Sacred Quest as Civilizational Policy

Civilizations survive only if enough people adopt and sustain a shared, high‑level 'sacred' project (e.g., a grand space or longevity target). To make this practical, governance should tie leader incentives and public participation to measurable progress via prioritized decision markets — 'lexicographic futarchy' — so that ordinary people feel agency and elites are rewarded for moving the civilization toward the sacred goal. — If adopted, this reframes politics from managing distribution and institutions to organizing large‑scale motivational projects, changing how legitimacy, mobilization, and policy are constructed.