Animals are generous only with their children
Animals provide food for
their children, but they do not share food
with other
animals. Instead, they grab food away from one another. Animals do not care if another animal is
starving to death. Animals
are so selfish and stupid that some pet dogs growl at a human who gets near their
food, even if the human had provided the food.
Or selfishness inhibits
progress
Our selfishness interferes
with both technical and social progress. For
example, when new technology is developed, such as tractors,
lithography, and artificial intelligence software, many people worry
that they will lose their job. Instead of appreciating and adapting to
the
new technology, they try to inhibit it.
Businesses also interfere with
technical progress by keeping a lot of technical information a secret.
The business can benefit by
keeping secrets, but the human race
suffers because it forces other companies to
waste time and resources developing something that has already been
developed.
We benefit the most by
working as a team
Ideally, each of us would
regard other people as our friends and team members, and we would want
to help everybody develop their talents. We all benefit when everybody
in
the team improves their abilities and behavior.
However, our selfishness is preventing that ideal situation. Instead of
trying to
help other people, many people, especially those who get into
leadership positions, try to suppress, censor, blackmail, or kill their
competitors.
In order for us to create a society in which we share resources and
work as a team, we must design our culture to dampen our selfish
behavior. Therefore, this Constitution requires everybody to get credit
for anything beneficial they contribute that is beyond their normal
job, even if it is quickly improved upon by
somebody
else. Nobody should be fearful that somebody else will get credit for
their accomplishments.
This constitution also prohibits people from keeping technology a
secret. Copyrights and patents are prohibited. Businesses are required
to release all
of their technology to the public after they have developed it.
Evolution opposes
socialism
If socialism was a sensible
philosophy, then the social animals would have
evolved to share resources. However, the animals
that
survived the competition for life were those that were so selfish that
shared resources only with their children, and did not care if other
animals were suffering or dying. That type of selfishness resulted in
the inferior animals dying or being less successful at reproduction.
If animals had enough
intelligence to create an economic system, they
would want a free enterprise system. The only animals that
would support socialism would be the defective
animals that had trouble feeding
themselves, and the parasites, such as fleas and ticks.
As monkeys evolved into humans, they became more able and willing to
work in a
team and share food with the team, but we continue to ignore people
outside of our team, and each of us continues to give our own
children higher priority than other people's children.
We refuse to share resources
equally. We are still fighting over
resources like animals, even though we are now producing such an excess of
food and material items that a lot of it is wasted.
Sharing requires dealing
with defective people
If animals were to share
resources, the genetically inferior animals
would be more successful with reproduction, and the result would be
that the animals would slowly degrade into retards.
Evolution caused animals to
be extremely selfish because that is the only way for stupid creatures
to avoid genetic degradation. However, modern
humans have enough intelligence and knowledge to improve our genetic
characteristics in a more sensible manner than fighting over resources.
We have the ability to analyze people and pass judgment on who should
reproduce. This will allow us to stop fighting over resources and share
them, but it requires a lot of self-control
because it requires us to follow culture that is emotionally unpleasant.
Animals evolved a desire to live as long as possible, and
reproduce as much as possible. Animals have no concern about the
quality of their own life, or that of their children or other
creatures. They also have no concern for how they affect the lives of
other creatures.
In order for us to share the wealth, we must push ourselves into being
concerned about the quality of
person's life. We must pass judgment on
who should reproduce, and we need to pass judgment on which of the
babies and other people need to be euthanized.
No culture yet allows the euthanasia of defective babies. Instead, we
treat the defective people in the same manner that animals treat
defective creatures; specifically, by ignoring
them, and letting them suffer a slow
and miserable death.
If a person were to euthanize the people along Kensington
Avenue in Philadelphia, he would be arrested for murder, but we could say that he is
being kind
to them by preventing them from further suffering. The people who
ignore those miserable people, or who provide
them with handouts of money or food, could be described as prolonging their
torture.
This issue is similar to that of assisted
suicide. Specifically, are we cruel to
provide assisted suicide to the people who are suffering from terminal
diseases, Alzheimer's, strokes, mental illness, or
dementia? Or are we kind to give
them the freedom to decide
whether they want to end their
suffering?
There is no right or wrong answer to euthanasia, assisted suicide, or
abortion. All throughout history, every culture has resolve these
issues by doing what is
the most emotionally pleasing,
and this has resulted in overcrowding, overpopulation, genetic
degradation, mental illness, retardation, crime, loneliness, divorce,
and the suffering of the terminally ill and elderly.
The only way we can create a society in which we share
resources and everybody is cooperative, healthy, trustworthy, and
enjoying life is if we exert self-control over our emotions and have
more concern for the quality of life.
