When animals are young, they practice fighting with each other. We refer to it as "playing", but they are not entertaining themselves. They are preparing themselves physically and mentally for when they become adults and must fight predators and neighbors.

Animals are in a deadly competition for life, and the males also have to compete for females. Therefore, animals do not want to lose their battles. They put a tremendous effort into winning.

Our leisure activities did not develop from people who got together to study the issue, and use their intellect to experiment with activities that were sensible, safe, or beneficial. Instead, our leisure activities evolved to satisfy our crude emotional cravings to fight, and our even more powerful craving to win.

This results in recreational activities that put such a tremendous emphasis on winning that thousands of people are suffering from permanently damaged brains, joints, and other body parts.

The craving to win, and the lack of concern about the safety of a recreational event, also results in a lot of minor injuries. For example, 3.6 million Americans were treated in the emergency departments during 2022 for injuries related to leisure activities, which is a significant burden on the healthcare system.

Many people realize that boxing can cause brain damage, but most people are still ignorant about the dangers of other activities. For example, cheerleading is a major source of brain damage for teenage girls, and riding horses is a major source of brain damage for adults. Bicycles and skateboards are causing a lot of brain damage for children.

Recreational events should be beneficial, not a fight.

It was beneficial for prehistoric children to bully the inferior children to such an extent that they died because a prehistoric tribe was more successful when they were not burdened by cowardly, weak, or sickly members. It was also beneficial for prehistoric children to practice fighting with each other.

Today, however, there is no benefit to that behavior. Instead, it results in recreational activities, bullying, and initiation rituals that cause medical injuries that put a burden on the healthcare system, and the people who are permanently disabled become a burden on society.

Prehistoric humans had to be prepared for deadly fights, but modern humans will have a better life if we push ourselves into developing a culture that encourages us to compete with one another for beneficial purposes, rather than to hurt one another. We should treat our competitors as our friends.

We evolved an intense desire to win our battles, so we become very upset when we lose, but modern humans are rarely in a life or death battle. There is no benefit to winning a recreational event, so it is idiotic for us to put emphasis on winning, or to feel bad when we lose.

Our recreational events will be more enjoyable and beneficial when we eliminate the emphasis on winning, and design them to encourage exercise, socializing, enjoying nature, or learning something about ourselves, other people, or the universe.

It is especially idiotic for us to become so obsessed with winning a recreational event that we cheat in order to win, or push ourselves to such an extreme that we hurt ourselves.

A person who cheats in order to win a recreational event is doing something that has no benefit to him or anybody else. It is as idiotic as a person who had a knee replacement cheating on his physical therapy, or a fat person who cheats on his diet. We should regard those people as mentally inferior to the rest of us.

We have strong cravings for status, but we don't benefit by collecting trophies for winning recreational events. It is also detrimental to treat the winners as superior and the losers as inferior because that encourages the arrogance of the winners, and envy, pouting, or anger among the losers. We should design our recreational events so that everybody benefits, and we don't waste our labor or resources on worthless items, such as trophies.

Animals are in such a deadly battle for food that they tend to eat as quickly as possible when they find food. Humans inherited that craving, although it is only noticeable when we are hungry. The more hungry we are, the stronger our craving is to grab at the food and eat it quickly. This emotion might be the reason that we developed food eating competitions.

The emotional craving to eat quickly is detrimental today, and the recreational activity of competitive eating has no benefit. Instead, it has the disadvantage of wasting food, and it has resulted in a few deaths, and it might cause some health problems.

Some people are so concerned about winning competitions that they are willing to take the risk of suffering from brain damage, joint problems, or other permanent physical disabilities by taking drugs, or pushing themselves to extremes, but there is no benefit to taking those risks.

It is sensible for us to risk our life when we are being attacked by a wolf or a crime network, but it is idiotic to risk our life to win a recreational activity. The people who damage themselves during recreational activities are making their life worse, and some of them have to be taken care of, so they become a burden on society.

Should a person have the freedom or right to damage himself for a recreational activity? There is no right or wrong answer to that issue, but this Constitution chooses to put restrictions on how destructive people can be in order to reduce the burden on the healthcare system.

The People database has details on everybody's life, including injuries and health problems, and this will allow the Leisure Minister to accurately determine which recreational activities are causing injuries, and how serious those injuries are. The Leisure Minister is required to experiment with the activities to reduce the damage, and increase the satisfaction that we get from them.

