7 Integrity
2THE MANY AND SEEMINGLY TOPIC UNRELATED we have reviewed are intimately interrelevant and seem to be operating synergetically. Einstein’s greatness evolved from his synergetic concern for all experimentally verified data regarding the Universe and its progressively beknownst to us, ever more complexedly and nonsimultaneous physical intertransformings—associatively as matter and disassociatively as radiation.
3 At the very moment humanity has arrived at that evolutionary point where we do have the option for everyone to ‘‘make it,’’ I find it startling to discover that all the great governments, the five great religions, and most of big business would find it absolutely devastating to their continuance to have humanity become a physical, metabolic, economic success. All the political, religious, and moneymaking institutions’ power is built upon those institutions’ expertise in ministering to, and ameliorating, the suffering, want, pain, and fears resultant upon the misassumption of a fundamental inadequacy of life support on our planet and the consequent misfortune of the majority of humans.
4 Some religious bodies battle politically and morally against abortion, which inherently eliminates their most lucrative raison d’être—humans and more humans and their concomitant adversity and suffering, and their need of ministry.
5 The institutionalized catering to want and suffering gives us a sense of the almost certainly fatal dilemma we are in. Another relevant threat to human continuance in Universe is our world education systems’ deliberate cultivation of specialization, despite the fact that each individual human is born physically and metaphysically equipped to function as a natural comprehensivist, with a unique mind designed to ascertain and comprehend the generalized design principles governing interrelationships. Surely if nature had wished humans to be specialists, she would have given them the special integral equipment for so doing, as she has given to all other creatures.
6 How did it come about that the educational system was organized to counter this innate proclivity, environmental versatility, and multifaceted capability?
7 We have observed for aeons herds of wild horses led by a king stallion. Every once in a while an unusually big and powerful young stallion is born—much bigger than the other young stallions. When the big young one matures, the king stallion challenges him to a battle, with the winner inseminating the females of the herd. Darwin cited this as an example of nature’s way of arranging to keep the strongest strains going.
8 I am sure that amongst the early human beings occupying our planet Earth, every once in a while a man was born much bigger than other men. He did not ask to be big; he just found himself to be born so. He found himself continually asked for favors. ‘‘Mister, I can’t reach the bananas. Could you get some bananas for me?’’ Being good-natured, he would oblige. And then all the little humans around him said, ‘‘Mister, the people over there have lost all their bananas. They’re dying of starvation. They’re going to come over and kill us to get our bananas. You’re big. You get out front and protect us.’’
9 So, the big man found his bigness being continually exploited. He said, ‘‘All right, people, you’ve got me out there fighting for you time after time, but between battles I’d like you to help me get ready for the next battle. I need weapons and walls.’’
10 The people said, ‘‘Okay, we’ll make you king and you tell us what to do.’’
11 So, the big one became king. Another big stranger came along and said, ‘‘Mr. King, you have a soft job here. I’m going to take this away from you.’’ The two battled. The king licked the stranger. The king had his opponent down on the ground and said, ‘‘You were going to kill me so you could have my kingdom, weren’t you? You understand I can kill you right now, don’t you? Okay, you’re a very good fighter and I need a lot of good fighters around here, so, if you will promise to always fight for me, I’ll release you.’’ The stranger acquiesced. The king found himself to be an institution—a power structure.
12 The king then said spontaneously to himself, ‘‘Don’t let two big men come at me at once. I can handle them, but only one by one.’’
13 From this instinct there gradually emerged a number-one grand strategy for all power structures: Divide to conquer. To keep conquered, keep divided. The king said to himself, ‘‘I want more of these big men. I’ll make one the Duke of Hill A and the other the Duke of Hill B. Then I’ll keep my spies watching to see that they don’t gang up on me.’’
14 Next, a whole lot of little people made trouble for the king by not obeying him. There were some very bright little people around. They refused to do what the king wanted done. The king had one or two of his big men bring in the little offenders. The king said, ‘‘Mister, I’m going to cut your head off. You’re a nuisance around here.’’ The man replied, ‘‘Mr. King, you’re making a very great mistake cutting my head off.’’ The king said, ‘‘Why?’’ ‘‘Well, Mr. King, I understand the language of your enemy over the hill and you don’t. I heard him say what he’s going to do to you and when he’s going to do it.’’
