It’s not what you think. In the age of texting and tweets, our whole society seems to suffer from an attention deficit disorder. So, let me begin with a disclaimer. A Biosocial Contract (or Biosocialism for short) has nothing to do with socialism in any one of its many different forms. If anything, its philosophical roots could be traced back to Plato’s Republic and The Laws (I’ll explain later on). In fact, the theoretical foundation and basic assumptions of Biosocialism are rooted in evolutionary biology and the emerging science of human nature – quite unlike the other “isms” that are out there in our politics.