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The Kastron Constitution

22) Constitutions need improvements

  31 July 2024

 
This is Kastron Constitution version 1.000

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.



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:

Schools, especially the colleges, encourage their students to believe that they and their school are superior to other students and schools.

Many businesses encourage their employees to believe that they and their business are superior to other employees and businesses.

The organized religions encourage their members to believe that the people of other religions are ignorant, evil, possessed by the devil, or dangerous.

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.

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:

Every government has become dominated by criminals and incompetent people.

Every economic system is inefficient, and encourages us to treat each other as profit opportunities and servants.

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.

Every nation is suffering from overcrowding, pollution, traffic congestion, crime, homelessness, unwanted children, and fights between different races and sexes.

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...

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.
The concepts are important, not the words

The people and culture are more important than the hierarchy

Business executives have been experimenting with their hierarchy for centuries, but nobody has yet determined that there is such a thing as a "best hierarchy". Instead, many people have noticed that the most important aspects of an organization are:

1)
The people.
Businesses are very finicky with who they allow in their organization, and they evict those who do not fit in. They are especially concerned with who they put into management positions.



2)

Their culture.
The culture of a business determines the attitudes of the people, their goals, their work environment, their holidays, and their hierarchy. Their culture is intangible information that allows them to form a team and work for the benefit of the organization.

The U.S. Constitution promotes a culture that no organization would tolerate. For example, the U.S. Constitution is based on the concept that a government is dangerous, and that we can prevent a government from becoming abusive by requiring the officials to be submissive representatives of the voters, and by not giving any official much authority.

Nobody would create a business or military in which the leaders are submissive representatives who don't have much authority to do anything, and allow the members to vote for who they want to be their submissive representatives.

The U.S. Constitution also allows people to live among us that no business would tolerate. For example, no business would tolerate the "wretched refuse" and "huddled masses" of other businesses, and no business would tolerate "illegal aliens", or refer to them as "undocumented employees".

Likewise, no business would put employees in jail for a few years for stealing, raping, or murdering.

This constitution is based on the theory that a "nation" is just a large "organization", similar to that of a business or military. Therefore, nations benefit from the same type of culture that businesses, orchestras, militaries, and other organizations benefit from.

We must watch for selfish changes to our culture

Every organization has a hierarchy that specifies the position and duties of each member, and we can make changes to that hierarchy without changing anything else about the organization. For example, a business can rearrange their employees into different departments without affecting their products or work environment. The people outside of the business would not notice that the business has altered its hierarchy.

Likewise, a government can change how they divide tasks between their employees and agencies without changing their work environment or the work that they do. The citizens of the nation would not notice that anything has changed with the government.

However, certain changes to the culture of an organization can change the organization both internally and externally.

For example, if the executive of a business finds a way to increase the morale of the employees, the employees might do noticeably better work, and get more satisfaction from their job and their life. The people outside of the business would notice that the business has improved its products, and that the employees have a more pleasant attitude.

Conversely, if an executive inadvertently makes the work environment more irritating, then the morale of the employees might decrease, resulting in them doing inferior work, and quitting more often. The members of the business, and the people outside the business, would notice that the business has deteriorated, and that the business is having more trouble holding on to employees.

In order to improve an organization, we must pass judgment on whether the leaders are making changes to their culture that improve the organization.

Furthermore, since humans react slowly to cultural changes, we must periodically observe the organization to determine whether the changes have truly been beneficial.

We have to be especially concerned about leaders who make changes to culture for selfish reasons, rather than to help the organization. For example, one concept of the U.S. Constitution that has turned out to be beneficial is the concept of keeping religion out of the government, but religious fanatics are constantly trying to alter that concept, such as by demanding religion be promoted on currency and in public buildings, or that public schools promote praying and religion. They also push for the legal system to promote swearing on a Bible.

The religious fanatics want to change the US culture for their own selfish benefit, not for the benefit of society. Of course, as with many other issues, it is a personal opinion as to whether they are promoting that change for selfish reasons, or to improve the nation.

A more important example is that the U.S. Constitution is based on the concept that everybody should have freedom of speech, but a lot of people and organizations are constantly trying to alter that concept so that they can restrict our freedom of speech to fit their selfish, and sometimes diabolical, desires.

If we are foolish enough to allow our leaders to create laws that prohibit hate speech, Holocaust denial, climate change denial, white privilege, racism, sexism, conspiracy theories, and racism, then we allow them to arrest whoever they dislike, and censor whichever information they dislike.

