We must pass judgment on who
has a higher quality mind
A free enterprise system
does not have leadership, but
the more money a person has, the more influence
he has
over the economy. Likewise, a democracy does not have
leadership, but the more popular a person is with the public, the more
influence he has over the nation.
There is no concern in a free enterprise system for how a person gets
his money, and there is no concern in a democracy for why a person is
popular. There are no standards for anybody to meet in order to become
influential. The end result is that both of those systems favor the
people who are selfish, anti-social, deceptive, and willing to join
crime networks. It also favors the people who are more interested in
material wealth and status than human relationships and society.
To improve our leadership, this Constitution requires the Behavior
Ministry to pass judgment on the characteristics of everybody's mind,
and for the Database Ministry to maintain a social credit system. The
only people permitted to get into influential positions are
those who have been judged to have above-average mental
characteristics, and are considered to be one of the City Elders.
The problem with this concept is that each person has a different idea
on who has a higher quality mind. For example, some people regard the
Pope as one of the
highest quality people, whereas other people regard Sigmund Freud, Carl
Marx, or Lady Gaga as high quality people.
Although passing judgment on who among us should be considered "high
quality" will create a lot of arguments and emotional trauma, it is
better for us to make that decision than to do what is happening in the
world today, which is allowing people to become influential simply
because they have lots of money, or because they are admired by the
public.
Furthermore, the existing cultures allow organizations to promote
people as high-quality people by giving them awards, such as Nobel
prizes; the Academy Awards, and the awards given by the ADL, such as
the Courage
to Care award, the Helene
and Joseph Sherwood Prize for Combating Hate, and the SHIELD
Awards. By allowing organizations to give people awards, we allow
selfish and dishonest organizations to manipulate and deceive people
about who they should look to for advice.
Every society passes judgment on
people
The document about Social Credit Systems
points out that every person, organization, and nation has always had
an informal social credit system. Likewise, every person, organization,
and nation routinely passes judgment on the quality of other people's
minds.
For example, when we meet a person, we pass judgment on their
intelligence, education, clothing, honesty, hair, manners, voice, odor,
and other
characteristics. Businesses pass judgment on the
mental and physical characteristics of the job applicants.
Parents pass judgment on the
mental and physical characteristics of their children, and they also
pass judgment on how those characteristics change as the children grow
older. Parents use those analyses to determine whether their children
are developing properly, and to determine when the child is ready to
help with certain chores around the
house, or to learn how to ride a bicycle.
Judging a person's mind is a
formal activity
This constitution treats
the judging of a person's mental and physical characteristics to be as
necessary as passing judgment on the characteristics of a bicycle,
drone, or refrigerator.
However, unlike existing cultures, which allow every person and
organization to make judgments secretly and anonymously, the people who
contribute information about a person to the People
database must identify themselves and be held accountable for their
information. This allows us to pass judgment on the accuracy and
honesty of the information that people have provided about us.
We cannot expect anybody to
create "perfect" analyses of us, but we can pass judgment on who is
creating the most intelligent and least biased analyses.
The Behavior Ministry is the only group of people who are permitted to
publicly pass judgment on whose minds are higher quality. Every citizen
will always pass judgment on other people, but they must keep their
analyses to themselves and their friends. None of the citizens,
businesses, or or other ministries are allowed to promote some people
as superior, or criticize others as inferior.
If a citizen wants to make a public statement about somebody's mind or
behavior, he must post a document in the Suggestions category. In that
case, his document is expected to be a serious analysis
that is intended to help society, as opposed to the biased, deceptive,
and manipulative remarks that citizens and organizations are making
today.
For example, the American and European culture allows the ADL to give
awards to the people they want to promote as
superior people, and condemn their critics as anti-Semites, Nazis,
white supremacists,
or Holocaust deniers.
Likewise, Journalists are free to create documents that criticize
people's clothing choices;
the Norwegian Nobel Committee is free to
give awards to the scientists that they want to promote as superior
scientists; and the entertainment businesses are free to have thousands
of award ceremonies every year to promote certain people as superior.
This Constitution prohibits
organizations from creating awards, and from promoting people as
superior or inferior. The Behavior Ministry is the only group that can
make public accusations of inferiority or superiority, and they must
provide documentation for their decisions so
that they can be held accountable for them.
