The Social Division

The Social Clubs Ministry is similar to the Leisure Ministry, except that it is for activities that require supervision and more extensive facilities, equipment, and supplies. This Ministry has the authority to create and terminate a "social club", which is defined as an informal organization that has an executive to supervise, train, and assist the members with some type of leisure activity.

In a free enterprise system, people who get involved with social organizations usually have to purchase everything they need, but the Social Clubs Ministry provide people with free access to equipment and supplies, including expensive items, such as CNC lasers cutters, 3D printers, drones, microscopes, and robots.

The Social Clubs Minister is responsible for selecting and replacing the executives of the clubs. Since the clubs are leisure activities, they are closed during the workday, and become available during the evenings and weekends.

Thw executives work on a part-time basis, and they do not have to work every day. Some people might want to work only one evening a month. Some clubs might have dozens of executives, each working on a different evening or weekend.

Although the concept of a social club having a lot of executives working on different days is bizarre for a free enterprise system, it occurs in a family on a routine basis. For example, one evening the mother might supervise her children with an arts and crafts activity, and on another day the father might supervise the children in the same activity, and on another day one of the grandparents might supervise the children for that same activity.

One purpose for allowing people to become executives as seldom as one evening a month is because there are likely to be people who are willing to be an executive of a social club, but don't want to spend all of their leisure time on it. This allows more people to get involved with providing the city with activities.

Another purpose is to allow a person to be an executive for more than one club. For example, person might want to be an executive of a ceramics club one evening, and an executive for 3D printing club on another evening. It is conceivable that some people would be an executive for a dozen different clubs.

The executive is responsible for ensuring that the people in his club are using the equipment and supplies properly, and he provides assistance and training when necessary.

The executive also has the authority to prevent his members from wasting resources on projects that he regards as worthless, detrimental, or idiotic. He can also refuse to allow a person to become a member of his club. This authority will result in every executive creating a slightly different environment, which will result in some people preferring to go to the club when certain executives are in control.

The Social Clubs Minister does not tell the executives how to manage their club. Rather, the minister lets each executive do as he pleases, and he judges them by their effect on the city, rather than whether the people in the club approve of him.

The Social Clubs Minister observes the club and passes judgment on whether it is doing something useful, or wasting the city's resources, or causing the people to develop bad attitudes.

For example, if one of the executives of a ceramics club is so incompetent or submissive that he allows people who don't have appropriate knowledge or a sense of responsibility to use the expensive porcelains or glazes properly, resulting in a large amount of ceramic items that are tossed in the trash, then the minister would consider him to be incompetent, and he would select somebody to replace him.

The executives must promote beneficial attitudes

The Social Clubs Minister is also responsible for passing judgment on whether a club is encouraging beneficial attitudes. As with everybody in influential positions, the executives of the clubs are in the role of a parent, and they are required to promote beneficial activities and attitudes, and dampen destructive and wasteful activities and attitudes.

The ministers and executives must be aware of our tendency to get obsessed with our activities. For example, the executive of a 3D printing or ceramic club must understand that if he allows one person to get involved with a "harmless" prank, such as creating a dribble glass, it can inspire other people to devise idiotic pranks.

Since we love to compete with another, that can result in the people competing to create the most amusing or shocking prank, which can lead to pranks that are dangerous, as well as wasting the city's resources. It also results in those people wasting a portion of their life on worthless activities.

The people in leadership positions are expected to stop idiotic behavior before it becomes extreme, rather than wait for it to become extreme.

Public hobbies are encouraged

This previous document explained the concept of "public hobbies" in which people create things that are beneficial to the city, as opposed to doing things for themselves. The Social Clubs Minister is required to encourage public hobbies. This will result in people doing things that improve the city for everybody.

In Kastron, everything is free, so when people create furniture, sculptures, paintings, and other artistic items, they are using equipment and supplies that the city has provided to them for free, and so they have an obligation to create something that other people will appreciate.

A person is free to decorate his home with a piece of furniture or a painting that he created, but when he gets tired of it, or when he dies, it is given to the city, so it should be something that somebody else will want.

Therefore, when a person creates something at a social club, he and the executive of the club should consider whether other people will appreciate it.

If we allow people to create things that only they like, then we will end up a lot of items that are eventually discarded in the trash. It is better to restrict people to creating items that at least a few other people will appreciate.

Clubs can censor art

The censorship document points out that everybody wants art to be censored, and the Social Clubs Minister and executives are responsible for censoring the art that people create at the clubs. The minister has authority over the executives. For example, if the executive of a 3D printing or rock carving club was allowing people to create items that the ministers regard as unacceptable, the executive would have to stop that type of art. The minister can also replace the executive.

Some people believe that they have the right to create whatever art they please, but we are no longer individual savages who can pick up a colored rock and scratch whatever type of art we please on a cave wall.

The people who create paintings, sculptures, music, and other types of art and entertainment want us to provide them with technically advanced art supplies and machines, as well as electricity and shelters from the weather. They also want us to provide them with food, housing, clothing, telephones, medical treatments, and computers.

Many artists have the attitude that we should provide them with what they want, but they should not have to provide us with the art that we want. Rather, they want the independence to do as they please.

That selfish, arrogant attitude is no longer acceptable. All of us are members of a large advanced team. All of us want to benefit from the team, and in return, all of us must contribute something that is beneficial to team.

The social clubs can have expensive equipment

Since the government supports the social clubs, rather than free enterprise, the clubs can have equipment and supplies that would be too expensive for a free enterprise system. For example, a microscope club could have expensive microscopes, including electron microscopes, and an archeology club could have a CT scanner for analyzing the objects they discover.

It would be practical to provide the clubs with expensive items because the clubs can be provided with the prototypes and used equipment from businesses and research labs. Since every business works for the city, the prototypes and used equipment belong to the city, not to the businesses, and that allows the city to provide them to schools and social clubs.

