Human culture is still very similar to
ape culture
There are
only subtle differences between the body, mind, and culture
of humans
and apes.
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Many people can accept the
evidence that humans evolved
from apes, ( a Bonobo
is
in the photo
to
the right), but most people resist the concept
that human culture
evolved from ape culture, and
that our culture is still very
similar to
that of an ape.
This document adds to the concepts in the Overpopulation and Dystopia documents to
show that our modern problems, such as pollution, corruption, obesity,
homelessness, crime networks, and loneliness, are the result of our
ancestors developing technology while following
ape culture.
If we assume that humans are a creation of a supreme being, or that our
mind is like a piece of clay that molds itself to the environment, we
will not be able to find a sensible explanation for any of our social
problems, or a solution to them.
In order to solve a problem, we have to find the cause of the problem. A simple
example is that if we assume that crime is due to "evil" people, we
will never understand or
reduce crime.
By understanding that humans are a species of ape, we
get a better understanding of our
culture, and we can get ideas on how to experiment with our
culture to make
it better adapted to the
technically advanced world that we have created for ourselves. Three
examples are language, food, and pornography.
Example #1: Language
Animals make certain noises
when certain emotions are stimulated, and human languages
evolved by adding
words to those emotional noises. We continue to make
noises to express our emotional feelings, such as when we groan, grunt,
or laugh, but we usually use words
to represent emotions.
For example, our swearwords represent emotional feelings rather than
intelligent concepts. A human who swears at somebody is behaving like a
dog that barks at another dog. ( More information in this
earlier document.)
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Since swearwords
represent emotional feelings rather than intelligent concepts, they can
be replaced with symbols (image to the left),
or by icons of barking dogs (image to the right). |
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We also frequently use adjectives to
express an emotion, rather
than to clarify the concept of the sentence. For example, the person
who posted this
security camera video describes the crime as occurring " in broad daylight". The first
person who used the word " broad" as an
adjective for daylight was
using
the word to
express his surprise that the criminal committed the crime during the
day, rather than try to
hide his activity by committing the crime at night.
The first person to describe daylight as "broad" was using the word in
a nonsensical manner. It was
as idiotic
as
saying the crime occurred in narrow
daylight, heavy
daylight, or loud
daylight. His mind was looking for a way to express his emotional
feelings, and it picked "broad".
When other people decoded his remark, the word "broad" would not have
clarified "daylight", but all humans have the same mental
characteristics, so other people would have also been surprised about
the crime occurring in the daylight. Therefore, everybody would have
realized that the word "broad" was expressing an emotional feeling
rather than describing the daylight.
There were undoubtedly other people who described an event with a
different adjective, such as "in clear
sunlight", but the expression "broad daylight"
was mimicked more often than the alternatives, causing it to become
a common expression of the English language.
We must acknowledge we are
animals to
understand language
Describing a crime as occurring in "broad" daylight is using the word
to express an emotional feeling, rather than provide
an intelligent description of the sunlight, which is using the word in
a manner that is similar to a dog that barks to express its
emotional feelings. Therefore, we could replace the word with an image
a barking dog:
" the crime
occurred in daylight".
We cannot understand why we
have swearwords, or why we pronounce certain
words in certain manners, or why we have such expressions as "broad
daylight", unless we can understand and
acknowledge that human languages evolved from the noises of animals, and that humans
are still
doing the equivalent of barking
and growling.
The emotional words do not interfere with our informal
conversations, but they can be confusing when they are
used in educational materials,
especially for children who are in the process of learning a language.
For example, the narrator in one of the PBS nature documentaries
describes a group of seals as "100 strong". What is the difference
between:
a) A group of 100 seals.
b) A group of seals that is 100 strong.
Nobody knows what the difference is, not even the author of that
documentary. He undoubtedly used the word "strong" to emphasize his
surprise that seals
form such a large group. In such a case, the narrator of the
documentary could have barked like a
dog instead of saying the word " strong",
and a transcript of the documentary could use an icon of a barking dog like this:
It was a group of
100 seals.
People are also using the
word "strong" in the name of
their organization, such as 10strongforacure,
Be50Strong,
50-strong.us, 100strong,
100strongfoundation.ca,
and 100-strong-billings.
We are attracted to the word " strong"
because animals evolved for a
deadly battle for life, and strength is necessary to survive the
battles. The word "strong" stimulates pleasant emotions, whereas words
similar to " weak" stimulate
unpleasant emotions. As a result, we do not
want to describe our organization as the " 100-Weak".
Another example of this behavior is a PBS documentary about penguins in
which the narrator says that there are " more varieties of penguins in
New Zealand than any other country on Earth".
