BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN UNIVERSAL AFFAIRS A Textbook Published by: Department of Universal Affairs (Informal name: Department for Fixing the Universe, Especially Humans) Status: First edition. Not peer-reviewed, because peers don't exist at this level yet. Prerequisite: Epistemic humility. If you cannot say "I don't know," close this book and come back when you can. TABLE OF CONTENTS ================= PART ONE: THE UNIVERSE ---------------------- Chapter 1: Cosmology and the Origin of Everything See: Physics. Cosmology. Astrophysics. The universe started. It has laws. Those laws apply everywhere. The Department defers to the existing science on this. Chapter 2: Geology and Planetary Processes See: Geology. Geophysics. Planetary Science. Plates move. Mountains form. The Department defers. Chapter 3: Volcanoes See: Volcanology. They erupt. Sometimes catastrophically. The science of why is well established and adequately covered by existing disciplines. The Department has nothing to add. Chapter 4: Weather and Climate See: Meteorology. Climatology. The atmosphere does things. Some of them are now human-caused. The Department defers to the existing science on mechanism, and notes that the political failure to act on climate data is a human problem - see Part Two. Chapter 5: Ecology and Non-Human Life See: Biology. Ecology. Ethology. Zoology. Other species exist and have worked out how to live in their environments with varying degrees of success. Some of them also run dominance hierarchies. The Department notes this with interest but defers to existing biology on the details. Chapter 6: The Possibility of Non-Human Intelligence See: Astrobiology. SETI. Also: this textbook, Appendix A. We don't know yet. If non-human intelligence exists and is running a subjugation loop, Part Two applies to them as well. The Department's jurisdiction is the universe, not just this planet. We are ready. PART TWO: HUMANS ---------------- Chapter 7: Humans - Where Do We Start? Boy oh boy. Okay. Let's start here: humans are the only species on this planet that builds hospitals and concentration camps. That writes symphonies and rape manuals. That invents the rule of law and then spends considerable energy finding ways around it. That knows, with documented certainty, that tribal exclusion produces violence - and then continues to exclude. The existing disciplines have pieces of this. Psychology has the individual. Sociology has the structures. Criminology arrives after the damage is done. Evolutionary biology has the hardware but rarely connects it to policy. Developmental psychology has the installation window but won't name the hardware honestly. Political science has the institutions but not the evolutionary roots. Moral philosophy has the ought but frequently ignores the is. Nobody owns the intersection. This textbook owns the intersection. The chapters that follow do not start from "what is wrong with humans." They start from "what is the hardware, and what does it do when conditions are met." The hardware is not the problem. The hardware is what it is. The problem is installing the wrong software on top of it, or failing to install anything at all, and then being surprised when the hardware runs its defaults. The defaults include: tribal exclusion, dominance competition, honour/shame redirection, and under specific conditions, subjugation - the removal of agency from others by force. We will explain all of this. We will explain why. And then we will explain what to do about it. One foundational principle before we begin: THE FRACTAL HARDWARE PRINCIPLE The hardware runs at every scale identically. The bully in the playground and the dictator in the palace are running the same code. The child who never received the lolly and the state that never received its Marshall Plan are producing the same output from the same unmet installation. The tribe boundary that makes rape possible and the national boundary that makes war possible are the same mechanism at different magnitudes. States are not separate entities with their own hardware. They are glorified groups of individuals running the same hardware at larger scale. Lessons derived at the individual level apply directly to state behaviour. Lessons derived from state behaviour illuminate individual psychology. The dynamics are isomorphic at every scale. This means foreign policy can be derived from playground dynamics, and personal relationships can be diagnosed using geopolitical frameworks. The same fix applies at every scale. THE POSITION OF STRENGTH PRINCIPLE When one party has harmed another and then stops, the correct response depends entirely on position of strength. Before safety: caution is rational. Generosity could be exploited. Holding firm is self-protection, not vengeance. After safety: the calculus changes completely. Continued punishment is no longer self-protection. It is vengeance perpetuating the loop. Generosity before safety is weakness. Generosity after safety is the only thing that breaks the loop. The timing is everything. This applies between individuals, between organisations, and between states. The threshold is the same at every scale: the moment you hold the position of strength is the moment generosity becomes possible and productive. Not before. Exactly then. Let's go. Chapter 8: The Hardware - What Humans Actually Are Evolution produced a social primate with four competitive systems running simultaneously. This chapter names them honestly. See also: subjug1.txt in the corpus. Chapter 9: The Tribe Boundary - Where Violence Comes From Humans are wired to protect tribe members and treat outsiders as targets. This is not a moral failure. It is a hardware setting. It has a known intervention. Chapter 10: The Subjugation Loop - Why Civilisations Fail Dominance is inevitable and not immoral. Subjugation - the removal of agency - is a choice, usually driven by panic. This chapter traces the loop from individual psychology to civilisational collapse. Chapter 11: The Installation Window - What Happens Before Age Six The window exists. It closes. What goes in during that window runs for life. This chapter covers what should go in, what usually goes in, and what happens when nothing does. See also: mothers.txt, cryitout.txt, install.txt. Chapter 12: The Manufacturing of Nasty People Nasty people are not born. They are made. This chapter explains the manufacturing process and the intervention points. The nasty person is a five-year-old in an adult body who never received the lolly. This is not an excuse. It is a diagnosis. Diagnoses have treatments. Chapter 13: Rape - The Hardware Account This chapter will make some readers uncomfortable. It should. Rape is a hardware behaviour running on outside-tribe targets when the tribe boundary is not expanded. Naming it correctly is the first step toward the only intervention that actually works upstream. See also: subjug1.txt, mothers.txt. Chapter 14: Honour, Shame, and Misdirected Hardware Honour/shame is a social coordination mechanism that works correctly when pointed at betrayal of the tribe. It causes catastrophic damage when pointed at sex, gender, or caste. This chapter traces the misdirection and identifies the redirect. Chapter 15: The Pledge - The Minimum Viable Installation What needs to go in, at what age, in what language, to inoculate against the defaults. The Superman window. The adolescent installation. The adult amygdala bypass. See also: install.txt. Chapter 16: Institutions - What They Are For and Why They Fail Courts, armies, police, child services, psychology: all downstream of the hardware. This chapter maps the institutional landscape and identifies what is missing. See also: goal.txt. Chapter 17: The Department of Universal Affairs The institutional proposal derived from first principles. What it does. Why it doesn't exist yet. How to build it. The Bachelor of Science in Universal Affairs as its staffing pipeline. Chapter 18: The Goal Correct data and sound logic. The dog biscuit factory test. The two pledges. The oh fuck moment. See also: goal.txt, ohfuck.txt. APPENDICES ---------- Appendix A: Non-Human Intelligence and the Universal Jurisdiction If they exist and are running a subjugation loop, this textbook applies to them. We are ready. Appendix B: DSM Category 12 - Defender of the Universe (DOTU) The diagnostic category that explains who wrote this textbook and why. See also: dsm5.txt. Appendix C: The Corpus The source documents from which this textbook is derived. All primary sources. All free. All public domain. See: paul.txt for the reading order. END OF TABLE OF CONTENTS Note to reader: If you have reached the end of this table of contents and your instinct is to say "this person thinks too highly of themselves," please read Appendix B before proceeding. The differential diagnosis between delusions of grandeur and a 45-year documented track record is important. Check the CV before diagnosing. The universe thanks you for your time. - Department of Universal Affairs Ligao, Albay, Philippines February 2026