Chapter 5
INEXORABLE EVOLUTION AND HUMAN ECOLOGY
2Until humanity starts behaving In logical ways For logical reasons
3 Natural evolution will force it To keep on behaving logically For seemingly illogical reasons--- Resulting inexorably, as at present, In humanity’s backing Rump-bumpingly into its future While disregarding opportunities To about-face and realize Its inspiring passengership Aboard Planet Earth--- As its exploratory mothership Of ever vaster and more exquisite Macro- and micro-cosmic realms. And the frustrations Of fearfully clung-to customs Will persist unabated until Humanity undertakes Seriously, imaginatively,
4 Courageously, inspiringly To employ effectively The ever-more with ever less--- Of effort, material, time And tolerance of error Per each accomplished task The comprehensively anticipatory Design science revolution--- Being intent thereby To make all of humanity Successful in every sense.
5 As it undertakes design revolution Humanity also must realize
67That it can always afford rearrangements Of the physical environment constituents Which produce sustainable increases In the proportion of all of humanity Enjoying comprehensive success--- Provided only the task Is physically feasible Within ecologically critical limits Of electro-magnetics, chemistry, time. ‘‘We cannot afford’’ assumes spending Intertransforming as matter or radiation Energy cannot be spent Know-how always increases Wealth multiplies irreversibly. And not until then will nature Cease to cope with humanity’s Ignorance-prolonged inertia Just in the same way That human parents Cope with their newborns’
8 Innocently ignorant
9 Self-helplessness---
10 And that is by forcing man
11 To acquire the adequate technology
12 With which ultimately
13 To attain and sustain
14 That potential omni-success.
15 And until then it will be accomplished inversely--- Through activating humanity’s Death fearing instincts.
16 Fear forcing it to acquire
17 The adequate production-tool complex As a consequence of inducing humanity
18 Into an investment and reinvestment Of its best capabilities and resources
19 Only in preparation for war.
20 This inverse procedure will regenerate
21 To ever higher degree
22 Both the more-with-less energy processing And its production equipment.
23 And when man learns, if he does To initiate the more-with-lessing Under peacefully purposed auspices Peace then will be attained
24 And Universe sustained
25 But not until then.