A Winning Strategy for Effective Government

Domestication occurs because the winning strategy for peace is tit for tat. Cognition wants, on some level, to empower the agent's actions. Death is a bad end state for empowerment.

The tit-for-tat strategy or the Generous tit-for-tat strategy will allow a civilization to survive by monopolizing the use of force to cooperate and only using it on those who defect and use force.

Only using state-sanctioned force on those that defect by using force removes that part of the population. This removal is eugenic for a civilization that only wants the government to utilize force.

Societies persist through the maintenance of aggregate individual behaviors passed down. The aggregate behaviors one sees at any given time are not always suitable for that particular environment or universally good for the species.

Concept formation is a cognitive tool of warfare, and the language game exists to escape irrational prime mazes in abstraction space by moving past the conceptual bottleneck in concept space.

Concept formation, by allowing self-awareness, if not of the strategy but of the outcomes of strategies over long periods, allows these individuals to form the precursors of what we would consider contracts.

The codification of contracts then becomes the codification of the societal aggregate behaviors. Those codified behaviors by law can then be analyzed for universally good outcomes or removed if they are bad or vestigial.

This general process of concept formation continues fractally as new concepts are discovered, allowing new ways of structuring behavior to be developed. This behavior change, in turn, affects mankind's recent evolutionary history.

What is weird is that the evolutionary features seen in the behavior selection changes occur across mammal generations in relatively short periods, as evidenced by the Russian Fox domestication experiments.

One might wonder why mammalian evolution already had a feature set for domestication in mammals before any particular group of mammals evolved it. It might be that the precursor ancestor species had already gone through pro-socialization when mammals were still living underground, preying on eusocial insects and avoiding the much bigger reptiles on open land.

I would imagine that it would have been helpful to tell how prosocial another mammal was from a neighboring colony or burrow in such an environment and that those features can still be rapidly re-evolved in populations under extreme prosocial selection pressures.

Many of the societal problems we see today and throughout history are caused by the government incorrectly applying force as if humans were eusocial and could decide the reproductive fates of humans.

If the below three are the criteria for Eusociality.

1. Reproductive division of labor (with or without sterile castes)

2. Overlapping generations

3. Cooperative care of young

Then, humans above a particular group size have overlapping generations and have some level of cooperative care for the young.

Reproductive division of labor is where the government has the unnatural ability to modify behavior.

Any action that the government takes that isn't explicitly about the prosocial removal of people who defect and use force is an action of the government that uses force to modify divisions of labor.

This modification of the division of labor unnaturally chooses winners and losers in the reproductive division of labor and ultimately leads to sterile castes.

This unnatural selection of reproductive winners and losers by the government is dysgenic and corrosively destroys the merits of government.

The level at which the government performs this unnatural selection tracks a society's downfall. The story of government taxation promoting particular individuals or classes instead of stopping violent defectors is timeless.

The government unlawfully turns meaningful taxes to protect individual rights by stopping defectors that use force into theft by breaching the precursor contract, taking property from one group of losers, and giving it to the winners.

The right of revolution becomes necessary because those who had force used against them must become defectors and switch to the second part of the tit-for-tat strategy: no longer cooperating and doing what the opposition did by using force.

Effective government, solely and limitedly, removes people who violate the rights of others from the propagating gene pool. When a population is contaminated with people who violate rights, then you will find the same kinds of people within its government.

All other government actions will promote antisocial and dysgenic tendencies across all levels of society and lead to instability.

The purpose of power is to use power to stop it from being wielded.

Every other attempt to use it in the guise of goodwill fails.