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2Goldy and the bears now discuss the fact that when the atoll-incubated humans first began to penetrate the mainland, they dug vast systems of canals into the shorelands to extend and complement their normal sea life support with additional life support grown in the freshwater-fed fields and paddies lying adjacent to their saltwater canals, which latter served to float their life-support boat cargoes to their floating water markets. Their half-water, half-land life gave these oceanic people the opportunity of capturing, taming, and domesticating both animals and vegetation by inbreeding them for emphasis of desired life-support characteristics. Thus developed the earliest, primarily waterborne, canal states which were ruled by kings who were, by demonstrated facts, the most physically capable of protecting their kingdoms against invaders. Because no one knew why the physically big and strong ones happened to be born big and powerful, the legend readily developed that the kings were divinely selected---ergo, were living demigods.
3 Goldy now draws a picture of what is often mistakenly spoken of by twentiethcentury European and American tourists as a ‘‘temple.’’ Goldy says, however, that these local demi-universe models were only to serve the monarch at the time of his death---as a great ‘‘step’’ ladder into heaven their cosmological model started with a large watery lake surrounding the miniature world. Centrally within this lake the god of the sea, Naga, sculptured in stone, completely surrounded the perimeter of their square, islanded world. Angkor Wat in Cambodia is the best remaining example of these cosmological models. It is completely surrounded by a square body of water which long ago led off by canals to the sea.
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7 Goldy and the bears take note that there is one other important and sweeping difference between these water people of Austronesia and the rest of the world’s land-conditioned people. This difference was discovered by a lifelong student of these people named Austin Coates, who found that none of the water and islands people in Goldy’s oceanic Orient picture understands or wants to understand the land people’s game called ‘‘business.’’ As a consequence, four Chinese merchant families run all the business of Indonesia’s 124 million people dwelling on 13,000 islands with 1,500 people per square mile concentrated on the island of Java. These water people can understand trading but cannot comprehend ‘‘credit’’ and the latter’s anticipated or delayed balancing of economic events. They know that they cannot accredit wind for their sails in advance of the arrival of Nature’s wind. And when the wind comes into their sails, they are confident that they do not owe anybody anything for it. They can only comprehend the reality of dealing directly with Nature and her unique energetic behaviors, as matter or radiation. They know that the wind from the banker’s lungs will get the sailor nowhere. All the water people are committed to cooperatively producing life-support items such as foods, tools, and music. They march together single file out to the rice paddies and back---they sing together, dance together, make masks and costumes and act plays together. They cannot accredit as reality any of the middleman’s tricks for cutting himself in on the life-support wealth of which the businessman has produced nothing. The latter ‘‘cuts’’ himself ‘‘in’’ only by building ‘‘walls,’’ both physical and abstract, around the goods and service exchanges, control of the portals of whose abstract, or physical, walls permits the businessmen to produce false scarcities and elevated prices. The business banker also maneuvers himself into a position of politically profitable power by extending credit at interest to one while withholding it from others.
8 The water people have been educated both by Nature’s intense, high-frequency, hostile environment events at the interface of the water and air ocean worlds, as well as by Nature’s most benign and divine environment contriving. The water people know humans can’t bluff the ocean, and they don’t try. They know a vast stone fortress is defensively formidable but objectively useless: it can’t float or transport you anywhere. The symbolic security and implied power of the banker’s bank building does not inspire sea people’s respect. To them, business is clearly intent upon self-advantaging at the expense of the many. ‘‘Since business is alien to the sea people,’’ says Goldy, ‘‘we can find the origins of business only on the dry land, where long long ago a few physically powerful individuals mounted horses and rode up to a lonely shepherd tending a great flock of sheep in the wilderness grazing lands. Their leader said, ‘Mr. Shepherd, that’s too valuable a flock of sheep to be wandering unprotected in the wilderness. You need protection!’ To which the shepherd replied, ‘I do not: I and my sheep are never molested out here. There is no one to molest us.’ Next morning the shepherd finds some of his flock have been killed. Around comes the armed man of the horse and says, ‘Oh, what a pity. I told you that you needed protection, and you paid no attention to my friendly and experienced advice.’ ’’
9 After a few more such repeated losses the shepherds or the cowherds of the goods-transporting caravans yield and accept the overlordship protection of the horse-mounted strongman and his gangland henchmen. The invisible walls and doors have been built. Once established, the power structure needed ‘‘brains’’ to help keep the conquered divided and thereby conquered and to keep productivity controlled in ways which most successfully syphoned the potential wealth advantage into the power structure’s account by taking the people’s deposited wealth, making loans, charging interest, collecting taxes, making laws, holding courts of judgment. The power structure also conscripted and armed fighting men to maintain their physical power, whose strength of numbers they always kept at the highest level consistent with maintaining the greatest possible gross overall productivity of the real life support and wealth.