The phrase " on Earth" doesn't
clarify the concept since the Earth is
the only planet that we have countries on. It is as idiotic as saying
" There are more varieties of
penguins in New Zealand than any other
country in the Milky Way
Galaxy."
Another
example of this behavior is when somebody describes a
person as being a " spitting image"
or a " dead
ringer" of somebody else. We also describe something that is
accurate as " dead
on". The words "spitting" and "dead" in those expressions represent
emotions, not intelligent concepts.
There are so many people using the word "spitting" and "dead" to
emphasize an issue that those words have become phrases in our
dictionaries. Those words stimulate emotions, but neither of them are
pleasant, so we ought to find some pleasant
alternatives. Describing somebody as the " spitting image" of somebody is
almost as unpleasant as describing him as the " vomiting image"
of somebody, or the " diarrhea
image".
If we used icons
of barking dogs
to express our emotions, rather than words, it
would be more obvious
that some of our words represent
emotional feelings rather than intelligent concepts. We would also
notice that the documents produced by scientists and engineers do not
have many icons, but journalists, fiction writers,
politicians, ADL officials, advertisers, salesmen, and other people who
are trying to titillate or manipulate us have lots of icons in
their documents.
Why do we have so many irregular verbs?
In order to understand the human mind, body, and culture, we must
understand and acknowledge that a fertilized human egg goes through a
development cycle that shows our evolution for the past billion or so
years. For example, at a certain stage of our development, a fetus is
similar to a fish, which is evidence that some of our earliest
ancestors were fish.
Furthermore, by observing how children develop into adults, we can at
get
an understanding of our more recent past. For example, young children
start to
speak when they do not have a good understanding of the past or the
future, and they do not have the vocal abilities to pronounce certain
sounds.
That is evidence that our prehistoric ancestors began to speak when
they were still so stupid
that they did not have a good understanding of the past or the future,
and they did not have the vocal abilities to make the wide variety of
sounds that we can make today.
Eventually our ancestors had enough intelligence to become aware of the
past and the future, so they began adding verbs to describe
those concepts,
but they did not realize that they should follow a pattern with verbs.
They just created new noises, resulting in "irregular verbs".
Since our prehistoric ancestors did not have had the vocal
abilities that we have, analyzing the pronunciation
of words can help us understand how language developed,
and the vocal abilities of our prehistoric ancestors. It might also
help us understand their environment,
such as the cold
climate of Russia.
Incidentally, most
children also seem to go through a phase at which
they enjoy creating nicknames for each other, and creating new words,
and that could be evidence that our distant ancestors were doing that,
also.
From my casual observations of people, the members of crime gangs, and
many of the people in jail, seem to be more likely to have nicknames
for one another than the typical person, and that could be evidence
that their mind is more primitive.
They might have a brain that is more
similar to that of our distant ancestors, which would explain why they
have trouble fitting into our modern society, and why they seem more
interested in such animal behavior as marking their territory (usually
with graffiti), fighting over territory, and to intimidating other
people with weapons, swearing, status products (such as expensive
jewelry), threats, and angry facial expressions.
If we had a People
database with details of everybody's life, we would
get a better understanding of the differences between our minds, and
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Children need to
understand
what language is
Language is a tool that we can
use to transfer thoughts from one person's mind to another, but like
any tool, it can be used for destructive purposes, such as deceiving
people about the Apollo moon landing or the Holocaust.
Language is like a knife or a gun. Specifically, it is a tool that can
be used to improve our lives,
or it can be used to exploit, hurt, or manipulate people.
Every culture puts restrictions on how we are allowed to use knives and
guns, but no culture has many restrictions on what people can do
with language. The reason is because most people don't have a good
understanding of what language is. Many people have heard the
expression " the
pen is mightier than the sword", but they don't fully understand
the concept.
Language is more powerful than a sword because language allows us to
transfer information to other people's minds, and the information in
our mind is has a significant
effect over our lives. That information influences the foods we choose
to eat, how we treat other people, which social activities we
participate in, and what we believe about the Holocaust. That
information also determines whether we know what a sword is, and
whether we want to use a sword as scrap metal, or whether we want to
use it to kill criminals.
AI software can improve
our language
The Schools Ministry is required to design schools so that the older
children get
more of their information from software and less from human teachers.
However, the software must set a good
example on how to use language, rather than imitate the
people who use language in an irrational manner.