This makes the judging of a person a formal and serious activity,
similar to how Consumer Reports passes judgment on the value of washing
machines or bicycles.
Furthermore, nobody is permitted to publicly promote an activity as
superior, or condemn an activity for being stupid. An example mentioned
here
is that the organization that creates rules for soccer claims that
soccer is the "greatest sport".
Nobody is permitted to claim that
certain foods as better than other foods, either, or that certain foods
are stupid or bad tasting. Nobody can claim certain television programs
are the best, or criticize programs as being stupid or disgusting.
Everybody has preferences, and so each person is free to pass judgment
on which activity, television program, clothing style, and food they
consider to be the best or worst, but nobody is free to claim that
their opinions are superior to other people's opinions, and nobody is
free to push their opinions on
other people.
Everybody must realize that what they consider to be the best and worst
is their personal opinion, and only for that moment in time. Years later
they might change what they consider to be the best or worst.
When we push our particular opinions about the best or worst on other
people, we encourage fights and bad attitudes. Furthermore, the
attitude that certain things are "the best" discourages us from
enjoying
the wide variety of pleasures in
life. ( I made a video
about that concept.)
Our social environment
will be more pleasant if we control our arrogance.
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We benefit when we discuss
issues with each other, but not
when we arrogantly push our
opinions on other people, and especially not when we try to hurt other people by insulting them
or their activities.
The Leisure, Social Clubs, and some other ministries will pass judgment
on which social activities, holiday celebrations, and recreational
activities are acceptable, and which are prohibited, but they must have
reasons for their decisions.
They experiment with activities, and they make
decisions according to the effect
that the activities have on our
attitudes and life, not
according to what they personally like.
We judge people when we hire them for jobs
When a business needs to
hire a plumber, carpenter, scientist, engineer, or nurse, they pass
judgment on the mental and physical characteristics of the job
candidates. This constitution treats the government officials as city employees, and we must pass
judgment on their mental and physical characteristics just as if they
were applying for a job as a technician or a farmer.
Every culture has set high standards for certain jobs, such as
pilots and doctors, but no culture has set high standards for voters,
government officials, journalists, religious
leaders, or the leaders of think tanks, charities, hospitals,
universities, or schools.
For example, the people who create and manage school systems do not
have to meet any qualifications. This allows religious fanatics to
create thousands
of variations of religious schools, and it allows other, anti-evolution
people to create a variety of school courses about the human mind being
like a piece of clay, and that white people have white privilege.
Likewise, the people who write school books do not have to meet high
standards, and this results in books that are full of nonsensical
theories about human behavior, and lots of Zionist propaganda about the
Holocaust, Nazis, and other historical issues.
We must judge people in order to fire them
We must be generous in
giving people job opportunities so that they can test their skills, but
this policy requires that we fire a lot of
people. This requires judging a person's job performance, and it
requires everybody be able to remain calm as a result of being judged
and being fired.
Everybody today must be able to acknowledge the fact that each of us
has slightly different physical and mental abilities, and
that all of us will be mediocre or below-average in certain jobs. We
are so arrogant that we like to believe that we would be above-average
in every job, but if we lived long enough to be hired for every job, we
would get fired from many of them.
It is fairly easy for us to determine whether a person working on an
assembly line should be fired because it's easy to determine whether he
is capable of doing his job properly. However, the people in leadership
positions are much more difficult to judge because they do not do
anything tangible, so determining which of them is the most useful, and
which should be fired, requires analyzing the effect that they have on
other people and society, and trying to figure out which of them has
the most beneficial or detrimental effect.
We must judge people by their effect on us
In a free enterprise
system, the people are judged according to their
ability to make profit, so an engineer will be considered successful if
he can develop products that are profitable, even if they are shoddy,
worthless, or as idiotic as an Ouija board.
Likewise, a manager will be considered successful if he creates
advertisements that manipulate children into desiring the particular
candy bars or toys that his company sells.
With this
Constitution, a person in a leadership position is considered
successful in his job only if he
can do something that is beneficial
to society, such as improving people's attitudes or education,
or improving a product, a swimming pool, or the city's transportation
system.