Another way of providing the social clubs and schools with expensive equipment is to let them borrow it while no other business wants it. For example, a research lab might need to use an expensive 3D printer every few months, but rather than have that printer sit idle most of the time, the ministers could allow it to be used by other businesses, schools, and/or social clubs. Since the city owns all of the equipment, and has control of all of the organizations, the ministers can pass judgment on which of the expensive but seldom used equipment can be shared.

The city is regarded as a large family, and so the people can share items just like family members share items.

By providing the clubs with advanced equipment, and by encouraging us to work together on public hobbies, we will be able to create things for the city that are much more decorative and advanced than what hobbyists are creating in the world today.

We will be able to create beautiful furniture, tiles, stained-glass windows, statues, terrariums, and footbridges that would be impossible for one person to do by himself. For example, a group of people could get together to create some large pots for a neighborhood plaza, and put giant bonsai trees in them, as in the image below.

Every neighborhood would have different plazas, foot paths, architecture, terrariums, restaurants, lounges, swimming pools, statues, and decorations, so we will enjoy visiting the plazas, gardens, lounge rooms, and restaurants in other neighborhoods.

Decisions are made with documents, not meetings

One of the concepts that is stressed in this Constitution is that everybody who wants to control our future must explain their opinions in a document. This concept also applies to the people who are determining which projects should be authorized as a public hobby.

If we allow people to have verbal discussions about which project to authorize, we are certain to suffer from a problem that is inherent to social animals. Specifically, the most aggressive people will dominate the discussion and conclusions, rather than the people who have the best analyses or leadership abilities.

Whenever a group of people get together to resolve an issue, the people with the most aggressive personalities will dominate, and the other people will follow like sheep, even if they disapprove of what they have to do.

In order to get better leadership, we must require everybody to describe their opinions in a document so that we can analyze the opinions at our leisure without being intimidated by the author's aggressive personality.

We should have discussions only to answer questions about the documents, rather than try to resolve the issue. After the discussion, we can edit our document if we feel we need to change or improve it, and then we could have another discussion if we had more questions.

We should make a decision about what to do based on documents, not on verbal discussions. This will allow people of any age or status, including teenagers and women, to have an equal opportunity to influence our future. We will reduce the chances that we are dominated by selfish, arrogant, and aggressive people.

Nobody needs to make commitments to a club

Unlike the clubs of a free enterprise system, which often require people to sign a contract and commit to being a member of a club, these social clubs are as informal as restaurants, museums, and city parks. Everybody is encouraged to visit the clubs to observe the activities, just as people are encouraged to visit a city park. However, if a person wants to use the equipment in a club, he must get authorization from the executive of the club.

The executive will pass judgment on whether the person has the knowledge to use the equipment properly, and if not, he will provide him with some training, or arrange for him to get training. When the person can show the executive that he knows how to use the equipment, the executive will give him a license to use it, which is a remark in the person's entry of the People database that specifies that he can use the particular equipment of that particular social club.

The licenses that allow a person to be a medical doctor or an airplane pilot must be honored by everybody, but a license to use a social club is valid only for a particular club and a particular executive. Another executive of the same club might have higher standards and refus to let a person use the machine.

The reason the executives can refuse to honor a person's license is because an executive is responsible for the club when he is in control of it. Therefore, each executive can set his own standards of behavior for the members.

The Social Clubs Minister must pass judgment on which of the executives are too lenient or too strict, and provide the executives with advice, or fire them.

Unlike a free enterprise system, the executives do not compete with one another to attract members. Rather, the Social Clubs Minister judges the executives by their effect on the city and the people. The goal of the executives is to provide people with activities that they enjoy, and which encourage productive attitudes, and which are beneficial to the city. Therefore, an executive cannot be considered inappropriate simply because his standards are so high that not many people want to be a member of the club when he is in control of it.

Of course, there is a point at which an executive has so few members that he must be replaced. The Social Clubs Minister has to make a decision about when an executive is not attracting enough members, and the public can post documents in the Suggestions category if they believe one of the executives should be replaced.

Some of the social clubs would be "production" clubs because they allow people to produce items for the city, such as furniture, bonsai trees, and decorative footbridges. Other clubs would be "educational" clubs because they provide people with the ability to learn something. For example, the clubs that provide microscopes, ultrasound machines, and underwater drones would allow people to learn something, rather than produce something.

The clubs are analogous to rooms within a giant mansion of a giant family. Nobody in a family has to sign a commitment to use a particular room in their house, or to use a particular piece of recreational equipment, tool, or gardening equipment. The social clubs are essentially rooms within our giant mansion for us to visit and use whenever we please.

If a person wants to participate in one of the clubs, he can do so without any commitments, thereby allowing him to get involved with the club until he satisfies his curiosity. For example, there might be a lot of people who would enjoy working with a CNC plasma torch, microscope, or drone, but only for a few days or weeks.

Clubs operate during the evenings and weekends

This constitution does not allow a welfare or wealthy class, so everybody works during the day, aside from mothers with babies, and the people who must work during the evenings. Therefore, the social clubs are closed during the daytime, and become available only during the evenings and weekends.

By closing the activities during the weekday, we reduce the consumption of electricity and other resources, and it is easier for people to become part-time executives because there are fewer hours for them to work.

The ministers must reduce undesirable jobs to a minimum, and that includes jobs in which people must work during the evenings, weekends, and night. Human life is more important than profit, so the ministers are required to put resources into developing machines and software to do the nighttime jobs, and the only factories and businesses that operate at night should be those that are truly necessary.

If the few people who must work during the evenings want access to some of the social clubs, then the Social Clubs Minister can arrange for that.

