A founding document for the machinery that produces lived social reality — and the test it must pass to deserve to exist.
The architecture of human civilization holds no inherent moral primacy. Our technologies, markets, governments, and institutions are not masters to be served — they are fabricated tools, designed to support life.
No institution, market, government, or technology possesses value independent of the people and the living world it serves. Where the mechanics of a system conflict with the flourishing of humanity or the biosphere, the system must yield.
Structures and technologies are not rejected by virtue of their complexity. They are justified solely by their capacity to improve human life and sustain the Earth.
Every subsequent law, policy, and mechanism codified herein shall be tested against a singular metric — applied without exception to the document that contains it.
Does this serve people and the Earth, or does it merely preserve the system?
Any system found to serve only itself carries no legitimacy. It must be reformed or dismantled.