Part XXIII
4 It is not to be denied that it is a difficult matter to shift the world economic accounting system, now beautifully set up for calculation facility on a 100% oldway survival-of-the-fittest basis (involving death and debt as tactical closing dates) around to a survival of all
5 with relative super advancement of the fittest.
6 But inherent in the excruciating economic and personal pains of today is the certain change-over thereto.
7 In this connection Mr. Owen Young, in cogently subscribing in October ’39 (a few days after England declared war on Germany) with other leading U.S.A, industrialists to federal provision of jobs for all youth albeit for most practical ulterior purposes lest certain revolution by frustrated youth occur (and the 1940 ‘‘demand’’ for conscription is thereby identifiable)
8 may now be unwittingly instrumenting full pragmatic restitution for the ills which he and Mr. Dawes
9 (while not themselves personally inventing) did certify to us
10 in their reparations ‘‘plan’’ of a decade ago, when they placed the thumb screws of the old accounting system on Europe-at-large but most precisely on Germany.
11 The most difficult part of the task of changing the accounting system centers in the fact that the old one was based precisely upon physical assets just as Darwin had indicated,—upon special integral and personal extensions only.
12 Whereas the new accounting system must be based upon abstracts such as health and satisfaction, the only measures of which we can meter being Time, Space, Energy, and compounds thereof in themselves intrinsically valueless except by contact and direction by the mind via brain in relative ways.
13 That mind brain teleologic relaying is in turn dependent upon measures of self discipline.
14 But these abstract effects are nonetheless the willy-nilly realistic value factors involved in Industrialization.
15 By detoured tracery, no less valid for its indirection, we may now comprehend the polarization to a mountain chamber in Kentucky of the world’s major gold supply.
16 That volumetrically compact physical element is no longer either essential or even germane to integration of the production and consumption world-wise of the phenomenon Industrialization.
17 No, the ephemeralization of doing more with less, took gold along with tonnage and three-ton Locomobiles, and Stevens Duryeas into the limbo, whither long ago lumbered the mammoth.
18 Some alloyed index compound of energy, brainpower, and satisfaction will soon emerge representing the true intrinsic value of the abstract U.S.A. dollar upon which latter the whole international economy then bids fair to stabilize
19 whenever it may arrive at terms of peace which will devolve precisely
20 about this abstract standardization of a universal means of exchange.
21 (Concurrently in the laboratory gold will be set
22 to industrial functioning by the physicists.
23 Already its functional uses particularly in radiation and electronics, such as in the transmission of power by focussed or tubed radio beam are fast multiplying.)
24 Before passing on temporarily from the subject of the obvious need of a new and adequate accounting system for Industrialization
25 it is appropriate to remark that man subject to all the laws
26 of electron inertias
27 as well as their dynamics
28 still speaks of his ‘‘sunsets,’’—sun-‘‘sets’’ and worse, thinks that way,
29 despite Copernicus’s revolutionary contribution to modem objective science in 1543.
30 Professors well aware of the facts will say to their lovely daughters ‘‘What a beautiful sunset my dear,’’ and lecturers at planitariums which latter were devised to clarify man’s celestial thinking, will terminate dramatically faultless demonstrations of star intercomsing by saying ingenuously to the audience ‘‘But now the stars are setting in the West and the sun is rising in the East,’’ as they snap on the lights, ‘‘So good-bye, and thank you all.’’
31 When man finally gets around to throwing in the switch of his brain-mind circuit to provoke his thinking dynamically and objectively of the world under him revolving so that his western horizon is rising to obscure the sun in the evening and rolling down to reveal the sun in the morning then may we expect him to change from man as a certified defeat to man as a fortunate process truly ‘‘quick’’ instead of ‘‘dead’’ in operative concept.
32 A dynamic and abstract world dollar may then readily be propagated into certain high frequency intercoursing.