>>13779142At an individual level, animal behavior and human evolution tell you a lot about the forces governing human behavior.
One of my goals would be to link together realtively seamlessly human evolution with human history. See exactly how we go from a chimp-like species to a recognizably human one. Mostly in terms of behaviors of and between humans. The goal is to precisely be able to transform the system of forces governing a chimp-like bahavior towrds a system of forces governing human behavior.
The result of this would be to obtain (by the historical/evolutionary analysis explained above) what makes human societies tick.
Then, the next step would be to study the ressources used by humans throughout evolution and history. Find relationships between basic human behavior, demography, ressources available in a particular country at at particular time in a more quantitative manner.
Then, we have to study the history of science and technology, and how it allowed us to acquire new ressources.
The ultimate goal of all this is to comprehend exactly the forces at play in our current society at this current time, and to make predictions about the future. The questions here are how our society prospered and how oru society is collapsing now, and what can be done ?
For this, we have to quantitatively modern human society starting from the Industrial Revolution, always in terms of forces, equilibrium, demography, use ressources, technology.
A financial layer would be useful, but mostly only for everything post WWII. And particularly since around the 70's since that's around where finance is crazy and is a force that shape the world.
So through this method, we should obtain a good core model. Utop on this one, we can start to add other less essential/structural stuff and more precise data about society, which, while not essential, would give more flesh to the model.