If a person insists on risking his health for a recreational activity, we can let him have that freedom, but we are under no obligation to provide him with medical services. Therefore, if he suffers injuries, he must deal with it himself, just as if he were a prehistoric savage who did something stupid. If he becomes disabled and cannot function properly at his job, he must be evicted so that he doesn't become a burden on the rest of us.

This constitution considers a person who deliberately damages somebody else's brain to be guilty of murder because when a person suffers brain damage, he is essentially killed, and a similar, but different, person takes his place.

Understanding this concept can help us identify the people who have suffered from brain damage as a result of injuries, strokes, diseases, or genetic disorders. For example, Arnold Schwarzenegger described his father as schizophrenic, and as a violent alcoholic. One of his remarks is:

If the Europeans had maintained a database with the details of everybody's life, we could analyze his father's history and possibly determine when he began showing signs of violence, alcoholism, and mental disorders. We might discover that he was showing signs of mental problems as a child, which would indicate that he was born with a defective brain, but we might also discover that he seemed normal until after he returned from World War II. The reason this possible is because Schwarzenegger said that his father was involved in the war, and:

Some military personnel and civilians who were involved with wars have displayed abnormal behavior since World War I, but until recently nobody considered that some of it might be due to brain damage as a result of the firing of, and explosions of, modern weapons.

By maintaining a database that has details of everybody's lives, scientists and doctors will be able to get a better idea of when somebody is suffering from brain injuries or other medical problems, and the Leisure Ministry will be able to identify the dangerous activities.

The extreme emphasis on winning competitions is causing people to want trophies, which results in modern societies wasting a lot of their labor and resources on the production and storage of items that have no value to human life. Some people have so many trophies that they put many of them into storage, where nobody sees them, which defeats the purpose of having them.

A trophy provides us with some momentary emotional titillation, but it cannot improve our lives. The pleasure that we receive from the trophy is not coming from the trophy. It is the result of feeling important. The trophy is essentially a sex toy that we use to stimulate ourselves.

We cannot improve our lives by masturbating more often. Rather, we will improve our lives by providing ourselves with activities and friendships, and a pleasant social environment. Instead of setting a goal to gather trophies, our goal should be to find ways to improve our culture so that we can enjoy our friends, nature, city, jobs, meals, and leisure activities.

Our friendships and activities are more important than trophies and material items. This is the reason that people, especially children, enjoy camping trips. When we go camping, we re-create the prehistoric social environment in which people lived in close contact with one another and nature, and did things together.

We evolved to have intimate contact with people and nature.		Camping gives us the intimacy that we want.

Unfortunately, the human population is so excessive, and we have destroyed so much of nature, that there are not many pleasant camping areas, and we are so accustomed to modern homes and beds that camping is uncomfortable for us.

We assume that our prehistoric ancestors suffered because their lives were physically difficult, but they were just as well adapted to life as all of the other wild animals around them. Although most of their children would have died before becoming adults, the survivors would have loved life, and considered it to be easy.

Prehistoric life would be extremely difficult and painful for most of us who are alive today, but that is only because the human gene pool has degraded significantly during the past few thousand years.

Our modern technology provides us with physical comfort, such as protection from the weather, and it provides us with lots of foods and attractive clothing, but the material items are luxuries, not necessities.

By putting emphasis on the winning of recreational events and the gathering of trophies, we encourage people to put their time and effort into doing things that don't bring us real satisfaction.

Every culture puts so much emphasis on winning leisure activities that most schools in the modern nations provide children with training for the activities, and promoting the concept that they should win the activity. However, it is idiotic to practice a leisure activity. Some reasons are:

