Supreme Court, Senate and Future Memory Checks and balances of social metabolism against the 01s
Supreme Court, Senate and Future Memory
Checks and balances of social metabolism against the 01s
First-Person Consciousness — Brain Bee
“My body has checks and balances since the egg.
The State is still learning.”
When I was still just an egg cell, everything in me already worked through checks and balances.
If blood pressure went too high, the body regulated it.
If oxygen dropped, another system acted to compensate.
If waste started to accumulate, other organs jumped in to clear it.
My organism is a kind of biological State:
heart, lungs, kidneys, brain – each with different powers,
each preventing any single system from becoming a tyrant
and destroying the rest.
As my Damasian Mind (interoception + proprioception) emerged,
I began to feel this from the inside:
fear tries to rule,
anger wants to explode,
pleasure wants to decide everything alone,
but there is a part of me –
my prefrontal cortex, my Zone 2 –
that says:
“Wait. Let’s think about the consequences.
Let’s remember what happened last time.
Let’s care about the future, not just the now.”
That is my inner Supreme Court:
the instance that slows down the raw impulse and asks
whether it makes sense for the whole body,
not just for immediate desire.
Later, in my digital adolescence,
I discovered how easy it is to hijack these internal checks and balances:
notifications all the time,
manufactured outrage,
high-definition hatred,
consumption as a reward for surviving the day.
My feeds throw me again and again into Zone 3:
a state of tense body, fast dopamine, blind faith in “saviours” and simple narratives.
It is the perfect terrain for the 01s –
the few who live off the State, interests and privileges,
who control information and opinion channels
to keep the social metabolism working for them.
Then I started to ask myself:
If my body is so careful with internal checks and balances,
why does the State still allow the 01s to capture social metabolism
– Drex, climate, waste, information –
with so little real resistance?
And my answer was:
Because Supreme Court, Senate and Future Memory have not yet been designed
as the nervous system, liver and consciousness of our JIWASA State.
1. From the egg to the State: checks and balances as biology, not ideology
In my body:
The nervous system does not rule alone:
it depends on blood, oxygen, organ metabolism.The heart does not decide everything:
if it races too much, other systems act so it doesn’t kill me.The liver filters and clears, but it can be overwhelmed
if the rest of the body abuses.
Checks and balances here are not ideology.
They are conditions for existence.
In the State, the idea is similar:
the Legislature creates laws,
the Executive implements and manages them,
the Judiciary – with the Supreme Court at the top – interprets the Constitution
and contains excesses.
In practice, though, that is not enough.
History has shown that:
the Executive can be captured by economic and media interests;
the Legislature can be colonised by lobbies and “nightly prayers” of social media;
the Judiciary can be too slow or too distant
to prevent deep harm to people and territories.
Through the lens of social metabolism, I see it like this:
The Supreme Court is where the State can remember
its deepest commitments – the Constitution as collective DNA.The Senate is the house that can think in long time scales –
future generations, biomes, infrastructure, Drex Citizen, Zero Waste 2040.Future Memory is the capacity of the JIWASA State
to anticipate what will happen to the social body
if we keep feeding the 01s and abandoning everyone else.
Without this triad, our institutional checks and balances
are as fragile as a body in burnout.
2. Who are the 01s in social metabolism?
When I talk about the 01s, I am not talking about conspiracy theories.
I am talking about social engineering.
The 01s are:
the minority that lives from the State’s rents,
from interest, privileges, positions,
contracts and legal loopholes;the minority that controls the production of narrative:
major outlets, segmented networks, funded influencers;the minority that dominates the budget gates:
tax waivers, subsidies, forgiven debts, mega contracts, big works.
They are not necessarily a “secret organisation”.
They are a script:
“How can we keep the entire metabolism working
to feed my tiny fraction at the top?”
To do that, the 01s need to:
keep the citizen in Zone 3 –
tense, tired, indebted, uninformed or misinformed;capture the vote with distracting agendas –
culture wars, selective moralism, carefully staged scandals;use the State to guarantee private returns,
while selling the idea that
“there is no money” for public metabolic income.
If nothing opposes this,
social metabolism converges toward a cruel pattern:
rising inequality,
climate and environmental collapse,
waste piling up in bodies and territories,
young people in a high-dopamine, low-future loop.
3. Supreme Court and Senate as metabolic brakes – if they choose to be
For me the key point is simple:
the Supreme Court and the Senate are already legal checks and balances.