The dilemma that this policy creates is the same as that mentioned
earlier; specifically, each person has a different idea on what is an
"improvement". To some people, we improve a city park by decorating it
with "modern art", and we improve the lives of the people when we
permit the " neglected
population" of "minor-attracted persons" to satisfy their sexual
cravings.
This Constitution requires the voters and other government officials to
use the City Elders as guidelines to determine what is an
"improvement". If we can provide ourselves with appropriate voters and
City Elders, then we will create a city in which the engineers,
technicians, teachers, farmers, and other people are competing to find
improvements that we appreciate.
Standards for
presidential candidates
The voters are responsible
for setting standards for the presidential candidates, but after they
have been set, the voters are expected to occasionally review the
standards to determine whether they can improve them. It is foolish to
assume that we can create such perfect standards that never need
improvement.
This constitution starts the process by specifying the following
three standards:
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have been
successful as leaders
The candidates for president must have had above-average success in
some type of leadership job. The
voters should not assume that a man who was an ineffective leader of a business,
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Must
treat people
like a drill sergeant
The presidents are supposed to do what is best for society, not pander
to any particular citizen or group of people. This requires presidents
who have the emotional ability to resist becoming intimidated by the
complaints and whining of people and organizations. They need the
attitude of a drill
sergeant, not the attitude of a submissive representative or retail
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Must have produced intelligent analyses
The presidents are responsible for analyzing people and cultural
issues, and
experimenting with culture, so the only men who should qualify as a
presidential candidate are those who have demonstrated an above-average
ability to produce intelligent analyses about some type of cultural
issue, such as in an analysis of a government official, historical
event, recreational activity, holiday celebration, or work environment.
A man must be older than 50 in order to be a president, so that gives
the men plenty of time to produce at least one
intelligent analysis of some cultural issue.
Every man, and every woman and child, is free to produce
analyses of any cultural issue they please, and
whenever they please, just as everybody has the freedom to produce
intelligent scientific and mathematical analyses; create new
inventions; find an improvement to a product; or provide an intelligent
analysis of a historical event. Everybody is encouraged to post their
suggestions and analyses in the Suggestions
category.
Nobody can use the excuse that they have been prevented from doing
something intelligent because of sexism, racism, ageism, or lack of
opportunities.
The men who do not take the opportunity to do provide an
intelligent analysis of some cultural issue should be assumed to
be lacking
the ability or desire to do so, in which case they should be regarded
as unacceptable as a
president. We should not assume
that a man who has never shown an interest in analyzing some aspect of
human societies will
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Elections are every five years
The voters are required to
elect the presidents every five years. They can reelect a president, or
replace him.
Since the presidents must be between 50 and 65 years old, and they must
retire at age 70, they can only
be president for a maximum of 20 years, so there is no need to be
concerned about a president remaining in office throughout his entire
life.
The worst presidents must be
regularly replaced
The voters observe and pass
judgment on the presidents, and they are required to routinely replace
the
worst performing president. They have the authority to replace any of
the presidents whenever
they please. They do not have to wait for a scheduled election. If they
replace a president before the five-year election, then the next
five-year period starts from that point.
The purpose of this requirement is to force the voters to give other
people a
chance to try their abilities as president.
Scheduled elections should not be
needed
The executives of
businesses do not hire their lower level managers on a
schedule because they have the initiative to occasionally review the
performance of their managers, and replace a manager whenever they feel
it is
beneficial to the organization. Ideally, the voters would have the same
initiative and attitude. In such a case, they would not need scheduled
elections.
The ideal situation is for the Voters
Ministry to restrict voting to the people who have the same initiative
as business executives. That would give us voters who routinely
analyze the presidents, and routinely replace those that are inferior,
without
any need for scheduled elections.
Scheduled elections are necessary
when the majority
of people are allowed to vote because most people do
not have the initiative to replace or select government
officials.
The scheduled elections might be useful when the voters have
selected presidents that are so equal in their abilities that none of
the voters can decide which of them should be
replaced. In that case, they are forced to replace one of them, and
give somebody else a chance to test his abilities.
Presidents are judged
by their effect
The voters must
judge a president according to his effect on
the lives of the people, rather than his popularity with the public or other
government officials. The reason is because a leader is supposed to provide
guidance, not be our spouse, friend, lover, or emotional
support person.