Clubs can discriminate

Although everybody is free to use the clubs, the executive of a club has the authority to restrict his club to children, teenagers, adults, men, women, or elderly people. This constitution allows discrimination so that people can get together in their leisure time with people that they are comfortable with. This will allow a group of women to have a club in which they don't have to be bothered by men or children, and a group of older people could get together without being bothered by the younger people.

Club can also discriminate on different days. For example, a woman might become a executive of ceramics club on Monday evenings, and she might restrict the club to women only. A man might be the executive of the club on Tuesday evenings, and he might restrict the club to men. An elderly person might be the executive on Wednesday evenings, and restrict the club to elderly people.

Although this would be condemned as discriminatory and confusing in a free enterprise system, it is something all of us do in our personal lives. For example, when relatives get together for a holiday, they might arrange for some activities specifically for the young children, and arrange for some other activities for the teenagers, and other activities for the grandparents. We regularly practice discrimination in our personal lives, and nobody suffers from it.

Secrecy is prohibited

The Social Clubs Minister is responsible for maintaining a list of all of the clubs, which includes descriptions of their activities, executives, and restrictions. This makes it easy for people to determine what clubs are available, and which executive is in control and when he is in control.

None of the clubs are allowed to have any type of secrecy, which is happening in the world today, such as with the Freemasons. For example, some of the Freemason clubs have logos that show evidence that they are secretly controlled by Jews.

The Social Clubs Minister is responsible for ensuring that none of the clubs are doing anything secretively. The clubs belong to the city, not to the executive or members.

People without a license can use clubs indirectly

If a person doesn't have a license to use a particular piece of equipment, or if the executive of the club doesn't regard the license to be valid, then the person could ask somebody with a license to use it for him. For example:

•		A person who does not have a license to use an ultrasound machine might be curious to see an ultrasound of his internal organs, but if he doesn't have a medical problem, he would not be able to justify bothering a doctor to put him through such an analysis. Therefore, he would visit a club that has those machines and ask somebody to use it on him. Although we could say that it is a waste of resources to let people "play" with expensive machines, whether something is wasteful or beneficial depends upon our attitude. We could say we are wasting labor and resources when we create Hollywood movies, toenail polish, and alcoholic beverages. We could also say that we are wasting resources when we create colorful clothing, when we decorate our homes, and when we plant flowers in a city park. Many vegans claim that we are wasting resources when we eat meat. We must make arbitrary decisions about the type of life we want. Should we put labor and resources into providing ourselves with meat, or should we be vegans? How much of our labor and resources should be put into decorating our apartments, offices, plazas, walkways, and bicycle paths? Should we provide ourselves with beautiful restaurants, or should we get our food from feeding tubes, similar to those used by the farmers who produce foie gras? The president and ministers are responsible for making the arbitrary decisions about our culture. They must consider what is best for the City Elders, rather than appease the majority of people. If we can provide ourselves with truly intelligent, responsible, and honest leadership, then they will make decisions that are more sensible than what the public would make.

•		Some people have the artistic talent to design things, such as a decorative door with stained-glass windows, and decorative moldings for the walls, but do not have the time, desire, and/or experience to make those items. Those people could take their designs to the social clubs and ask if they want to make it. The people at the club would have the knowledge to know whether their designs were practical, and if not, they could give them advice on how to redesign it. For example, an artist could take the drawing of the door below to a social club and ask them to make it for one of the city buildings. If the executive of the club approved of the door, then he would arrange for it to be created, and if he believed it needed to be redesigned first, then he would help the artist to redesign it. By providing this type of service, the social clubs would allow people who have artistic abilities, but not necessarily the desire or ability to manufacture items, to contribute something of value to the city. It also gives the people who enjoy making things, but do not have much artistic ability, the opportunity to create beautiful items for the city.

As the text-to-image software becomes more advanced, there will be more people capable of designing beautiful furniture, murals, tiles, stained-glass windows, clothing, and other items, but do not have the desire or experience to build the items.

These type of social clubs allow everybody in the city to get directly and indirectly involved with projects to make the city more beautiful and comfortable. It would make it easy for people to design and/or create decorative tiles for the city plazas and walkways; more comfortable furniture, rowboats, and kayaks; and decorative windows and elevators.

The Events Ministry is similar to the Leisure Ministry, but the Leisure Ministry handles the social and recreational activities that people do repeatedly throughout their lives, whereas the Events Ministry is responsible for the activities that we do only occasionally, such as holiday celebrations, city festivals, music concerts, theatrical productions, museums, funerals, birthday parties, weddings, and anniversary parties.

The Events Ministry is one of the radical changes that this constitution promotes. In all existing cultures, individual people and organizations have the freedom to create almost any event they please, and without any justification, and without being held accountable for its effect on society.

The result is that there are lots of citizens and organizations promoting a wide variety of events that have no benefit to anybody, such as beer drinking contests and competitions to set world records.

It also results in businesses encouraging people to put absurd amounts of their time and resources into elaborate and idiotic weddings and funerals.

It also results in dangerous events, such as the Running of the Bulls. The Red Bull company promotes lots of dangerous events, and individuals are promoting dangerous events on tik-tok, Facebook, and YouTube. Schools are also free to create idiotic and dangerous events, such as Rice University which provides their students with such events as the the twice-a-month "run around campus wearing nothing but shoes and shaving cream", and the annual "bicycle race and drinking competition".

This constitution changes the situation dramatically by prohibiting citizens and organizations from creating leisure activities. If a citizen or organization has an idea for a new activity, they must post an explanation of it in the Suggestions category, and the Events Minister will determine whether it is worth experimenting with.

The officials in the Events Ministry are required to authorize only the events that have some benefit, and to prohibit the events that are wasteful, dangerous, or encourage obnoxious or detrimental behavior. Since a lot of their decisions will be arbitrary, they can use the opinions of the City Elders to make decisions.

