Nobody has the right
to alter
culture
The democracies and free
enterprise systems allow individuals and organizations to alter
culture, such as
modifying holiday celebrations, creating new sports, or creating a new
type of religion.
This allows citizens, businesses, religions, Zionist groups, and other
organizations to manipulate our culture about food, jewelry, tattoos,
cosmetics, clothing, recreational activities, vacations, music, and any
other aspect of our culture that they are interested in profiting from
or altering.
Furthermore, everybody is free to modify culture
without justifying what they do, or being held accountable for any
problems that they cause.
This allows citizens and organizations to create contests for idiotic
world records, dangerous
sports, or emotionally unpleasant activities, such as MrBeast's challenge
to spend
100 days with a stranger in a small room.
If somebody decides to justify their cultural changes, they can use idiotic reasoning. For example, the
author of this
article has the title, How
to convince people to eat insects, and she justifies switching
to insects with such meaningless reasons as "to lighten environmental
footprints" and to produce less greenhouse gases.
She points out that "two billion people eat insects—primarily in parts
of Africa, Latin America, and Asia", but that is as stupid as telling
us that billions of people believe in the Bible, Koran, or some other
religious document, so we should do the same.
This constitution does not give
anybody the right or the freedom to
manipulate culture. Our culture is regarded as extremely valuable
"human software" that has a significant
effect on our attitudes, beliefs, goals, and behavior. Only the
government can change it, and the Social Division is in control of most
of it.
Furthermore, the government must justify their changes by showing that
it provides society
with benefits that outweigh the disadvantages. They must post a
document in the appropriate database category to explain their changes
so that we can pass judgment on whether they are providing us with
appropriate guidance. The government
cannot change culture simply to appease themselves, other people, or an
organization.
Denying people the freedom to alter culture is "oppressive", but it
provides us with other freedoms that are much more
beneficial. For example, we will be free of the people and
organizations that try
to manipulate us, such
as the charities, think tanks, religions, sports groups, political
groups, and businesses
that push us into becoming vegans, eating crickets, changing our
holiday celebrations, or using different pronouns.
Most people believe that our lives
will improve as we get more freedom, but freedom is a complex concept.
Some freedoms are detrimental,
and as a result, restricting those freedoms can provide us with
benefits that outweigh the disadvantages.
For example,
we benefit tremendously by refusing to provide people with the freedom
to drive
automobiles in whatever manner we please, and requiring everybody to
follow traffic laws. Another example is that by denying people the
freedom to pee and poop
wherever they please, we benefit by creating a city that is more
pleasant.
Businesses cannot alter culture
In a free enterprise
system, many businesses provide their employees with facilities for
recreation, and some have daycare facilities for mothers with young
children. Some businesses arrange for their employees to get involved
with company
teams that compete with one another, or with the teams of other
businesses. There are also businesses that get involved with the
recreational activities of people outside of their business in order to
advertise their business.
Although this constitution gives the executives some freedom to
experiment with their work environment, they cannot create recreational
facilities, day care centers, or anything else in the city. All of the
city structures and facilities are under the control of the government,
mainly the Neighborhoods Ministry.
The office buildings and factories are arranged in neighborhoods, and
every neighborhood has its own recreational facilities, restaurants,
daycare centers, medical facilities, and/or whatever else the
neighborhoods ministry has authorized. The executives don't have to
deal with the issues of designing, financing, building, or maintaining
any of those facilities.
A business is created for a specific purpose, such as to manufacture a
product or research a particular issue, and its executive fulfills that
purpose. His employees have free access to all of the recreational and
other facilities in the city.
The government controls all of the recreational and social activities
and facilities. For example, the leisure ministry determines what sort
of leisure activities are available, and the Social Clubs Minister
determines what type of facilities, equipment, and activities are
available for the social clubs.
If an executive or an employee wants to create a new recreational
event, then he must post a document in the Suggestions category to
request it. Businesses do not have the right or freedom to modify our
culture.
Nobody has the right to create organizations
No citizen or organization
has the right or the
freedom to
create social or recreational organizations, such as bird watching
groups, exercise organizations (such as yoga classes or CrossFit gyms),
self-help groups, sports events, churches, religious activities, dock jumping
contests, think tanks, rabbit agility
classes, charities, research laboratories, and counseling services.
