Monday, March 3, 2008

The Constitution of All Constitutions

Help me out, friends, enemies and indifferents. The task I have set for myself is to draft a model constitution for a human being's internal regime. I will post a clause (or clauses), and consider each comment thereon (whether the tone of the comment is somber, lighthearted, snarky, incredulous or indifferent). I may leave the text as posted, excise it from the model constitution, or modify it. Let the game begin!
1.0. Beseeching the active intellect for guidance, I set upon the task of drafting a model constitution for the internal regime of a fine human being, and begin with a statement of fundamental principles.

1.10. The fundamental longing of the internal regime of a human being is to interact with its surroundings.

1.11 Especially the objects of the longing for interaction are other human beings.

1.12. Albeit the objects of secondary longing, human interaction with non-human phenomena (for example, the sun, the air, the dirt, the water, the fire, the gods) are essential to the development of a fine internal regime.

1.20. In interactions with other humans, a human possessing a fine internal regime will recognize that each human is on the same level of creation, which being on the same level of creation is the fundamental law of equality of all humans.