Our goal is to improve humanity.
This is a broad target including individuals, family units, sociopolitical arrangements at every level, and humanity as a whole. This project starts as a review of our history as a species. What drives our decision making. How we order our social structures. How instincts make our decisions for us.
The primary goal of every animal is to pass it's genes on to subsequent generations. Throughout history there are three patterns that play out repeatedly in human affairs that are directly derived from our primary animal instinct: 1. Seek safety and security and basic needs.
2. The attraction of corruptible individuals to acquire positions of power within our sociopolitical accords.
3. Spread our genes into other pools.
These three guidelines are the River of History. History provides countless examples of the vast majority of individuals in a group to seek the protection and providence of the strong while a simultaneously overwhelming tendency for these individuals or sociological alliances to be corrupt and at best ambivalent to the needs of the people they rule. In almost every instance they are extraordinarily hostile to challenges to their power. Throughout this history most governing mandates have had the continuing power of the ruling class in mind and anything beyond providing basics and keeping them content or diverted is not a consideration.
Sociological constructions like Law, Regulation, Bureaucracy, Slavery, Police, Armies, Taxes, Religion with few deviations have been constructed and designed to keep humanity in the channels of the River. Even disruptive changes like Social Media are eventually turned into tools that keep humans in the channel of the River.
The River of History is stifling to human development and it drives humanity down a path that has a conclusion. It will be a nasty conclusion. There are many scenarios but they are all driven by a Corrupt Ruling Class that uses and loses control of a new technology they designed to maintain control or spread their genes. These rulers are driven by their animal instincts and have a tendency to make bad decisions. As technology improves their bad decisions will increase in their effect until it results in the end of our species. The River of History will always be a race between growth and catastrophe and we only need to lose the race once.
Axiom: Humans must not submit to animals.
