4 Venus Proximity Day
5.1One of my working assumptions which has proven successful so often as seemingly to qualify it as a reliable tenet is that "A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically." Others have probably stated the principle in many ways. The assumption is that the inevitability of a solution’s realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative evolution of physical universe. At first the, only subconsciously apprehended, approaching confluences of complex events make themselves known intuitively within the intellectual weather. Then comes a gradually awakening consciousness of the presence of new families of differentiating-out challenging concepts of every day prominence. It is with these randomly patterning families of separate concepts that evolution is about to deal integratively. As a now specific unitary problem it may be disposed of effectively when and if that unified problem becomes "adequately stated" and thereby comprehensibly solvable.
5.2 Assuming that my tenet is valid I am going to put on view statements of a number of once-seemingly isolated historical world events and conditions which my particular set of experiences teach me to recognize as, now being all in swift confluence soon to become popularly recognized, the world around, as constituting a unitary, contemporary problem the grand solution for which should become implicit in my statements.
5.3 This day–December 14, 1962,–witnesses the extraordinary event of an Earthian information gathering and radio reporting satellite coming for the first time into intimate reporting range of Venus, earth’s nearest planet neighbor. This first solar system planetary reconnaissance event precipitates an awareness of how little we know about how man may successfully occupy earth and brings me to vigorous re-attack upon that most important problem of man in universe. If he can’t make a success of life on earth he also may be unable to make himself a success anywhere else in the universe.
5.4 That realization brings us to scrutinize the few instances of men making a professional success of their meagerly conscious participation in the evolutionary events of universe as contactingly experienced around the surface of earth. In an ecology, generated by a conglomeration of obsolete yesterdays’ conditioned reflexes, somewhat analogous to that of the barnacles, crabs, sea urchins, star fish and snails living around the bottom of the water ocean mantle of earth man now exists defensively around the bottom of the air ocean mantle of earth, but with one important difference. Whereas the barnacles and other water ocean denizen’s large predatory enemies as yet exist and menace them, warranting their protective shells, and spiked armor, man has largely migrated from the jungle and has disturbed the "balance of nature" with his extra-corporeal artifacts to such an extent that practically all of his biological enemies, physically larger than he, have been exterminated or isolated and many of his biological enemies smaller than he, including many that are invisibly small, have been neutralized and his age old environmental-circumstance-enemy of metabolic sustenance want has been potentially vanquished wherefore his only residual enemies of note are the invisibly large unpredicted geophysical events of cataclysmic magnitude and his most prominently and almost continuously present enemy, himself.
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5.6 The most competent class of professionals at present on earth are the medical scientists. In saying this I refer to the medical scientists themselves who are not to be confused with the incorporated political lobby professionals who have sprung up in this era of massive governments and massive corporations to exploit the unworldly vulnerability needs of various categories of preoccupied specialists. Typical are the doctors who have been persuaded by political lobby professionals to allow themselves to be organized, managed and represented by a large secretariat operating as The American Medical Association. Every group of graduate school professionals has its small percentage of keen but less adept practicing members who make more effective politicians than doctors. These borderline professionals are readily persuaded to "sacrifice" themselves for their profession in order to play parts in the political drama written for them by the self-perpetuating secretariat professionals. The real doctors themselves do not compete economically with one another. Though there has always been more work for doctors to do up to now and probably will be for some time to come than their numbers will permit; if world society became so well organized and healthy that doctors might no longer be needed, nobody would be happier than the doctors.
5.7 Long ago the medicine men of earth learned, firstly, that they themselves knew perilously little about their own subject; secondly, that their clients were incapable of adequate self-diagnosis; and thirdly, that the clients usually called in the doctors when their maladies were critically advanced with possibility of successful cure deteriorated.
5.8 At first individually and later collectively the doctors resolved to cope realistically with the three lessons they had learned. To do so effectively they realized that they must deal with the problems of human health on their own terms and without waiting for the commands of their overlords or moneyed patrons to engage them in their medical work.
5.9 In order to avoid the obvious handicaps imposed by the rampant ignorance, social and religious dogma and active suspicion and superstition of the times, the doctors initiated and self-financed the foundations of medical science without recourse to outside economic aid or authority. As scientists they sought for the generalized patterns and relationships that might permeate the myriad of varieties of special case experiences and conditions characterizing the medical case histories.
5.10 As generalists the doctors worked with all humanity without consideration of race, creed, color, station, geography, political or economic status. They soon discovered that all men were akin under the skin.
