Our goal is to improve humanity. This is a broad target including individuals, family units, sociopolitical arrangements at every level, and humanity as a whole. This project starts as a review of our history as a species. What drives our decision making. How we order our social structures. How instincts make our decisions for us. The primary goal of every animal is to pass it's genes on to subsequent generations. Throughout history there are three patterns that play out repeatedly in human affairs that are directly derived from our primary animal instinct: 1. Seek safety and security and basic needs. 2. The attraction of corruptible individuals to acquire positions of power within our sociopolitical accords. 3. Spread our genes into other pools. These three guidelines are the River of History. History provides countless examples of the vast majority of individuals in a group to seek the protection and providence of the strong while a simultaneousl...