For some examples of the activities that the Events Minister has the authority to control:

• Funerals

The Events Ministry is the only group that is authorized to design and arrange for funerals. They must design funerals to be beneficial and pleasant. They have the authority to prohibit funerals from becoming "pouting events" in which people are encouraged to cry, dress in black, and make idiotic remarks about how they should have appreciated the person while he was alive (discussed here).

The Events Ministry determines what type of funerals are permitted, but the dead bodies are given to the Death Ministry, and they determine what happens to them, such as whether they are used for medical research, schools, or fertilizer.

The dead bodies cannot be cleaned, embalmed, dressed, and put on display at a funeral. That practice is unacceptable because it has no benefit to anybody, and it requires some people have the unpleasant job of cleaning, dressing, and grooming a dead body. It also encourages worthless behavior from the people who attend the funeral, such as using a dead body to stimulate themselves into pouting or crying, which is using a dead body to masturbate with.

Furthermore, it requires people to work in factories to produce the thousands of chemicals and other items for the display of a dead body, such as eye caps and trocar buttons.

The Events Minister is required to treat death as if it were the opposite of birth; specifically, a natural event in everybody's life. It is idiotic to regard the death of an old person as a sad event. Rather, his long life is proof that he was successful at surviving the dangers of life. An elderly person should be grateful to be old, and elderly people should celebrate their old age rather pout and cry.

If a person dies prematurely, such as from a disease, accident, or murder, then his death can be regarded as a sad event, but the Events Minister is not permitted to encourage people to pout over those deaths, either. Instead, he must encourage people to look for a way to prevent such deaths. For example:

–		If a person dies from an accident at his job, our reaction should be to investigate the accident to determine whether we can reduce such accidents, perhaps by altering our safety procedures, developing better equipment, or improving the training of the employees.

–		If a child dies of a disease, we should investigate to determine whether the child had a serious genetic disorder, in which case we should determine if we have the technology to identify that particular disorder in a fetus or a newborn baby so that we can euthanize him immediately and not have to go through the process of raising a defective child who suffers a premature death.

A death would also be sad if a person is elderly but never enjoyed his life. However, the Events Minister cannot encourage people to pout over those deaths, either. Instead, we should analyze the people who did not enjoy life to determine whether we can alter our culture to make it more satisfying to more people, or whether we can do a better job of figuring out which of the children are such misfits or so defective that they will never have a pleasant life, and should be euthanized while they are young.

Elderly people will not suffer a slow, miserable death

Many of the deaths of elderly people in the advanced nations today are sad because most of elderly people waste the final years of their life in hospital beds or wheelchairs.

Their final years are spent suffering from pain, boredom, and loneliness, and many are on medications that interfere with the function of their brain.

They are tortured during their final years of life. Some of them are so miserable that they asked for assisted suicide, but are not provided with it. Furthermore, their friends and family members are tortured by watching them suffer.

The people who claim that they would suffer if the government offered assisted suicide services are suffering because they have chosen to suffer. They are masturbating, but to make themselves miserable and angry, rather than for sexual pleasure.

They believe that they have the right to force people to live even when they don't want to live, but nobody should have such a right. Instead, this constitution gives people the right to decide when they have had enough suffering and want to die.

The Death Ministry offers assisted suicide services, so none of the elderly people have to suffer a slow, agonizing death. That will significantly reduce the suffering of the elderly people, their friends, and family.

One of the unfortunate aspects of growing old is that a person can suffer so much brain damage from strokes, concussions, cancer, tumors, and other problems, that he becomes incapable of making a decision about assisted suicide.

Therefore, the Death Ministry has the authority to pass judgment on whether an elderly person should be euthanized because he has deteriorated to the point at which his life is worthless, but he has suffered such mental deterioration that he is not capable of choosing assisted suicide. That will also reduce the number of elderly people who are suffering during their final years of life.

The Death Ministry cannot make those decisions in secrecy, however. They must provide some video evidence to show that the person has truly deteriorated to the point at which he is essentially a piece of meat that is merely existing from one day to the next.

Those decisions are arbitrary, so they must be made according to what the City Elders would approve of, not what the public wants.

• Weddings

The Events Minister experiments with marriages, weddings, and anniversaries, rather than let the citizens and organizations create whatever ceremony they please. This will allow the Events Minister to prevent women from creating weddings that resemble the wasteful and extravagant coronation of a Queen (discussed years ago here).

Women consider a wedding to be the most special day of their lives because humans are monkeys, not because a wedding truly is a special day. Female animals have a tremendous resistance to sex, and are very finicky about their mate, so one of the biggest events in their life is choosing a male to have sex with.

It was acceptable for prehistoric women to regard a wedding as the most exciting event in their lives because they got married at a young age, their lives were short, their marriages were much more stable, and it was impossible for them to arrange extravagant weddings.

Today, however, our technology allows weddings to be absurdly complex and extravagant. It is especially ridiculous to have extravagant weddings when there are so many people who get divorced after a few years. According to these statistics, 42% of the marriages in the USA fail, and of the people who get married a second time, 60% of those marriages fail, and of the people who get married a third time, 73% of those marriages fail.

To make the situation even more pathetic, a lot of the people who remain married are actually miserable. Some people remain in an unpleasant marriage because they have children, or they are worried about the effect it will have on their image, or because their religious beliefs opposes divorce, or because they are afraid of losing the financial support of their spouse, or because they are afraid of going through the process of searching for another spouse.

Women today need to be less interested in weddings and more concerned with finding a compatible husband.

The Events Minister can experiment with putting more emphasis on an anniversary party and less on a wedding in order to encourage young girls to be more concerned about having a long-term, pleasant, and stable relationship rather than a spectacular and brief wedding.

• Holidays

The Events Minister has the authority to create, terminate, and experiment with all of the holiday celebrations, including Christmas, Halloween, and Easter.