We want to give everybody a fair chance
The reason we do not want
to euthanize people is because we want
to give everybody a fair chance at life.
This emotional characteristic is discussed in more detail here
in regards to abortion.
Although we should give
everybody a chance at life, we should not torment the people who fail
in the competition for life. However, our emotions cause us to ignore
the failures, and push them out of our lives. For example, our emotions
do not want us to euthanize the people on Kensington Avenue, but we
don't want them in our life, either, so we push them aside, as if they
are trash.
This crude behavior is useful for animals and prehistoric humans
because it causes the losers to have less success at reproduction and
life. Today, however, the losers can survive because of welfare
programs, crime, begging, alimony, divorce settlements, charities, and
the abundance of food in garbage cans. They can also successfully
reproduce in large numbers because they can put their children up for
adoption.
Prehistoric tribes did not
have homeless people, beggars, crime networks, or welfare recipients.
The inferior people tended to die young, and quickly. They also did not
have elderly people suffering a very slow death.
Today our technology is allowing the misfits and elderly
to suffer for decades. Today
we need to do what nature did for our ancestors. We need to reduce the
suffering by euthanizing the defective babies as soon as possible, and
providing assisted suicide and euthanasia to the people who are no
longer enjoying life.
All attempts to create
socialism have failed
During the past few
centuries, several nations have tried some form of
socialism, and hundreds of
groups of people around the world have acquired a small patch of land
to set up a society in which they share the wealth. However, all of
them
have been failures.
The only socialist communities that are still in existence as
of 2024 are the few who made changes to their original plans, such as
reducing the sharing of wealth. Furthermore, and more important, the
only successful communities are those that are tiny, such as 100 people in the Twin
Oaks Community, and 200 people at The Farm.
North Korea is still using socialism, but they are not "successful".
Rather, the government has to use murder, fear, and torture to prevent
the
people from abandoning the nation, and they have to use deception and
censorship to prevent the people from learning the truth about
their culture.
We should learn from history, not repeat
previous failures
When animals fail at
something, they repeat the same procedure
over and over, until they are dead. Humans inherited that
characteristic, but in order to be successful, we must exert enough
self-control to analyze our failures, learn from them, and experiment
with new ideas.
Why have so many groups of people
failed to share the wealth? Why is
free enterprise, which encourages selfishness, cheating,
abuse, inheritances, and
exploitation, so much more successful?
The socialist societies were failures
because they were designed according to
emotionally
pleasurable fantasies of what
humans are, rather
than according to the concept that humans
are animals. By comparison, a free enterprise system puts us into a
battle for life, which is the environment that animals evolved
for.
However, free enterprise is a cruel
system that treats us as
animals. It is also an inefficient system, and it allows a lot of crime
and abuse.
In order to create a better economic system, we need to take the
beneficial aspects of free enterprise and socialism, and avoid the
detrimental aspects of those systems. For example, one of the
beneficial aspects of free enterprise is that it puts people into
competition, which is what we were designed for, and one of the
disadvantages of free enterprise is that there is no authority to stop
the competition from becoming dishonest, abusive, and destructive.
Therefore, we need to find a way to provide an economy with authorities
who supervise the competition and ensure that it is inspirational rather than a selfish
fight. The authorities must also ensure that people are earning their position in the
economy in a beneficial manner, rather than getting it through crime,
inheritances, nepotism, and other forms of cheating. We must also find
a more pleasant way of dealing with the losers of the competition
rather than having them suffer unemployment and hunger.
We must design an economy for apes
If we believe that humans
are a creation of a supreme being,
or if we
believe that humans are like a piece of clay that molds itself to the
environment, we will create a government system, school system, and
other culture according to a fantasy
creature. That will result
in culture that does not fit the
true characteristics of humans.
For example, Marxism is a failure because it is based on the fantasy
that humans are honest, loving, responsible creatures who are willing
to work together. In order for us to be successful with a society that
shares the wealth, we must design our culture according to what we
truly are, which is a species
of selfish apes.
Our culture needs a realistic foundation.
For example, animals do not want to "work", think, or learn. As a
result, if we provide
food to wild animals, they will prefer to get the food from us rather
than work for the food. Since animals are also extremely selfish, they
will fight over the food that we provide them, rather than share it,
even if we provide them with plenty of food.
Furthermore, by providing them with food, they don't have to spend time
looking for food, which gives them a lot more leisure time, but since animals
don't want to think or learn, they tend to waste their leisure time by
taking naps. When their muscles get sore from doing nothing,
they fight or play with one another, or pace back
and forth, rather than do something useful.