15 The king said, ‘‘Young man, you may have a good idea. You let me know every day what my enemy over the hill thinks he is going to do to me, and your head is going to stay on. Then you’re going to do something you never did ever before—you’re going to eat regularly, right here in the castle. We’re going to put purple and gold on you so I can keep track of you.’’
16 Then some other physically small character made trouble for the king, and it turned out that he could make better swords than anybody else. He was a great metallurgist. The king made him court armorer and had him live in the castle and wear purple and gold.
17 Somebody else made trouble and said, ‘‘Mr. King, the reason I’m able to steal from you is because you don’t understand arithmetic. Now, if I do the arithmetic here in the castle, people won’t be able to steal from you.’’ He, too, got the victuals, purple, and gold.
18 Speaking to all his little ‘‘experts,’’ the king said, ‘‘You mind your business. And you mind your business. Is it clear to each and all of you that I’m the only one who minds everybody’s business?’’
19 The king now had all the great fighters, all the right intelligence, the right arms, the right logistics. His kingdom was getting very big. He wanted to leave it to his grandson. After years of success the king said to each of his experts, ‘‘You’re getting pretty old. I want you to teach somebody about that mathematics. I want you to teach somebody about that metallurgy of yours,’’ and so on. Ultimately all the foregoing led to the founding of the educational-category scheming, as manifest in the organization of Oxford University and all other education institutions.
20 In spite of all humans’ innate interest in the interrelatedness of all experience, long ago these world-power-structure builders learned to shunt all the bright intellectuals and the physically creative into specialist careers. The powerful reserved for themselves the far easier, because innate, comprehensive functioning. All one needs to do to discover how self-perpetuating is this disease of specialization is to witness the interdepartmental battling for educational funds and the concomitant jealous guarding of the various specializations assigned to a department’s salaried experts on each subject in any university.
21 In the early 1950s, attending the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual congress in Philadelphia, I happened to find two papers that were presented in different parts of the symposium. One was in anthropology and the other was in biology. A team of anthropologists had for a number of years been examining all the known case histories of human tribes that have become extinct, and a team of biologists had been examining all the known cases of biological species that had become extinct. Both of the papers determined extinction to be the consequence of overspecialization.
22 How might this be? We know that we can inbreed ever-faster-running horses by mating two very fast-running horses—the mathematical probability of concentrating the fast-running genes is high. When you inbreed special ability, however, you outbreed general adaptability.
23 Its total energy being fixed and nonamplifiable, physical Universe uses that energy only rarely to do very big things—hurricanes, for example. Nature does smaller tasks more frequently and very small tasks very frequently. As human masters of highly bred racehorses inbreed the high-frequency everyday performance characteristics, they outbreed the rarely used survival capabilities. When the rare big-energy event occurs, the species, having lost its general adaptability to cope with unusual environmental conditions, often perishes. Quantum mechanics is the operating principle.
24 The energy of Universe may be divided into a few, very infrequent major events or into many, very frequent minor events. The energy of Universe is finite, and since multiplication is accomplished only by division, we recognize that quantum mechanics is the operating principle. Therefore, when humanity today is presented with the option of across-the-board success, it is so specialized as to be unable to recognize this generalized, only comprehensively discoverable and comprehendible course of action to be implemented by an invisible technology.
25 Humanity was given an enormous range of resources with which to discover that our minds are everything and our muscles are relatively nothing. We note that hydrogen does not have to ‘‘earn a living’’ before behaving like a hydrogen atom. Humans, in fact, are the only phenomenon upon which the power structure has been able to impose the everyday obligation of satisfactorily ‘‘earning a living.’’
26 Because of high technology’s capability to take care of the needs of everybody on the planet, we now know that the prerequisite of having to earn a living is obsolete. Only by virtue of invisible technology’s implementation of a revolution in producing constantly greater performance per unit of invested-resource-accomplished tasks has it come about that there are now adequate resources to take care of, and sustain, everybody at a high standard of living. Such a realization will swiftly alter the fundamental assumptions and activities of our daily lives in a very great way.
27 A preponderance of fear has long operated in the academic world amongst professional educators working toward, or holding tenuously onto, tenure. A great many teachers would gladly become research professors. If they were assured by some authority that they would be given the income they want, they would prefer to do much of their research and writing at home. Such home-conducted research and telecommuting among academics and other workers would save immense quantities of the irreplaceable fossil-fuel gasoline now used to commute daily to the workplace—especially in the United States.1 We must realize that we have all reached a turning point where we can no longer afford to make money rather than good sense.