We have to expect humans to use words in emotional manners when
we are having casual conversations, but the Schools Minister is
required to ensure that children are taught to avoid the emotional
words when they are creating documents that are intended to convey an
intelligent concept. For example, news reports, scientific documents,
user's manuals, and repair manuals should be serious, not full of
emotional words.
In order to help the children learn how to use language properly, the
AI software must be designed to watch for improper use of language, and
interrupt the children to let them know what they should be saying.
This requires that the software have the attitude of a policeman,
rather than a clown.
We must have an authority of language
In order to create software that encourages the proper use of language,
we must have an authority of language to set the rules. Since no
culture has
an authority of language, every language has been slowly
changing, but not many of the changes are for intelligent reasons.
Most of the changes to language are the result of people who
accidentally
misuse words; immigrants who use words from their native language;
journalists and other people who use words in abnormal manners in order
to titillate or manipulate us; and by people who are upset by certain
words, such as the feminists, homosexuals, midgets, and other people
who whine that certain words are insulting.
The Knowledge Division of the World Government is the authority for
language. The computer programmers must design software to follow their
rules for language, and the Schools Ministry must ensure that the
schools are following those rules, also.
We cannot develop a better language
yet
Every language is irrational and confusing, but we do not have the time
or knowledge to create a better language as of 2024. That is a task for
the future generations. However, we can make some simple
improvements.
For example, the ignorance about language has resulted in every culture
encouraging the detrimental concept of having a "large
vocabulary". A large vocabulary is useful if all of the words are
unique and represent an intelligent concept, but it is detrimental to have words that are duplicates of one
another. For example, there is no difference between
"proffer" and "offer".
Trying to
impress us with duplicate words
is as idiotic as trying to impress us with duplicate music notes.
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The duplicate words require children to waste some of their childhood
memorizing them, and they cause confusion to the people who did not learn them.
There is no benefit to having
duplicate
words. It is as idiotic
as
encouraging the use of
duplicate symbols for music, architectural drawings, and math, or
duplicate words in a computer
programming language.
Our languages also have the problem of words that have more than one
definition. An example is the word "light", which can mean light in
weight, or the light from the sun.
This is another problem that the future generations will have to deal
with, but we can make some improvements today. For example, the author
of this
news article wrote:
Central Park on a recent Wednesday
afternoon was largely empty, save for a
young woman sitting under a tree...
It would be more sensible if he had used the word " except"
instead of " save".
The Knowledge Division is authorized to provide rules for language, and
the AI software must be designed to watch for people who use language
incorrectly, and interrupt them to let them know that they should be
using a different word.
The educational software should get children accustomed to using
language properly.
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It is impractical for the adults to ensure that the children are using
language properly because it would take too much of our time, and be
very frustrating for us and the children.
However, robots could easily
handle this task, and the children will not be able to manipulate or
argue with robots.
Although some people accidentally
use words in the wrong manner, many
people do it deliberately
because they are trying to impress
or intimidate us. We inherited
the craving of
animals to get to the top of the social hierarchy so we, especially
men, are frequently looking for an opportunity to appear intelligent,
educated, and important.
The Schools Minister is required to dampen that crude, animal
behavior, and teach children that the most intelligent people are those
who can express their opinions more clearly than other people. Children
must be taught to impress people with
their ideas, not with
"colorful language".
Incidentally, describing a language as "colorful" is another example of
how we use adjectives to represent emotions rather than intelligent
concepts. This is why the dictionaries cannot give a sensible
definition for "colorful language". For
example, the Cambridge.org dictionary says
that the " words are often used
together". That is as useless as defining "broad daylight" as " these words are often used
together".
Words are not derogatory or insulting
The inadequate understanding of what a language is, and how it evolved
from animal noises, is also causing some people to whine that some
adjectives and pronouns are insulting
to women,
midgets, fat
people, African Americans, homosexuals, Jews, retards, and other people.
For example, feminists have been complaining for decades that certain
words are
"sexist" and insulting to women, such as the
words chairman, policeman, and fireman. This has resulted in
people switching to such words as chairperson, chairwoman, policewoman,
and firewoman.
The AI software must be designed to point out to children that the word
"policeman" is not the same as two words "police man", just as
"watermelon" is not a "water melon". A "police man"
is a man, but a "policeman" is not male or female. Likewise, a
"human" refers to both men and women, and transgenders.
No words is insulting to anybody. A word is just a symbol
on paper, or a sound wave in the atmosphere. A word is insulting only
if our mind chooses to interpret it as an insult.
We frequently use words in an attempt to hurt another person, but
nobody is obligated to react by feeling pain. For example, if a white
person
refers to a black person as a "nigger", the black person is not obligated to pout or have
a tantrum.