•	Practicing cannot change who wins. The genetic differences between us result in a small percentage of the population having a genetic advantage over the rest of the population for each particular activity. Therefore, no matter how much time and effort we put into training, a certain and small percentage of people will always be among the winners, and the majority of people will always be among the losers. It is impossible for everybody to occasionally be a winner. The only way practicing golf, baseball, or football can help a person to win the event is if he is the only person who practices it. However, when everybody practices it, everybody becomes better at it, so we don't change who wins or loses. This concept also applies to intellectual activities. For example, when all students practice math, chemistry, machining, or carpentry, they all become better at those activities, but it doesn't change which students are among the best. The students who are genetically better able to do math or carpentry will continue to be the best in those particular activities regardless of how much practicing everybody does. However, there is a significant difference between practicing baseball and practicing chemistry. Specifically, when people become better at baseball, nothing improves in their life, and they do nothing to help society, because baseball is a useless skill. However, when people become better at chemistry, carpentry, or machining, they become more useful and productive to society, which improves life for everybody.
•	Winning leisure events is chasing rainbows When we win a leisure activity, we do not gain anything except for some momentary emotional titillation. This is why we are never satisfied by winning a leisure event. After a few minutes, the excitement of winning begins to vanish, and we will feel the need to win another event to titillate ourselves again. The people who are repeatedly struggling to win a leisure activity are behaving like a rat that has an electrode implanted into a pleasure area of its brain, and is repeatedly pressing the lever to titillate itself. The rat is never satisfied, and neither is a person who wins leisure activities. No matter how many events he wins, he never achieves satisfaction. No matter how many trophies he collects, he struggles for more of them. He can never relax and enjoy his trophies because we cannot get satisfaction from trophies. The rat would titillate itself to the point of exhaustion, and even death, and likewise, many people push themselves to win leisure events to such an extreme that they hurt themselves, waste their money, and sometimes die or suffer permanent injuries. The pleasure of leisure activities comes from our enjoyment of competition, people, and nature, not from winning, or from the trophy. We must change our attitudes towards leisure events. We must stop putting emphasis on winning and trophies.
•	People are wasting some of their precious life There are so many people who believe that they must win a leisure activity that some people have part-time or full-time jobs training people to become better at football, golf, and bicycle racing. There are also people training animals to win competitions, such as dog agility competitions, and animal beauty contests. It is sensible to provide people with information on how to participate in a leisure activity, such as teaching a person how to ride a bicycle or how to row a kayak, and it is sensible for a person to practice using a bicycle and kayak so that he is less likely to fall off the bicycle or tip over the kayak. However, there is no value in practicing to win a leisure activity, or training somebody to win. We don't benefit by winning a leisure activity, and we don't suffer if we lose. The people who practice a leisure activity, and the people who train other people to become better, are wasting a portion of their very short, precious life. They would have a more satisfying life if they did something that is more beneficial to themselves and society.

It feels as if we must train for and win a leisure activity because we inherited the emotional cravings of an animal to win our competitive battles. Rather than pursue those cravings, we should help one another ignore them.

Our nomadic ancestors were not likely to have practiced any recreational activity, or provided trophies to the winners of recreational events. However, during the past few centuries, businesses and individual citizens have created thousands of competitive activities and trophies. People today need to be aware of these concepts, and we need to make intelligent decisions about which leisure activities are truly beneficial, and which of them are sensible to practice.

We want to do something during our leisure time, but businesses, religions, democracies, and mentally disturbed people cannot provide us with sensible leisure activities. Therefore, the Leisure Ministry is responsible for designing activities.

We do not know enough about the human mind to figure out what type of leisure activities are the most appropriate for us, so the Leisure Minister must have the courage to experiment with activities, and he must help people overcome their fear of the unknown to try new activities, and variations of existing activities.

The Leisure Minister is required to judge the activities according to what effect they have on people's lives, not according to what people like or dislike. His goal is to create activities that encourage beneficial attitudes and behavior, and cause people to accumulate pleasant memories that they enjoy reminiscing about when they are elderly. He must terminate or modify the activities that encourage fights, pouting, medical injuries, or cheating.

For example, some young girls enjoy hobby horse competitions. The Leisure Ministry is required to analyze that activity and pass judgment on whether to allow that activity, alter it, or prohibit it.

What is the benefit to having girls participate in or practice that activity? What are the disadvantages? Do the girls truly enjoy that activity, or are they attracted to it because horses titillate a woman's sexual emotions? Or do the girls enjoy having a wooden rod between their legs as they hop around?

Likewise, what is the benefit to marathon races, ultramarathon races, and the Barkley Marathons?

The Leisure Minister must also pass judgment on whether the labor and resources required to support an activity are worth the benefits, or whether the activity should be redesigned to be less burdensome. An example of how we can reduce the burden of a leisure activity is that by eliminating cleats, we reduce the damage to grass, and we eliminate the labor and resources necessary to produce and recycle cleats.

The existing cultures have almost no restrictions on how absurd, dangerous, or wasteful a leisure activity is. For example, people are allowed to risk their lives in whitewater rafting, hiking in the deserts during hot weather, climbing mountains during winter storms, doing flips on bicycles and motorcycles, and driving automobiles as fast as possible at the Bonneville Salt Flats.