5.11 With joined forces and ever widening horizons of experience the doctors made scientific studies of the patterns of symptoms and circumstances and swiftly discovered a host of invisible enemies or friends of man and the general patterning of those invisible friends’ and enemies’ tactical campaign strategies. Medical scientists gradually converted their ever more frequent victories and the latter’s momentum of increasing economic credit into ever more comprehensive and anticipatory medical and sanitation strategies which greatly reduced the incidence of first one and then another of both the lethal and the less dangerous maladies of men.
5.12 When the doctors had established an inventory of generalized knowledge and objective techniques appropriate to that knowledge, they entered into a second derivative phase of medicine, that of cooperative specialization. Working as a coordinate army of special case experts they were held firmly together by their prime generalized training and could cover a far vaster territory yet in greater depth of effectiveness.
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5.14 All the world now knows of the phenomenal and entirely supra-political and supra-racial bias success of the comprehensive, anticipatory, design scientists in the field of medicine. But the world does not tend to comprehend or remember that the doctors were once slaves of the overlords and that the first and most important step in the great victory of medical science was that of the doctors taking the initiative and fore-swearing as prime motive the gaining of wealth. Some became wealthy but only incidentally. They foreswore wealth making as prime motive not only to avoid science vitiating hypocrisy but in order to avoid relapse into economic subservience to patron masters. We can understand the doctors’ age-old conditioned reflex antipathy to even a benevolent government’s proposed economic prerogatives.
5.15 But for all their good work the doctors’ task must be summed up as preventing man from being an organic failure on earth. This does not, however, make him a success. Since the subject of our thought on this Venus Proximity Day is of the possibility of man’s helping to make man a success on earth and since this task requires more than the functioning of medical scientists, we must look for the most prominent professional function, complementary to that of the medical man, which seems also to hold highest promise for realizing man’s earthly success.
5.16 The most promising function would seem to be one which could most effectively and most expeditiously design the conversion of the total physical, intellectual, and historical resources of the earth from the exclusive service of only a minority of mankind to the service of approximately 100 per cent of humanity at vastly higher standards of living and degrees of elective occupation freedoms than any men have ever known.
5.17 The function we have just described is a human ecology transforming design function. It requires an architectural scientist–a new space age breed of architect. Fulfillment of this ecological transformation requires not only the highest scientific competence but the spontaneous ability to take and self-maintain the economic and social initiative in just such a magnificently successful cooperative enterprise as that of the early medical scientists. This initiative and its responsibilities can only be fulfilled by a spontaneous world coalition of a design science inclined and self-selecting class of university graduate students under the designation architectural design scientists organized to specifically and comprehensively complement the medical design scientists.
5.18 We may better understand how this may come about if we adopt the anthropologists’ viewpoint and definitions; and
5.19 firstly, we packagingly equate the total physical and chemical, corporeally integral processes of men and their nervous system intercommunicated coordination with the words:
5.20 Integral Metabolic Organism of Man = The Design Domain of the Medical Scientist;
5.21 and secondly, we packagingly equate the total physical and chemical complex of industrialization’s world around resources processing and distribution system, supported by the integrated industrial tools’ world net-work and its total communication system’s intercoordination with the words:
5.22 Extra-Corporeal Metabolic Organism of Man = The Design Domain of the Architectural Scientist.
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5.24 respectively differentiated internal and external organic functionings of man, one may well wonder why it is that the architect does not now hold the prime design initiative and is not at present functioning in the obviously desirable enterprise role of the architectural scientist concerned with establishment of a scientifically designed adaptation of the extra- corporeal metabolic organisms of man to provide highest man advantage in the constantly evolving environment.ź
5.25 The first answer is that the architects are still functioning as economic and social slaves, as did the doctors before the latter long ago pulled themselves out of their serfdom by seizing the prime design initiative in respect to establishment of a scientif- ically designed adaptation of the integral metabolic organisms of man to provide highest man advantage in the constantly evolving environment.
5.26 The second answer is that the active function of comprehensive designing of the extra-corporeal metabolic organisms of man (to adjust man to the constantly evolut- ing environment) which might have been served by an adequately self-disciplined archi- tectural scientist was, until the end of the first third of the twentieth century, personally usurped by the physical and economic masters of men. The invisible prime designing world commerce banking masters were also the slave architects’ absolute social rulers.
5.27 Prime design initiative was held in early times by the head tribesman and then by the great strong-arm, uniquely beweaponed, warrior leaders of early civilization. In most recent centuries the prime design initiative was held by the great masters of world commerce who held supra-national, invisible control over world armaments manu- facturing for both sides of international warring.