We should not follow holiday celebrations simply because our ancestors did. All of the existing holiday celebrations are idiotic, wasteful, and encouraging detrimental attitudes because all of them have been manipulated by religions, mentally disturbed people, businesses, Zionist groups, and other organizations.

The Events Minister must analyze the benefits and disadvantages to all of the holiday celebrations, and modify them to become more beneficial and less idiotic. His goal is to figure out what type of celebrations are so pleasant and beneficial that we enjoy reminiscing about them when we become older.

For example, Easter was originally a celebration of spring, but the Christian religions have manipulated it into the nonsensical celebration of the dead man coming back to life for a few days, and then vanishing forever. This should be regarded as a detrimental concept to teach children.

Another detrimental aspect of Easter is its promotion of candy. The original Easter celebration may have involved eggs because birds tend to build nests and lay eggs in the spring, and it may have involved rabbits because spring is the time when the people would have noticed a lot of baby rabbits, but businesses have distorted whatever the original concepts were in order to promote the selling of candy. This is detrimental to the health of children, and it gets children accustomed to absurdly sweet foods.

The Events Minister has the authority to determine whether we celebrate Easter, and if so, what type of celebration it is. He can change it a celebration of spring, and he can prohibit the promotion of candy.

The Events Minister is also required and authorized to watch for and dampen the tendency of people, especially men, to turn celebrations into senseless and destructive competitions. For example, many people get involved with a competition during Halloween to create the most frightening costumes, decorations, or carved pumpkins, or to frighten children to the greatest extreme with pranks. During Christmas, a lot of people compete to put the most decorations on their house.

Those type of competitions do not improve our lives. They are examples of how people can become so obsessed with winning a competition that they waste their time and resources on worthless or detrimental activities.

This constitution prohibits royalties and copyrights, so the lyrics and music of songs can be modified to make them more pleasant, or to update them to fit our modern era. For example, all of religious songs are idiotic in our modern era, but most of us love the music. Therefore, all of those songs should have their lyrics changed to fit our new era and knowledge.

Likewise, the songs about Santa Claus and other fictional characters are idiotic, and the lyrics in Scarborough Fair no longer make sense to us. Simon and Garfunkel altered the lyrics, and Garfunkel sang a second, different song in the background, and the overlapping of their voices created a song that became extremely popular, but it caused the lyrics to become even more senseless.

Since a lot of people enjoy the music of songs with idiotic or confusing lyrics, we should change the lyrics to be more relevant. For example, Scarborough Fair could be updated for a modern city festival that celebrates the ripening of fruits in the summer. The first few lines of the song could be something like:

Lets get together at the summer fruit fair!
And have peaches, plums, fruit bars, and pies.
Remember when we did that before?
Since those memories are fading,
let's create a bunch more!

Songs are entertainment, so everybody has a different idea about when a song has been improved, but this constitution advocates designing culture to fit the desires of the City Elders, rather than letting the misfits and religious fanatics force us to accept their desires for art, music, songs, clothing, recreational activities, work schedules, school curriculum, and other culture.

The Events Minister is also required to investigate the songs that have bizarre lyrics, which has been common since the 1960s. A lot of those songs seem to have hidden meanings as result of the people being blackmailed, intimidated, threatened, and frightened by the international Jewish and pedophile crime network.

Examples are the songs from the Beatles that seem to describe their sadness and anger about the death of Paul McCartney, and some of Lady Gaga's songs, such as Mary the Night, which seems to describe her agreement to join the crime network. The Events Minister is required to investigate songs with bizarre lyrics, and everybody has the freedom to alter the lyrics to make them less bizarre.

Why do we enjoy songs with idiotic lyrics?

A lot of songs have nonsensical or idiotic lyrics, but most people don't care. The reason is because most of us are more concerned with the music than we are with the lyrics. We do not want to listen to a song if we dislike the music, but nobody shows any concern about whether they like or understand the lyrics. An example is that nobody can understand the lyrics in the song Louie Louie, but it became very popular anyway.

The unintelligible words in Louie Louie are evidence of a concept that most of the artists don't seem to understand. Specifically, most of us do not care about the lyrics of a song. We do not even care if we understand the language of a song.

Some artists become upset when we don't pay attention to their lyrics, but to most of us, the lyrics are irrelevant. Likewise, we do not care about the meaning of a painting, a sculpture, or other type of artwork.

The reason most of us don't care about the lyrics is because we listen to music for entertainment, not to learn something. We regard the voice of the singers as musical instruments. For example, this woman sings "Hey diddle diddle" so nicely that I don't care that the lyrics are nonsense. Rather, I am irritated by the excessively loud, low-quality music.

When we listen to a song, our mind will decode the words into images, but most of us do not look for an intelligent meaning in those images. Rather, we relax and treat the images as entertainment, similar to how we can enjoy a slideshow that has photos of butterflies, sunsets, and flowers.

We do not expect songs to have intelligent meanings, so a song doesn't need "words". It is possible to create a song that consists entirely of meaningless sounds, such as "la la la" and "boop op a doop op". By occasionally adding a word that evokes pleasant images, the lyrics will stimulate pleasant emotional feelings, even if the lyrics are nonsensical, such as:

la la la,
warm peach pie,
boop op a doop doo,
and chocolate bars too.

Since we don't care about the lyrics, why should the Events Minister improve them? The reason is because this constitution encourages participatory social activities, rather than spectator or voyeur activities. We are not inspired to sing songs with idiotic lyrics, such as "Hey diddle diddle", and people who believe in evolution are not inspired to sing religious songs.

We will have more success in getting people to participate in singing if we make the lyrics more sensible. Therefore, everybody is encouraged to improve the lyrics, and to create variations of songs, music, sculptures, paintings, tapestries, and other art, so that we have more variety.

Since the government provides everything for free, everybody can travel around the world for free. The Global Zone is the land between the cities, and it will have a lot of vacation resorts, and all of the land and resorts are available for free. Providing this for free requires putting a lot of restrictions on travel and tourism.

