Constitutions
should be
improved, not worshiped
Every nation regards
their constitution as being analogous to the Ten Commandments;
specifically, a document that is so perfect that it cannot be improved
upon. A person who criticizes his nation's
constitution is regarded
as a traitor.
This Constitution promotes a significantly different attitude.
Specifically,
that a constitution is just a set of
instructions that allows us to organize a group of people
into a team, similar to the instructions that organizes a group of
people into a business, orchestra, or sports team.
Business executives occasionally alter the structure of their
organization and the rules that the employees follow in an attempt to
make it more efficient and pleasant, and to deal with changes in
technology and culture,
and we should have the same attitude with a Constitution.
Another analogy is that our government system, economic system, school
system, holiday celebrations, recreational activities, and other
culture are analogous to software programs. We look forward for
improvements to our software, and we should also look forward to
improvements in our culture.
A Constitution
should not
be printed on
paper, sealed in a glass box, and treated as a perfect document that
must be protected from changes.
That is as idiotic as protecting Microsoft
Windows version 1.0, and accusing people of being traitors if they
criticize it, want to update it, or want to replace it with something
better.
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This constitution
encourages everybody to look for ways to improve this
constitution, and
to improve our recreational activities, school curriculum, and other
culture.
We look forward to
improvements in phones,
computers, and robots, and we should also look forward to improvements
in our culture. Our culture should be regarded as social
technology.
Businesses realize that they
should improve their culture
Businesses, sports groups,
and other organizations realize that they should look for
ways to improve their culture. They do not
consider
themselves traitorous for criticizing some aspect of the organization,
or advocating improvements to it.
For example, the IFAB organization routinely updates the
instructions for soccer games. Their Internet site provides
a list of the current laws, a list of the previous laws, and an
explanation of what has changed to make it easier for us to understand
and adapt to the changes.
Note that they boast
that football is the greatest
sport on earth. That boastful remark will be discussed
later.
The IFAB continuously
experiments with the instructions in an attempt
to improve the game. We should have that same attitude with our
government, school system, economic system, recreational activities,
holiday celebrations, and all other culture.
If the US government had the same attitude and talent of the IFAB
officials, then the US government would maintain only one Internet site
that provided all of the current laws, the previous laws, and an
explanation of the laws and the updates to the laws. Instead, the
federal government, state governments, and city governments have laws
scattered all over the Internet.
A government has many more
laws than a recreational activity, so the government site would be much
larger than the IFAB site. However, a government site would be smaller than the Wikipedia (the
English version had nearly
7 million
documents in July 2024).
The Library of Congress posted this
document to explain how the Justice Department tried to count the
number of federal criminal laws, but gave up after two years. It was only one of many failed attempts to
count only those laws.
Incidentally, the first
comment to that document ( in July 2024), was from a
person asking if there was a kosher tax law ( screen
image below), but the author, Jeanine Cali, could not answer
the question. There is no Internet site where we can find the laws of
the USA.
The Santa Barbara city
government officials claim that
they do not have the authority
to tell pilots which runway to use, but is there really a law that
requires government officials to be subservient to pilots? Is there
really a law that gives pilots the authority to choose their runway?
Furthermore, and even more important, even if there is a law that
allows pilots to choose their runway, the government officials have the
authority to update the laws
and give the air traffic controllers the authority to determine the
runway. However, government officials do not have the same desire to
update laws, as the IFAB officials do. The only laws the governments
routinely update are those that impose taxes.
A new city can have a “cultural Wikipedia”
All existing governments
were created before the Internet, so they have a valid excuse for
having laws scattered around the nation on pieces of paper, but if we
can find enough people to overthrow the crime network that is
suppressing us, we can create a new city, and all of the government
officials can post their laws in one, electronic database. It will be
similar to the Wikipedia, except that it would be for the laws,
recreational activities, holiday celebrations, clothing styles, and
other culture of the city.
This constitution has 71 documents, and it is a bit disorganized. One
reason is that I assume that I must explain many underlying concepts,
such as punishments cannot control humans, and that men and women have
different mental characteristics, and that humans are a species of ape.
If we can create a new city, the immigrants would be required to
understand those concepts, and they would be part of the school
curriculum rather than the Constitution.
Another reason these documents are disorganized is because I am
creating them by myself. If we can create a new city, then there will
be a lot of other people to help arrange the information in a more
sensible manner, add missing details, and fix the mistakes and
conflicting information.
We must dampen our “tribal behavior”
Although the IFAB promotes
the beneficial attitude of looking for ways to improve the rules of
their activity, they also promote a
detrimental attitude. Specifically, they boast
that " Football
is the greatest sport on earth."
That attitude of superiority could be described as "tribal" because it
encourages
people to behave like prehistoric tribes that believe that they are
superior to
the other tribes. That attitude is beneficial for the social animals,
but it
creates problems for modern humans by encouraging insults, arrogance,
and fights. Unfortunately, every culture encourages tribal
attitudes.
For example:
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Schools, especially
the colleges, encourage their students to believe that they and their
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Many businesses
encourage their employees to believe that
they and their business are superior to other employees and businesses.