5.28 The historical chain of strong-arm and armaments masters of men conceived of progressively daring and magnificently designed grand scale strategies for controlling the physical environment modifications of their respective realms–and wishfully of their neighboring realms. At first their prime designing went into fortresses and walled domains and then into new magnitude offensive weaponry. Warrior kings ordered their court architects to detail and realize the kings’ specific prime conceptioning in all mat- ters concerning the investible physical capabilities and available resources of their realms.
5.29 As world wealth multiplied, the few early great monarchs were succeeded by larger numbers of feudal lords of ever increasing armed power. Power was decentral- izing. These feudal lords continued to order their court architects to detail and realize the feudal lords’ prime aggregate of conceptual designings for scheduling the effective investment of their realms’ practically organizable, resource capabilities. If there was adequate surplus of time, materials, skill and labor for the architects to invest in aes- thetic proportionment and surface detailings advertising the cultural majesty and religious devotion of the ruler–so much the better.
5.30 As the wealth multiplied ever faster it came to be reinvested in ventures beyond the limits of the realm and border fighting. It was invested in the building, out- fitting, and manning of high seas enterprise ventures as a prime design conceptioning of the realm lords’ ambition to exploit the secret information regarding far away riches as learned from explorers, travelers, and traders.
5.31 ź See "Universal Requirements of a Dwelling Advantage," Architectural Design Magazine, London, England, March, 1960, pp. 101-110.
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5.33 Thus, the era of world commerce and then the era of industrialization grew out of that prime designing of ships and of the ship building and operating technology as an integrated tool complex founded not on local resources but on the total known world around resources, physical, technical, cultural, and strategic.
5.34 It is of utmost importance to our understanding of the prime design initiative and its bearing on today’s world problems for us to comprehend that creation and development of the ultimately world girdling high seas shipping also initiated the physical realization of world industrialization.
5.35 World industrialization was realized in the designing, producing, and operating of the tool complexes with which to build ships, the building process of which ships became, many centuries earlier, the prototype of Detroit’s modern moving line assembly and which end product ships themselves came to be second derivative tools whose reproductions, maintenance improvement, and world around resource integrating commerce in turn regenerated an intellect differentiated and integrated "chain redesigning action": in the industrial tools’ regenerative improvement and development of world around tool integrating tool-network complexes. The latter have multiplied transformingly and have evolved inexorably toward an ultimate, world embracing, computer instructed and automated, self-improving ecology embracing all of men’s inanimate, extra corporeal organic functioning. Viewed as a whole, industrialization has developed into an extra corporeal organic man needing even more powerful scientific "doctors" than those now attending to the internal organic man.
5.36 To clarify this industrial tooling concept we must recognize that the crafts, agriculture, hunting and fishing all involved tools, but that these latter tools were all devices which could be invented (over and again) by an individual man starting nakedly in the wilderness having only his own limited experience and the local physical resources to inspire him and facilitate his invention’s realization. We will speak of all those tools as "craft" tools. On the other hand we may define the tools of industrialization as all the devices which cannot be produced or operated or employed by one man and which require all the remembered experience relaying of all men, everywhere around the earth, and all of which multiple-man produced and operated and used industrial tools are interrelated and interresponsible for their progressively improving transformation.
5.37 A typical example of the industrial tool is the steamship "Queen Mary" which no one man could design, produce, operate, or use exclusively.
5.38 We may observe sum totally that the craft tools were inherently and historically the product of discontinuous, non-overlapping individual experiences all of which were local both in time and geographical resource considerations, speaking both physically and mentally; whereas the industrial tools are inherently and historically the product of continuously overlapping, cumulative, comprehensive omni-interrelated experiences of all men everywhere around the earth in all recorded time all designed to deal with the ever improving potentials of the progressively interrelated physical resources of universe.
5.39 The modern industrially produced carpenter’s hammer integrally forged, alloy steel head, and (electrically insulated) handle may not be classed as a craft tool as was the easily shatterable stone head, wood fork handled hammer of cave man. The modern carpenter’s hammer is an industrial tool for by definition, it cannot be produced from raw resources by one man.
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5.41 By our prime definition the first industrial tool was the humanly conceived and spoken word, spoken by one man and understood by another, which invention would not have occurred except as the necessity of a plurality of men. It took at least two men to devise the first word. Man alone in the wilderness reflexes adequately without word tools. "In the beginning was the word"–might be changed to "In the beginning of industrialization was the word"–the first atmospheric wave propagating, ear diaphram receiving, physical formulation of an abstract teleologic device invented entirely by intellect’s anticipatory conceptioning of its usefulness and by man’s subsequent conscious (fading off into subconscious) disciplining of muscles and nerves.