29 Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence. If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money. Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
30 If humanity realizes its potential in time to exercise this vital option, we shall witness strong competition among individuals to be allowed to serve on humanity’s research, development, and production teams. Never again will what one does creatively, productively, and unselfishly be equated with earning a living. People’s sense of accomplishment will derive from showing their peers and demonstrating to the great intellectual integrity of Universe, which we speak of as God, that they vastly enjoy doing their best in the unselfish production of service for others rather than just for the survival needs of themselves and their families.
31 I think all humanity has crossed the threshold to enter upon its ‘‘final examination.’’ It is not the political systems or the economic systems but the human individuals themselves who are in final examination.
32 How much courage and integrity does each of us have individually to steer a life course according to what our minds have learned through experimental evidence to be the relevant principles governing our situation? How much ingenuity do we have to solve the larger problems of society through anticipatory design rather than through outmoded institutions based on misinformation and the maintenance of the status quo for the vested interests?
33 I have discovered that we have just such an option. How much courage does each of us have to take the first active step leading to the exercise of that option? What is it that each of us must do? How much willpower must we gather to cast aside deeply ingrained patterns and prejudices? How far must we go to make consciously considerate decisions based on intellectual integrity? How much faith must we have in our ability to recognize that intellectual integrity? Or, by default, will the unconscious crowd-following mass psychology of the Dark Ages reign supreme for another aeon?
34 When nature has an all-important function to be performed by any of her bioinventions and the chances of that biological invention surviving are poor, nature invents many alternative circuits to provide the same results. Nature is not depending solely on the intellectual courage and integrity of this one relatively minor team of human minds on our planet Earth to perform all the local Universe’s information gathering and local problem-solving. The intellectual integrity of Universe has myriads of alternate fail-safe ways of carrying on. Nature never puts all her eggs in one basket. This gives me reason to surmise that this particular Earthian team is in final examination and that its track record has been far from exemplary.
35 The human condition today has much improved from when I was young. Illiteracy was then overwhelming. The Soviet Union after the 1917 revolution, for instance, was 95 percent illiterate. For industrialization to work, that condition needed to be reversed, and it was.
36 The people I worked with on my first pre-World War I jobs were expert craftsmen and very kind human beings, but their on-the-job vocabularies consisted of no more than one hundred English words, almost half of them blasphemous or obscene. Today, the average six-year-old American child has a vocabulary of five thousand words.
37 The whole communication and information environment of humanity has undergone a revolution. Everybody world-round has a workable vocabulary today. This communications change has taken place at an incredibly rapid rate. In the last twenty-five years I have been around the world forty-eight times, and I am able to communicate wherever I go.
38 Nature has brought us to the communicating capability where we have 74,000 words in the Sykes:1982uo [Sykes:1982uo] and 150,000 words in most American ‘‘college’’ dictionaries. This proves that we have need of descriptive words for a great many unique experiences. That we could agree on the meaning of 150,000 words is extraordinary. We have reached the point where we are now possessed of sufficient information for each individual human to dare to exercise the option to ‘‘make it’’ rather than having to depend on the decisions of an educated elite.
39 In astrophysics we can access an omnidirectional 11.5-billion-light-year-radius reach for information. We have photographed the atom. We are at an evolutionary point where we should break out of our Dark Ages eggshell to act in a completely new and unexpected kind of way. A new emergent worldview provides us with clues about our wonderful new metaphysical environment.
40 Evolution may be classed into two types—what I call ‘‘number-one evolution’’ and ‘‘number-two evolution.’’ Number-two evolution is operative wherever and whenever human beings think they are running the world. Number-one evolution is that in which nature is entirely responsible for the evoluting. Number-one evolution suggested in my lifetime that fallout from the comprehensive employment of the doing-ever-more-with-ever-less-resources-per-function invisible revolution by the military was entirely and unwittingly responsible for the fact that since 1900 we have gone from less than 1 percent to more than 65 percent of humanity enjoying a higher standard of living than had been ever experienced by any potentate when I was young. During that time we have also doubled the population, so we have actually increased by a factor of 130 the number of those so benefiting from this inadvertent technological fallout.
