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Absolute peace of mind is a condition of a sapient paradise, and has two dimensions, the social and the psychological. Socially, the members agree in subjecting themselves to only one coercive law, the law of "NO COERCION! -- EXCEPT TO PREVENT COERCION", thus guaranteeing everyone freedom from terrorisation. Every able-bodied member would cooperate not only in the operation of this basic law, but also in behaviour patterns conducive to is success. (We who are the heirs of millennia of inter-tribal warfare and tyranny may well find it difficult to imagine the general prevalence of such good sense, but we may take courage from the various remote stone-age societies discovered in the last century that surprised us by their sanity and sense.) Psychologically, once freed from fear of our fellows -- and the necessity to please them rather than our own best intelligence -- our mental monitors (the i in each of our heads) would no longer be trapped within the understanding of our mind, but would fearlessly float free in the sort of vacuum that anxiety decries, leaving it to the workings of the mind to sort its information out as best it can without our anxious vigilance -- so that when our senses next alert us, our i responds happily, matching information to knowledge as best it can, and then rests again in peace and happiness. And if at this stage you have doubts about the social cohesion of such apparent individualism, remember that families and villages can undoubtedly achieve success this way if not harried from outside, and the world is now, communication-wise, a single global village. What is envisaged here is not the species falling further apart, but rather it coming together to face its real problems without anxiety and with optimal intelligence and voluntary cooperation at every point.