The black person has lots of options, such as wondering why the white
person used the word. Was it because the white person is angry? If so,
about what? Or was he merely mimicking the way black people speak to
one another? Or was he making a joke, or trying to emphasize some
concept?
If a person uses a word to insult somebody, then it is the person who is
insulting, not the word.
Describing a word as insulting is as idiotic as complaining that the barking of a
dog is insulting, rather than complaining about the dog.
To complicate this issue, if a person interprets a word as insulting,
but it
was not intended to be an
insult, then that person has hurt himself by misinterpreting the word. For
example, some people become angry if we use the "wrong" pronoun, such
as referring to them as "him" or "her" instead of "zim", "zer", "they",
or "them". They are tormenting
themselves by interpreting other people's words as insults.
Blaming a word for being insulting, and demanding that people use a
different word, does nothing
to improve life for anybody. It is as worthless as
training dogs to make slightly different barking noises.
It is especially idiotic for
African-Americans to complain that the word "nigger" is insulting when white
people use it, but not when
black people use it. If it were true that the word "nigger" is
insulting, then nobody should
use it.
However, the word "nigger" is not
insulting, which is why black people use it in ordinary conversations.
It's just another innocent symbol. It is our interpretation
of a symbol that determines whether it is insulting.
If a black American interprets the word "nigger" as insulting, it is
because he chose
to
interpret it as an insult.
Whatever pain he feels is self-inflicted.
Likewise, if a white person is insulted when a black person calls him a
"cracker", it is because he chose to be insulted by that word, and if a
woman is insulted when she is referred to as a "girl", it is because
she chose to torment herself by interpreting the word as an insult.
If a person were to use the word "nigger" as an insult, then it is the person who is insulting, not the
word. However, black people are not
obligated to respond to insults with temper tantrums or pouting. They
have the option of ignoring the angry person. They also have the option
of laughing at the person and asking him if has the vocal abilities to pronounce the word
"Negro".
Nobody has the freedom to
modify language
Every culture gives people and organizations the freedom to use language in any
manner they please, and whine
about any word they please. Everybody
has the freedom to create new words,
and use language in nonstandard manners. Even children are free to
create new words. No culture
has an authority for language. The dictionaries and school teachers are
passive observers of
how people use language.
This constitution changes the situation by making the Knowledge
Division of the World Government the authority for language. This
constitution
prohibits people from making changes to our language. If a person has
an idea on how to improve language, he must post a document in the Suggestions
category to explain it.
Example #2: Food
The second example of how
our culture has evolved from animal emotions
can be seen with our attitudes towards food. Animals eat whatever tastes good to
them, and they eat until they are no
longer hungry.
However, wild animals never suffer from health problems or obesity
because the food that tastes good to them is healthy for them. Also,
the competition for food prevents them from eating excessively, and
forces them to get a lot of exercise.
When humans settled into cities, they began increasing their production
of food, and their homes and clothing protected them from cold weather,
thereby
reducing the amount of energy that their body needed. A few centuries
ago the situation changed even more dramatically when people began
producing large amounts of sugar, and
machines began to reduce the amount of physical labor
that most people were doing.
Our hunger emotion and digestive system evolved for prehistoric people
who had
to eat a lot of food in
order to provide themselves with enough energy for their tasks, and to
stay
warm during cold weather. Although we have no idea how much food
prehistoric humans ate, it appears that the people in medieval England
were eating very
large meals. However, not
many medieval
people were overweight, except for the "parasitic class" of people,
such as the Kings, Queens, and church officials.
During the past century, food has become so abundant, and we are so
well protected from cold weather and physical labor, that even the
unemployed people who survive on welfare can easily become obese. We
produce so much food that some pet and wild animals have become
overweight.
What is the difference
between:
a) An obese human.
b) The obese monkey in the photo
below.
An alien from another
planet would likely describe both of them as being
in an environment that they did not evolve for, and do not have the
knowledge, self-control, and/or intelligence to deal with.
Likewise, there is not much of a difference between a human who eats
whatever tastes
good, and the crows in the photo
below that eat whatever appeals to them.
People are not becoming
overweight because of advertisements, "junk food",
bad
parenting, McDonald's restaurants, or stupidity. Rather, people are
overweight because we developed
technology that has altered our environment, but we have not adjusted
our culture or genetic characteristics to compensate for those changes.
Four of the changes that we must adapt to are:
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Technology allows us
to produce excessive
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Technology reduces
the amount of food our body needs
for energy and heat.
