Every city maintains
databases about itself
Each city maintains its own
database about itself for both its citizens and visitors. The suggested
categories are:
/Laws
The Economic Division does
not produce laws because they are involved with material items and
services, not human behavior. The ministers and presidents of the
Health and Social divisions have the authority to create laws. For
example, the Safety Ministry of the Health Division can create laws to
set safety standards and equipment for employees, and the Medical
Ministry can create laws to control medical personnel and hospitals.
The Courts Ministry must impress us by reducing
crime, not with bookcases or wigs.
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When a government official creates a law, he must post it in the Law database so that everybody can
easily find it. The official must also include an explanation of the
law.
All of the databases must be electronic.
The laws cannot be printed in paper books. One reason is to reduce
the use of resources and
labor, and a more important reason is to prevent government officials
from doing what is common
around the world, which is to try to impress us by sitting in front of
giant bookcases of legal books.
A trial is an
intellectual analysis, not a battle
between lawyers to intimidate, impress, and manipulate a jury. The
people involved with a trial must impress us with their analysis of
the crime, and their suggestions to
reduce crime.
Incidentally, the wigs that are
worn by some people in the legal system of some nations was originally intended
for men who did not want to bother keeping their hair neat and clean.
This is another example of how some of our customs are the result of
people mimicking the idiotic behavior of people with high status.
There is also evidence that the custom of wearing pointed
shoes is the result of wealthy medieval people trying to show off, and
centuries later due to cowboy boots that were pointed to make it easier
to get them into stirrups.
Wealthy people have also created the custom of believing that lobster,
caviar, and champagne are "delicacies".
The wealthy people do a lot of stupid things simply to show off, and most
other people mimic the wealthy
people rather than think about what
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/Customs
Some of the things that we
do are optional, rather than required by a law. For example, there is
no law telling us how we must greet one another. Instead, we have a
variety of optional methods to greet one another, such as saying
"hello", shaking
hands,
tipping hats, kissing cheeks, hugging, or nodding heads.
Likewise,
there is no law telling us how to eat our food, and this results
in some people using chopsticks, some people holding a fork in their
left hand with the prongs pointing downward, and other people holding a
fork in their right hand with the prongs pointing upward.
Nobody has created a specific word for these optional
things.
Instead, we have a variety of words, such as customs, traditions,
habits, conventions, routines, and rituals. This constitution will
refer to them
as "customs".
We have a lot of freedom to choose how we greet people, eat our food,
get dressed, and many other customs, but none of us actually uses or
wants
that freedom. Instead, all of us want to impress the people that we
admire and respect, and be accepted by them, and this results in us mimicking other people rather than
using our freedom to do what we want to do.
We don't want
freedom with clothing. We
want to mimic
other people.
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Mimicking other people is as natural to us as blinking and breathing,
so we don't notice that we do it. The only way we will realize that we
are mimicking other people's clothing styles is to look at photos
of ourselves and other people in the
past, and notice that clothing
styles change in the same senseless manner that a group of fish change
their course erratically.
Our prehistoric ancestors did not have to be concerned about who or
what they were mimicking because they lived in small groups, and
everybody's behavior was similar. Today, however, our technology and
large populations can result in us mimicking idiotic, wasteful, or
dangerous activities. Modern humans need to be aware of their mimicking
tendency, and we need to occasionally pass judgment on whether we are
mimicking sensible behavior.
We need to be especially concerned with what the children are
mimicking.
Our customs have been developing
haphazardly, and they have been manipulated by businesses, religions,
Zionist organizations, and individual citizens. The result is that
there are lots of variations of customs, and different groups of people
mimic different customs, which often creates
awkwardness, frustration, insults, and fights.
We will create a more pleasant and relaxed social environment if we
reduced the awkwardness with customs. We don't want the freedom to
choose customs, so the social division is required to analyze our
customs and experiment with more sensible and beneficial customs. They
will post their recommended customs in the Customs
category, along with an explanation of it.
Tourists will be able to use the Customs
category to find out what the
customs of a city are before they arrive in the city. Children will be
able to use that category to learn about their customs. However, those
customs are not "laws" that are enforced. Rather, they are
"suggestions" or "advice".
For some examples of what the social ministers can do:
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Greeting
customs
The Leisure Minister is responsible for analyzing greeting customs and
developing a custom that will reduce awkwardness, confusion, and
frustration. For example, he might suggest a different greeting custom
for when men and women greet each other compared to how we greet our
own sex. That might reduce some of the awkwardness and problems that
occurs between men and women. He might also recommend that children
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Clothing
styles
None of us wants or benefits from the freedom to chose our
clothing styles. We want to
mimic people in our peer group, but that causes us to mimic people who
never did any research or analysis of clothing styles, which in turn
results in us mimicking clothing customs that are irrational,
uncomfortable, and wasteful. An example are the women's pointed and
high-heeled shoes that
deform their feet, cause them pain, and add a burden to the healthcare
system. Another example are the men who dress like penguins regardless
of the weather conditions.
