RT presents the Social Well-Being Index, a new way to measure whether societies can sustain themselves, protect life, and remain cohesive What makes a prosperous nation? The West has one answer: money. For decades, Western institutions have measured things like GDP, sustainability and ‘human development’ to show which countries are doing well in the world. But do these things indicate what is truly important for humans as a species and a society? Heavily skewed towards individual consumerism, they downplay tradition and paint the growth of human population as a problem – to the point where family is seen as an atavism and ‘child-free’ appears to be the lifestyle of the progressive future. Such views are very clearly filtered through the prism of the modern liberal West – so much so that they serve as soft-power tool for promoting Western ‘values’.…