The Keep Spirit Doctrine: A Framework for Civilisational Renewal Through Human-Scale Revival

Abstract Civilisations follow repeatable patterns of rise and decline, typically lasting around 250 years before succumbing to internal decadence (Glubb, 1976). In our era, this manifests as post-truth detachment from objective realities, elite overproduction, and fragile over-centralised systems. Drawing on historical analysis, evolutionary anthropology, cultural evolution research, and evidence-based project management, The Keep Spirit Doctrine offers a practical renewal pathway. It revives humanity’s ancestral fusion-fission social architecture through modular, opt-in “villages” governed by transparent charters that honour how humans actually behave: family-first self-reliance, reciprocal fairness at human scale, and voluntary federation. This bottom-up, risk-minimised approach harnesses cognitive biases (loss aversion and social proof) for adoption and counters decadent fragility by rebuilding what works for Homo sapiens.