We would create a less awkward and more pleasant social environment if
everybody followed the same clothing customs, and if the clothing
styles were more sensible and comfortable. Therefore, the Clothing
Minister has the authority to determine what type of clothing and shoes
are authorized for production.
People will be able to choose their clothing,
but only from whatever types of clothing that the Clothing Minister has
authorized.
The Clothing Minister can bring stability to clothing styles because he
can prevent "fashion trends" from occurring. People will
not be able to mimic the latest style worn by Queen Elizabeth or Oprah,
or the latest style created by Nike or Diane Von Furstenberg. The
Clothing Minister is the only person authorized to create new styles,
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Courtship
activities
Every culture is still following courtship activities of monkeys. This
is causing
most of us to waste a significant amount of the best years of our life
as we search for a spouse, and it causes us to occasionally suffer from
awkwardness, frustration,
sadness, loneliness, embarrassment, and failed relationships. It also
sometimes results in unwanted pregnancies and venereal
diseases.
Our modern societies are so large and complex that we no longer benefit
from having the freedom to find a spouse though our "natural" method.
Modern humans need to experiment with more appropriate methods for men
and women to get to know one another and choose a spouse. Therefore,
the Courtship Minister is
authorized to experiment with courtship activities, and the single men
and women are required
to find a spouse through those activities, and they are prohibited from flirting in public.
The Courtship Minister is also required to create customs for single men and women,
such as how they should greet and treat one another. He will have to
create a lot of new customs because most of our existing customs are
either idiotic or will be inappropriate in Kastron. For example, all of
the material items are free, so it will not make sense for single men
to provide women with gifts, and it will no longer be practical for
single men to show off their material wealth.
The Courtship Minister might also prevent businesses from producing
flowers for men to give to women in order to reduce the wasted labor
and resources on those flowers, and to reduce the number of insects in
the apartments.
We must expect our
first attempts to be crude
Our first attempts at courtship customs and activities will be crude,
awkward, and
ineffective, but we cannot let that discourage us. New technology is always crude,
but if we learn from
our mistakes, we will find ways to improve it.
History provides us a lot of examples of people who criticized new
technology as worthless and wasteful, such as the first gasoline
engines and airplanes.
Today some people criticizing surgical robots and artificial
intelligence software.
Our first attempts to create improved courtship activities, government
systems, recreational activities, holiday celebrations, school systems,
and other culture, are going to be crude, but instead of reacting with
insults or fear, we should look for ways to improve them. |
/Explanations
The government officials
are required to provide an explanation for what they do. When they do
something that doesn't fit into any other category, they will put it
into the Explanations
category. This can be regarded as the "miscellaneous category" for
government officials to explain themselves.
/Suggestions
Everybody who has
suggestions or complaints can post them in this category. However,
unlike
existing cultures, which allow us to make suggestions and complaints
that are rude, incomprehensible, and insulting, the documents in the Suggestions
category must be written as if the person is a teacher speaking to his
students, as described here.
As
described here,
everybody is held accountable for their documents, so a person who
posts a suggestion that turns out to be beneficial will get credit for
it,
which will help him if he wants certain jobs. It will also improve his
social credit score, and give him a reputation for having useful ideas,
which will cause people to pay more attention to his future suggestions.
Conversely, a person who routinely posts documents that are considered
to be worthless will have
those failures listed in his database entry, which will cause him to
develop a reputation for being worthless. The Database Ministry has the
option of having his suggestions tagged as low priority so that people
can choose to ignore his suggestions when they search that
category. If a person's opinions are considered extremely worthless,
then the Database Ministry can prohibit him from posting in the Suggestions
category.
In order for this Suggestions
category to be useful, people need practice
in writing
suggestions, and in analyzing
suggestions. People who have trouble explaining their opinions should
ask for help
in writing their suggestions rather than create a confusing document.
It is likely that a lot of ordinary people will have valuable
suggestions, but they will need help writing their suggestions.
Therefore, it is best for them to first post their suggestions in the Public
category ( described farther down). For an example, a
factory worker might find himself occasionally wasting time because he becomes
confused about how to use a particular machine or software, but his
complaints are so vague and confusing that no one understands him. If
he were to get help in describing the problem, the engineers who design
the machine or software would be able to improve it, thereby making the
factory more efficient, and making the man's job more pleasant.