People are
allowed to get together with their friends
to do things, but they do not have the
freedom to create an organization.
There is no dividing line between "friends getting together on
a routine basis to do something", and "a person who has created an
organization", but the ministers must pass judgment on when
people
have crossed that line. If a minister believes somebody has crossed the
line, he can request an intellectual trial.
Everybody in the city is regarded as a member of one, large team.
Nobody is allowed to take a group of those people and create his own
team. Only the government can create organizations.
Although this concept is bizarre for a democracy, it is common practice
among militaries and businesses. Businesses allows their employees to
get together at lunch to do things, but they don't allow an employee to
create his own organization within the business with some of the
employees. For example, an employee cannot organize some of the
employees into a church, bakery, or sports club that he operates inside
the business.
The ministers determines whether an organization is allowed to
exist, and they are
required to make that determination according to the effect the
organization has on society. They
must be able to show that the organization provides more benefits than
disadvantages.
By denying the citizens the freedom to create organizations,
and by requiring all organizations be beneficial to the city, we
become free of the harassment and manipulation of
selfish and stupid citizens and organizations.
There will not be any
charities, think tanks, religions, or sports groups to push us into
accepting their particular ideas about culture. There will
be
no organization analogous to
PETA that promotes veganism, or the IPIFF
which promotes the eating of insects. Even though olive oil might be
healthy, there
will no North American
Olive Oil Association to promote olive oil.
There will not be any
organizations promoting wine, beer, marijuana, gold, diamonds, or a
particular
holiday celebration. No organization
will be able to claim that their particular food product is the best
tasting, or the most healthy. No organization will be able to titillate
people with sexual pornography, wedding pornography, or travel
pornography.
The people who want to create an organization or alter culture must
produce a document to describe their ideas, and post it in the Suggestions
category. Then they have to hope that one of the ministers in the
Social Division approves of his suggestion and decides to experiment
with it.
All changes to culture need a “culture performance review”
The ministers are required
to give a “performance review” to the products
and laws
that they authorize, and they must also give a performance review to
the changes they make to culture, such as the recreational activities,
clothing styles, and holiday celebrations that they create, terminate,
or modify.
For example, if a minister authorized the " Walk a Mile in Her Shoes"
activity, he would be required to analyze its effect on society and
pass judgment on whether it has truly been beneficial, and if not, it
must be modified or terminated.
The event was proposed
in 2001 by Frank Baird, and
its purpose is to stop rape, sexual assault, and gender violence, but
how many women have benefited as a result of those men walking for a
mile in red, high-heeled shoes? And what was the benefit? What were the
disadvantages? Did the number of rapes decrease as a result of that
event?
Even if the event has benefits that outweigh the disadvantages, that
does not justify it. The reason is because there may be other events
that would be even more beneficial, or there may be a way of modifying
the event to
improve it in some manner.
Frank Baird is also involved with helping white people to " overcome the legacy of white
supremacy in America." He and the other people who are trying to
stop white supremacy and white privilege have no obligation to verify
that the cultural changes that they promote are beneficial. They are
taking the role of a leader of culture,
but they are not held
accountable for anything they do.
To improve upon this situation, this constitution prohibits citizens from creating or
modifying culture. If a citizen wants to create a
"Walk a Mile in Her Shoes" event, or if he wants to help us overcome
the legacy of white supremacy, he must post a document in
the Suggestions
category to explain his idea, and hope that one of the ministers is
willing to experiment with it.
If a minister approves of the idea, he is held accountable for his
decision, so if the idea turns out to be
worthless or detrimental, he will have that failure listed in his
database entry, which will hurt his reputation and increase the
chances that he is fired.
To reduce the damage to their reputation, the ministers should fix
their mistakes before other
people complain about them. This requires that the ministers regularly
review the effect that their policies are having on society, and
quickly fix the problems.
Citizens are encouraged to analyze all of the government policies, and
if they think of a way to improve a policy, or if they believe a policy
should be terminated or altered, they can post a
"culture performance review" in the Suggestions
category, and they will get credit for identifying culture that should
be improved or terminated.