41 This fallout from political-economics doing the right things for the wrong reasons is what I mean by number-one evolution. There was no planning by any nations or enterprises that sought to alter the lives of all humanity in this historically unprecedented manner. Einstein loved hu.manity, but was dismayed at the lack of efficient planning to make everyone a success. Official planning was highly biased. There was no organized effort to improve the standard of living across the board. As we discovered earlier, it was assumed you could not, or must not, do so.
42 In 1938, I predicted in ninechains [ninechains] that by the year 2000 the fundamental needs of everybody could be taken care of. I think Earthlings’ final examination has been incrementally advanced and that there may not be that much time. The time remaining to switch over to a winning life strategy is less than a decade, possibly as short as three years. Every day and in every way humanity feels this crisis deeply. Talk of nuclear disarmament and dealing with environmental and social catastrophe is in the air.
43 Historically, females carrying the young in the womb could not cover as much geography as could the males. Females tended then to stay around a hearth, where they kept a fire going to cook the meals while the males hunted. Because he covered more territory and could report what he saw, man was also the news bearer. Dad could tell his children what he saw from the top of the nearby mountain. He could tell his children what the chieftain over the mountain was saying or doing.
44 All through history children, starting naked, helpless, and ignorant, have had Dad and Mom telling them what they could eat and what would and would not poison them. Parents told their children what they could and could not get away with in the power system. Dad and Mom were the authorities on how to get on. But Dad was also the authority who brought home the news. Dad’s language was local and somewhat esoteric. The kids immediately emulated the way Dad spoke. He was the communication authority. New dialect after dialect was spawned.
45 Suddenly thrust into my world at age three was the invisible electron. No one took notice. When I was twenty-three, by virtue of that electron, we heard the first human voice on the radio. When I was twenty-seven, the first broadcasting station was licensed. In 1927, when I was thirty-two, all the dads around the country came home one evening to the kids’ excited imperative, ‘‘Hurry, Daddy, listen to the radio! A man is trying to fly across the Atlantic.’’ Dad said ‘‘What!’’ and never again was the one to bring home the news.
46 Nobody thought about this event as a number-one anthropological evolution event. The kids knew that Dad and Mom were their private-home authority all right, but quite clearly, Dad and Mom ran across the hallway and got the neighbors to tune in the radio because the radio was going to tell them something important. The children observed for themselves that the radio was more of an authority than was either Dad or Mom. These greater authorities—the radio people—got their jobs on the radio by virtue of the commonality of their diction rather than the esoteric way that Dad said things. The radio people also got their jobs by virtue of the size of their vocabulary and versatility in employing it. To hold their jobs, they had to make their programming ever more popularly understandable, so they developed ever more precise vocabularies and ever-clearer enunciation. As Dad and Mom accepted the radio-amplified authority, the kids emulated the speech styles of the people on the air. Noting this, many parents also adopted the radio speech, not wishing to be belittled in their children’s estimation. This is what overnight changed the speech pattern of humanity the world around, even in the tiniest of hamlets. This was number-one evolution-not planned by humans-but altering human interrelations nonetheless. The speed of sound is approximately 700 miles per hour, given an average temperature. The speed of electromagnetic radiation is 700 million miles an hour. Sound waves go no farther than the atmosphere. Radiation goes on and on (without atmosphere) in the Universe, giving us the infinite television views of distant planets remotely transmitted by solar-system-traversing satellites. The amount of information we can get with our eyes is a millionfold greater than what we can get with our ears.
47 In the mid-1960s, students at the University of California at Berkeley made the world news as the first dissidents in the university educational system. The Berkeley students asked to meet with me. That same year, I was also asked to speak to many of their contemporaries at other universities. In the last half century I have been invited to speak at over 550 universities and colleges around the world. At Berkeley I discovered that the 1965 dissidents were born the year television came into the American home. The students said, ‘‘Dad and Mom love me to pieces. I love them to pieces, but they don’t know what’s going on.’’ That was exactly the opposite of the way things were when I was young.
48 My father died when I was very young. My mother said very often, ‘‘Darling, never mind what you think. Listen, we’re trying to teach you.’’ At school they said, ‘‘Never mind what you think. Listen, we’re trying to teach you.’’ It was the assumption on the part of the pre-World War I older people that young people’s thinking was utterly unreliable.