Most people have nothing
of value
to say
The majority of people are not likely to
post any suggestions, but that should be expected rather than regarded as a
failure of this culture. All of our social and technical progress has
come from a small percentage
of the population, and we must expect all of the progress in the future
to come from a small percentage of the population. However, there is no
way to predict which of us
will
provide the improvements, so we need to encourage everybody to get
involved, and give everybody the opportunity to
contribute.
Government officials can also use the Suggestions
category to post suggestions or
complaints
that they don't have the authority to deal with. For example, the
Medical Minister might have a suggestion about a
holiday celebration, but he has no authority to do anything about the
social affairs of the city, so he must post a suggestion just like the
citizens.
Examples of suggestions that this
Constitution encourages and discourages are here.
Posting suggestions is privilege
The Suggestions
category is not
an entertainment site. Rather, it is for people who have put some effort into thinking about
and developing their suggestions.
Posting a document on the Suggestions
site is analogous to going into
the cockpit of an airplane and suggesting a change in course. Every
adult is provided with the privilege to post on that site, but a person
can
lose that privilege if most of his documents are
regarded as worthless or idiotic.
The Suggestions
category is
similar to the publications that scientists use to publicize their
work. The people who control those publications are not supposed to
censor or
suppress any of the scientists. They are supposed to publish any
document that
they regard as beneficial to their audience. If a document is rejected,
the author is free to edit it, or have it published somewhere else.
The Suggestions
category is similar, except that nobody passes judgment on
which document to accept. Initially every adult has the privilege to
post documents on the site. However, the documents will eventually be
analyzed, and the people who tend to post a lot of worthless documents
risk having their documents tagged as "low-priority" so that they are
at the bottom of the list, and to allow them to be excluded from
searches. The people who post a lot of documents that are considered to
be idiotic can
be prohibited
from posting on that site.
However, nobody is censored or suppressed. A person who loses the
privilege to
post on the Suggestions
category can continue promoting his opinions in
other manners, such as on other
websites, or by discussing his ideas with his friends or coworkers.
How many idiotic suggestions can a person post before he loses the
privilege? There is no answer to that question. That is similar to the
issue of how many mistakes can a factory worker can make before he is
fired.
One of the problems with the Internet today is that there is no quality
control for the messages. This allows messages to be idiotic and
deliberate propaganda, such as promoting the flat earth theory. It also
allows people to insult and argue with one another.
To improve upon the situation, everybody is encouraged to pass judgment
on which documents are too
stupid to be allowed in the Suggestions
category. If a citizen or
government official believes a particular document is stupid, he can
post a document in the Suggestions
category to explain why he believes the document is too stupid to
tolerate.
The Courts Ministry has the authority to give the person an
intellectual trial, and if they determine that his document is indeed
too stupid, the person who brought this to the attention of the Courts
Ministry will get credit for identifying a stupid document, which will
be useful if he wants to get involved with the government.
The Courts Ministry also
passes judgment on when a person has posted so many idiotic documents
that he is prohibited from posting documents. For example, a person who
posts a document that claims the
earth is flat might be prohibited after posting that document, whereas
a person who posts documents that are only "slightly stupid" might be
able to
post a dozen before the Courts Ministry comes to the conclusion
that he has nothing of value to to say.
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When an author wants to
delete or edit one of the documents he posted in any of the other
categories, it will automatically be moved here, as described here.
/Requests
The directors, presidents,
and
ministers are the only people authorized to post documents in this
category, but everybody can access this category.
As described here,
when a minister needs something from another minister, he must request
it, and he does that by posting a document
in
the Requests category to
explain his request. He
cannot send secretive or anonymous requests.
The purpose of making them post their requests in this category is that
it will enable the voters and presidents to pass judgment on which of
them are making the most sensible requests.
It will also allow us to determine whether a official is repeatedly
changing his request, which is a common problem in the world today. For
example, a government official or business executive might request the
development of a new product or software program, but partway through
the project he makes changes to what he wants, and sometimes more
than once.
When the requests are verbal or secretive, we cannot be certain
who is wasting time and resources. By keeping track of the
requests, we will be able to pass judgment on which officials do a
better job of developing their requests before they make them.
We will also be able to determine which ministers have created requests
that turned out to be the most beneficial, and which of them have the
most rejected requests.
Since the presidents must routinely replace a
minister, analyzing their requests is one of the ways they will be able
to decide which of
the ministers should be replaced.
If a minister is so afraid of having a failed or rejected request that
he rarely makes a request, he will be considered useless for not doing
much of anything. The ministers are supposed to experiment with
improvements to society, so if they don't accomplish much of anything,
they are not
doing
their job. As mentioned here,
we must expect them to have failures once in a while.
/Jobs
The Jobs
database will have a
list of every job in the city, along with a description of the job and
its current status. This includes all of the government jobs.
If somebody is working at a job, he will be
identified, and if he has made plans to retire or switch to some other
job, it will show the date at when the job will become available.