When those people get hurt during their dangerous activities, every culture feels sorry for them, and provides them with rescue and medical services. Those people are often glorified as "thrill seekers", but many of them might be more accurately described as suffering from a mental or physical disorder that makes it difficult for them to live an ordinary life.

The Leisure Minister is required to pass judgment on whether a leisure activity is truly beneficial, or whether it is attractive only to people with mental disorders.

The Leisure Minister has the authority to deny activities that he regards as burdensome to society, excessively dangerous, or of interest only to people with mental problems.

However, as mentioned earlier in this document, if a person insists on doing a risky activity, then we could allow him to do it, but those people are responsible for their injuries and deaths. They must provide themselves and one another with whatever services they need. They are not our responsibility.

For example, in 2009 John Jones decided to explore the narrow section of a cave in Utah, but he got stuck. His brother called for help, and 135 people spent 27 hours trying to rescue him, but he died in the cave, and they left his body inside. This video has diagrams to explain what happened.

The Utah government reacted to his death by using explosives to collapse an interior section of the cave, and then fill a portion with concrete. That it is as idiotic as using explosives to remove the top of Mount Everest after somebody dies on it, and then covering the stub with concrete and guide rails. Or as idiotic as using explosives to destroy Niagara Falls after somebody dies while going over the falls in a barrel.

The US culture has such a strong "Feel Sorry For The Underdog" attitude that whenever an underdog hurts himself, we react by making everybody suffer in an attempt to protect the underdogs. For example, when an underdog abuses a medical drug, everybody has to suffer with prescriptions, and when an underdog hurts his child by letting him play with plastic bags, businesses have to print "This bag is not a toy" on their plastic bags.

This constitution promoted a different attitude. Specifically, culture is designed for the high-quality people (the City Elders), and the underdogs must suffer the consequences of their mental problems. There is no pity for underdogs. If a person does something that the City Elders realize is risky, such as climbing into a narrow cave, it is his problem if he gets stuck. None of us have an obligation to risk our lives, or waste our time, trying to get him out of the cave.

The only time that society is obligated to help a person is when our culture encourages the activity. For example, every culture encourages mining, farming, bicycle riding, welding, gardening, and many other jobs that require people to use potentially dangerous equipment, or be put in potentially dangerous situations, so every society has the responsibility to help those people remain safe and provide them with medical assistance.

If the Leisure Ministry were to authorize an activity in which people explore a narrow cave, then the Leisure Minister would be responsible for ensuring that everybody is safe, has rescue services, and has access to medical assistance. However, when people do unauthorized activities that are regarded as risky, then they must suffer the consequences, just as if they were living in a prehistoric era.

For another example of this attitude, the Leisure Ministry must provide bicycles and bicycle paths, so the city is responsible for ensuring the equipment and paths are safe, and that people have access to medical help when needed, but the city is not responsible for people who use bicycles in unapproved manners, such as the people who go off the authorized paths, or who ride down staircases, or do backflips.

This attitude would be considered cruel in a democracy, but modern technology allows us to hurt ourselves in a wide variety of manners that were impossible in prehistoric times. Furthermore, as technology improves, we have even more options to hurt ourselves. For example, when the public has access to robots, there will be people who use the robots in a manner that hurts themselves, other people, material items, animals, and other things.

The people who cannot follow the rules of society and take care of themselves must be prohibited from reproducing so that there are fewer of them in every generation. They are inferior people, and we would waste our time and resources trying to rescue them or provide them with medical services. Those that are extremely irritating should be evicted or euthanized.

Democracies and free enterprise systems allow organizations to arrange for trips for children that are dangerous, such as camping trips into the deserts during hot weather. There have already been some deaths as a result of this, and a lot of injuries.

One death was made into this episode of the television series I Shouldn't Be Alive. It shows three adults taking five teenagers on a camping trip in the Grand Canyon during the summer, and one of the boys died from dehydration.

The reason businesses offer risky activities to children is because they are competing to attract the attention of the children.

The Leisure Ministry must ensure that the activities for children are especially safe. The Leisure Ministry is required to design activities for children according to what the City Elders regard as the "desirable" children, not for the children who are "thrill seekers".

The Leisure Ministry is the only group authorized to create, terminate, and experiment with leisure activities. Citizens and organizations do not have the freedom to create leisure activities.