Nobody has the right to be
deceptive or
manipulative
Democracies and free
enterprise systems provide everybody with the freedom to manipulate
other people, and they can be deceptive.
For example, businesses that
sell travel trips are allowed to deceive people with photographs in
which the colors have been enhanced.
For a new example, this
business in Australia rents yachts, and their website claims that they
allow us to " experience
the adventure of a
lifetime, exploring paradise with the freedom only boating can offer."
However, it is deceptive to describe that area as "paradise" because
all areas of the earth can be described as equally beautiful, other
than some of the areas that have been destroyed by humans.
Furthermore, they claim that we will enjoy exploring the islands in the
area,
and one of their photos ( to the right) shows a woman
climbing a steep hill in flip-flop
sandals, which is unrealistic for exploring steep slopes and
wild land that does not have well-maintained paths.
The businesses that promote travel, and the citizens who boast about
traveling, are deceiving
people into believing that traveling will make
our life more exciting.
In reality, there is no particular leisure activity that we need to do
to have a pleasant life. To some of us, walking around a botanical
garden with friends is more pleasant than being shaken around on a
little boat in the ocean.
The people and organizations that deceive us
into desiring a particular
activity, clothing item, wedding ceremony, recreational activity,
material item, or travel trip are causing us to develop unrealistic
expectations of life and
activities, and develop idiotic or detrimental goals and attitudes.
To improve upon the situation, organizations are prohibited from
promoting themselves and their activities, products, or services. They
cannot advertise in any manner, or have logos. Furthermore, the
ministers must occasionally review the organizations that they create,
and ensure that they are beneficial to the city. If a minister notices
that one of his organizations is having a detrimental effect on the
people of the city, he must fix the situation by altering or
terminating the organization, or replacing its executive.
The social division cannot manufacture items
The social division is
responsible for designing
bicycle paths, swimming
pools, clothing items, and other tangible items, but they cannot manufacture
items. They are not permitted to have their own
manufacturing equipment or factories. They are in a role similar to
that of architects and engineers who design items,
but must ask the Economic division to manufacture the items.
For example, the social division has the authority to design a water
fountain for a
city park, but they don't have the authority to manufacture or install
the
fountain. They must post their request for the fountain in the Requests
category, and hope the
Economic division approves of it.
As described here,
by separating the manufacturing of items from the design of the items,
the divisions will provide some checks and balances on one another.
We
must use our intelligence
to design culture
Our culture has been
evolving to fit our emotions. For
example:
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We created some
leisure activities, such as boxing, fencing, martial arts, and combat reenactments,
to satisfy our cravings to
fight with the
neighbors.
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Some leisure
activities are designed to allow us to satisfy our craving
for status, such as the contests that allow the winner
to stand on a podium and receive praise, a trophy, and a prize.
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The custom of
putting nail polish on women's fingernails and
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By designing our culture to titillate our emotional cravings, we enjoy
the culture, but our emotions are no longer appropriate for our modern
era, so we end up with inappropriate culture.
The ministers are required to design culture according to intellectual
reasoning, and that requires that they understand that it is sometimes
more desirable to " suffer" with
some emotionally unpleasant culture than to titillate ourselves. This
requires ensuring that none of the ministers believe that we must
follow the
Marquis de Sade philosophy of doing whatever is the most emotionally
pleasing.
We don't know what we like
The Leisure, Courtship,
Social Clubs, Events, and Children Minister have the authority and
responsibility to experiment with activities for the city. Their goal
is to create activities that are beneficial, but which we also enjoy
enough to want
to do them. The city should offer so many enjoyable activities that
nobody gets bored.
The problem with creating activities that we enjoy is that none of us
knows what we truly enjoy. We sometimes assume that we enjoy something
because other people are doing them, or because we don't know of
anything else.
For example, a lot of people claim to enjoy the game of golf, but it is
doubtful if anybody actually enjoys the "game". It is more likely that
they enjoy something else about it, such as socializing with their
friends, competing with their friends, getting out
into nature, or getting some exercise.
