This document discusses innate human capacities and needs, and the consequences when those needs are not met. It argues that humans have innate abilities like memory, rapport, imagination, emotions, rational thinking, metaphorical thinking, and dreaming. Additionally, humans have innate psycho-social needs like autonomy, privacy, meaning and purpose, and security. When these capacities and needs are not fulfilled, it can lead to issues like mental health problems, addiction, crime, and radicalization on an individual level and epidemics of these issues, excessive consumerism, global competition and conflict, and an oppressive globalized system on a societal and global level. The document suggests imagining initiatives to improve things by meeting emotional needs and having a political system that