The goal of the Leisure Minister is to create activities that allow people to get exercise, enjoy nature, socialize, and meet other people, and in a safe manner. This Ministry also designs and maintains the facilities and equipment that they authorize for leisure activities, which includes the leisure activities of people during their lunch break while they are working.

The Leisure Minister has the the authority to forbid the activities that he considers to be too destructive, wasteful, or dangerous, or which are a burden on society. For example:

•	He can prohibit or modify the activities that he regards having too little value to justify the burden they impose on society's resources, such as the game of polo, which requires large amounts of grassland and highly trained horses. Likewise, the game of golf requires an enormous amount of land and a tremendous amount of labor and resources to maintain the dense grass and sand traps. He can either eliminate those activities, or modify them to make them less burdensome and more beneficial.
•	He can prohibit the activities that create a burden on the healthcare system, such as tackle football and boxing.
•	He can prohibit the activities that he regards as promoting obnoxious or worthless behavior, such as the International Cherry Pit Spitting Contests, the Baby Jumping Festival, and beer drinking contests.

The Leisure Minister sets the rules and equipment options for the recreational activities. For example, if he decides to authorize the game of baseball, he decides whether the game should use a soft, hard, wiffle, or inflatable ball. He can also experiment with the rules.

The people who play the games have a certain amount of freedom to ignore or alter the rules, but this Ministry will be able to pass judgment on whether they have made changes that are unacceptable. For example, the ministry is likely to authorize the flying of kites, but forbid gluing shards of glass to the strings, so if some people decide to attach razor blades to the kites, this Ministry has the authority to stop them, even though they did something that wasn't specifically prohibited.

Furthermore, the people who are unable to make sensible decisions about altering the rules of a leisure activity run the risk of being put on restrictions or evicted. The Behavior Ministry is required to set standards for people that are higher than that of any existing society, and one of the reasons is so that we don't have to tolerate the "cat and mouse games" in which people justify unacceptable behavior by claiming that there is no law against it.

A city has a limited amount of land, so the Leisure Ministry must provide sensible analyses of how to use the land most effectively. They have to make such decisions as how much land to provide for swimming pools, bicycle paths, foot paths, plazas, golf courses, soccer fields, and volleyball courts.

For example, an 18-hole golf course allows several dozen people to play golf each day, but that amount of land would allow a giant swimming pool, and a lot of bicycle paths, foot paths, plazas, volleyball courts, and other recreational activities, thereby providing leisure activities for hundreds of people each day.

All existing cultures allow a wealthy class, and businesses provide that class with recreational activities that are extremely wasteful in regards to land and resources. Since this constitution allows only one class of people, the Leisure Ministry must design leisure activities for the public. That is a lot of people, so the activities cannot be wasteful with land.

One of the goals of this constitution is to reduce the number of undesirable jobs in order to make it practical to eliminate the peasant class. Therefore, the Leisure Minister is required to find ways to reduce the labor and resources that are needed for leisure activities.

For example, the shuttlecocks of badminton games were originally made with bird feathers and cork, but they are expensive to produce and have a short lifetime compared to the modern shuttlecock made from plastic. However, many people are resisting the switch to plastic versions because the plastic versions have slightly different flight characteristics, and we have a tendency to follow traditions and be frightened of making changes to our life.

A Japanese company has responded by putting a lot of labor and resources into developing plastic feathers, and they have a graph to show that the flight characteristics of that shuttlecock is almost identical to that of a feather shuttlecock, but there is a resistance to changing to plastic feathers, also.

The badminton shuttlecock is an example of how businesses in a free enterprise system pander to the irrational emotions and desires of the public, and how they waste technical talent, labor, and resources on worthless projects.

It makes no difference to our life or happiness whether a shuttlecock is made of bird feathers, nylon, or polypropylene. The people who are concerned about the shuttlecock are making the same mistake as the people who are concerned about the dimples on a golf ball. Specifically, they assume that the enjoyment of a recreational activity is due to the equipment that they use. Businesses encourage this irrational assumption by boasting that they have the best shuttlecock, golf ball, or bicycle.

Most people have been fooled into believing that the pleasure of a recreational event is coming from the golf balls, shuttlecocks, footballs, tennis balls, race cars, carbon fiber bicycle frames, and cleats. This results in them wasting time on the search for better equipment, and they sometimes discard equipment that is in excellent condition for a new and improved version.