What is missing is for them to choose to become checks and balances of social metabolism.
Supreme Court as the State’s critical cortex
When the Supreme Court:
recognises fundamental rights as hard constitutional limits,
prevents serious environmental rollbacks,
compels government to implement minimal climate policies,
protects freedom of expression and organisation
against selective persecution and authoritarian swings,
it is acting as the prefrontal cortex of the State:
recalling what we decided as a country project,
setting limits on the immediate impulses of governments,
protecting the social body from decisions that can cause irreversible damage
to climate, biomes, freedoms and economic metabolism.
But the Supreme Court can also fail:
when it is too slow,
when it bends to media-driven agendas,
when it distances itself from the JIWASA citizen
and hides behind inaccessible jargon and bureaucracy.
Senate as the organ of Future Memory
In my proposal, a JIWASA Senate is:
the house of Future Memory –
where the State thinks in 2040, 2050, 2100;the house of biomes and territories,
not only of short-term party arrangements;the house that can turn climate, Drex Citizen and Zero Waste Brazil
into State policies, not government programmes.
When the Senate:
creates Future Generations committees,
demands audits of social metabolism (carbon, materials, Drex, mental health),
designs laws with generational horizons,
oversees appointments, treaties and budgets with long-term criteria,
it acts as a deep regulatory structure capable of saying:
“This may look good for the next election,
but it is bad for the body of the country in 30 years.
We need another solution.”
4. Future Memory as a tool against the 01s
The 01s live off the short term:
this year’s contract,
this term’s project,
this administration’s tax break hidden in a budget annex.
The most powerful way to confront them
is not only moral, it is metabolic and temporal:
Constitutionalise Future Memory
– tying the Supreme Court and the Senate to an explicit duty
to evaluate long-term impacts of laws, policies and omissions
on climate, Drex, Zero Waste, mental health and inequality.Create explicit metrics of social metabolism
– composite indices combining carbon, materials, metabolic income,
violence, poverty, youth out of school,
and forcing public authorities to report and justify
their decisions in the light of future generations.Enable the JIWASA citizen to activate those brakes
– expanding standing for constitutional actions,
climate cases and structural lawsuits based on omissions
in core metabolic policies, always framed as:
“What are you doing to the country’s body
over the next 30 years?”
Future Memory is not fortune-telling.
It is a critical reading of the present
from the standpoint of those who have not yet been born.
5. Sketching checks and balances of social metabolism
If I had to summarise all of this as proposals,
I would draw something like:
Explicit metabolic clauses in the Constitution
right to a stable climate,
right to a circular materials metabolism (Brazil Zero Waste 2040),
right to a minimum metabolic income via Drex Citizen.
A metabolic mandate for the Supreme Court
acknowledging that serious omissions in climate, Zero Waste and Drex
are direct constitutional violations,
and legitimising structural decisions with deadlines and targets.A JIWASA Senate with a Standing Committee on Social Metabolism
monitoring Drex, carbon, materials, inequality and mental health,
issuing four-year Future Memory Reports
to guide the entire political system.An Index of 01 Capture
radical transparency on tax waivers,
concentration of income and wealth, declared lobbying
and “revolving doors” between markets, media and government;measurable targets to reduce this capture
as part of State policy.Direct participation of the JIWASA citizen via Drex
binding digital consultations on structural metabolic issues,
clear feedback on how each decision
affects social metabolism in 20–30 years.
6. Closing: from my brain to the State’s brain
When I, Brain Bee, look at all this,
I see a very simple parallel:
My body only works well
when fear does not rule alone,
when anger does not rule alone,
when pleasure does not rule alone.The State will only work well
when Executive, Legislature and Judiciary
stop serving the 01s
and start serving the metabolism of the social body
– the JIWASA citizen as the basic unit of the State.
Supreme Court, Senate and Future Memory
are, in my view, the three components of this enlarged brain:
the Supreme Court as the living memory of the Constitution,
the Senate as the planner of generations,
Future Memory as the awareness of what we are doing
to those who have not even had the chance to be born.
If I had to condense this entire blog into one sentence, it would be:
While the 01s live off short-term gains and other people’s bodies,
the Supreme Court, the Senate and Future Memory
can – if they choose to – become
the checks and balances of social metabolism
that bring the State back to its real owner:
the JIWASA citizen.
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