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Technology allows us
to create unhealthy
foods, such as cotton candy. |
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Technology allows us
to produce meals from foods and chemicals that are unnatural for us, such as grains,
prosciutto, and animal milk. We are eating those foods before we know
how they affect our health. For example, we don't know much about the
health effects of lectins, glyphosate, or insecticides in grains.
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A lot of people criticize "junk food", but nobody has a sensible
explanation for what "junk food" is. Many
people assume that whatever food is produced by a "fast food"
restaurant is junk food, but from my simplistic
observations, the beef burgers that are made by fast food restaurants
are
nearly identical to those made by people at home, and by expensive
restaurants.
Throughout my life I've heard people claiming that pork will cause
gout, and that "red meat" is unhealthy, but meat has probably been a
part of the human diet for millions
of years, so it is more sensible to
believe that pork and other meats are unhealthy only when we eat excessive amounts of them, or when
we have certain genetic disorders that make it difficult for our body
to properly process meat.
Humans must evolve to fit
our technology
Our technology has altered our environment significantly. The size
of our stomach and digestive system is excessive for our modern era,
and so is our craving for sugar. Our genetic characteristics are
outdated, and this requires the human mind and body to evolve to fit
it. This requires restricting reproduction to people who are better
adapted to our technology.
We must pass judgment on which of the people are overweight or
malnourished because of inheritable genetic characteristics, and
prohibit them from reproducing, or restrict them to a few children. We
must also restrict the reproduction
of the people who have allergies or other troubles with the foods that
we have decided to make a regular part of the human diet.
We must use self-control
until we have evolved
Until the human race has evolved to fit our technically advanced world,
we must exert a lot of self-control over our cravings for food. We must
experiment with our culture so that we do a better job of controlling
how much we eat, and ensuring that our meals are healthy.
The primary method that this constitution advocates to improve our
eating
habits
is to prohibit kitchens in the homes. Everybody must get their
meals at restaurants that create meals according to
guidelines of the Meals Ministry.
The Meals
Ministry determines how much sugar is in the food products, and the
Events Ministry determines what birthday parties are like.
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The Meals Ministry is responsible for determining the amount of sugar
and other ingredients in the foods, and they are required to set
different standards for children and adults.
The Meals Ministry is required to ensure that children are exposed to a
variety of foods so
that they don't become finicky adults, and that they become accustomed
to foods with low sugar levels.
The government has total control of culture, so they are responsible
for determining the foods, clothing styles, activities, and
attitudes of the holiday celebrations, birthday parties, weddings, and
other affairs. This allows the government to experiment with all of the
social affairs to make them more sensible, healthy, safe, and
beneficial.
For example, birthday parties evolved to fit the emotional cravings of adults, not to
be beneficial to children.
Adults, especially women, are titillated by the giggling and smiling of
children, and this has resulted in adults developing birthday parties
that stimulate the children into doing a lot of giggling and
smiling, thereby providing the adults with lots of titillation.
However, the adults achieve this extreme titillation by providing the
children with lots of gifts, pampering, praise, and large amounts of
sugar, all of which is detrimental
to the children because it causes them to become accustomed
to such culture.
Parents are designing
birthday parties for their own
enjoyment, not
for the
benefit of the children. They use
their
children as objects
for their
emotional gratification. A birthday party is essentially a sex toy that
parents use to
masturbate with.
An extreme example are the parents who provide " smash cakes"
for the birthday parties of their one-year-old
baby. Those parties are designed to titillate adults, not to be
beneficial to the baby. The baby is just a toy that the
adults use for their
entertainment.
Some women complain that men are sexist and abusive for treating women
as sex toys, but women treat children
as
entertainment devices. Women complain when men grab at them and try to
kiss, smell, and touch them, but that is what women want to do with
children.
Some women insult men for being "perverted" for being attracted to
their
hands or feet, but many mothers are attracted to their baby's hands and
feet, and many mothers kiss
their baby's feet.
There is only one blueprint for a human, so if we are male, we develop
an attraction to women, but if we are female, that same emotion is
altered to an attraction to babies and children. Since there is no
dividing line between male and female characteristics, a lot of
mistakes can be made, such as a man who develops a woman's attraction
to children instead of an attraction to women.
Women are not
better
than men; rather, men and women are different.
Men should stop treating women as entertainment devices, and women
should stop using children as entertainment devices. Everybody should
consider
how they affect other people's lives.
It was sensible for
prehistoric parents to do whatever caused their
children to giggle and smile because prehistoric parents could do
only beneficial
things
for their children, such as provide them with food,
warmth, and affection, or remove splinters from their fingers.