When a person makes the mistake of assuming that he enjoys the game of
golf, he is likely to foolishly waste a lot of his time and resources
on
the game, such as taking golf
lessons, repeatedly replacing his golf equipment with "better"
equipment, and practicing
the game. He it is also likely to
torment himself when he loses
the game.
By comparison, when we realize that we like the game
because we enjoy the people, competition, nature, and physical
activity, then we will realize that we can adjust the game to be more
sensible, and we can refrain from doing idiotic and wasteful things,
such as practicing the game, feeling badly about losing, and wasting
technical talent and resources
on developing "better" golf balls and golf clubs. We will also realize
that we can eliminate the emphasis on winning, and that we can
eliminate the trophies and prizes.
To make the situation more confusing, some people enjoy an activity
simply because it has developed a status value. For example, some, or
most, of the people who play or watch polo games and yacht races are
likely to be involved with those activities only because they want to
feel special. Those people are using the game to jerk themselves off by
repeatedly reminding themselves that they are special people for being
able to participate in, or observe, such
an "exclusive" activity.
Many wealthy people get involved with expensive activities, wear
expensive jewelry, and eat
expensive foods simply to feel special, not because those things truly
bring pleasure to human life. It is our
emotional
craving for status that fools us into believing that the wealthy people
have better activities, foods, and other things.
To add more confusion to the issue of which activities we enjoy, many
single women go to social and recreational activities that they have no
interest in for the sole purpose of finding a husband. Those
women are
detrimental to
themselves and to men because they can inadvertently deceive men into
believing that the enjoy those activities. That can result in a failed
relationship, which wastes a portion of their short and precious life.
We will form more stable and pleasant marriages if we get involved with
a
leisure or social activity only
if we enjoy it, rather than to find a
spouse.
In order to prevent this problem, the Social Division has a Courtship
Ministry to provide
the single people with courtship activities, and flirting is prohibited
in public areas and events.
The ministers must be restricted to people who realize that none of us
knows much about what we enjoy doing during our leisure time. They must
ignore what we claim to like and dislike. They must treat us in a
manner similar to how a farmer treats his animals. They must experiment with our activities in
order to figure out what is truly the most beneficial for us.
Furthermore, they must make these judgments according to what is
best for the City Elders, not according to the public, and especially
not the people with ADHD or other mental problems.
Example #1: April Fools' Day
The April Fools
custom has been in existence for so many centuries that nobody knows
how, when, or why it got started. No society has bothered to analyze it
to determine whether it is beneficial for us, or whether it should be
terminated or altered.
This constitution changes the situation by requiring the Events
Ministry to analyze our holidays, city festivals, music concerts,
weddings, birthday parties, and other events, and look for ways to make
them more beneficial and pleasurable. They are the only people
authorized to create, modify, and terminate events.
However, they must make their decisions according to what will be most
beneficial to the City Elders, not according to what the public wants,
and especially not to appease the people who are suffering from ADHD or
other mental disorders.
When the ministers make a decision, they have to provide an explanation
for it so that we can pass judgment on whether they are providing us
with intelligent analyses and guidance.
For example, this constitution recommends terminating April Fools' Day,
and the explanation is that it encourages wasteful, idiotic, obnoxious,
and
sometimes dangerous behavior, but there is no benefit for those jokes
and pranks to the people who are in good mental health.
It is especially detrimental to encourage
children to play pranks on one another because the children are more
likely to get involved with idiotic, wasteful, and dangerous pranks.
Some people justify April Fools' Day by claiming that it helps people
to get together and entertain one another, but there are more pleasant
and
productive ways for people to entertain themselves and socialize.
Example #2: The game of golf
Although a lot of people claim to enjoy playing golf, the game is
actually
very frustrating and irritating, even
to the professionals.
The main problem with the game is that it is extremely difficult and frustrating
to get a tiny ball into a tiny hole that is a long
distance away.
One minor problem with the game is that there are
14 different
types of clubs to choose from, which causes confusion, and causes
society to waste resources on clubs that nobody needs.
Another minor problem is that the people who play golf with several
golf clubs tend to carry them around in a golf bag, and to carry
several golf balls, and this burden can cause a lot of people to drive
an electric golf cart rather than walk, thereby
defeating one of the purposes of participating in a recreational
activity. The balls also fly so far that some of the elderly people
can't walk through the entire course, so they want electric carts.