People cannot be free to travel whenever they please, or do whatever they want in the area that they travel to. The government must ration traveling, and every city must put limits on how many tourists they accept at one time. The government must also set restrictions on camping, fishing, fires, snowmobiles, and other activities.

The World Government sets restrictions on tourism in the Global Zone, and the Tourism Ministry sets restrictions for their particular city.

Every city is an independent society, so a person needs permission to travel to another city. People are not free to travel to any city they please. A person who wants to travel to either the Global Zone or another city to arrange for the trip with the Tourism Ministry. This allows the Tourism Ministry to regulate the trips.

The Tourism Ministry must work with the World Government in making decisions about tourism. The Tourism Ministry will either arrange for the trip that the person wants, or reject his request. If they reject it, they might provide alternatives.

The people who have a history of bad behavior can be limited to certain types of trips, or prohibited from traveling. Likewise, every city has the right to deny a person access to their city if they don't like his behavior, and every city will have a limit on how many tourists they will accept at one time.

In a free enterprise system, businesses want to exploit us for profit, so they deceive us into believing that traveling is one of the most exciting options in life, and this encourages us to travel. The wealthy people add to this problem by boasting about traveling. To make the situation more absurd, governments promote tourism because they want to exploit us for money.

This constitution changes the situation by prohibiting the glorification of traveling. The Tourism Ministry, the World Government, the businesses, the schools, and everybody else, must provide a realistic view of traveling.

Specifically, children must be taught that we don't have to travel anywhere in order to enjoy life, and that most of the people who have been traveling don't actually enjoy it. Most of those people are traveling for idiotic reasons, such as boredom, or they are suffering from low self-esteem and want to boast about traveling so that they can feel important, or they are lonely and are hoping to find a friend or spouse.

In a free enterprise system, traveling is expensive, and so tourists tend to be the people with an above-average income. Since social science is still a farce, nobody has done an accurate investigation of tourism, but tourists are not likely to be a random sample of the high income people. Traveling is most likely to be attractive to the people who are unhappy or mentally ill. As a result, tourists are likely to be lower quality people compared to the other high income people who have less of an interest in traveling.

This would explain why so many tourists are obnoxious, such as irritating the guards at Buckingham palace, trying to get photos with wild bison, and irritating the restaurant and hotel employees.

Allowing government officials to pass judgment on whether somebody should be allowed to travel is putting restrictions on our freedom, similar to allowing the Leisure Minister to determine whether a recreational activity is acceptable. However, the restrictions on our freedom will be abusive only if the voters give us the type of leaders that we have in the world today.

Therefore, instead of frightening ourselves with the possibility of being abused by incompetent or corrupt government officials, we should put our effort into ensuring that we create a government of high-quality people who are more responsible, honest, and considerate than what we have in the governments today.

The city of Kastron operates in a similar manner as a business. Businesses do not encourage their employees to travel, and do not titillate the employees with travel pornography. Rather, they arrange for trips only when the management believes that the travel is beneficial to the organization. From the point of view of a business, sending an employee on a trip is adding a burden on the business.

The same concept applies to a city. The citizens who travel put a burden on the city, so the Tourist Ministry must regulate traveling so that everybody has the opportunity to do it, and we don't impose an excessive burden on ourselves as a result.

We can discourage traveling by improving our culture

A survey of Americans in August 2024 shows that about 27% of the Americans consider their life to be somewhat boring. The three main things that caused them to want to do something "adventurous" to relieve the boredom was:

1) When the weather became warm.
2) Seeing the same boring city every day.
3) Seeing their friends and family travel somewhere.

The survey showed that most people take fewer trips as they got older, but most of the respondents were taking 4 to 5 trips per year. Those trips were obviously not relieving the boredom in the 27% who were complaining about their boring life. This should not be a surprise because traveling is a chore, not a pleasure.

The proper way to prevent boredom is to alter our culture. If we create a city that we enjoy, we will reduce our boredom and our desire to travel. For example, regarding the three reasons that people want to travel:

1)		When the weather became warm. When the weather is warm, we are more likely to want to get outside to do things and be with people. However, our cities do not provide us with many activities. Almost all of the activities are profit-making opportunities for businesses, not activities designed for people. Furthermore, in the USA and Europe, many of us are living among people we dislike, fear, or have nothing in common with. Many of the people we live among speak different languages and follow different cultures. Not many of us are living in a friendly, homogeneous society. Traveling cannot solve this problem. Rather, we must create a more homogeneous, friendly society in which we can trust and enjoy the people we live with. This requires the unpleasant policy of evicting the misfits and destructive people. Furthermore, the city must provide lots of leisure activities that are designed for people, not for businesses to profit from.

2)		Seeing the same boring city every day. Our cities are haphazard jumbles of ugly buildings, roads, telephone wires, and parking lots. These cities are unnatural and unpleasant for all types of apes and monkeys. Most cities have so much crime that people are frightened of other citizens, and most people live in areas that don't give them good access to nature. Traveling cannot solve this problem. Rather, we must design a city so that it has beautiful architecture, city parks, creeks, swimming areas, foot paths, plazas, and bicycle paths. We should also design the city so that the architecture and vegetation changes as we travel around the city so that we enjoy visiting our own city.

3)		Seeing their friends and family travel somewhere. We have a craving to do what other people do, so when we see friends and family members traveling, we want to travel, also. We also have a craving to compete with people for status, so if other people boast about their traveling, they make us feel inferior to them, and that can cause us to compete with them. We cannot solve this problem by competing with one another to travel to the most exciting locations. Rather, we need government officials who will help us dampen our arrogance, and our desire to boast about ourselves and make other people feel inferior. We need pressure on us to treat one another as friends. We also need to ensure that our competitions are to inspire us to do something beneficial, not to compete for something stupid.

