Here you will find a blueprint for restoring the foundations of Liberty and Justice, and for
dedicating ourselves to the proposition that a Nation so founded shall not perish from this earth.

Core Human Traits

Overview

"…​if she could have looked a little further back,
into the stillness and the darkness before Time dawned,
she would have read there a different incantation."

-- Aslan, from "The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe."

Core Human Psychological Realities

Too often our perspectives on our problems do not delve back far enough. We are easily seduced by the belief that our written history is our true history.

Project Liberty 2029 will often refer to core human psychological traits, or realities.

We see these as rooted in our pre-historic history.

We believe you can confirm these for yourself upon self-examination.

These deepest human truths are listed here for convenience:

  1. we are born without the choice of our parents,

  2. we generally favor our children over others,

  3. women know for sure who their children are, but fathers do not,

  4. humans learn by the examples of others,

  5. humanity is at least 250,000 years old and evolved in the Ice Age when wealth accumulation was impossible,

  6. humans do not know the future, however:

    1. we still believe we can predict what’s coming,

    2. our predictions are often wrong, and

    3. yet we continue to believe we can predict the future,

  7. humans make most of our risk judgments based on individual examples, not on statistical analysis,

  8. humans working memory only has room for four to five considerations,

  9. humans form societies because we are our own best defense to our worst enemies: which are

    1. disease,

    2. pests, and

    3. other humans

  10. there are three kinds of 'games' that can model all human interactions (especially those involving wealth):

    1. negative-sum,

    2. positive-sum, and

    3. zero-sum

  11. In the first two of those games, we are able to make natural allies out of other humans, but in the zero-sum case, we end up with winners and losers, and generally this leads to enemies,

  12. Our current economic and political systems came about through traditions building upon traditions that were attempting to answer these psychological realities over thousands of years,

  13. As such they are not ideal, and can be considered in many ways accidental.

These psychological realities structure the proposals and thinking here at Project Liberty 2029.

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