Some people hire a servant
to carry the clubs, but this constitution discourages the jobs that put
people into the role of a peasant who is serving a king.
Another minor problem is that the sand traps are frustrating, and they
look like open wounds on a beautiful field of grass and trees.
The Leisure Minister has the authority and responsibility of
experimenting with recreational activities, so if he decides to
authorize
some type of golf game, he should experiment with it to make it more
beneficial and pleasurable, and less of a burden on society.
All of the leisure activities should be simple enough so that nobody
needs any significant training or practice. There is no benefit to
practicing a recreational activity because that develops a skill that
has no value to any of us, or to society. That type of skill is useful only for the people in a free
enterprise system who make money from it.
One way to simplify the game of golf is to make it use only one club.
Another method is to reduce the distance that the ball travels by
making the ball and/or club softer. That
will allow more people to use a
golf course at the same
time, thereby making much better use of the land.
It would also reduce
the problem of lost
balls, which is such a common problem at the Pebble Beach golf course
that I, my brothers, and my cousin would sometimes gather
lost balls along the beach in the early 1960's.
The ponds and lakes at the golf courses also have a lot of golf
balls,
and some broken golf clubs when people lose their temper.
When we realize that we don't need the ball to travel a long distance,
we will realize that we have the option to make them out of cellulose
so that they decompose if they are lost, and that we can make the club
softer, such as from a flexible plastic, so that they are less damaging
to the grass, and less painful when we are accidentally hit by them.
Instead of hitting the golf ball into a tiny hole, we could place two
flags
a meter or so apart, and the goal would be to get the ball between
them, similar to hitting a croquet ball through a hoop, and similar to
the field-goal
concept
in the American game of football in which someone tries to kick a ball
between two posts.
With those type of modifications to golf, people would continue to
enjoy one another, the competition, and the exercise, but they would
not suffer from the frustration of the current golf games. Furthermore,
by eliminating sand traps and making the course more similar to a
botanical garden, it would be even more
pleasant to walk around the
golf course.
Government
officials should recognize misery
The free enterprise
system fools us into believing
that we are having a wonderful life
because it gives us what
we want.
When we can satisfy our desires, we
assume that we are happy, and when we are denied whatever we want, we
assume we
are suffering. However, that assumption is false. That
assumption is
coming from our emotions,
not
our intellect.
The top government officials must be restricted to people who can
understand this concept. They must be able to differentiate between a
person who is titillating
himself, and a person who is having a truly
satisfying life.
For example, these
monkeys in Indonesia spend a lot of time
masturbating, but they are not have a
more satisfying life than the monkeys who live in
a forest and have to spend every day "working" and struggling to
survive. The monkeys that are masturbating
are doing it because it is one of the few sources of pleasure in their
dreary, boring, miserable lives.
According
to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 23
million American households adopted a pet during the Covid lockdown.
That is almost 20% of the homes in the USA.
Most, or all, of the people who got pets during the lockdown did so
because they were bored or lonely as a result of the
isolation. They were behaving just like those monkeys in Indonesia, but
they
were stimulating different emotions.
The monkeys in Indonesia, and the humans who purchased pets during the
lockdown, are
examples of what happens when animals and humans have nothing to do.
Specifically, we get bored, restless, and miserable, and we search
for something to do. Unfortunately, we tend to do something that is
emotionally titillating rather than intellectually sensible.
This
document
claims that many of the Americans who got a pet during the lockdown did
not realize how expensive pets can be, resulting in
predictions that one out of three pet owners will end up suffering from
stress as a result of the unexpected expenses.
This
article from March 2023 shows that the predictions were accurate, and
that a lot of those people abandoned their pets after a year or two.
By December 2023, many animal shelters in the USA were complaining
that they had more unwanted animals than they could care for.
Those reports are evidence that the people did not get a pet
for intelligent
reasons. They did not think
about the issue. Rather, they were miserable, and they got a pet so
that they could titillate
themselves.