By creating in a city in which we trust and enjoy the people, and every neighborhood has different architecture, vegetation, creeks, and ponds, and all of the factories are beautiful, we will enjoy visiting our city all throughout the year. We will also enjoy watching the vegetation change through the seasons, and we will enjoy encountering people.


By giving each neighborhood unique vegetation, we would enjoy exploring the city with friends and family.		By controlling our sexual inhibitions, we can take off our clothes and go swimming in the ponds during the summer.


By designing the factories to be beautiful, we would enjoy visiting the factory neighborhoods.		With the weather and vegetation changing throughout the year, we would never get tired of visiting our own city.

It would be much more relaxing and pleasant to walk or ride bicycles, rowboats, kayaks, or electric vehicles through the city parks, canals, neighborhoods, and the vacant land surrounding the city, than it would be to travel to other cities.

We should travel in a video room

We can further reduce our desire to travel outside of our city by providing the city with lots of small video rooms that have comfortable chairs and a giant, curved, high-resolution monitor. That allows us to visit everywhere in the world, and eventually in outer space, at our convenience, and in comfort.

We will learn more about the world, and be more comfortable, when we explore it in a video room.

Those video rooms would allow us to see things that we would never see as a tourist, such as time-lapse video of the growth of mushrooms and flowers, the movement of glaciers; the activities of slow-moving creatures, such as starfish; and the lives of creatures that rarely move, such as spiders.

We could also see things that are dangerous, such as volcanoes, Antarctica, and a view of the earth from a satellite.

Eventually robotic devices will be able to travel in the forests and oceans to track animals and birds, and go into the burrows of gophers and squirrels, thereby providing us with images that we would never be able to see as a tourist.

Other documents point out that many of the people, possibly most of them, who are traveling around the world today have little or no interest in learning about the areas that they are traveling to. They are traveling for some other reason, such as they are bored, lonely, or suffering from low self-esteem or a mental illness. They are hoping that traveling will provide them with some excitement, or increase their status level, or help them find a friend or spouse. They are wasting their time and society's resources. Some of them are also rude to the people who live in the cities that they travel to.

The Tourism Ministry must be serious about traveling, such as by pointing out the difficulty and time-consuming aspects of traveling, and the potential problems of diseases, insects, and bad weather.

The Tourism Minister is responsible for experimenting with policies on tourism. Since a person who wants to travel requires resources, the Tourism Minister must ration the resources in some manner. One possibility is to give everybody a certain amount of "travel credit", and each person can determine how they want to use their credit.

For example, a person who wants to make a trip to a city, beach, vacation resort, or forest that he can get to within a few hours by train, he would not need as much resources compared to a person who wants to travel to the other side of the planet, so he would be able to make more of those short distance trips. By making the trains controlled by computers rather than people, those trips would be even less of a burden.

Another option is allowing people who want to do a lot of traveling to get additional travel credits by doing additional chores for the city.

This Ministry is also responsible for managing tourists from other cities, and they have the authority to evict a tourist for bad behavior. They do not have to justify evicting a tourist. Evicting a tourist does not hurt him because he has a home to return to, so the Tourism Ministry is permitted to evict a tourist without any trial or explanation.

The reason they should not have to justify evicting a tourist is because it would be a waste of time to get into arguments with tourists, the government officials of other cities, and with the friends and relatives of the tourists. Nobody needs to be a tourist, so nobody is harmed if they are evicted. Nobody has the right to be a tourist, either. Tourism is a privilege, not a freedom or a right.

There are many sections of this constitution that point out that a person cannot provide us with useful guidance if he cannot understand that humans are apes. For a new example of this concept, consider the issue of dreams.

A person who doesn't understand that we are animals could interpret dreams as being something magical, or having some significance to our lives. He might even assume that we are traveling into a different universe when we are dreaming, or that dreams can predict the future.

By comparison, a person who realizes that we are apes will realize that we inherited the desire to sleep from our ape ancestors, and those apes inherited it from their ancestors, and so on. He will wonder how the sleeping habits of apes and humans has changed, and how it changed between apes and their ancestors.

Since humans dream during our sleep, that means we inherited the act of dreaming from our ape ancestors. It is unlikely that dreaming developed only in humans because almost everything about the human mind and body is just a trivial modification of an ape.

Therefore, he will wonder what the difference is between the dreams of an ape and a human, and he will suspect that cats, dogs, and other animals also dream, and he will suspect that hibernating bears and turtles are also dreaming.

There is no law in the universe that requires animals to sleep or hibernate. Sleeping and hibernating seem to have developed simply to allow a animal to get through cold and undesirable periods of time.

Animals do not have to sleep or hibernate, but there is no benefit for most animals, especially those that live on land, to remain awake 24 hours a day. It is more sensible for animals to adapt to either the day or the night, and sleep during the other portion. Also, when an animal has enough food and water, there is nothing for him to do, so it makes sense for him to sit down and take a nap.

While we are sleeping, our body and mind are still functioning, and it's possible that some beneficial things are happening as we sleep, such as muscles that are healing, and digestive systems that are processing food. However, nothing that happens is magical. Our mind is not traveling to a different universe, and it is not doing any "housework" that could not be done while we are awake.

Furthermore, we have a tendency to forget dreams within seconds of waking up, and that is an indication that we evolved to forget the dreams, which in turn is an indication that dreams are so nonsensical that the people who survived the brutal competition for life were those that could not remember their dreams. The people who remembered their dreams were filling their memories with nonsensical thoughts and images.

The most likely explanation for why we have dreams is that our mind is simply in a idle state, and although our mind might do some useful things as we sleep, the dreams are meaningless and irrational.

Since everybody is has unique mental characteristics, some people might be more likely to dream about problems that they are trying to solve, and occasionally they might remember a dream that has a solution to one of their problems, but that is not magic. That is simply what happens when we think about issues.