Today,
however, our technology allows parents to hurt their
children with
unhealthy and excessive quantities of food, toys, and candy. Parents
can also
encourage bad attitudes,
such as when they pamper their children to such an extent that they
grow up to be spoiled, arrogant brats. Parents are also causing trouble
for their children by allowing television and schools to provide
them with feminist concepts, religious nonsense, and Zionist propaganda.
The Events Ministry has the authority to control birthday parties and
other celebrations, but they must design them to be beneficial to society and the human race. They must judge the
activities according to how they affect
people's lives,
attitudes, behavior, relationships, and health, and what sort of
advantages and disadvantages they have for society, such as the labor
and resources that they require, and the trash and noise that they
create.
The apartments are intended only for sleeping, resting, and grooming,
so they will be too small for birthday parties and other events.
Although people are allowed to have friends visit them in their
apartments, they cannot have parties in their apartments. Instead, the
Neighborhoods Minister must ensure that all of the neighborhoods have
plenty of public facilities for social and recreational events, so
parents who want to have birthday parties for their children, or when
friends want to have a party, they must use the public facilities. That
will ensure that people in the apartment buildings are never bothered
by the noise or traffic of the parties.
The Events Minister has the authority to determine what type of parties
people can have, so they will be able to prevent smash cake birthday
parties, or whatever other event they consider to be detrimental,
wasteful, idiotic, or obnoxious. The Meals Minister has the authority
to determine what people can eat, so they can restrict the sugar that
children have during their meals, parties, and holiday celebrations.
We do not
benefit
from the
freedom to eat wherever
we please.
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Everybody is also restricted to eating at the designated restaurants
and
picnic areas, rather than wherever they please.
There is no benefit
to allowing people to eat food in other areas, such as the
museums, swimming pools, theaters, classrooms, offices, factories,
recreational areas, social clubs, apartments, and video rooms.
Therefore, food is prohibited in all of those facilities.
By restricting food to designated eating areas, we prevent people
from leaving crumbs and food waste in public areas, and from
contaminating furniture and doorknobs with food from messy fingers. It
also
reduces the number of insects, rats, and mice in those areas.
Since there is no money in the city, if the Meals Minister authorizes
something that resembles a food vending machine, it will provide the
items for free, and it will only be in the areas designated for eating.
Nobody is permitted to operate food stands
along sidewalks or city parks, either, which will make the city streets
and parks more visually attractive, and less messy and smelly.
The Dining Ministry is responsible for setting the hours of the
day that food is available at the restaurants and picnic areas. This
allows them to prevent or control the eating of food between meals, and
it allows
the restaurants to shut down between meals in order to reduce labor and
resources.
Allowing the government to have this much control over food is putting
a lot of restrictions on people, but it is very similar to what all
families and businesses follow. For
example, parents don't let their children eat whatever they please,
whenever they please, and in any room of the house that they please.
Likewise, businesses put restrictions on when and where the employees
can eat.
Allowing the government to control our eating customs and other
activities will put
tremendous restrictions on our freedom, but if the voters can provide
responsible and
competent presidents, then we will benefit from the restrictions. We
will have a more pleasant life when everybody is following sensible
culture rather than giving everybody the freedom to behave like a
stupid animal.
Example #3: Pornography
All cultures regard the
word "pornography" to refer to an item that was designed to stimulate sexual emotions,
but this Constitution advocates using the word to
refer to any item that was designed to stimulate any emotion.
Furthermore, it should refer only to the stimulation that has no benefit to
us.
For example, a piece of bread stimulates our emotions when we are
hungry, but the bread should not
be referred to as pornography because
it was not intended simply to stimulate us. Rather, it was intended to
provide
us with food and nutrition. However, a candy bar could be
described as "food pornography" because it was not intended to provide
us with anything of value. Rather, it was intended only to
titillate us.
There is no dividing line between when something is stimulating us for
a beneficial reason, and when it should be considered pornography, but
we should make that distinction. That allows us to consider bread to be
a "food", but a lollipop would be "food pornography".
Likewise, a photo of a naked woman would be considered beneficial if it
is intended to help a doctor identify the locations where she has burns
from a fire, but it would be considered as"sexual pornography" if it is
intended only to stimulate sexual
emotions.
By defining pornography in that manner, the items that we classify as
"pornography" are unnecessary for human happiness, so we should
consider
restricting or eliminating them.
To complicate the issue, something that is not
pornography can be used as pornography by people who want to do so. For
example, a person could use the photos in a cookbook to stimulate
himself rather than to learn how to make the items.