Only a small percentage of the people who got bored during the lockdown
found something useful to do, such as learn something useful, or do
some beneficial work for their home.
Most people reacted to
the boredom by doing something that titillated their emotions, such as
watching television,
eating, shopping,
gambling, playing video games, and paying people to do things for them,
such as paint their fingernails. Some people also used alcohol or other
drugs to distract themselves from their misery.
How many
people truly enjoy life?
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Although those type of activities provide us with some momentary
emotional pleasure, or reduce boredom, they
do not
provide
us with a satisfying life.
When we become old, we will not enjoy
reminiscing about the thousands of hours that we wasted on those
activities, and children will not want to
listen to stories about such activities.
We must restrict the top leadership positions to the people who can
make wise decisions about when a person is truly having a satisfying
life, and when he is doing something because he is bored, miserable,
lonely, or suffering from some type of physical or mental disorder.
Every culture promotes the theory that we all have the best life when
we can pay other people to do our "work" while we are pampered by
servants, but
that is a false and destructive attitude. We become bored and miserable
when we have nothing to do. We also create a miserable and unnatural
social environment when some people are servants and other people are
parasitic.
We should investigate strange
behavior
When people behave in
strange manners, we have a tendency to ignore or insult them, but this
Constitution requires all of the ministries to investigate weird
behavior. All ministers should understand the concept that strange
behavior is likely to be a symptom
of
a problem, such as mental or physical defects, boredom, loneliness, low
self-esteem, crime, blackmail, and abuse.
An example is that some songs
seem to have hidden
meanings. Instead of ignoring the possible hidden meanings, we should
investigate the situation to determine whether the author of the lyrics, or our culture, has some problem that we
should deal with.
For example, Lady Gaga said that
her Swine song is about being sexually assaulted when she was a 19
year old student at a Catholic school. If she is telling the truth,
then her song is an indication of a problem with society, especially
the organized religions, and we should react by investigating the sexual problems
rather than allowing them to continue. However, we should also consider
that her song is partly about the sexual and emotional abuse that goes
on in the entertainment businesses.
And even more appalling song is the music video that shows adults
purchasing children and putting them into the trunk of their
automobile. Rather than regard that music video as entertainment, it should be regarded
as a symptom of a serious problem with our society.
After 1966, the lyrics of the Beatles songs, and their
behavior, changed
noticeably. Their lyrics became more weird, sad, and bizarre. There is
now a lot of evidence that it is because Paul
McCartney was accidentally or deliberately killed, and the Beatles were
forced to accept a replacement.
Farmers are aware that strange behavior in their animals is a sign of
trouble, and so when they find animals that are limping, abnormally
violent, or spending a lot of time sleeping, they investigate. They
don't ignore the strange behavior.
However, no culture yet promotes the attitude that a person who behaves
in an abnormal manner is suffering from something, and should be
investigated.
Our leaders should be better-than-average at recognizing when
people
are showing signs of misery, anger, envy, or revenge. Furthermore, they
should investigate
those
people to figure out what is
happening.
It is also important for parents to
understand this concept. For
example, some children occasionally throw food at people and
giggle about it, or jump up and down on furniture. If parents interpret
that behavior as a child who is "having fun", they could be
making a
serious mistake.
Parents should investigate the bizarre and undesirable behavior of a
child because it could be a sign that something is interfering with his
thinking process, such as hormone imbalances; improper blood chemistry;
genetic defects with his brain; or brain damage from
concussions.
We cannot assume that a person is happy simply because he is frequently
giggling and smiling, or because he claims to be happy. We have to
judge people in the same manner that farmers judge the health
of their animals. Specifically, we have to analyze the person's behavior and pass judgment on
whether his behavior can be considered "normal", or whether it is a
symptom of a problem.
Most people cannot provide intelligent analyses of anything, and we
have an especially difficult time looking critically at people that we
have an attachment to, such as our children or friends. We need to the
government to analyze people, and the officials need to be restricted
to those who can behave like zoologists, but who study humans instead
of wolves and squirrels.
The Schools Ministry and the Teentown
Ministry, for example, is required to investigate the strange behavior
of the children because we cannot expect parents to do a sensible job
of analyzing their own children.
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