It is also possible that as we are sleeping, or in a semi-sleep state, some of our emotions become suppressed, such as our fear of the unknown, and that might allow some of us to consider thoughts that we would resist thinking about when we were awake, thereby making it appear that our dreams are more creative than our daytime thoughts.

I and some other people have noticed that it often productive to think about problems while we are waking up in the morning and lying in bed. This could be because we are relaxed, don't have any distractions, and our blood has been refreshed from hours of processing, but it's also possible that when we are in a semi-sleep state, our mind has less quality control, thereby producing more "wild" thoughts, which in turn can make us slightly more creative.

Rather than treat dreams as something magical, it would be more beneficial to analyze the differences in our sleeping habits and dreams. For example, my dreams are in color, but is that true for everybody?

A more interesting aspect of dreams is that I can visualize images in detail and in color, but when I am awake, I cannot visualize anything. Somehow I can manipulate 3D objects in my mind while I am awake, but I can't see them.

My guess as to what is happening is that the portion of my brain that visualizes images is available to me when I am dreaming, but when I am awake, it is the portion that we refer to as our unconscious mind, and I cannot control it, or even see the images clearly.

When I visualize 3D objects moving around, such as people walking, or pistons going up and down in an engine, the images are so dark and grainy that it reminds me of the static on the televisions of the 1960s. The images below show the difference between what I see in my dreams and what I can visualize when I am awake.


My dreams are like color videos.		When I am awake, I can barely see the images.

My inability to see images clearly when I am awake makes me wonder if some of the people who are talented at creating sculptures and paintings have better access to the portion of the brain that visualizes things. Our ability to visualize colors and objects must have a significant effect on which jobs we are good at, and which subjects we are the best at during school.

Because we are arrogant, each of us assumes that our mind is better than everybody else's mind, but if we had the ability to connect our brain to the brains of other people, we would discover that there are lots of subtle differences in our intellectual abilities, emotional feelings, memories, and ability to manipulate objects within our mind.

We might discover that people like Michelangelo have exceptional abilities to visualize three-dimensional scenes or color images. We might discover that some people have exceptional abilities to manipulate 3D objects, and others have incredible abilities to analyze sounds and music.

Since nature is no longer putting us through a deadly battle for life, it is up to us to pass judgment on whose mental characteristics are appropriate. This includes restricting reproduction to the people who have an easier time sleeping, spend less time sleeping, and don't remember their dreams. If we do not pass judgment on whose sleeping habits are appropriate, then every generation will have more defective sleeping habits.

We cannot trust anything our government tells us, but the survey they conducted in 2020 about sleeping habits showed that 14.5% of the adults have trouble falling asleep and 17.8% of adults have trouble remaining asleep. Their survey of sleeping drugs in 2020 showed that 8.4% of the adults were using sleeping pills.

If the future generations don't restrict reproduction to the people with better sleeping habits, everybody will eventually have trouble sleeping.

Dreaming while awake

There is a more important reason that I wanted to bring up the issue of dreams and sleep. I briefly mentioned in some previous documents, here and here, that when I was a teenager I often felt as if I was in a semi-dream state. I did not provide much detail about that problem, so I will give an example of how it resulted in me doing and saying stupid things.

Sometime in high school, perhaps when I was 14 or 15 years old, I and some other boy decided to take a walk during lunch into the vacant area behind the school, which was wild chaparral with a few oak trees. We came across a small rectangular area that somebody had been digging, and there was perhaps three sea shells that he had been digging around to expose. Each shell was on a pillar of dirt. I thought those seashells were interesting, so I stepped on the pillars and smashed them.

On one of the following days, I heard people complaining that somebody vandalized the archaeological site that some of the students were excavating as practice. It then occurred to me that I vandalized an archaeological site. Although the shells had no archaeological significance, it was an idiotic and cruel thing to do.

At the time I did that, I had no concept that I was vandalizing something of importance to some of the other students. My behavior was similar to a young boy who encounters a puddle of mud, and steps in it to splatter the mud, without any awareness of how he is going to splatter mud on himself, and every thing and person who is nearby.

If they had put some type of boundary around the site, such as a rope on some wooden stakes, then I might have realized that I should leave it alone, but I don't remember anything around it.

This brings me to another interesting aspect of this issue. Specifically, if I had been caught vandalizing the site, and was asked to explain why I did it, I would not have been able to give a reason. All I would have been able to say is something like, "I don't know. It seemed amusing at the time." That type of response would cause most people to assume that I was either mentally ill, or lying about why I did it.

There have been a lot of people besides me who have done or said something idiotic, or committed crimes, and could not provide a sensible explanation for why. The people who refuse to believe that humans are apes cannot explain this type of behavior.

When I was in one of those dreamlike states, and if I had not masturbated for a few weeks, I would sometimes start thinking about women and sex. The thyroid hormones stop that problem, also, so perhaps some of the people who have trouble controlling their sexual cravings are suffering from some type of physical or mental problem, rather than suffering from an abnormally intense craving for sex.

The thyroid hormones also made masturbation more satisfying, so some of the people who are not enjoying sex or masturbation might also be suffering from a physical or mental disorder, rather than suffering from an inability to enjoy it.

Understanding human behavior requires acknowledging that humans are apes, and that our brain is a biological computer. When our body cannot provide appropriate chemicals to our brain, or when the design of the brain is inappropriate, our brain will produce irrational thoughts.

In my case, the problems stopped when I began taking thyroid hormones. It seems that thyroid hormones have a significant effect on almost every aspect of our behavior, perhaps because those hormones control energy production, and everything in our body needs energy.

However, there might be hundreds of other genetic and environmental factors that affect our energy production and thoughts. We will never know what is causing strange behavior, or how to keep us in optimum health, until we eliminate secrecy and study ourselves.