In order for the voters to judge the effect the president has, they
must spend enough time analyzing the behavior of the citizens and
culture that they can notice subtle changes as the presidents are
replaced. The voters must have a good understanding of what is going on
in the city, which is another reason why voting is a full-time job
rather than a brief leisure activity.
One of the lessons that we should learn from our history is that the
people in influential positions have a significant effect on our
attitudes, goals, and behavior. For example, in the USA, the people in
influential positions are suppressing discussions about the differences
between men and women and between different races, and they manipulate
and intimidate people with such accusations as racism, anti-Semitism,
sexism,
climate change denial, and Holocaust denial. One of the more recent
of their idiotic accusations is Election
Denial.
They also encourage the showing off of material items; the belief that
scarce foods, such as caviar, are "delicacies"; the attitude that our
lives will improve if we have servants to pamper us like babies; and
the attitude that we need a mansion, private jet, and yacht in order to
fully enjoy life.
Our leaders should encourage beneficial behavior and attitudes, but the
current world leaders are encouraging idiotic and detrimental behavior.
Presidents are also be judged
by
their efficiency
The voters must pass
judgment on which of the presidents have an
excessive number of employees, or use excessive amounts of resources.
As mentioned many times, when humans and other animals are not under
any type of competitive pressure, they become arrogant, lazy, spoiled
brats. Therefore, the voters must put the government officials under
pressure to be efficient and beneficial. The voters must take an active
role in ensuring that the government is not becoming excessively large,
or using excessive amounts of resources.
The presidents cannot
operate in secrecy, so the voters and everybody else can find out
exactly what they are
doing. Everything that the government does is public knowledge, so the
voters can easily produce reports to show them the number of employees
in a ministry; what
their working days and hours are; what each employee is doing; and how
much electricity, water, and other resources the ministry is
using.
US government agencies and corporations provide financial information
about their operation, but it is often deceptive. Some of the deceptive
information is referred to as " creative
accounting", or " unethical
accounting," and some of it is so abusive
that it is classified an "accounting scandal".
This deception is another example of how democracies and free
enterprise systems allow people to play a "cat and mouse game". In
order to reduce this problem, the voters must be intolerant of bad behavior.
The voters must be as strict as what we expect of military leaders.
Presidents that are deceptive about their work must be regarded as
potential dangers. The voters must replace them, and add a remark in
their entry of the People
database that they are prohibited from other influential positions.
Voters must be intolerant of failure
All of the existing
government officials are regularly failing to solve
problems, but most voters don't show any concern. For example,
government officials are frequently promising to reduce taxes and the
size of the government, but they never do either. Most voters complain
about the failures, but they don't have the initiative or ability
to do anything about it.
In order to reduce this absurd problem of government officials who
repeatedly fail at their tasks, this Constitution requires voting to
be
restricted to the men who will not
tolerate failure. The voters should
have no pity
for presidents who fail, and they should not tolerate
excuses, such as officials who blame the problem on other
officials, or on foreign nations.
When a president fails to solve a problem, the voters should
have the initiative to investigate him and the problem. They
should then pass judgment on whether:
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The
president failed because of his
mental limitations.
If the voters believe that it is possible to reduce or solve the
problem, and
that the
president failed because he doesn't have the mental characteristics
to succeed, then they should
look at his history to see if he has been failing more than the other
presidents, in which case they should replace
him so that
somebody else can test his abilities to deal with such problems.
For example, in the USA, the government officials are unable to enforce
the do-not-call list, and it is
possible to reduce that problem because we have
the
technology to identify the telemarketers who violate that law.
Therefore, those government officials should be considered as failures, and they should be
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The
problem is beyond our abilities.
If the voters determine that the problem is beyond our abilities, then
they should consider whether the president should have realized that at
some point in time, and stopped wasting labor and resources trying to
solve the problem.
For example, if a president supports a program to develop fusion
reactors
that has failed to achieved any significant progress for 50 years, the
voters must
investigate to determine whether the goal is beyond our current level
of technology, and, if so, whether the president should have realized
that, and either suspended or terminated the program.
The voters should not ignore or tolerate presidents who waste labor and
resources on projects that never accomplish
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