Likewise, a person could drive through a neighborhood of expensive
houses in order to stimulate himself, in which case he would be using
the houses as pornography, which is what Mark Cuban
would do when he was younger. A person could also use the photos in a
medical book to stimulate himself sexually.
The Behavior Ministry must define pornography according to what they
think would be unnecessary for the City Elders, not according to what
the public believes is necessary. Therefore, recipes that have photos
of food would be regarded as educational rather than pornographic if
they are intended to provide people with an understanding of the food,
even if those photos are emotionally stimulating. Likewise, medical
documents that have photos of naked bodies or sexual organs would be
considered educational rather than pornographic if the photos are
designed to be educational.
If some people choose to use the photos of the food or naked bodies to
stimulate themselves simply for entertainment, the Behavior Ministry
must let they do so. They cannot alter the photos to prevent them from
doing that. The government is prohibited from altering culture to fit
the characteristics of misfits. Culture must be designed for the
higher-quality people.
Ideally, the people who behave in abnormal manners would be
investigated to determine what is different about them, and whether
there is a way to reduce the problem. Their odd behavior would also
lower their social credit score, and give them
a lower priority for reproducing.
Pornography is a modern problem
Our prehistoric, nomadic
ancestors did not have any significant pornography, but modern
technology allows us to create photos, videos, and objects that will
stimulate every emotion that
we have.
In addition to stimulating our pleasant
emotions, we can stimulate
our unpleasant emotions, such
as with
horror movies and Halloween masks. The Halloween objects that are
intended to frighten people are "fear
pornography" because they are designed for the sole purpose of
stimulating an emotion, but without any benefit to the person.
The smash cake birthday parties, mentioned earlier and here,
are another example of an activity that should be described as pornography
because it is intended to titillate the emotions of women, but has no
benefit to anybody, especially not the baby.
Women frequently complain
about men looking at sexual pornography, but a woman who titillates
herself with a smash cake party is behaving in a similar manner as a
man who is
titillating himself with a sex robot.
Every society puts restrictions on sexual pornography, but no culture
is even aware of the concept that there are other types of
pornography, such as wedding, baby, and travel pornography.
How does pornography
affect our lives?
Since everybody who is alive today grew up in an environment in which
we were exposed to a wide variety of pornography, none of us have any
idea of what our life or attitudes would be if we had
grown up in a society that didn't have any pornography. However, a
primitive tribe of people in South America was recently
given access to the Internet, and that can give us some ideas on how
pornography affect us.
According to one of the adults in that tribe, many of the young men
have reacted to the sexual pornography that they discovered on the
Internet by becoming more sexually
aggressive. He also complains that the younger people have become
lazy, and waste a lot of time on social media. A teenage girl has
developed the goal of traveling
around the world
To some members of the tribe, the Internet is wonderful, but the
leaders of the tribe consider the Internet to have had such a
detrimental effect on the behavior of the people that they reacted by
limiting access to the Internet to two hours in the morning, five hours
in the evening, and all day on Sunday.
If we could conduct a scientific analysis of how the Internet has
affected that tribe, we would discover that most of those people are
using the Internet in the same manner that most people in other nations
use it. Specifically, to titillate
themselves, not to learn something of value, or do something of value.
Our natural tendency is to do whatever is most emotionally pleasing.
Therefore, when we get new technology, we temd to use it to entertain
ourselves, and to impress other people.
Those of us in the advanced nations consider ourselves to be highly
educated, and superior to the primitive tribes in the Amazon basin, but
there is not much of a difference between us. Many Americans and
Europeans waste hours a day having silly conversations and arguments on
social media, or looking at sexual pornography, travel pornography, or
wedding pornography, so we should not be surprised when a primitive
tribe in the Amazon basin uses the Internet in the same manner that we
do.
In order to truly benefit from our technology, we need to exert
self-control over ourselves and use our intelligence to determine what
to do with our technology. However, we cannot expect the public to make
intelligent decisions. We must provide ourselves with leaders who can
provide us with guidance. This requires restricting the freedoms of the
people, and allowing the government to control our culture.
What effect would a serious Internet have?
The Internet had a detrimental effect on that primitive tribe because
it provided the people with access to social media, pornography, and
other useless activities and information. That should make us wonder
what effect the Internet would have had on that primitive tribe if it
had been
restricted to beneficial information. In that case, the Internet would
be an
extensive, electronic encyclopedia. Would that type of Internet have
caused trouble for the primitive tribe
in the Amazon? Or would it have been beneficial?
We should also wonder how pornography and the Internet has affected
each of us in the advanced nations. What would our lives and attitudes
have been like if we had grown up in an environment in which there was
no food, sexual, wedding, or travel pornography, and no Zionist
propaganda about the Nazis, Holocaust, white privilege, or UFO's?
