Constitutional Theses

All men are created equal.

We are all born helpless, crying and naked.

Every human being shares the same basic needs.

Clean water, sufficient nutrition, social security and emotional satisfaction are essential.

A person can only demand rights he is willing to grant to others.

A single person benefits from being incorporated within a community.

After Hobbes, that is the reason why individuals group together in the first place (even though that's not always easy).

The topmost goal of a governance/social system should be to benefit its people.

This mandates maximization of output performance and minimization of short-, middle- and long-term damage.

Regarding non-trivial issues, a state of perfection is unreachable in reality.

No form of society can achieve 100% guaranteed happyness and satisfaction for all individuals at all times; trying is the best it can get.

At least one governance system is thinkable that is more by measures such as…

Think hard.

The economic/human cost of keeping this system is larger than the effort required to switch to a new one.

Extrapolation: exponential disaster.

The current political/economical system is not efficiently fullfilling its duties.

The existing situation …

A new global governance system can be established through the united effort of the majority of human beings.

Regardless of the political situation in the distinct nations of the world – if the majority of 6+ billion men and women make the decision to paint all streets on earth pink, that is a statement with resoluteness.

Time is running out.

The longer we wait, the bigger existing problems will grow. New challenges will pop up, perhaps some in whcih we need to act concertedly on very short time scales.

A political system should not be based on persons, but derive decisions from reason and factual argument.

Today, politicians often decide on topics they are only briefly informed by other people, often with an interest of their own which leads to manipulation through misinformation or even corruption. Furthermore, political compromises have to be made, thus totally unrelated issues are often bundled to law and regulation packages. Cumbersome changes that often would be necessary are sacrificed for seats in parliament and continuity of political dominance; voters are attracted to parties that promise the land of milk and honey while at the same demanding tax cuts. Alltogether this leads to a situation where only in rare cases the right thing rightly is done at the right time.

The quality of an idea or thought is totally independant from its thinker (origin).

A governance system should be designed such that the best idea (regardless of being outspoken by an 8-year old girl or an honored professor) has the highest chance of being put into practise.

At the beginning of the 21^st century, mankind has the technological ability to fulfill the basic needs of each and every individual.

Consider giant underground grain and algae farms powered by fusion power. This planet can feed as many people as fit on the surface.

An economical system based on competition wastes a lot of resources.

Duplicate efforts in research, education and literature thanks to patents and copyright.

Trying to improve upon a sufficiently broken system is a waste of time.

Imagine a machine in a factory producing a certain product. It has long passed its best times, and with age and wear comes ever shorter intervals between breakdowns and standstills. The machine is loud, produces a lot of scrap, wastes resources and is slow and inflexible. However, it still works and is serviced and repaired where needed. So is it a good idea to keep it up and running until it fully breaks down, or should it instead be modernized and overhauled (causing a stop in production during that time)? Wouldn't it be cleverer to design a new machine from scratch – goal oriented and with consideration of the gathered experience – while the old one is still (barely) working?

Appropiatly exercised, teamwork yields better cumulative results than the principle of competition.

Competition on the fields of education, research, engineering, product development and health care may seem to work well at first. But imagine what jump start would be caused by releasing the brakes (such hinderances for full-scale collaboration as patents, copyrights and money in general)…