The Leisure Minister will be able to prevent this idiotic behavior and wasted resources by making the decisions about equipment, rather than letting the public make decisions. If they authorize the game of badminton, for example, then they will determine what type of equipment uses, and the public will have no choice but to accept it.

The Leisure Minister is responsible for ensuring that the recreational activities do not waste labor or resources. If he authorizes the game of badminton, for example, he will determine what type of equipment it uses, and that allows him to design recreational events that do not waste labor and resources on expensive and delicate equipment.

It also allows him to make the events safer by making the equipment less dangerous. He can also reduce the amount of land that an activity needs by designing the balls so that they don't fly so far when hit or kicked.

As with all government officials, he must post a document in the Explanations category to explain his decisions so that we can pass judgment on his reasoning.

The public will have to accept his decisions, which might cause some emotional trauma to the people who have an unusually strong desire to follow traditions, but the children will become accustomed to the equipment, so they will not have any problem using it.

Another example of how the Leisure Ministry can reduce labor and resources of recreational activities is that he can arrange for the swimming pools that are near equipment that produces a lot of waste heat, such as refrigeration units, furnaces, and other industrial equipment, to use the pool water to cool the equipment and heat the pool water. That type of cooperation between businesses is impossible in a free enterprise system, but the city government owns everything, so the ministers can design the city to be efficient.

The Leisure Minister is required to pass judgment on whether an activity is encouraging beneficial attitudes, and if not, he must terminate or modify it. For example, there are some baseball fields in the city park near my house, and a plaque is posted each year to list the names of the "All-Star" players. A few can be seen with the Google street view.

Businesses profit by producing those plaques, and the parents and children are titillated by seeing their names on the plaques, but the Leisure Ministry must make decisions according to the effect they have on our lives, not according to what people or organizations want.

What effect of those plaques have on human life? Are those plaques improving life for anybody? Are they encouraging good attitudes or behavior?

Those plaques encourage children to become better at playing baseball, but that encourages the children to waste time and effort on the development of a useless skill. It also stimulates unpleasant emotions of the losers of the competition, which can result in them becoming upset, envious, or angry.

The children who struggle to have their name on a plaque are wasting some of the most precious times of their life. Furthermore, those plaques degrade the visual appearance of the city park because they are designed to be status symbols, not beautiful, artistic decorations.

Those plaques also stimulate the parents into becoming more concerned about their child having his name on the plaque, which can result in parents pressuring their children to improve his baseball skills, and yelling at their children or the umpire during the games. There have been so many adults yelling at their children, the umpire, and other parents, that some signs have been posted at the baseball field to encourage the parents to to control their hysteria and yelling.

Neither the children nor their parents benefit from activities that encourage yelling or fighting.

The Leisure Minister is required to judge the value of activities according to their effect on people's attitudes and lives, and on society.

A leisure activity is detrimental when it encourages parents to become so angry and frustrated that they yell at the children, referees, umpires, and other parents. That activity encourages bad attitudes and behavior.

When we become elderly, we will not want to reminisce about the times we were at a recreational event where parents were yelling at their children.

There have been so many parents yelling at recreational events that some of the fields have posted signs, (the photo below left), to encourage the parents to remain calm. However, those signs are just as ineffective at improving human behavior as punishments. It is better to redesign the events so that they are less likely to stimulate the anger and bad behavior.

This sign is not a "reminder from your child". It is futile attempt by adults to stop other adults from behaving like animals.		The sign in the photo to the left is as embarrassing as a sign (above) at a daycare center to discourage pedophilia.

The Leisure Minister is required to analyze the recreational activities and pass judgment on their effect on our lives and society, and he must experiment with making them more pleasurable and sensible.

As with all government officials, whenever the Leisure Minister supports, changes, or forbids an activity, he must post a document to explain his decision, and identify himself as the official who was responsible. That will allow voters and citizens to pass judgment on whether he is truly improving our leisure activities.

Some of the existing recreational activities are ugly as a result of requiring chain link fences or large amounts of concrete or asphalt. (An example mentioned here is tennis.) Some activities make large amounts of noise, such as those that involve guns, dogs, and vehicles with noisy engines. There are also activities that create air or water pollution, such as tire burnouts and boats that leak oil into the water.

The Leisure Minister is responsible for experimenting with ways to make the activities more visually attractive, clean, and quiet. If he authorizes a noisy activity, he must place it in a location where people will not be bothered by it.

