Part XXXI
4 And finally, as all the tonnage criteria have been found wanting as an index of industrialization disenfranchising measurement by material units such as tons, loadings, etc. we must look to horsepower consumption from all sources of energy and translate the U.S.A.’s and the world’s effective horsepower application to equivalent ‘‘man-power’’ units.
5 This translation shows by how much every individual in the U.S.A, is augmented.
6 The unit of augmentation is called an ‘‘inanimate slave,’’ and the comparison with other economies of the world and all history is staggering.
7 For the U.S.A, animate individuals now command twenty billion inanimate slaves which amount to more than 50% of all the world’s rapidly increasing total (thirty-eight billion to date).
8 Ninety-nine percent of this extraordinary army of genii have been conquered by the human mind out of the blue in the short space of three generations.
9 And don’t let anyone discount the ability of these inanimate slaves each one of which can not only exert an equal amount of effort to that of the lustiest human, but, superior to the human they can go in and exert it at temperatures which for instance would turn Shadrack, Meshach, and Abednego to fume or icicles.
10 And they can articulate within tolerances of one hundred thousandth of an inch while their masters at best are limited to sixty-fourths.
11 Now, looking at the world’s half-and-half industrial-agricultural economy in comparison to the dynamic portrait of the U.S.A, industralized economy, these broad over-all trend curves are seen to hold true irrespective of war periods, which only accentuate or punctuate them, and there would seem to be a current rapid increase in tonnage outside of the U.S. …and this trend runs counter to the tonnage tapering within the more highly industrialized U.S.A.
12 Statically appraised by economists who used only the material yardstick of tonnage, this divergence led to the misconception that the U.S.A, lagged during the thirties in twenty-first place in world nations ‘‘recovery.’’
13 However, an obvious dynamic inference from this is that the world as a whole is beginning to take the industrial elevator first demonstrated tonnage wise by the U.S.A, and that the latter will be forced to play the role of major world exporter—that is, business and government will be forced to play the role of major exporter—they will be forced
14 by the pressures of their own high development to concern themselves with world affairs on a scale not even imagined when our economy was still in the high tonnage, low energy stage.
15 And which way is that world tonnage flowing (net)? The answer is, to the westward.
16 Emope’s tonnage per capita stays about in balance. This indicates high industrialization taking birth for the near billion people of the Orient.
17 Energy,
18 when its potential is built to sufficient voltage must arc over to the dominant negative, and the Pacific Ocean doings
19 are fast building that electron pathway.
20 Intelligent handling of this development by the U.S.A, not just to avoid war, but for constructive world development, could obviate total world conflict.
21 If this inevitable trend is not consciously heeded and voluntarily attended by our own leaders, it might well be that the totalitarians in their efficiency drive will arrange matters so that we must furnish these services to the Orient whether we like it or not.
22 Dictators never invent their own opportunities.