Social interests, defined as the aggregate of individual interests, are the collection of powers to defend and control possessions. Freedom is a function of possession. Independence of knower and known Creation of the notion of objective knowledge as the reliable source of wisdom. Objective knowledge is value-free. The principle of representative democracy - social governance is delegated to virtuous, knowledgeable people to work on behalf of those lacking in objective knowledge .
Public policy is based on objective knowledge free of vested interests.
Conformity of behaviour across space and time. Adaptive periods are long. De-emphasis on regional and local concerns in favour of centralization. Long adaptive periods favour mechanistic bureaucracy to improve efficiency, and enhance power and control. Human beings are unitary wholes, unfragmented and motivated by precise, rational, and predictable desires.