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religions encourage their members to believe that the people of
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One of the responsibilities of the government officials is to dampen
our tribal
attitude and encourage people to treat one another as friends
and team members. When we
compete with one another, it should be to inspire one another, not to hurt one
another.
In addition to
encouraging bad attitudes and fights, that tribal
attitude causes us to waste some of our
life because every minute we spend praising our group or
insulting other people is a minute of our life that we
have wasted
on an
activity that has no benefit to
anybody.
Boasting about ourselves and insulting other people will titillate our
emotions, but it is just as much of a
waste of life as giving ourself a trophy, or listening to a recording
of compliments.
A more serious problem with that tribal attitude is that
it interferes with social progress because a person who believes that
his culture is the greatest will resist looking for improvements.
Order to improve our culture, we must be able to consider that it has
some crude characteristics. We must be able to look critically at it,
look
favorably at other people's culture, and experiment
with our culture.
We look forward to
improvements with robots, cell phones, and computer software, and we
should look forward to improvements with our recreational activities,
courtship activities, cities, holiday celebrations, and other culture.
We should be promoted only for improving culture
In a free enterprise
system, the people who make the most money become the most influential,
and in a democracy, the people who attract the most voters become the
most influential. Unfortunately, the people who excel at making money
and attracting
voters tend to be abnormally selfish, dishonest, manipulative,
anti-social, and abusive.
By rewarding people for making money and attracting voters, people are
encouraged to do things that are often worthless, destructive, idiotic,
or wasteful. An extreme example are the people who do dangerous stunts
in an attempt to become popular on YouTube or social media, such as
this teenager who
derailed a train to make
an "exciting" video.
To improve this situation, this Constitution prohibits people from
being rewarded for anything other than finding improvements to our
culture. The ministers have total control of culture, they are required
to conduct intellectual
trials to determine on whether a person's video or document is
beneficial. All of the information that we provide to the public
has to meet high standards, just as if we were providing medicines to
the public.
Furthermore, the Courts Ministry cannot
punish criminals, so that teenager who derailed the train would be
evicted, executed, or used for medical research. He would not be given
any special treatment because he is "only" 17 years old. We must expect
children's behavior to be worse than adult behavior, but the Behavior
and Courts Ministries must set standards for children that prohibit
such destructive activities. A train derailment is not considered
to be a tolerable teenage prank.
By promoting only the people who find improvements to the city and its
culture, the influential
people will be those who are beneficial.
This will give us leaders that we admire and respect, and who improve
our lives, rather than leaders who exploit us.
It is difficult to improve culture
Everybody today realizes
that creating cell phones, robots, refrigerators, artificial
intelligence software, and other modern products requires teams of people with technical
skills, and they must spend decades
working on the project. Furthermore, their work never
ends because they can always improve their products.
Everybody realizes that it is impossible for one person to create much
of anything by himself. One person can contribute only a small amount
to a project.
However, every culture is still promoting the prehistoric attitude that
every person can create brilliant culture by himself, and during a few
minutes of his leisure
time, and without any education. For example, our democracies are based
on the theory that everybody is capable of making excellent decisions
about voting, and without any particular education or training, and by
spending just a few moments of their leisure time analyzing the
candidates. Voting is considered to be
such a simplistic task that even elderly and illiterate people
are allowed to vote.
The concept that developing a recreational activity, abortion policy,
school system, or holiday celebration would require teams of people to
spend decades experimenting with culture seems absurd. However, culture
is software for humans, so it
should be just as difficult to create it is to create software for
robots, or a CT scanner, or a 3D printer.
The human race has
not yet learned that "social technology" is just as difficult to create
as "physical technology". When voters have to choose government
officials, that job is just as difficult as choosing components for a
robot, or the manufacturing methods for an integrated circuit.
Analyzing candidates for leadership requires analyzing humans, and that is just
as difficult as analyzing wolves, prairie dogs, and butterflies.
Virtually everybody, especially men, believe that they are the
world's experts on
raising children, euthanasia, marriage, nudity,
recreational
activities, and crime. Each of us is so convinced that we are experts
on culture that we don't bother doing any research into the issues, and
we tend to become angry if somebody criticizes our ideas, or disagrees
with us.
We refuse to believe that developing a policy for abortion or
creating a holiday celebration
is as difficult
as creating a robot that can walk. Children also believe that they can
create brilliant opinions about how their parents should treat them,
what type of foods they should eat, what their recreational activities
should be, and how they should celebrate their birthday, Christmas, and
other holidays.
In reality, no individual person has enough time, intelligence, or
knowledge to create a perfect policy for abortion, raising children, or
holiday celebrations. An individual by
himself can create only a crude policy. In order to provide ourselves
with truly beneficial culture, we need teams of people to analyze these
issues and experiment
with improvements to them. Furthermore, no matter
how much time and effort the teams put into the development of culture,
the future
generations will always be able to find improvements to it.