Unlike a free enterprise system, nobody has any secrecy, so everybody
can see all of the jobs in the city, and who is working at the job.
If a job is expected to be eliminated in the future, the database will
have the estimated date. For example, when the managers of a factory
make plans to install robots and eliminate some employees, or when they
expect a job to be eliminated due to upcoming changes in social
activities, they will put the estimated date that the jobs will vanish
in the entry for those jobs.
This constitution suggests the following information for each job:
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Job:
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Factory Supervisor
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Job ID:
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M53-65-56
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Hours:
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Full time, weekdays,
7:00 to 16:00
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Description:
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Supervise a factory
that produces...
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Requirements:
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Must have experience
with...
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Created:
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5 April 2023
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Termination date:
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Current employee:
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Bob Doe, ID
516-932-184
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Becomes available:
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Irritations:
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Must be able to
routinely pick up boxes up to 20 kg from the floor, which requires an
excellent
back and knees.
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That entry shows that Bob Doe currently has the job, and that there is
no "Becomes Available" date because Bob doesn't have any plans to leave
the job, and there is no "Termination Date" because there is no plan to
eliminate the job.
Some jobs should have an " Irritation"
entry ( shown in green, below) to describe the aspects of
the job that
previous employees have either disliked or been fired for. In a free
enterprise system, businesses tend to ignore or minimize the
undesirable aspects of a job, but as mentioned here,
jobs must be designed to allow people to enjoy working, and
this requires businesses be honest
about the
jobs so that prospective candidates can make better decisions about
whether they will be able to do the job properly and enjoy it.
Employees are not
the possessions of businesses. A business is just a group of city
employees who have been selected to accomplish a particular task.
Everybody in the city has a right to know the truth about all of the
jobs and businesses.
When a new job is expected to exist in the future,
the database will show the estimated date at which the job will be
created, shown in red below:
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Job:
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Aquaculture analyst
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Job ID: |
A54-82-57
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Hours: |
Part-time, three
hours, one day a week.
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Description:
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Analyze and
evaluate the effectiveness of a new type of aquaculture facility...
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Must have experience
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Termination date:
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Current employee:
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Becomes
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August
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Expect
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In a free enterprise system, businesses are secretive about the jobs
they plan to terminate, and the jobs they expect to create in the
future, because they don't want employees to quit before the job has
been eliminated, and they don't want their competitors to know what
they're planning to do, but this Constitution creates an economy in
which the businesses are groups
of friends who are working to make their lives better. They are not working for a business, or for
an investor.
With this Constitution, the
businesses cannot keep
secrets from the people because the businesses belong to the city.
They do not
belong to investors, banks, or wealthy people.
The jobs in the city are analogous to the chores of a family. Everybody has the right to
know the truth about all of the jobs,
including which jobs are likely to soon vanish or
be created, so that we can make plans for our future. It will also
allow schools to adjust their curriculum to prepare students for the
jobs of the future.
No
organization is allowed to to be deceptive or secretive. Instead,
they are required to let everybody know what they do, and what they
expect to do in the future. Their future plans are public
knowledge, not
proprietary information.
/City
The City
database is for information that the city government assumes will be
useful to
both the residents and visitors of the city, such as:
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Maps, descriptions,
and diagrams of the parks, trains, foot paths,
plazas, bicycle paths, swimming areas, farms, and creeks. |
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A map of every
structure of the city. Since the map is electronic, clicking or
touching any of the buildings on the map will provide a description,
such as whether it is an apartment, restaurant, museum, social club,
school, medical
facility, or factory. It will also contain whatever other information
that is considered useful, such as hours of operation, and what type of
services the facility offers.
Since everybody is
free to move from one apartment to another whenever
they please, the database will show which apartments are vacant and
whether the apartment is restricted to childless adults, families, or
the elderly. It will show the names of the people in each apartment so
that people can decide who they want to live near. |
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A calendar with a
description of the city's festivals, holidays, and other
celebrations. |
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A description of the dangerous
vegetation that grows in and around the city, such as those that are
poisonous or have thorns.
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A listing of the dangerous animals and insects in the
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Geological
information about the land, subsoil, earthquake faults, and
underground water that would be useful for people involved with
farming, construction, and gardening. |
/People
When a woman gets pregnant,
an entry in the People
database is created
for the baby, and the baby is provided with a unique identification
number. From
then on everything about the baby is recorded in his
database entry. For example, if there are any ultrasound scans of the
fetus, or other medical analyses, that
information is saved in his database entry.
If the woman has a miscarriage, or the fetus is aborted, that
information will be saved for
scientists who analyze such issues.