49 In 1965, I was fascinated to hear the young world suddenly saying, ‘‘Dad and Mom come home from the shoe store and have a beer. Then they watch television, but they have little interest or connection with humans going to Korea or Vietnam or to the Moon. They obviously don’t have anything to do with anything. We can see that the people around the world are in great turmoil. We are going to have to do something effective in eliminating that trouble, since Dad and Mom have no understanding of, or concern with, the world’s problems.’’
50 That 1965 young world’s compassion was suddenly of worldwide scope. It could never again be reduced to concern with only themselves and local issues.
51 The young world was saying, ‘‘Dad and Mom don’t understand what’s going on, so I’ve got to do my own thinking.’’ Nobody said to them anymore, ‘‘Never mind what you think.’’ They begin to think earnestly, cautiously, individually—and then to test that thinking collectively. Because they did so, they became highly idealistic. They had no experience at taking the thinking-initiative, so they necessarily made mistakes.
52 The Soviet Union and the United States today spend over $400 billion a year to ready themselves for war. Of that amount approximately $20 billion a year goes for psychoguerrilla warfare—how to break down each other’s (and third-party countries’) economy and morale before arriving at the point of war by distribution of narcotics, social engineering, political movements, electronically amplified brainwashing, wheeling and dealing of various sorts. Young people’s spontaneous thinking is idealistic. In the 1960s, that idealism was sometimes exploited. Quite often the gentle, angry young people discovered that their heads were sometimes used as battering rams rather than for thinking. Then, over the next fifteen years, through experience, they gradually matured, developing an immunity to political and social exploitation.
53 As I see it now, every child is born successively in the presence of a little less misinformation and in the presence of a great deal more reliable information. The young world is enormously advantaged.
54 I asked a young man in Pennsylvania who had written an extraordinary book on the Three Mile Island incident to visit me at my Philadelphia office. He was a high school dropout. I said, ‘‘How did you get to writing?’’ I have never read anything more interesting and sustaining than his book on Three Mile Island. It was well informed on all the bureaucratic decisions in Washington, all the mechanisms of the power structure. It was incredibly well done. He said, ‘‘Well, I love reading. I liked particularly Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, and Mark Twain.’’ He had quite a range of inspirers—he just loved them—and he had learned how to express himself well. He also had learned how to put relevant information together. He was typical of a young world that is progressing relentlessly. At twenty-one, he was neither misinformed nor misled. I was astonished. He seemed to me to be a heartening manifest of number-one evolution.
55 Each year, I get letters from children born after humans landed on the Moon. How these young ones find me to be somebody to write to, I do not know, but they do. They say that they understand that I may empathize with their concern. The letters are written in superb English. They are familiar with all the tasks that were necessary to get humans to the Moon and back safely. They are familiar with the Apollo Project’s critical path. They know that humanity can do anything it needs to do. They wonder, ‘‘Why can’t we set about to make this planet Earth work?’’ The young world gives increasing evidence of this level of concern. The after-the-Moon-landing young people will, within a few years, be able to take over the course-setting tasks of humanity as local Universe information gatherers and local Universe problem solvers in support of the integrity of an eternally regenerative Universe.
56 In 1979 a newspaperman in Los Angeles, Richard Brenneman, arranged for me to meet with a group of very young people to discuss the subjects I have dealt with in this book.
57 After six months of reading my books, each had prepared a set of questions about my thoughts and statements. They had lively interest in what I had to say. I asked them their ages. The oldest, a boy, was twelve. He said he was interested in learning the tricks of magicians. The next-oldest, an eleven-year-old boy, said that he was interested in electromagnetics. The third member of the group was a little girl who was then ten years old and the only one of these three born after humans had reached the Moon. I asked her in what she was interested. She answered, ‘‘I am a comprehensivist, like you. I am interested in everything.’’ All youth born since the 1969 Moon landing are deeply familiar with the appropriation of billions of dollars for the complex technology of the Apollo Project. The Moon that for three million years had represented the unreachable had been successfully reached. The post-Moon-landers say, ‘‘Humanity can do anything it sets out to do. We need to make the world work for everybody on the planet. Let’s get going.’’ When they find out that I have discovered what can be technologically accomplished, they perk up their ears and roll up their sleeves.
58 The passion to understand engenders the passion to demonstrate competence. This is about to be demonstrated by that emergent young world.
