES the loose collective society

the tight collective society

the harmonious society

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the tight individualistic society

the loose individualistic society

The Five Factors in Social Life Gender factors social role social relation social unit Non-gender factors intragroup interaction social flexibility

Social Life

Personality Type (MBTI)

The Big Five

bond (B) systemization (S) wellbeing (W) achievement (A) collectiveness (C)

a part of feeling (F) a part of thinking (T) a part of feeling (F) a part of thinking (T) intuition (N)

Agreeable (A) Neuroticism (N)

individual (I)

sense (S)

Consciousness (C)

passive (P) dynamic (D) rigid (R) flexible (F)

introvert (I) extrovert (E) judging (J) perceiving (P)

Extrovert (E) Openness (O)

The Social Life System for Primates Social lives yin (BWC ) –yang (SAI) passive-dynamic or harmony (high (introvert-extrovert) Flexible) Yin Passive Yang

Passive

Yin

Dynamic

Yang

Dynamic

Harmony

society

social life

the loose collective society the loose individualistic society the tight collective society the tight individualistic society the harmonious society

Merrill-Reid social style

bond

Amiable

systemization

Analytical

expressive

Expressive

domination

Driver

harmony

The Properties of Social Lives

Symbol Social-life enhancer Social-life enhancer components Social-life stressor Sin Stress response Fundamental Social Unit Lifer (Person) Society

Yin (Collective) Social Life

Yang (Individualistic) Social Life

Harmonious Social Life

collective wellbeing bond expressive disconnection injustice disconnection sin injustice sin despair paranoid collective social group collective collective

individualistic achievement systemization domination disorganization repression disorganization sin repression sin anxiety unfulfillment individual

harmonious cooperation hyper bond detection estrangement enlargement estrangement sin enlargement sin

individualistic individualistic

harmonious harmonious

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alienation one-to-one relation

Ape Evolution and Social Structures orangutan-like common ancestor (loose society) 13 million years ago (Ma)

orangutan (loose society)bonobo-like common ancestor (matriarch collective) 7 Ma

gorilla (patriarch collective society)

6 Ma

human (harmonious society)

2 Ma

chimpanzee (patriarch individualistic society) bonobo (matriarch collective society)

Hominid Evolution: The Evolution of the Conscience Instinct walking hands (bonobo-like common ancestor) bipedalism

free hands for gestural language as hyper bond (non-Homo hominids 6-1 Ma) manipulative hands for tool (Homo habilis 2.2-1.6 Ma) speech for theory of mind (Homo erectus 1.9-0.1 Ma)

hyper bond

theory of mind (detective instinct) conscience instinct extra prefrontal cortex

enhanced conscience instinct (Homo sapiens 13 Ma) the first split ( 13 Ma) the second split ( 7 Ma) the third split (6 Ma) the fourth split (2 Ma)

Initial Habitat (1 = best food resource and security) dense forest/tree (1) dense forest/tree (2) diverse forest/ground (3) hospitable woodland/ground (4) Inhospitable woodland/tree (5)

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Characteristic

Social Structure

the solitary ape

loose society

the peacemaking ape the loyal ape

matriarch collective society patriarch collective society harmonious society

the harmonious ape the aggressive ape

patriarch individualistic society

3.2. Hominid Evolution Human is Homo sapiens, which is the only non-extinct species of hominids. Hominid evolution started from woodland in Africa. From 6 Ma to 2 Ma, the drier and cooler climate progressed slowly. By around 6 Ma to 2 Ma in Africa, an apelike species had evolved with two important traits that distinguished it from apes: (1) bipedalism and (2) small canine teeth. The two most complete skeletons for early hominids are Ardi and Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis) 25. Ardi (45% complete skeleton) is estimated to be 4.4 million years ago. (Similar to other apes, Ardi's skull encased a small brain – 300 to 350 cc.) She lived in grassy woodland with patches of denser forest and freshwater springs. The further decrease in temperature and rain decreased food resource and security as shown in Lucy (40% complete skeleton) in 3.2 million years ago. (The brain size is 450-530cc.) The environmental pressure led to the small expansion of the brain as shown in the larger brain in Lucy than in Ardi. After about 2.8 Ma, in East Africa east of the African Rift System, the environment pressure came from the climate fluctuation and significant drying. During this period, parts of forest and woodland turned to grassland. Without the protection of forest, the bipedal hominid in the open grassland faced predators from both large dangerous animals 26 and intense inter-group competition. The climate fluctuation and open grassland forced hominids to evolve quickly in terms of the brain size to thrive in diverse environments including forests, woodlands, and grassland savannas. It involved the usage of tools and the emergence of the highly efficient cooperative harmonious society based on the conscience instinct as the combination of hyper friendliness and theory of mind for social cooperation. The usage of tools and the highly efficient cooperative harmonious society allowed human to thrive in diverse environments. With bipedalism, the walking hands turned into free hands that allowed the potential for many usages. For the Australopithecines, the usage is gestural language to improve communication for survival as discussed previously. The brain size was only slightly larger than other apes. In the next 2 million years, the Australopithecine evolved into the Homo with larger brain than its predecessor. The next most significant gradual change of hominid evolution is the conversion of free hands into manipulative hands with precision grip resulting in the acquisition of tool-use and making. The most primitive stone tool-use hominid family is Homo habilis in about 2.2-1.6 Ma. (The brain size is 750-850cc.) Because tool-use and making required thinking and precision manipulation, the competitive advantage of the tooluse and making resulted in the rapid expansion of the brain for tool-use and making. The use of tools allowed hominids to hunt and butcher animals which provided the nutrients for the brain. Eventually, (1.9-0.1 Ma), Homo erectus had not only perfected stone tools considerably but had also learned how to control and use fire. (Homo habilis and Homo erectus coexisted. The brain size is 1000-1250 cc.) The hearth for fire and the gathering for cooperative tool manufacture promoted the development of social organization. The competitive advantage of social organization resulted in the rapid development of spoken language to aid gestural language in the same area of the brain. The bone structures of