When the baby is born, information about his health will be saved in
the database, along with a DNA sample. The school and medical personnel
will continuously add information to the database, such as updated
photos of his face, samples of his voice, 3D scans of his head and
body, dental records, medical records, and school records. The city's
computers will use that data to identify and track people.
No information is considered to be
too "personal" or "private" for the database. The People
database
is treated
as if it were a database about wolves or cherry trees. It is
regarded as a valuable source
of knowledge about humans. It will allow scientists, doctors, and
artificial intelligence software to analyze humans to help us identify
people with potential medical and physical disorders, and help us
understand the human
race.
It will also be useful for the citizens to compare themselves to other
people to help them understand themselves and how they differ from
other people.
The People
database also eliminates the time that we waste providing information
about ourselves to doctors, employers, and other people. For example,
when we visit a doctor, we do not have to
provide
any information about our medical problems, the drugs we are taking, or
any other aspect of our history or life. Instead, we provide only our
ID number, and the medical personnel will access whatever information
they want by looking at our entry in the People
database.
The doctors cannot maintain
their own medical records. Instead, every
doctor puts whatever information he collects about us into our entry of
the People
database.
Likewise, schools are required to put a student's performance reports
into his entry of
the People
database, and businesses must put job
performance reviews into that database.
In order to avoid cluttering the database with useless job performance
reviews, if there is nothing particularly good or bad to say about
an employee, his manager should not
post his job performance review. Most people do the same tasks over and
over, and they do not cause trouble, so there is no point in posting a
job performance review to let us know that his performance is the same
as it was the year before.
The People
database also simplifies applying for a job or an educational program.
Instead of filling out applications, we only have to provide our ID
number. Employers access information about a job
candidate by looking in his database entry. This will also eliminate
the
problem of
deceptive resumes.
Everybody has access to the People
database,
but only certain people can put information in it, such as doctors,
teachers, and the managers who provide job performance reviews.
However, nobody can post information anonymously.
When a person puts
information in the database, the software that manages the database
will automatically tag the data with the identification number of the
person who posted it.
The software will not allow a person to put data into the database
unless the software has verified who the person is through facial
recognition. Therefore, the person who posts the information has to do
so from a computer or phone that has a camera.
If a person believes that some of the information in his or
somebody else's
database
entry is
inaccurate, he can post his explanation in the Suggestions
category, and the Courts Ministry of the Quality Division will
investigate
and decide if the information
should be edited.
The Courts Ministry is the only group
authorized to edit the
information in the People
database.
When a Courts official decides to change
some information, he must identify himself as the person making the
change, and he must provide a reason for the change. It will be similar
to how the Wikipedia keeps track of the
edits made to the information. However, the Wikipedia editors are not held
accountable for what they
do, which allows them to lie, include propaganda, and censor important
information.
We can put instructions in our database
entry
Although nobody is allowed to edit their database entry, we are
allowed to add instructions to it. For example, if a person is
expecting a delivery of something he
needs immediately, such as a medicine, he can put an instruction in his
database entry to deliver the product to wherever he happens to be.
Normally a package is delivered to a person's address, but the city's
computer looks in a person's database entry to see if he has
requested any of his packages to be delivered to where he happens to
be, and if so, the computer will use its tracking software to figure
out where
the person is, and then send it to that location.
A person could also leave an instruction to be notified when a package
is about to be delivered to him, in which case the computer sends him a
message, and then
he can decide what to do with the package. For example, if a technician
is waiting for a tool or spare part to perform maintenance on a farming
tractor, but the tractor is being used, then he could leave an
instruction to be notified when the tool is about to be delivered.
When he gets the notification, he can figure out where the farmer
happens to be, arrange for a delivery location nearby, ask the computer
how long it will take to deliver to that location, and then tell the
farmer to be there at that time. Then he, the farmer, and the package
will arrive at the same location at about the same time.
/Detrimental
This constitution does not
support any type of censorship. Therefore, when people create documents
that are considered to be absurd, destructive, or worthless, instead of
censoring them, the government officials can move them to the Detrimental
category.
This will
enable the government to remove the documents that promote such idiotic
concepts as
astrology, reverse speech,
ghosts, and witchcraft. The documents will continue to exist, and links
to the documents to continue to work, but the documents will not show
up in searches unless
somebody specifically requests that the Detrimental
category be included in
the search.
The only people who can move documents to this category are the
ministers, presidents, and directors, and when they do so, the software
keeps track of which person is responsible for it.
Moving documents to this category is superior to censoring
documents because it allows us to know what our government officials
consider to be detrimental information. That allows us to pass judgment
on whether they are making wise
decisions.
Nobody has authorization to edit or delete any of the documents in this
category because that would defeat the purpose of having this category.
/Prices
Everything in Kastron is
free, and there is no type of money. However, everything will be given
a price in order to make it easier and faster for the people in
management to make economic decisions. Although there is no currency,
the prices will be set in "dollars" because most people are already
familiar with that word.