Humans behave in exactly the same manner. This is most noticeable with
the children who are pampered by their parents, and the wives who are
pampered by their husbands. Specifically, when those children and
wives are provided with everything they want, and don't have to do any
work, they have a lot of leisure time, but they have no interest in
learning a skill, doing useful work, or dealing with
complicated problems. As with animals, they waste their leisure
time by lounging, or by entertaining themselves with food, sex, babies,
television, or status seeking.
If they decide to do some work during their leisure time, they will
choose the work that they enjoy, and they will put only as much effort
into it as they please. They will assume that they are "working hard"
because they are putting in the maximum effort that they want to
put in,
but they are less productive than if they are under
pressure to work.
Our lack of interest in working, learning, and sharing, and our lack of
concern about the quality of other people's lives, are some of the
reasons that
socialism fails. Every socialist society expects people to work
voluntarily, and to share the wealth equally, but we don't want to
work, and we don't want to share anything with people who don't give us
something equal in return. Free enterprise is successful because
it forces us to work, and it doesn't require us to share anything.
We must evict the misfits
In order for
socialism to be successful, everybody must be able to produce something
of equal value so that the sharing is equal. A socialist society will
be a failure when a significant percentage of the population cannot
produce much of anything of value.
The only way we will be successful with sharing resources is to set
high standards for people, require everybody to contribute something of
value, and evict
those who cannot contribute to the wealth. That will create a society
in which we feel as if we are living among team members, rather than parasites.
We must change our attitudes
towards leaders
Another change that we must
make in order to be successful with sharing the wealth is to change our
attitudes
towards leaders. One of the
reasons all socialist societies have failed is because they have
allowed their leaders to have special treatment. This results in
the hypocritical situation in which the
leaders promote sharing and equality
while giving themselves special
treatment.
We must exert
control over our craving to be submissive to our leaders. They cannot have any special privileges.
We must push ourselves into treating them in the same manner that we
treat everybody else. We must feel as if our leaders are working with us, rather than feel as
if we are their servants. Our leaders must be our team
members, not Kings and Queens.
Unhappy people are attracted
to socialism
Children have a parasitic
attitude. When they want something, they demand it, beg for it, or
try to manipulate somebody into giving it to them. They do not want to
earn what they want, or take responsibility for their problems. Their
parasitic
attitude causes them to be more attracted to socialism than the adults.
As a boy becomes an adult, he should lose his parasitic attitude and
want to take care of himself and his family. He
should also want to be at the top of the
hierarchy, and he should have a strong craving to impress both
men and women. He should want other people to admire him, not give him pity or handouts.
Unfortunately, many adult men have mental or physical disorders that
make it difficult for
them to think properly, achieve their goals, fit into society, form
stable relationships, and enjoy life. Their troubles with life, and
their mental and physical pains, can
cause them to develop a feel-sorry-for-me attitude. Those men are
likely to support Marxism or other types of socialism, but not because
they want to "share the wealth". Rather, they want other people to give
them wealth.
We must distinguish between a person who wants to work and share his wealth, and a
person who wants other people to give
him wealth.
If the adult men who have trouble in life would consider the
possibility
that their suffering is due to their genetic disorders, then they might
figure out how to deal with their problems in an honest manner, but
humans inherited such a high level of arrogance that we resist such
thoughts. We tend to blame our troubles on other people, or mysterious
concepts. This results in the men who have trouble in life
developing a feel-sorry-for-me attitude. That attitude can cause them
to be
attracted to Marxism, and other types of socialism.
A group of men who have a feel-sorry-for-me attitude are not going to
create a functional society. They will create a parasitic society
because they will want other people to share the wealth with them, but
they won't contribute much.
In order for socialism to work properly, all of the adults must be
willing and able to learn a
skill, get a job, and contribute something of value. This
requires evicting the people
who cannot contribute, or who want to
contribute something that we do not need or want, such as "modern art".
Furthermore, in order for socialism to function properly, everybody
must be willing to treat other people as their equals. Socialism will fail if there
are hypocritical people who look for
opportunities to give themselves, their children, or their spouse
special treatment and privileges. The people who cannot treat other
people as their equals must be
evicted.
We must stop feeling sorry for the misfits and
criminals. It is cruel to prohibit people from
reproducing, and even more cruel to evict people, but all of us owe our
wonderful physical and mental characteristic to the suffering of the
inferior people in our
past. For example, we have excellent color vision because our ancestors
with inferior vision were less successful at reproduction and survival.
Humans evolved from a cruel process, but we now have
the intelligence and knowledge to reduce the cruelty. For example,
defective babies no longer have to suffer a slow and miserable death.
We can now euthanize them in a quick and painless manner. We can also
identify some of them before they are born, and abort them.
Likewise, we don't have to fight over a spouse. We can pass judgment on
who among us should be allowed to reproduce, and how many children a
person should be able to have.
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