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Homo erectus showed signs for commanding speech. For speech, Homo erectus had a larynx with an equivalent position to that of an 8-year-old modern child 27. Both brain-size and the presence of the Broca's area also support the use of articulate language28. The competitive advantage of the spoken language led to theory of mind as mentioned before. Ardi already had vocal/facial/gestural communication as hyper friendliness. The combination of hyper friendliness and theory of mind from theory of mind led to the conscience instinct that is maximum eager cooperation without lie. The social life is the harmonious social life in the harmonious society. Homo erectus was probably the first hominid to live in small, familiar band-societies similar to modern hunter-gatherer bandsocieties29. Language alone cannot solve all social conflicts to achieve maximum eager cooperation without lie, so it is necessary to control social conflicts by will. The social behaviors were still affected greatly by the instincts from the old non-harmonious social lives that hinder frequently maximum eager cooperation without lie. The competitive advantage of the harmonious society (TIT FOR TAT strategy as the best strategy) resulted in the expansion of the prefrontal cortex to control the non-harmonious instincts. As the brain had tripled in size during human evolution, the prefrontal cortex had increased in size six fold. The prefrontal cortex in humans occupies a far larger percentage of the brain than any other animal. Adult humans with injure in the prefrontal cortex know what to do for socialization, but do not have the will to do for socialization. Therefore, the conscience instinct can be divided into the conscience intelligence for the knowledge of socialization and the conscience will to control the non-harmonious instincts to achieve maximum eager cooperation without lie. A large part of the prefrontal cortex is for the conscience will connecting emotion and instinct areas in the brain. The competitive advantage of the harmonious society filtered out the less harmonious people and social groups (trouble makers) who were marginalized or forced to move out of the harmonious society. The remaining people with the harmonious social life continued to evolve into even more harmonious social life, and the less harmonious people and groups continued to be marginalized or move out. The technological and social 30 selections generated the unusually fast evolution of the hominid brain. Eventually, the most technologically advanced and harmonious hominid, Homo sapiens, emerged in Africa where the harmonious society originated. This social movement follows exactly the outcome for the TIT FOR TAT strategy as the best strategy to defeat all other strategies. The earliest Homo sapiens found in Ethiopia were dated to be about 200,000 years old. (The brain size is 1,350 cc.) The brain of Homo sapiens reaches the maximum efficiency in terms of size and complexity. Any additional size and complexity to achieve higher harmonious social life are counter-productive31, so Homo sapiens have the maximum harmonious social life rather than the ideal harmonious social life. The genetic psychological reinforcement of the harmonious social life is achieved by both the positive good feeling in practicing the harmonious social life and the negative bad feeling in violating conscience for the harmonious social life. For the detection instinct in conscience, the automatic emergence of shame and uneasiness in lying is the negative bad feeling in violating conscience. Such bad feeling of lying moves people toward honesty. For hyper friendliness in conscience, the automatic emergence of miserable feeling in loneliness steers people toward social connection. Psychologist John

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Cacippo 32 finds that prolonged loneliness can be as harmful to health as smoking or obesity. Since conscience involves significantly the prefrontal cortex, loneliness impairs the performance of the prefrontal cortex, such as in logical reasoning33. Such harmful and miserable effect of loneliness indicates the strong preference of social connection through the harmonious cooperation in a social group for our primitive ancestors. In summary, walking hands turned into free hands by bipedalism. Free hands allowed improved gestural language that became the expression of hyper friendliness. Such evolution took place in woodland without the requirement of additional brain expansion for intelligence. In the highly impoverished and insecure open grassland, the brain started to expand as free hands evolved into manipulative hands to make improved tools. The appearance of very useful spoken language greatly accelerated the expansion of the brain. The spoken language became the expression of theory of mind as theory of mind that exists only in human. The combination of hyper friendliness and theory of mind resulted in the conscience instinct. The enhanced conscience instinct came from the expansion of the prefrontal cortex to control the non-harmonious instincts. Hominid evolution is the evolution of the conscience instinct. Hominid evolution as the evolution of the conscience instinct is as follows.

Hominid Evolution: The Evolution of the Conscience Instinct walking hands (bonobo-like common ancestor) bipedalism

free hands for gestural language as hyper friendliness (non-Homo hominids 6-1 Ma) manipulative hands for tool (Homo habilis 2.2-1.6 Ma) speech for theory of mind (Homo erectus 1.9-0.1 Ma)

hyper friendliness

theory of mind (detective instinct) conscience instinct extra prefrontal cortex

enhanced conscience instinct (Homo sapiens