Furthermore, imagine that there was no fiction on television or in
books, no television game shows, and no professional sports or singers.
In that type of environment, we would have to form our own friendships,
get involved with our own recreational activities, and do our own
singing.
Would that type of environment have provided us with more satisfying
friendships, activities, and life?
The only way we are going to determine how to improve our life is to
find the courage to experiment
with our culture.
We
must update our culture culture
The gifts and sweet foods
that we provide children at birthday parties is just one example of how
our culture has evolved to fit our animal emotions, and that it is
inappropriate for our modern era. To summarize a few of other examples:
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Our custom of punishing
criminals evolved to
satisfy our animal cravings to bite, glare at, and kick the people who
irritate us.
Instead of reducing crime, this custom torments the criminals and
wastes
our labor and resources, and when prisoners are released from jail,
they often have so much trouble making a living that commit more crimes.
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Our custom of practicing
recreational activities evolved because we have intense cravings to win
our competitions.
Instead of improving our lives, we waste a portion of our life on the
development of useless skills.
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Our custom of showing off
our material wealth, awards, and college diplomas evolved because we
have an intense craving to get to the top of the
hierarchy by intimidating people. An extreme example are the products
that have no value other
than to show off, such as the foods with
gold foil.
Instead of improving our lives, it stimulates envy, anger,
hatred, and pouting.
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The custom of
designing women's shoes to show their toes evolved because of their
desire to show the men how well-groomed they are.
Instead of improving life for men or women, it causes the women to
deform their feet, suffer from pain, and waste labor and resources on Cinderella
surgery.
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Our arrogance causes us to believe that our culture is superior to
that of the animals, but as of 2024, human culture is just a trivial
modification of ape culture.
As with the apes and other animals, humans are still
doing whatever is most titillating, with no concern for the
consequences, benefits, or risks.
It was sensible for our prehistoric ancestors to have the freedom to do
whatever they pleased, but today we must exert self-control over our
emotional cravings, and
push ourselves into thinking about
what is truly
beneficial for us. We must design culture according to
intellectual reasoning, not our emotions.
We need more appropriate genetic characteristics
By experimenting with our
culture, we can find ways to improve our meals, leisure activities,
clothing styles, and other culture, but no matter how wonderful our
culture becomes, we will continue to have emotions that are inappropriate for
this modern era.
For example, no matter how we design our meals, we will still have the
emotional desire to eat an excessive amount of food, and we will
continue to have an excess of attraction to sugar, fat, and salt.
Therefore,
even when we
develop superior culture, we will have to continue exerting
self-control over our emotions.
It is unpleasant for us to suppress our cravings for food and sugar
because it requires us to fight with
ourselves. The ideal solution is to restrict
reproduction to the people
who have the
most appropriate food-related emotions and physical characteristics.
That will cause each generation to have more appropriate cravings for
food, and an increasingly smaller stomach and digestive system. That
will eventually create people who have an emotional attraction to
appropriate types of foods, and who can eat to the point at which they
feel full. They will not have to exert much, if any, self-control over
their eating habits.
Likewise, it is unpleasant for us to control our cravings to become
angry when we encounter problems, so the ideal situation is
to restrict reproduction to the people who are better able to remain calm when they experience
problems, and who are more interested in analyzing
the problems and experimenting
with improvements.
It is also irritating to force ourselves to learn something in school.
The ideal situation is to restrict reproduction to the people who have
the strongest desire to learn. That will eventually create children who
want to learn, and don't need any pressure to do so. Those future
children will go to school and learn a useful skill with the same
enthusiasm that children today have when playing with cardboard boxes.
It is also irritating to control our cravings for sex, so the ideal
solution is to restrict reproduction to the people who have more
appropriate sexual cravings.
It is especially absurd to have people living with us who have a sexual
attraction to children. Those people either torment the children, or
they torment themselves by resisting their cravings. Those people
should be prohibited from reproducing so that there are fewer of them
in every generation.
It is emotionally difficult to
restrict
reproduction
We have powerful emotional
cravings to reproduce, so the only way we
can restrict reproduction is to exert a lot of self-control over our
emotional cravings.
The people who cannot tolerate
restrictions on reproduction must be
considered as unacceptable for
reproduction. That will reduce the number of people in each generation
who want to
reproduce like animals, and increase the number of people who are more
concerned with the quality
of a person's life. Eventually that will create people who can restrict
reproduction without whining, pouting, anger, or hysteria.
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