Since the prices of item are used only for analyses, they can be
set to be more useful compared to the prices of a free
enterprise system. For example, a refrigerator needs insulation, but if
there are two options for insulation, and one of them requires slightly
less labor or resources, then the businesses in a free enterprise
system would choose the less expensive insulation. However, if the more
expensive insulation is easier to recycle, then its "overall cost" to
society might be lower.
In a free enterprise system, the price of an item is the price of
producing and selling it, but with this economy, the price can include
the recycling and maintenance of the item. More
details about this concept are here.
/Elections
The election of the
presidents are conducted through the Internet. This category has
information
about every election. It will have a list of the candidates for each
election, and a list of how each voter has voted.
The people who want to become president must apply for the job exactly
as if they were applying for a job as a factory worker, technician, or
engineer. The presidential candidates are individual
citizens, not political party members. The candidates cannot travel
around the city
to give speeches or meet people, advertise themselves, or participate
in televised debates.
Although each voter is independent, they are expected to get together
once in a while to discuss issues. The voters are city employees who select presidents
for the city. They are not selecting
presidents for themselves or their friends. Therefore, they are
expected to help one another make intelligent
decisions by discussing the
candidates, the presidents, and their
policies.
Voters who
cannot calmly discuss their decisions are as disgusting as people who
need muzzles.
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As mentioned here,
a person who cannot calmly discuss issues is regarded as analogous to a
wild animal that needs a muzzle over its mouth. Those type of voters
must be fired because they are
destructive to the discussions.
The voters do not have any secrecy. Each voter must post a document in
the Elections
category to explain who he is voting for, and why.
Expecting a voter to provide a document to explain his decisions is not putting a
burden on the him because he should have analyzed the candidates, so he
should have a reason for selecting a candidate. Requiring a voter to
produce a document to explain himself is simply asking him to tell us
what his reasoning was.
The document only needs enough detail to allow us to understand his
reasoning so that we can pass judgment on whether he is providing us
with intelligent analyses of the candidates, and making sensible
decisions about them.
/Surveillance
The city's security system
will produce such an
overwhelming amount of data that nobody is expected to watch it live on
monitors. Rather, it will be stored in the Surveillance
database, and all of the video is be available to everybody.
When the AI software becomes more advanced, it could discard the
sections of video that doesn't have anybody in it so that we don't
waste storage
space on it, and to make it faster to search through the video data.
The surveillance video will be tagged with the date and time, and the
location of the camera. The Security Ministry is required to use facial
recognition and tracking software so that computers can also tag the
security video with the identification numbers of the people in the
video.
Providing the city with only one security system, and putting all of
its video into one database that everybody has access to, prevents some
of the problems that occur with security video today. For example, when
a crime occurs today, the police have to wander around the area to
figure out which citizens and businesses might have security video of
the crime, and then they have to hope that by the time they find the
video it hasn't been overwritten.
The police also have to hope that the citizen or business doesn't
deliberately overwrite the video, or pretend that the cameras were
malfunctioning at the time, such as when that Jeffrey Epstein
supposedly committed suicide.
The police also have to be concerned about other government agencies
confiscating and destroying video. For example, the FBI confiscated,
and possibly destroyed, a lot of the security video of the 9/11 attack,
and probably thousands of other crimes. The military is also keeping
security video of the attack on the Pentagon a secret.
The majority of people don't care that security video is being
confiscated, destroyed, or hidden, or that cameras are mysteriously
malfunctioning. Their apathy is one of the reasons that crime networks
can be so successful.
It also allows crime networks to hold onto security video for blackmail purposes, and release it
when they want to manipulate people. For example, in May 2024, CNN boasted
that they obtained security camera video from a hotel that was recorded
in 2016. The video shows Sean
Combs behaving abusively with his girlfriend at the time. That video
was kept secret for about eight years.
Who kept it hidden? Why was it hidden? Why was it given to CNN? How
many other security videos of crimes are being hidden?
The majority of people are so unable and/or unwilling to deal with the
problems of a modern society that they don't ask such questions, and
they don't care about the answers. However, that video is evidence
that a crime network in the entertainment
business was holding onto that video, and that CNN is working with them.
Perhaps they released that video because Sean Combs was not following
their orders, and they wanted to torment him and set an example to the
other people they are blackmailing. Or perhaps it was released to
distract the public from the accusations that the Jews in Hollywood are
involved with pedophilia and human trafficking by directing our anger
towards the black Americans.
In order to prevent this problem of people hiding and destroying
security video, this Constitution requires all security video to go
into one database, and nobody is allowed to edit, delete, or hide any
of it. This will give the police, and everybody else, access to all
security video at any time of the day, and from any phone or computer.
