Untitled Epic Poem

VIII

Part VIII

2

3

4 Full explanation

5 of the ‘38 crash

6 forms a multiple factor equation

7 with certain long brackets

8 of political X, Y, Z’s to the Nth power

9 of international copper cartels

10 and tin committee’s quotas

11 and rats surreptitiously leaving the ship

12 but a broader cause

13 may reassuringly be observed

14 from our 50,000 foot viewpoint.

15 That broader cause

16 was that the principle

17 of Industrialization

18 had thus far in history been developed

19 to hybrid full bloom

20 only within the United States of Northern America;

21 and in dynamic fulfillment of evolutionary balance

22 the principle had now to be fully applied

23 to the rest of the world;—

24 before the world could settle down into peace and order

25 on the new plateau

26 a fact neither evident nor cultivated as such for its honorable own sake

27 by either U.S. business or government.

28 However, the particular detonating factor that derailed man’s equanimity train temporarily

29 was the non-scientific surrealist art

30 of our pals, the Publicitors

31 who were now developing

32 world decentralized manufacture

33 to prove that their 1929 failure

34 with world monopoly

35 ‘‘monorailing’’

36 was only caused by the fact that their first trial section of single rail was not long enough.

37 And the ‘38 crash came when the Publicitors pulling up the last piece of parallel rail in the world

38 (at the same time swelling up traffic

39 by a war emergency scarecrow)

40 unwittingly invoked the ‘‘dynamic balancer’’ to all such importantly lopsided designs. For, as the human industrial express hit their first section

41 of new world single rail

42 and careened into the panic ditch again, within the Publicitor’s scarecrow itself

43 there appeared

44 the dynamic balancer

45 which he had unwittingly invoked.

46 In lieu of a new parallel rail

47 on which to get the human train running again the scarecrow demonstrated

48 that unlike the multi-wheeled vehicles

49 of Democracy’s mixed party support it could indeed run on the single rail at least in quasi human fashion by use of a gyroscopic stabilizer, called National Socialism,

50 or Totalitarianism,

51 a vast scientifically managed

52 direct producer-consumer integration—individual and collective,—

53 with government as sole entrepreneur;—a fast spinning efficiency scheme of super-super monopoly.

54 And the scarecrow’s Public Relationers,

55 Gayda and Goebbels

56 thus enabled to defy gravity

57 and anything else it pleased them to defy began to centrifuge vituperance

58 which far outranged and out-spread radially

59 the pot-shot hand grenades of the Public Relationers of the world-wide privateering monopolies who were only accustomed to dealing with their own artificial barrages and in sub-caliber practice on big guns, having no real enemy in monopoly to enforce step-keeping with time.

60 So P.R. was at last afraid for its own skin and was about to secretly Anschluss with its own frankenstein creation and had indeed made vital commitments when the again ‘‘forgotten man’’ bemusedly taking inventory of his own great industrial strength as demonstrated within the U.S.A.

61 said, ‘‘Hey there, P.R., where are you going?’’

62 He said this in several ways:—objectively, by post-card telegram and survey; subjectively, by stubbornness, or perverse condescension or downright boredom and quite a bit of telepathic wrist twisting.

63 Amazed by this unexpected worm turning yet encouraged by the naivete of Democracy’s questioning and admiringly impressed by the ‘‘inventory of power,’’

64 Public Relations surprised itself by answering,—speaking editorially for man, of course,—in that resonant staccato of the documentary film voice, ‘‘We are going to fight the Totalitarian Dragon, who threatens Democracy.’’

65 P.R. thought of course that man would proudly take arms and thus save not only P.R.’s own skin for having challenged the Dragon, personally, as it were, by advance tentative proxy, but also afford P.R.’s clients a swell incidental profit in one way or another despite limiting fences erected by man;—that arch Damn Fool.

66 But man taking his new creative abilities seriously frowned on the destructive suggestion and refused to ‘‘fall in line,’’ (a military expression.)

67 P.R. now out on a limb decided to take affairs in its own hands even though the grab be painfully patent to a frustrated few artists and scientists.