59 An unprecedented transformation of all of our affairs is on the horizon. We are about to see all of the more than 150 nations of the world almost imperceptibly vanish, their function outmoded, their selfish and short-term pursuits no longer welcome or workable in an increasingly interdependent world economy. These nations represent more than 150 blood clots impeding the free circulation of the world’s metals and the technological advantaging that they implement. When we engage the economies of recirculating all the metals as scrap, the entrenched mining interests will no longer be able to block that free flow. With the vast uncensorable network of communication media, obstacles to the free flow of vital information will become progressively more difficult to erect and enforce. Traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete.
60 Revolutionary changes in every sphere of life must happen, and there is a young world very glad to realize them. I see clearly that intellectual integrity is trying to make humanity a success.
61 When I first began doing my own thinking in 1927, I said that I was going thenceforward to completely and irretrievably abandon everything I had ever been taught to believe—and, from that time forward, base my decisions only upon my own experimental evidence. It should be the vow of every scientist.
62 It is a prominent part of everyone’s experience that enormous num.bers of humanity are deeply moved by some religious credo or another. People manifest a deep sense that something is everywhere operative which is mysteriously greater than that which is negotiable by the knowledge and will of humans.
63 I constantly ask myself, ‘‘Do you have any experientially evidenced reason to assume a greater intellect to be operating in Universe than that of humans?’’ I answer myself, ‘‘The only-by-mind-discovered generalized principles of science that can only be expressed mathematically and mathematics are inherently intellectual.’’ I found that I was overwhelmed by the experiential evidence of a cosmic intellectual integrity at work in the design of Universe. Thus, when I said in 1927 that I was going to try to find out and support what the great cosmic intellectual integrity was trying to do, I committed myself as completely as humans can to absolute faith in the wisdom of the eternal intellectual integrity we speak of as God. In 1930 Einstein’s publication of his ‘‘Cosmic Religious Sense,’’ which described his ‘‘nonanthropomorphic concept of God,’’ told me that the most profoundly thinking human on our planet was also so committed.
64 At the outset of my 1927 commitment, I realized that my exploration for comprehension of God’s design of eternally regenerative Universe might well mean that I could develop some very powerful insights. I asked myself if I could trust myself never to turn the power of such insights to personal advantage. Never to consider myself special vis-a-vis God. Never to develop a cult. Never to exploit for selfish reasons the insights I was sure to experience in operating an enterprise backed only by intellectual integrity. My answer to myself was, ‘‘Yes, I can trust myself not to selfishly exploit the power of cosmic insights,’’ I have kept my promise, which brings me back to my opening statement about myself: I am an average, healthy human-no less, no more. But all average human beings are magnificently endowed with creativity, and mysteriously capable of vastly more than any of us has ever assumed to be possible.
65 While it is possible to recognize that humanity is still comprehensively locked in by the Earthian power structures’ Dark Ages conspiracy, it is as yet not possible to assess exactly how powerful that imprisonment is. The fact that a vast number of humans still assume that it is within the power of their political leadership and the military might they command to resolve our problems is a reasonable manifest of the continued imprisonment of all humanity.
66 To this author, the dilemma is so great that in 1983 he found himself writing the following paragraphs, which he titled ‘‘Integrity’’:
67 A VERY LARGE NUMBER OF EARTHIANS, possibly the majority, sense the increasing imminence of total extinction of humanity by the more than 50,000 poised-for-delivery atomic bombs. Apparently no one of the 4.5 billion humans on our planet knows what to do about it, including the world’s most powerful political leaders.
68 Humans did not invent atoms. Humans discovered atoms, together with some of the mathematically incisive laws governing their behavior.
69 In 1928, humans first discovered the existence of a galaxy other than our own Milky Way. Since then we have discovered 100 billion more galaxies, each averaging over 100 billion stars. Each star is an all-out chain-reacting atomic energy plant. Humans did not invent the gravity cohering the macrocosm and microcosm of eternally regenerative Universe. Humans did not invent humans or the boiling and freezing points of water. Humans are 60 percent water.
70 Humans did not invent the ninety-two regenerative chemical elements or the planet Earth with its unique biological life-supporting and protecting conditions.
71 Humans did not invent the radiation received from our atomic energy generator, the Sun, around which we designedly orbit at a distance of 93 million miles.