Although many people are frightened by surveillance cameras, the more
video we collect about ourselves, the more we benefit. For example:
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Understanding
humans.
Some examples of how security video can help us understand ourselves
are:
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It allows government
officials to understand how and when people travel to and from
their jobs, leisure activities, restaurants, and other
facilities. That analysis helps them make decisions
about how to design and arrange the public transportation system, foot
paths, bicycle paths, and bridges, and where to place medical
facilities, restaurants,
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It
provides scientists with
unbiased data about
human behavior, and it
allows them to observe how pollen, flowers, wind, diseases, mosquitoes,
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It allows historians to have access to
unbiased data about human life. As of today, there is not much
surveillance video for them to analyze, but the future historians will
have whatever security video we save for them, and that will allow them
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Entertainment.
As
mentioned in previous documents, such as here,
people can use the surveillance video to reminisce about their past, or
to show
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Refreshing our memory.
Our memories are imperfect, so the more surveillance video we have, the
easier it is for us to figure out what we said or did in the past. For
an extreme example, if we had complete
surveillance of everybody in
every location of the city, and if the city's computers were tagging
all of the video, a person would be able to use his cell phone
to ask to see video of himself in the morning to verify that he took
the medicine he was supposed to take, or turned off some piece of
equipment.
Having access to such a video database would be more useful than
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Resolving disputes.
It helps us to resolve disputes and crimes, which is extremely
beneficial to the people who are honest.
The more extensive our video surveillance is, the less likely it is for
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Paintings
of the past show the value of surveillance video
We do not yet have the ability to ask a computer to show us the
video of our past, or the video of somebody from a previous century, so
it can be difficult for us to understand how entertaining or valuable
that data will be.
However, the paintings made centuries ago can give us an idea of how
useful and entertaining
surveillance video can be. For example, the
paintings made during the Middle Ages show us what type of clothing the
people wore, what type of homes they lived in, and what a wedding
dinner in 1568 looked like. Surveillance video of that era would have
been even more entertaining and educational.
It is idiotic to be afraid of
surveillance video. We should learn to
enjoy it and benefit from it. I scanned this
magazine
article from 1952 about my mother's family to show how useful and
entertaining this type of information can be. It is just text and
photos, but if it had been video it would have been even more
useful and entertaining.
Why are we embarrassed about
surveillance video?
Animals are not
embarrassed
or ashamed of what they do. They do whatever they please in front of
other animals. Humans, however, are embarrassed and ashamed of a lot of
the things we do. We want to hide in our homes or bathrooms when we do
certain things. Why are we so ashamed of ourselves? Why are we afraid
of surveillance
cameras?
If we could go back in time, we would find that there was a point
during the development of humans that our ancestors were not ashamed or
embarrassed of anything they did. As with the monkeys, they
would eat, have sex, masturbate, argue, pick their nose, and clean
their teeth whenever they pleased, and without any embarrassment.
There are lots of possible ways to explain our embarrassment. One is
that we developed " manners".
We
prefer to look at attractive clothing rather than a person's crotch,
and we don't enjoy watching people pee, poop, or pick their nose.
However, a more sad reason that we are embarrassed of surveillance
video is because the human race has degraded significantly during the
past few tens of thousands of years. For example, women have messy
menstruation cycles, and everybody seems to have problems with farting
and excess mucus in their nose.
The human race is becoming increasingly defective, and this is causing
us to become increasingly ashamed and embarrassed of ourselves. We have
intense cravings to be at the top of the social hierarchy, so we want
to impress people, and this results in us wanting to hide our
embarrassing aspects and pretend that we are better than we really are.
We are frightened of surveillance video because that video will show
the truth about us. We don't want people to know the truth about us. We
want them to believe our lies.
Even though we are extremely arrogant and like to believe that we are
the standard to judge all humans, almost everybody is embarrassed of
some portion of their body, their odors, their bodily functions, or
their behavior.
For example, some people are embarrassed of how often they masturbate,
or the manner in which they masturbate, or how often they have sex, or
the manner in which they have sex. Some people are embarrassed of how
much alcohol or other drugs they use, and some people are embarrassed
of how much time they spend in their home lounging because their
physical and mental disorders make it difficult for them to do
something. Some people are embarrassed of how they treat their spouse
or children.
This problem is becoming worse with every generation. If we don't start
restricting reproduction, everybody in the future will be extremely
ashamed of themselves.
When the future generations start restricting reproduction, there will
be a point at which everybody is in excellent mental and physical
health. Those genetically superior people will not be
ashamed of
themselves.
We
must regard humans as animals
In order to restrict reproduction to people with the best mental and
physical characteristics, we must be able to collect details on
everybody's characteristics. That will require we suppress our
embarrassment of ourselves.
