Untitled Epic Poem

XIV

Part XIV

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4 But man has developed this U. S. A. degree of Mechanical extension to any importantly superior measure over any other human species only recently—only since 1914. And only since 1850, has man anywhere developed it to important degree over any other life species.

5 That is only since the day when Darwin with his eyes focused only upon the integral mechanisms of living things with the limiting vision of absolute law makers who put the political-economy cart before the science horse made pronouncement of his law of ‘‘the survival of the fittest.’’

6 The classical example of Darwinian law was that of the birds who fed at a small lake, which gradually receded year after year due to polar ice-cap recession or whatnot, and whatever the birds found as special sustenance to their species receded slowly with the water’s level.

7 As the water level sank deeper into holes in the ground only the birds with the longest beaks could reach it, and the others of necessity died off.—Then the surviving long beakers intermarried, having no other choice of spouse, and their off-spring by inbreeding of glandular electro-chemical eccentricities usually had long beaks, sometimes longer than the parents, and these latter inbred specialists outlived their contemporaries of the once long enough but now in their turn too short beakers.

8 But this survival progression posited the death-birth cycle as implicit to Darwin’s greater principle—evolution— for none of the birds

9 could stretch their integral beaks to suit;—nor those of their mates, their offspring, their pals.

10 Though a few wild tribes of humans still provide traditionally preserved examples of attempts to stretch the integral mechanisms;—the limitations involved are at once ludicrous and obvious and may never be ‘‘fitter’’ hereditary properties.

11 And that was Darwin’s basic principle and it ‘‘shook the world,’’ as the Victorians said it and those who daringly espoused it did so sacrilegiously, for it was anti-Gospel, and as radicals of their day Darwin’s disciples rightfully deemed themselves true pioneers.

12 But the survival of the fittest concept has been way overworked, and grossly perverted,—has been improperly evoked to ‘‘justify’’ many an unswallowable pill or even sheer piracy through carelessly adopted

13 or upper-handedly imposed

14 social economic precedent

15 which exclusively identified Darwinian law with business pioneering.

16 Of such perversion

17 ‘‘rugged individualism’’ was typical progeny.

18 This misappropriation of scientific ‘‘legality’’ to condone a sharp focus on profit for profit’s sake

19 constantly reoccured in the industrial growth era, only prior to which period

20 of social emancipation adolescence

21 was Darwin’s absolute ‘‘law’’

22 in any broad yet strict sense scientifically valid.

23 Yet Darwin’s prerequisite death-birth cycle of individuals in evolution-accounting

24 was strictly superimposed upon

25 industrial economics,—

26 despite utter incompatability,—

27 through mortgage, debt, moritorium, and bankruptcy;—and debt refund budgeting

28 by tax shuttlecocking under political duress.

29 But no sooner had Darwin spoken than men began in a big way to provide themselves with straws when the waters receded and pipe lines if they receded far enough and even progressively to provide survival for all not only by their cooperative pipe line extensions but also mechanically, and chemically in medicine and information,—in fact in a myriad of ways.

30 For the ‘‘mechanical extension’’ is a generic term including mathematical, chemical, and radiation extensions as well as the various spectrums.

31 In fact it includes all infra- and ultra-sensory scientifically contacted extensions of the micro and macrocosms and mathematical coursings of the atomic components’ behaviors.

32 Yet the sons-of-the-sons of the Darwinian radicals with little or no infra- and ultra-sensory comprehension still ‘‘pioneered’’ bravely under the survival of the fittest doctrine though becoming progressively

33 less fit in their concept;—

34 and ergo in the validity

35 of their own personal enjoyment of higher standard of surviving facilities than even the mean low average, as Industrialization developed.

36 From 1933 to 1940

37 the Darwinians have cholerically demanded stay of execution of their law and its corollary

38 the law of ‘‘demand and supply’’ on the grounds that its operation had only been sanctioned for privateering purposes.

39 Thus have all the legal,

40 and academic economy Darwinians

41 now crawled into bed

42 with the rest of the forces

43 of reaction to Industrialization.

44 In that bed are also the skeletons

45 of British political-economists

46 who ‘‘dared’’ science to protest their first law of thermo-dynamics, (look it up for yourself).

47 It reads

48 ‘‘The unit of measure of energy

49 is the British Thermal Unit.’’

50 It applies the divine-right of the right king to say how when and where science is true

51 in ‘‘practical’’ economics.

52 The first and the second

53 British laws of thermo-dynamics completely reverse the order, relative magnitudes, and intent of ‘‘these two’’ on which

54 ‘‘hang all the law and the prophets.’’