Chapter 13
Prime Design
2Energetic-synergetic geometry discloses Nature’s own system of coordination. Possessing this knowledge and taking the design initiative, man can enjoy Nature’s exquisite economy and effectiveness.
3 We are reminded that at the everyday level of reality men do not build houses with materials; they organize visible-module structures comprised of subvisible module structures. The principles governing structure operate independently of man-tunable spectrum range. Associative chemistry is structure.
4 For all time man has subconsciously coordinated himself with universal evolution. He does not consciously push each of his millions of hairs out through his scalp at man-preferred rates or selected patterns and colors.
5 Man now enters the phase of meager yet conscious participation in the anticipatory design undertakings of Nature. This conscious participation itself is changing from an awkward, arbitrary, trial and error ignorance to an intuitively conceived, yet rigorously serviced, disciplined elegance.
6 Man has been flying blindly into his future on scientific instruments and formulas. The great news on the artist-scientist-intellectual frontier is that as the fog-and-black shadow of ignorance and misconception recedes, there looms a sublimely comprehensible conceptual patterning, which characterizes all the mathematical principles heretofore only formulatively employed by the scientist, yet intuitively pursued by the artist as potentially model-able. Experimental science has validated the artist’s intuitions but not his disciplines.
7 The frontiers of physical experimentation have found no basic ‘‘building blocks’’ structuring nature. There are no thing-particles. Only pattern transactions in pure principle have been discovered. Man has therefore been forced to abandon the misconception of a ‘‘smallest fundamental particle,’’ upon which the age of materialism was axiomatically predicated.
8 Where do we go from here? We are dealing with a complex integrity of complementary patterning transformations. Realization is objective integrity. Science, in its disciplined preoccupation with myriad subjective differentiations, serviced by an inbreeding specialization, has unwittingly eluded comprehensive social responsibility for objective potentials or the consequences of its findings and acts.
9 Engineering and architecture, though objective and integrative, have no economic initiative. These men design professionally only when employed by a patron. The patron becomes the prime designer. The patron initiates that which is to be detailed within the patron-conceived limits of undertaking and responsibility.
10 Ivory towerism in the scientist and professional-securityism in the architect-engineer have left social initiative to political man, who in turn has passed the buck to the military. The hired military serviceman has done his best within his limits as prime design initiator. His design authority is limited, however, to the augmentation of his tools. His tools—weaponry; their physical objective—killingry, the negative of livingry.
11 The historic pattern of weaponry is epitomized in the TV Western. The bad man draws first; the good man starts late but finishes first. The bad man is finished. Now comes the surprise. The range has been so increased, and the dueling has become so sophisticated, that both sides can get their effective shots in, and nobody wins.
12 Today’s warhead travels at fifteen thousand miles per hour. With five thousand miles to go, it takes twenty minutes to reach its target. Man’s eyes, augmented by radar, penetrate around the world at a velocity of six hundred million miles per hour. As he spots the warhead’s takeoff in his direction, he has more than nineteen minutes in which to get his own warhead under way. There is ample time for each side to obliterate the other. Both ‘‘good’’ and ‘‘bad’’ man loses. Even the world political leaders realize that the pursuit of weaponry has reached absurdity.
13 When Sputnik was launched, it made the airplane obsolete as the number one weapon. In the half-century of the airplane’s weapon supremacy, two and one half trillion capital dollars invested by the world nations, converted the highest scientific and technical capabilities of man into the historically most advanced phase of integrated, generalized, mass production-tooled industry.
14 No private individuals, nor the massed credit potential of any group of private individuals, could have underwritten so astronomical an acceleration in the comprehensive industrial technology as was underwritten by the negative mandate articulated by the military. So vast was the production facility thus developed that in this short fifty-year span, all that had been technically scarce, and therefore on highest priority, became plentitudinous.
15 All the future jet plane production requirements for the swiftly developing world transport system, and all the future military rocket production, together can utilize less than ten per cent of the industrial mass-production facility created to implement the airplane as the premier weapon. Much excess capacity is generalized.
16 History’s amalgam of total experience, its derived knowledge and wisdom as altogether converted to highest industrial mass productability and omni-distribution, has boiled over. Wealth, as the organized physical ability to deal successfully with forward evolutionary events, has attained almost infinite magnitude.
17 The ‘‘organized physical ability’’ means entire automation of world industry. This eventuality was always inherent in the intellectual pacing of industry. Its complete attainment is suddenly imminent. Marx’s worker, the automaton, the muscle and reflex machine, is replaced by automation. Man, losing all significance as physical producer, becomes utterly essential to the industrial equation only as the regenerative consumer. The industrial wealth potential of automated production capability may only be realized by an anticipatorily designed, systematically established and credit-accounted matching consumer capacity. The efficiency of the industrial equation is directly proportional to the numbers consuming.