One of the concepts that this constitution is based on is that we will have a much more pleasant life if we are surrounded by nature. Therefore, the leisure activities that are conducted inside of a building should be put into tall buildings in order to reduce the amount of land we waste on buildings. That will also reduce the amount of transportation paths to the recreational areas

The Neighborhoods Minister could also design an entire neighborhood for our leisure time. For example, in the image below, all of the buildings in that neighborhood could be designed to provide recreational activities, lounges, music concerts, karaoke, ceramics, 3D printing, microscopy, embroidery, karaoke, music, robotics, CNC laser cutting, and other social activities and clubs.



By putting the activities in tall buildings, everybody has easy access to a wide variety of activities simply by walking around inside the buildings and riding elevators. That makes it easy to visit an activity to learn about it, or to observe or visit our children, friends, or spouse at one of the activities.

This constitution provides people with a lot more freedom to do medical analyses of themselves than the existing cultures, so there could be leisure activities for people who want to analyze their heart, their oxygen consumption (photo to the right), or their fat percentage.

Since none of the leisure activities require people to sign contracts or make commitments to participate on a routine basis, and all of the equipment and supplies are provided for free, a person can get involved with an activity until they are tired of it, which could be just one time.

One of the problems of modern cities is that they have been designed primarily for automobiles and businesses. The end result is that the people living in a city do not have much access to nature. This causes people to want to put plants and water fountains in their home, and it causes them to want vacations outside of their city so that they can be among trees, grass, ponds, creeks, and flowers.

To improve upon this situation, the Leisure Ministry is required to ensure that there are lots of foot paths and bicycle paths that give people easy access to nature. There should be so many paths that people don't become bored using the same path over and over, and all of the paths should be unique in its design and decorations.

Almost every city has converted their creeks into ugly, concrete drainage ditches in order to prevent them from eroding the dirt along their edges, and ponds are usually drained to allow more land for the city. The concrete drainage ditches make the city so ugly that they can be used in dystopian movies (such as here in Terminator 2).

This constitution requires the government to provide the city with a lot of beautiful creeks and ponds. In order to prevent erosion of the creeks, the city has to do something attractive, such as lining the edges with rocks, bricks, tiles, wooden posts, or chunks of glass.

The Leisure Ministry is also responsible for providing lots of paths for small, low-speed electric vehicles so that people can explore the city and the surrounding forests. Some sections of those paths could be elevated to avoid damaging the vegetation, and to give better views of the area, and some sections can be designed with grass pavers so that they blend in with the grass.

When they authorize an electric vehicle, rowboat, kayak, snowmobile, electric bicycle, or other vehicle, they are required to ensure that it is safe for the people who use them, and for the people in the vicinity. This will require the Leisure Ministry to put limits on the speed of each type of vehicle.

For example, the Leisure Ministry might limit small electric vehicles to 30 kph. Some people might complain that those vehicles are too slow, but they are for recreation, not travel, so it makes no sense to describe them as "too slow". A person who is using a vehicle for recreation is not going anywhere, so it doesn't matter how fast they get there.

The text to image software doesn't understand the concept of small electric vehicles for exploring the forest, but the image below might give you an idea of what is possible.

By making the vehicles travel slowly, people will be able to enjoy the scenery and talk to one another without being irritated by the noise of the wind, or the wind whipping their hair around. Even more important, the vehicles will be less dangerous.

The Leisure Ministry is also required to ensure that all of the vehicles have identical sizes so that their bumpers match one another in height, thereby making them less dangerous when they collide. That will make them more like bumper cars.

In a free enterprise system, consumers are supposed to ensure that products are safe, but they don't do anything to ensure that automobile bumpers are the same height above the ground. There are documents that point out that the mismatched bumpers are resulting in enormous amounts of unnecessary repair work, but most people don't care. Most people are more concerned with the paint on the vehicle, and it status value. This is another example of why the government officials must ignore what the people want and make decisions about what is best for them.

Rowboats and kayaks do not need limits on their speed, but the Leisure Minister must put speed limits on boats with motors.

The decisions on how to design the vehicles, and what speeds to limit them to, are arbitrary decisions, and as all government officials are required to do, the Leisure Minister must consider what is best for the City Elders, not what people like or fear.

Furthermore, no matter which arbitrary decisions we make about our leisure activities, there will always be a small minority of the population who does not like them. We cannot ignore or pander to those people. We must reduce diversity so that every generation enjoys the culture that we have chosen.