72 The farther away from its source, the less intense the radiation. With all the space of Universe to work with, nature found 93 million miles to be the minimum safe remoteness of biological protoplasm from atomic radiation generators.
73 Humans did not invent the vast, distance-spanning photosynthetic process by which the vegetation on our planet can transceive the radiation from the 93-million-mile-away Sun and transform it into the complex hydrocarbon molecules structuring and nurturing all life on planet Earth.
74 Design is both subjective and objective, an exclusively intellectual, mathematical conceptioning of the orderliness of interrelationships.
75 Since all the cosmic-scale inventing and designing is accomplishable only by intellect, and since it is not by the intellect of humans, it is obviously that of the eternal intellectual integrity we call God.
76 All living creatures, including humans, have always been designed to be born unclothed, utterly inexperienced, ergo absolutely ignorant. Driven by hunger, thirst, respiration, curiosity, and instincts such as the reproductive urge, all creatures are forced to take speculative initiatives or to ‘‘follow the herd,’’ else they perish.
77 Ecological life is designed to learn only by trial and error.
78 Common to all creature experience is a cumulative inventory of only-by-trial-and-error-developed problem-solving reflexes.
79 Unique to human experience is the fact that problem-solving leads not only to fresh pastures, but sometimes to ever more intellectually challenging problems. These challenges sometimes prove to be new, more comprehensively advantaging to humanity, mathematically generalizable, cosmic design concepts.
80 Humans have had to make trillions of mistakes to acquire the little we have thus for learned.
81 The greatest mistake we have ever made is to assume that the supreme authority governing life and Universe is not God but either luck or the dicta of the humanly constituted and armed most-powerful socioeconomic systems and religions. The combined human power structures—economic, religious, and political-have compounded this primary error by ruling that no one should make mistakes and punishing those who do. This deprives humans of their only-by-trial-and-error method of learning.
82 The power structure’s forbiddance of error-making has fostered cover-ups, self-deceit, egotism, false fronts, hypocrisy, legally enacted or decreed subterfuge, ethical codes, and the economic rewarding of selfishness.
83 Selfishness has in turn fostered both individual and national bluffing and vastness of armaments. Thus, we have come to the greatest of problems ever to confront humanity: What can the little individual human do about the supranational corporate power structures and their seemingly ungovernable capability to corrupt?
84 A successful U.S. presidency campaign requires a minimum of $50 million, senatorships $20 million, representatives $2 million. Through big business’s advertising-placement control of the most powerful media, money can buy, and has now bought, control of the U.S. political system once designed for democracy.
85 Without God, the little individual human can do nothing. Brains of all creatures, including humans, are always and only preoccupied in coordinating the information fed into the brain’s imagination—image-I-nation—its scenarioing center, by the physical senses and the brain-remembered previous similar experience patterns and the previous reflexive responses.
86 Human mind alone has been given access to some of the eternal laws governing physical and metaphysical Universe, such as the laws of leverage, mechanical advantage, mathematics, chemistry, and electric.ity, and the laws governing gravitational or magnetic interattractiveness, as manifest by the progressive terminal acceleration of Earthward.traveling bodies or by the final ‘‘snap’’ together of two interapproaching magnets.
87 Employing those principles first in weaponry and subsequently in livingry, humans have been able to illumine the nights with electricity and to intercommunicate with telephones and to integrate the daily lives of the remotest-from-one-another humans with the airplane.
88 As a consequence of human mind’s solving problems with technology, within only the last three-fourths of a century of our multimillions of years’ presence on planet Earth, the technical design initiatives have succeeded in advancing the standard of living of the majority of humanity to a level unknown or undreamed of by any pre-twentieth-century potentates.
89 Within only the last century, humanity has grown from 95 percent illiterate to 65 percent literate. Preponderately literate humanity is capable of self-instruction and self-determination in major degree. Clearly, humanity is being evolutionarily ejected ever more swiftly from all the yesteryears’ group-womb of designedly permitted ignorance.
90 Regarding the power-structure-supported Scriptures’ legend of woman emanating from a man’s rib, there is no sustaining experiential evidence. Humanity now knows that only women can conceive, gestate, and bear both male and female humans. Women are the continuum of human life. Like the tension of gravity-cohering, space-islanded galaxies, stars, planets, and atoms, women are continuous. Men are discontinuous space islands. Men, born forth only from the wombs of women, have the function of activating women’s reproductivity.