68 Thus the Publicitor and his financial backers, his clients and handymen now alone in the world

69 had everything to lose even if nothing new to gain and the broadcasts grew martially stentorian;—almost noble;—were it not for that undertone despised by the U.S.A, ear,—notes of fear push pushing too hard and too self-interestedly.

70 And even before consciously detecting that fear Uncle Sam’s nephews didn’t care anyway for the cut of the Dillon Reid uniforms or for the oomph of Kuhn Loeb’s martial music for another phenomenal thing had happened.

71 The telescoping effect of industrialization had advanced the average age of U.S.A, man by fifteen years during the twenty-two year armistice so that a middle aged man stayed precisely middle aged though the years themselves were advancing and the extra years were flung to youth and the aged and for the first time in history yesterday was still too realistically today for man in his prime to be easily re-booby-trapped.

72 Especially was this true of U.S.A, man who was only idealistically involved. He remembered, for instance, the many thousands of veterans once the fair headed boys of 1918 deprived of an honorable soldier’s death even of jobs and of friendships despised and homeless rounded up like rats on Metacombie Kay where God with a Florida hurricane tidal wave quenched forever the fire that seared their unloved forgotten vice tortured souls;—and this was but one item played way down by publicity.

73 But if in turn the Totalitarian monopoly grows too singularly lopsided for one of many possible reasons to work happily in our, as popularly viewed, bi-polar world of black-and-white tall-and-short night-and-day right-and-left-foot intuitive balancing progression

74 (which bi-polar counterpointing with its overlooked third part the middle, or resultant of forces self-started Democracy;—) then as sure as man has two eyes and it takes two people to make a baby, another party will come along and another and another

75 ‘‘So why all the shooting?’’ say the U.S.A.’s. More precisely than that if Totalitarianism grows too lopsided

76 to synchronize socially with the three-phase numerical and electrical balancing of the atomic world’s proton, electron, and neutron;

77 or with the three point landings of our modem dynamic technology;

78 or with engineering’s three legged basic structural stability and triangular trussing by segregated satisfaction

79 of isolated articulating push-pull forces:—in the tripartite terms of which world peace

80 and its economic language must of scientific necessity be freely fashioned then will the Totalitarians also invoke the inevitable dynamic balancer.

81 And how,—is for the nonce inconsequential.

82 Other reasons enough for the ‘38 panic will be discussed later, but for the moment it suffices to note that the U.S.A, was, after all, only the chief ways-and-means laboratory of fate during the first half of the twentieth century in the ever Westward curve of civilization.

83 And in this continentally isolated laboratory Industrialization as a fulfillment of the urges and surges of all history and its people had now come to first fertile fruition.

84 And the U.S.A, populace was not destined or even temporarily licensed by God through any reasonable concept of man to a role of dog-in-the-manger with that fruition.

85 That is not the way of Industrialization, which, as we shall see later is universal or nothing.

86 So 1938--1939

87 third armistice period

88 was fraught with world-affairs awareness

89 in which people were learning geography

90 as never before

91 coordinating sound and sight names

92 with places and people

93 first in the Orient

94 then all over Europe

95 and then South America

96 (it had studied East Africa

97 in the two years preceding).

98 And the 1939 business activity pull-up

99 was intimately connected

100 with world supplying

101 and world airways linkage

102 and not with special personal gain

103 to the U.S. profit economy.

104 The U.S. profit economy,—

105 as separated out from Industrialization,—

106 was neither politically, economically, mechanically, nor in any conscious sense

107 (let alone conscientious)

108 geared to the part

109 of beneficient

110 world deliquescence.

111 Rather the U.S.A.

112 business economy

113 played the shrewd fool.

114 Witness the continual stock market frustrations.

115 Witness its panicky Fascistic plotting.

116 Witness its division against itself in war mongering.

117 Witness its unfitness

118 for the war it promoted.

119 Those true commonwealth earnings are only to come

120 when the U.S. unfalteringly

121 steps out

122 into its world leadership role

123 sponsoring Industrialization peacefully,—for man’s own sake,—wherefore let us research the character, anatomy and philosophic meaning of Industrialization.