We have to push
ourselves into regarding humans as animals, and acknowledging that each
of us is a jumble of animal genes. We must regard data of ourselves
as documentation about the
human race, and as information
about human behavior.
It is absurd and detrimental for a person to feel
guilty about his undesirable physical characteristics, such as an ugly
face, excessive mucus, food allergies, crooked teeth, or bad eyesight.
Nobody chose to have genetic defects, so nobody should be ashamed that
they have defects. It is detrimental to be ashamed of ourselves because
it gives us a bad attitude. We need to accept
our defects rather than be ashamed of them, ignore them, or lie about
them.
It is also absurd and detrimental for a person to insult somebody who
has a genetic disorder. We have a strong craving to "pluck the
feathers" out of the people we regard as inferior, but that emotion is
no longer useful in our modern era. We need to exert self-control over
that crude craving. That type of behavior creates a miserable social
environment for everybody.
We must learn to accept our own defects, rather than be ashamed of
ourselves and we must accept the defects of other
people, rather than insult them. We
must control our craving to impress other people
with a false image. We must push ourselves into being more honest. This
is one reason why this Constitution requires
schools to occasionally have the students analyze themselves and other
people. ( This is
described here
and here.)
The
computer installations
should be attractive
The city needs a lot of
buildings to hold all of the computers and other electronic equipment
to support a phone network, radio communications, and possibly a local
GPS network. In all existing nations, the electronic equipment is put
into buildings that tend to be bland and low to the ground, such as the
data center for Facebook in
Georgia, in the photo
below.
In a free enterprise system, the buildings are designed to be economical, but this Constitution
puts human life ahead of profit, so the buildings must be designed to
be decorations for the city.
Furthermore, the buildings should be as tall as possible so that more
land is available to the people, and to reduce travel times.
The buildings do not need windows, so the outside of the buildings
can be designed for strength and fire resistance. The intake and
exhaust ports for cooling air could be decorative, also, and at the
tops of the building so that the people on the ground are not bothered
by the noise or the blowing of the air.
/Public
This category is similar to
the Suggestions
category, but less formal. It is intended for people to
discuss issues that they are curious about, but without having their
social credit score ruined as a result of asking "stupid" questions.
By discussing an issue, a person might learn enough about it to develop
a formal suggestion for the government officials. Also, discussing an
issue can stimulate other people into thinking about it, which might
eventually lead to some valuable ideas or suggestions.
Three examples of
the type of messages that people might post in this
category are:
Are glass fibers escaping from fiberglass?
Jim Jones, 24 Aug 2032
After picking avocados with a device that has
a fiberglass handle, it felt as if there were microscopic needles along
the inside of my hands. It occurred to me that it might be the result
of fiberglass because the device was several decades old, and the epoxy
seemed to be degrading. I wound the handle with duct tape, and that
stopped the problem.
This made me wonder, does the epoxy matrix disintegrate from age,
thereby exposing us to the glass fibers? If so, does that result in
tiny
fragments of fiberglass getting into our skin? And does it also result
in tiny bits of glass blowing around in the air, which get into
our lungs, eyes, and stomach? If so, what happens to those pieces of
fiberglass when they get inside of us?
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Does carbonation affect our
intestines?
Ralph Johnson, 16 Aug 2030
When we drink carbonated liquids, does the
carbon dioxide get into our intestine? If so, is it better to have high
levels of carbon dioxide there, or better to have high levels of
oxygen?
Are carbonated drinks useful for helping us to burp, thereby reducing
the air in our stomach, which in turn reduces farting? Or do they make
the situation worse by increasing
the
gas in our digestive system?
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Does our body have a natural painkiller?
Jane Smith, 9 Dec 2036
During the day, when I am not sleepy, if I
remain in one position in a chair, or if I am laying down on something,
the parts of my body that are under pressure soon become
irritated, causing me to shift my position. When I sleep, I also move
around occasionally, perhaps because my body notices that some areas
are not getting enough blood, but it seems that I can remain in one
position a lot longer when I am sleeping.
Does our body release a painkiller when we sleep so that we don't
notice the irritation caused by the pressure on our body? Or does our
brain ignore those particular pain signals while we are sleeping?
If our body releases a painkiller to help us sleep, could that chemical
be synthesized and used as a natural pain medication?
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By having informal
discussions about issues, the people can educate
themselves and one another, and the people who maintain electronic
encyclopedias and school books might occasionally realize that they
need to edit some of their information to clarify it, or add additional
information. Those discussions can also lead somebody into posting a
proposal in the Suggestions
category for a research project, or for
some cultural change.
/Polls
The Polls
category is for the government officials to post a document that
requests the opinions of the City Elders when they are dealing
with arbitrary issues. This is described here.
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