18 The political economy, winning and holding the largest proportion of the world’s consumer population, can operate at the highest efficiency, at the lowest cost, while attaining the fastest rate of realized wealth augmentation.
19 The world’s political leadership will now undertake the exploitation of the abundance of the ‘‘bestest’’ to win for its respective political camps the heretofore unserviced world customers of the industrial equation. But they will discover also that total world resources invested at the performance per-pound level of presently designed livingry will serve only forty per cent of the world’s population.
20 To serve one hundred percent, will involve a world design revolution, not just design of end-products, but of the comprehensive industrial network equations including world-around livingry-service systems, at regenerative occupancy rentals, mutably installed in anticipatory facilitation of total world enjoyment of individually respected total man. This comprehensive design will include not only the network means of production, distribution, maintenance, search, research and continual improvement of service, but also the continual, methodical withdrawal of progressively obsolete facilities tonnage, its reprocessing and recirculation at ever higher performance ratios per pounds of physical resource investment—together with design of the economic implementation of greater numbers of consumers to match the increasing tooled-up production capabilities, and together with designed consumer traffic patterning controls permitting higher frequencies and velocities of electively enjoyed services devoid of individual interference incidents and restraints.
21 Such designing has brilliant prototype precedent in the telephone system’s anticipatorily successful and inherently regenerative physical network instrumentation evolution. The contact instruments of the world-around livingry services must be anticipatorily networked and its consumer-contact instruments and facilities must be installed at consumer request (not sold) for a nominal service fee. The network services utilized by the consumer through his contact equipment will be billed only ‘‘after the month’’ and after the provision of the accruing regenerative advantage realizations by the consumer, whereby the wealth may be established to refund the services in the accounting system designed into the comprehensive undertaking. The prime design must also provide for the orderly transfer of the world consumer population from the obsoleting worker payrolls to the world educational system’s advanced search, research and vital regeneration functioning. Einstein’s norm of constantly transforming evolutionary patterning must designedly replace Newton’s now invalidated static norm.
22 Prime designing augments wealth. Wealth permits increased freedom of personal time investment. Prime design may multiply the alternate physical facilities for desirable anatomical, mental and cultural development. Desirable time investment alternatives inherently decrease over-all baby-making time. That explains ‘‘the rich getting richer and the poor getting children.’’ Prime designing commands the fundamental solution of the over-population threat. As with all fundamental problems of man on earth fundamental solutions are not to be had by political reforms of either the peacetime prohibitory law enforcement variety, or of the never convincing wartime annihilation variety. Fundamental solutions are not for sale. Mass subscriptions to support professional do-gooders are futile.
23 Fortunately population explosion is only the momentary social hysteria’s cocktail conversation game. Real population crisis is fundamentally remote. There is room enough indoors in New York City for the whole 1963 world’s population to enter, with room enough inside for all hands to dance the twist in average nightclub proximity. There is ample room in the New York streets for one half of the world’s population to amble about in, leaving enough room inside buildings for the other half to lie down and sleep. This would be a good moment to call for all scientists, engineers, toolmakers, machine fitters, mechanics and aircraft pilots present, all of whom amount to less than one per cent of humanity, and to send them out from New York City all around the world to get total automation of world production and services going. After this the world’s population could start enjoying the whole earth as students, archeologists, play writers, players, poets, artists, dancers, skin divers, tourists, etc. There would be no further muscle and animal reflex jobs to be done and no need to earn a living, for the living would be generated as effortlessly as apples grow on trees. If you want to go to work you just tell yourself to go to work, you can shovel beach sand from here to there with the beach-playing children, or you can go to work in the library and find out, if you can, how this miracle came about and how to keep it going. You will have plenty of work to do.
24 The comprehensive prime design scientist-artist-poet will have to do a great deal of work to comprehend his task and to discover the most efficient and effective order of priority of his progressive sets of anticipatory escalator undertakings.
25 Only the freewheeling artist-explorer, non-academic, scientist-philosopher, mechanic, economist-poet who has never waited for patron-starting and accrediting of his coordinate capabilities holds the prime initiative today. If man is to continue as a successful pattern-complex function in universal evolution, it will be because the next decades will have witnessed the artist-scientist’s spontaneous seizure of the prime design responsibility and his successful conversion of the total capability of tool-augmented man from killingry to advanced livingry—adequate for all humanity.