1. How you all already understand social contracts

2. Here are some settings you’re all familiar with
Here are some settings you’re all familiar with. What does “that guy” do in these situations?
Sporting event
Concert
In Class
The Dating Scene
Powwow
On Xbox Live
At the mall

3. Anytime somebody does something that makes him or her “that guy,” he or she is breaking the SOCIAL CONTRACT!

4. Social contracts are the rules we’re all supposed to know.
“In New Orleans, if you make eye contact with a bum, you owe him a buck. It’s a social contract.”

5. Is this making sense yet?!

6. When we make social contracts, we have the beginnings of…
Government! Government is what happens when we make social contracts formal, instead of just understood.