The people who want laws against those "crimes" insist that the laws would improve the nation by protecting the truth and protecting people from hatred, but those crimes are so vague that our leaders can accuse anybody of one of those crimes, which allows them to arrest anybody they please.

All organizations, including nations, must pass judgment on whether a person is promoting a cultural change to improve the organization, or for some selfish or diabolical purpose. If the members of an organization are too apathetic or stupid to prevent their leaders from making selfish changes to the organization, then they will eventually become victims of dishonest, selfish, and diabolical people.

For example, when the Google executives fired James Damore, the members of Google, and everybody else in the world, should have come to the conclusion that they were altering the culture of Google in order to manipulate people's opinions, rather than to improve their culture. Instead, most people were too apathetic or stupid to fire those Google executives, or arrest them for deception and abuse. By doing nothing, they have allowed those executives to keep their jobs, and continue to abuse us.

When somebody proposes a change to the culture of an organization, the members should pass judgment on whether it will improve the organization, or whether it is for some selfish and possibly diabolical purpose.

If they decide that a cultural change seems to be beneficial, and if they implement it, then they must periodically review its effect to ensure that it has indeed been beneficial. They cannot assume that a cultural change is beneficial just because it seemed to be beneficial. Cultural changes should be regarded as experiments, not as solutions.

What is the concept of the Second Amendment?

We must also watch out for people who misinterpret some aspect of culture, which can result in them inadvertently changing our culture. An example are the people who have different interpretations of the second amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

The U.S. Constitution gives a "well regulated Militia" the right to "bear arms". Many Americans interpret the second amendment to mean that every citizen has the freedom to have as many modern guns as he pleases.

Are those people following the concept of the Second Amendment? Or are they misinterpreting the concept?

The men who wrote the Second Amendment did not provide much detail, undoubtedly because everybody in their era knew what they were referring to. However, life has changed so much during the past two centuries that there are no "well regulated Militias", and "arms" have also changed tremendously. Therefore, we need to edit the second amendment to fit our modern era, but we must make a distinction between when we are following the concept of the Second Amendment, and when we are changing the concept.

What is the concept behind the Second Amendment? The answer depends upon a person's intellectual and emotional characteristics.

The arguments over this issue are another reason why this Constitution advocates the concept of using the City Elders to settle disputes. If the Second Amendment was part of this Constitution, and if there was confusion about what it meant, then the ministers would edit it according to what would be most beneficial to the City Elders, rather than according to what people want.

Our culture needs details

There are also arguments over what the First Amendment means. What is "freedom of speech"? Are Jews using their freedom of speech when they accuse us of Holocaust denial or anti-Semitism? Are women using their freedom of speech when they accuse men of being "sexist"? Or are those Jews and women slandering us, or insulting us, or making unsupported accusations?

The confusion over the amendments of the U.S. Constitution are examples of why government officials must provide adequate explanations for laws and other culture. We cannot assume that everybody will understand the words that we choose to explain a concept, especially not the people in the future.

The people who create businesses, sports groups, and other organizations are somewhat aware of this issue. When they create laws and rules for their members, they provide adequate detail to ensure that everybody understands the rules. For example, as mentioned near the beginning of this document, the IFAB created a PDF file with 230 pages to explain the rules of a soccer game. That document is an explanation of only one recreational activity.

Even though they could have removed some of the photos and information without interfering with a person's understanding of the game, if we provided documents with a similar level of detail for every other recreational activity, holiday celebration, social affair, clothing rules, and other culture, we would need millions of pages to describe our culture.

However, every nation is creating a Constitution with only a few thousand words. The second amendment is only 27 words. That is an inadequate description for a complex issue.

We don't want to use an excessive amount of words because that can cause people to become bored and lose their concentration, but if we don't adequately explain some aspect of our culture, then people can misinterpret the concept.

Unfortunately, there is no way to determine when we have adequately explained a concept. The only solution is to write something, and then observe how people interpret it, and edit it if we find that people are confused by it or misinterpreting it.

Our culture is just a sequence of words. Government officials create and edit sequences of words, not pieces of wood into furniture, rock foot paths, or vegetable pizzas. Therefore, we need government officials to have a better understanding of language than the ordinary person, in addition to being a zoologist who has an excellent understanding of human and animal behavior.