Looking at Razie Mah’s  (2015) A Primer on the Family  (Part 15 of 24)

0093 What is righteous1aC?

Can righteousness1aC be pictured or pointed to with hand talk?

Of course not, what is there to image or point to?

Yet, our hominin ancestors adapt to the niche of righteousness, in the Lebenswelt that we evolved in.

How can our ancestors adapt into a niche that they cannot label?

0094 In our current Lebenswelt, the term, “righteousness”, is an explicit abstraction.  An explicit abstraction places a label on ‘something’ that we cannot image or indicate using hand talk.  Such is the advantage of speech-alone talk.

0095 So how do we figure out what the term refers to?

We project reference into the term, “righteous1aC“, and construct artifacts… er, do I mean to say?.. organizational objectives2aC that validate the projections.

If that sounds circular, like some sort of feedback loop, then I can only conclude that humans are loopy.  As long as the artifact, the objectorg2aC, continues to be relevant to the individual in communityA and the organizationB tiers, then the institution3aC remains, promulgating its righteousness1aC.

0096 As soon as the artifact is no longer salient, then who remembers?

The family always remembers. 

Why?

Children are always relevant.