The U.S. Constitution was written during the summer of 1787 by a group
of men,
and it is a sequence of about 8000 words. A typical
magazine article has
1500 to 3500 words, so
the U.S. Constitution is essentially a large magazine article.
By comparison, the
IFAB has a PDF file of the rules of the game, and it has 230 pages with
thousands of words and lots of diagrams and photos.
Every nation's constitution is a short document, and they were created
by small groups of people within a few weeks or months. That can fool
us into believing that constitutions are supposed to be short documents
that are easily created within a few months.
However, every
nation's constitution is as crude as the first bicycle (possibly
created in
1818, the drawing
to the right). The first bicycle was so crude that it could be
specified with only a few sheets of paper, and one person could build
it by himself.
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During the following two centuries, thousands of people have discovered
a lot of improvements to bicycles. Bicycles have
become so complicated, and have so many options, that we need thousands of pages of engineering
diagrams and manufacturing instructions to describe them. Bicycles are
now so advanced
that an
individual person cannot design or build all of the components and
options by
himself. We now need teams of people to develop and build bicycles.
If a nation had been improving their culture during the past few
centuries to the same extent that we have been improving bicycles,
tractors, computers, and other material items, then our
constitutions today would be very lengthy.
However, there has been no significant
progress with constitutions, school systems, legal systems,
economic systems, holiday celebrations, recreational activities, or
other culture. Every nation is continuing to use the same crude culture
that they were
created with.
Every nation has such crude
culture that they should be ashamed of it, rather than boasting
about it. For example:
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Every government
has become dominated by criminals and incompetent people.
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Every economic
system is inefficient, and encourages us to treat each other as profit
opportunities and servants.
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Every school system
is contaminating
children's minds with Zionist propaganda and worthless courses;
encouraging the arrogance of the students who get good grades; and
tormenting the students who have trouble with school.
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Every nation is
suffering from overcrowding, pollution, traffic congestion, crime,
homelessness, unwanted children, and fights between different
races and sexes.
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We should criticize our culture
We must change our attitude
towards culture. We must regard culture as software for humans;
as social
technology. We should be critical of it, and look for
improvements.
We must regard social
technology in the same manner that we regard physical technology. For
example, if a person finds a way to improve a refrigerator or a robot,
we admire
his
talent, and we are grateful for
his improvement.
We must have the same attitude towards our social technology. We should
be grateful to the people who can find improvements to our recreational
activities, economic system, government system, school
system, and
other culture. They are valuable citizens who are helping to
improve our lives.
We should contribute to culture
In order
for
this Constitution to become truly useful, other
people must get involved with looking for improvements to it.
The process of improving culture
will never end. Every
generation will be able to find ways to improve their city
design, recreational activities, holiday celebrations, school system,
work environments, and other culture. A constitution and other culture
will never be "finished", just as
engineers will never be able to "finish" the design of a robot or cell
phone.
Our culture is software for humans
When businesses improve a
product, they give it different model number.
Government officials could do the same with our culture to help people
develop a
more appropriate attitude towards culture, and to make it easier for
people to understand when something has changed.
For example, this Constitution is referred
to as version 1.000 because it is essentially a software program for
humans. As improvements are made to the Constitution, the version
number will
increase, as we do with computer software. This should help people to
realize that our government, recreational activities, clothing styles,
and other culture is human software, and that we should try to improve
it.
For example,
the document that describes the Christmas holiday could be described as:
Christmas Holiday, Version 1.000
Author: Jone Doe, ID 609-505-683, 30 July 2036
Date: December 24 and 25
Description: All nonessential organizations will
close for December 24 and 25. The Events Ministry is responsible for
arranging for farmers to provide Christmas trees for the
citizens, and...
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Describing Christmas like that can help people realize that
we can change the dates, the activities, and even the name of the
holiday. It also
makes it easier to realize that we can do the same with Halloween,
birthday parties, weddings, funerals, and all other customs.
When a government official wants to update a custom, he requests the
database software to let him edit the entry, and it automatically moves
the previous version to the archive. For example, the Events Minister
might decide that it is idiotic to have Christmas trees in people's
homes, so he might modify the holiday to restrict the Christmas
decorations to the city, and require the decorations to be less likely
to cause fires. He will be listed as the latest
author to the document:
Christmas Holiday, Version 1.001
Author: Bob Smith, ID 609-541-924, 16 October 2037
Date: December 24 and 25
Description: All nonessential organizations will
close for December 24 and 25. The Events Ministry will arrange for the
social clubs to provide decorations for the city, but there will be no
decorations for the homes other than...
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That database will allow everybody to find out what the current culture
is, learn how it changes through time, and find out who is
responsible for the changes.
The people who make modifications that turn out to be beneficial will
get credit for it, and the people who create modifications that are
determined to be undesirable will have that listed as a failure. This
will allow us to determine who is better at creating culture.
This constitution encourages
criticism of itself
To encourage people to look
for improvements to both material items and culture, this Constitution
makes it easy for people to present their suggestions to the city, and
the government officials are required
to respond to the suggestions.
This is described in other sections of this constitution, such as here.
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