10 Goldy says that true life-support wealth is produced not only by cultivation and harvesting but by adding value to matter by shaping it into needed tools such as levers and operating those tools with the natural energy income. Real wealth is also produced by completely employed technology whenever and wherever it effects: (a) reduction of customarily accepted spoilage, and (b) increase in longevity of storability or (c) increase in range and speed of lifesupport deliverability so that it may reach and advantage ever more people in ever more efficient and in ever higher quality manner, (d) increase in energy-use efficiency through using the best of several design alternatives (for instance, reciprocating engines have an efficiency of fifteen percent; turbines thirty percent; jets sixty percent; fuel cells eighty percent---ergo, by employing the technology that produces the greatest percentage of effective energy work accomplished), (e) continual reclaiming, sorting, recycling, and reusing the chemical element resources, (f) proliferation of technical know-how amongst all humans.
11 Goldy also tells the bears that she does not think of the business people or any other people as ‘‘bad.’’ She says she realizes that the development of the lives of all humans is powerfully controlled by the special circumstances of each life. The bears concur: ‘‘From here we can see that all humans are very innocent participants in an evolving life process whose significance could not be made apparent or discovered until an enormous amassment of experience, which was and is as yet to be tested only through myriads of trials and errors.’’
12 Unlike the cow- and sheepherds, the sea people had no ‘‘flocks of fish’’ to guard, and the sea was as rough on the pirates as it was on the cargo carriers, whose ships if well designed and built could outmaneuver the pirates even when the latter improved their armament, for the cargo carriers could also improve their armament. In the end, however, the land lords extended their power out onto the sea to control the whole world and did so by controlling the credit system that underwrote the ventures and also by controlling the media of import/ export exchanging and by building governments and the latters’ great navies of invincible fighting ships, supported by fleets of supply ships, world-around naval bases, prime harborside supply sources, and by the ownership of minings, refining, and manufacturing processes.
13 While there is in reality only one world ocean which surrounds and separates all the islands and continents of the planet earth, and while it is true that the most physically powerful seacraft masters have gradually developed so many tricks for usurping the life-support productivity of the many for the exclusive benefit of the few, it is also probable that the millions of years of intimate experience with nature of the Austronesian water people, cannot and probably never will be willing to corrupt the logic of their reality in order to accommodate and accept the ninety-nine-percent fictitious credit bluffing game of the businessones. The Austronesians can fearlessly ride a twenty foot-high breaking wave in from the sea to safety on the beach and know that the bluffers perish.
14 Goldy and the bears now discuss the fact that when the atoll-incubated humans first began to penetrate the mainland, they dug vast systems of canals into the shorelands to extend and complement their normal sea life support with additional life support grown in the freshwater- fed fields and paddies lying adjacent to their saltwater canals, which later served to float their life-support boat cargoes to their floating markets. Their half-water, half-land life gave these oceanic people the opportunity of capturing, taming, and domesticating both animals and vegetation by inbreeding them for emphasis of desired life-support characteristics. Thus developed the earliest, primarily waterborne, canal states which were ruled by kings who were, by demonstrated facts, the most physically capable of protecting their kingdoms against invaders. Because no one knew why the physically big and strong ones happened to be born big and powerful, the legend readily developed that the kings were divinely selected---ergo, were living demigods selected by the great gods, who obviously visited humans by sea and sky, being manifest as lightning, thunder, and storms as well as by bounteous life support---when the gods were pleased---and by disasters---when they were wrathful. The ruler had his people build for him a miniature world upon which at death the ruler might ascend to his throne amongst the other gods.
15 Goldy now draws a picture of what is often mistakenly spoken of by twentieth-century European and American tourists as a ‘‘temple.’’ Goldy says, however, that these local demi-universe models were only to serve the monarch at the time of his death---as a great ‘‘step’’ladder into heaven---allowing the dead ruler to physically ascend the heights to enter the universe of the gods. These cosmological models formalized in miniature humanity’s concept of the Universe. Anyone who had traveled knew, said the Austronesians, that in due course you would come to the sea: obviously the sea surrounds everything. Therefore, their cosmological model started with a large watery lake surrounding the miniature world. Centrally within this lake the god of the sea, Naga, sculptured in stone, completely surrounded the perimeter of their square, islanded world. Angkor Wat in Cambodia is the best remaining example of these cosmological models. It is completely surrounded by a square body of water which long ago led off by canals to the sea. The way in which the canals led off to the sea and once completely gridded the lowland country is clearly visible in the land and water form pattern as seen from an airplane today.
16 The surrounding porticos of their great cosmological models were first produced with their upside-down wooden-ribbed boats, which wood-ribbed sheds were later replaced by stone structuring fashioned to emulate the earlier wooden-ribbed prototypes. They designed these great cosmological structures with the square base of their ocean rafts and oriented them to north, south, east, and west facings. Their model gave rise to the old expression, ‘‘the four corners of the earth.’’ In their time it was thought that anybody who traveled knew that as you went inland on an atoll or on the mainland, you always came to ever higher mountains, and the higher one could climb on the inland mountains, the closer did they approach the dominion of the gods. But such climbing was only for the demigod king and only to be undertaken by him at the time of his death.