91 The present evolutionary crisis of humans on planet Earth is that of a final examination for their continuance in Universe. It is not an examination of political, economic, or religious systems, but of the integrity of each and all individual humans’ responsible thinking and unselfish response to the acceleration in evolution’s ever more unprecedented events.
92 These evolutionary events are the disconnective events attendant upon the historic termination of all nations. We now have 163 national economic ‘‘blood clots’’ in our planetary production and distribution systems. What is going on is the swift integration in a myriad of ways of all humanity not into a ‘‘united nations’’ but into a united space-planet people.
93 Always and only employing all the planet’s physical and metaphysical resources only for all the people, this evolutionary trend of events will result in an almost immediately higher standard of living for all than has ever been experienced by anyone.
94 In general, the higher the standard of living, the lower the birthrate. The population-stabilizing higher living standards will be accomplished through conversion of all the high technology now employed in weaponry production being redirected into livingry production, blocked only by political party traditions and individually uncoped-with, obsoletely conditioned reflexes.
95 A few instances of persistent, misinformedly conditioned reflexes are the failure popularly to recognize the now scientifically proven fact that there are no different races or classes of humans; the failure to recognize technological obsolescence of the world-around politically assumed Malthus-Darwin assumption of an inherent inadequacy of life support, ergo ‘‘survival only of the fittest’’; the failure to ratify ERA, the equal rights (for women) amendment, by the thus-far-in-history most-crossbred-world-peoples’ democracy in the U.S.A.; or, with ample food production for all Earthians, the tolerating of marketing systems which result in millions of humans dying of starvation each year.
96 Carelessly unchallenged persistence of a myriad of such misinformed brain reflexings of the masses will signal such lack of people’s integrity as to call for the disqualification of humanity and its elimination by atomic holocaust.
97 You may feel helpless about stopping the bomb.
98 To you, the connection between the equal rights amendment and the atomic holocaust may at first seem remote. I am confident that what I am saying is true. The holocaust can be prevented only by individual humans demonstrating uncompromising integrity in all matters, thus qualifying us for continuance in the semidivine designing initiative bestowed upon us in the gift of our mind.
99 THE BEST ANTIDOTE to the powerfully misintentioned sensing and acting reflexes of society is the study of synergetics. The data of synergetics as presented in the two volumes of synergetics [synergetics] and background data in criticalpath (1981) [criticalpath] are adequate to the task of breaking the Dark Ages stranglehold on the human individual. This book has undertaken to present some of the principal synergetics concepts in a logical sequence. It does not treat the successively acquired realizations in the detailed degree of Synergetics, the definitive reference on the subject.
100 As a guidebook to synergetics in the context of its historic roots, this volume has added new insights and primary concepts to the subject, including some that have accrued since its earlier expositions. Study of synergetics with continued recommitment of human individuals to utter faith in the comprehensive wisdom and absolute power of the intellectual integrity and love governing an eternally regenerative Universe may bring about our ultimate escape from the Dark Ages’ race-suicidal obsession with the misconception that cosmic supremacy is vested in little planet Earth’s politicians, priests, generals, and monetary-power wielders.
101 Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete.
102For further information on Buckminster Fuller and synergetics:
103BUCKMINSTER FULLER INSTITUTE, 1743 S. La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90035. Maintains the Fuller archives and ‘‘Chronofile,’’ presents educational programs, publishes Trimtab quarterly newsletter. Write for mail order catalog, listing books, educational materials, maps, and other items. Phone: (310) 837--7710, FAX (310) 837--7715.
104CRITICAL PATH PROJECT, 2062 Lombard St., Philadelphia, PA 19146. Information exchange, research on applications of Fuller’s geometry, operates conferencing computer bulletin board system for exchange of ideas on synergetics and study of Fuller-related topics. Write Kiyoshi Kuromiya for further information. Phone: (215) 545--2212, FAX (215) 735--27622, computer BBS (215) 564--105252 (4-lines).
105SYNERGETICS INSTITUTE, 680--345345 Tomo, Numata-cho, Asaminami-ku, Hiroshima, Ja731--311-31. Research and educational program on synergetics, produces Hypercardstackware of 3-D animations of the process of making hierarchies of the icosahedron and the rhombic triacontahedron. Write Yasushi Kajikawa for further information. Phone: (082) 848--3539.