5.42 In comparison to local fishing and trading vessels, the high seas’ ships were such relatively large and complex vessels incorporating integral floating fortresses functions that the Leonardo da Vinci type court architects of the realm who had until then been assigned only complex dry land design problems such as that of a combined castle fortress and walled city planning or of fortresses-destroying mechanisms were now assigned as naval architects to the secret designing and supervision of high seas ship building.
5.43 Experience soon taught that the ships were progressively improvable as they went from one country to another obtaining straighter and taller masts here and stronger and larger sails there, stronger ropes at another place and bronze for their cannons at yet another. The ships were designed for beaching out at foreign ports in order that they might be worked upon anywhere. The ships’ crew included the skilled ships carpenters and riggers. Many of the great ships came in due course to circle the seas of the earth. When they finally came home at the end of a moving production line thousands of miles long, they were almost unrecognizable because of their improved parts and taller masts which made the ship a truly gallant whole. Furthermore, the ships brought home with them hold and deck cargoes of the better ship-building resources for building better ships at home. Thus, we see how ship building became the first "moving" production line–a moving production line that finally circled the earth. We also see how the ships became regeneratively self-improving.
5.44 Because of the continuous design improvement potentials of the moving line production system, as well as the importance of design lessons to be weathered at sea in storms and battles, the great court architects who had become naval architects often went off with the ships.
5.45 Thus, we have architecture dividing into two main classes: first, the naval architects who dealt at first hand with the dynamic complex tool engineering, mechanics, and structures and second, the landed architects who dealt secondarily with the static aesthetical celebration of the wealth realizations when the ships "came in."
5.46 The naval architects went on to gain world geographical and cultural knowledge and fleet operations ability until as grand naval strategy designers, they from time to time emerge as admirals and first lords of sovereign Admiralties of the great sea-power nations.
5.47 Because of the enormous and unexpected additional drain of such extra-realm wealth investing in high seas ships and the frequent disasters which befell their venturing the old kings of their respective realms progressively lost control of their shipping enterprises, yielding them to the great new financial masters who with their (chattel mortgage protected) gold underwrote both the capital investments in ships and the, very long voyaging, mercantile ventures and their deferment of profit realizations far beyond the
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5.49 seasonal cycles of the older and customary agricultural, animal husbandry, local fishing and home arts and crafts, wealth turn-over realization lags.
5.50 Though courageous and powerful sea captains and crews fought for the supremacy of the seas–the equipment and supplies and weapons with which they fought and the trade which they completed was all underwritten and gradually came to be strictly controlled by the powerful private bankers who through their loanable gold, essential to foreign trading with strangers by whom gold was most universally recognized and most easily test validated, became the world’s new masters and in time took over the prime design prerogatives from the kings and powerful feudal lords. The same private bankers came thus to underwrite the fleets of many nations often of competing nations and thus found them going through secret sovereign bankruptcy proceedings taking over the world armaments and institutional industry. From this time on the great international banking masters, who made many, secondary investment, design concessions to the feudal leaders and politicians in order to have their strong feudal arms available when necessary, generated and developed the prime ecological patterning modifications of world man through their popularly invisible control of the money’s underwriting of the increasingly larger capital magnitudes of the commerce and industry enterprises.
5.51 Through their increasingly invisible but increasingly powerful prime design authority educated by the integrating patterns of the many world enterprises which they underwrote and had to keep track of the finance masters ruled on how much of the precious steel so made would go into railroads, steamships, buildings, navies, and how much would go into making newer master tools again to produce larger amounts of steel. They also decreed what manner of architectural orders and aesthetics should outline and adorn both their shipping and landed building ventures. While the end results of the new masters’ prime designing became increasingly visible in the new burgeoning of world commerce and the beginnings of landed industrialization as the shipyard and moving production line techniques crept back up the rivers and onto the land it is to be noted that the prime design authority found it increasingly expedient, in avoiding high seas or landed piracy or highjacking of their ventures, to conceal their prime design power as well as the comings and goings of their ships and their own personal identity and whereabouts and thus came to play a world-drama puppetry game in which kings and parliaments were their puppets. But it was essential to the success of their game that the kings and parliaments remained seemingly sovereign to the world’s respective individual nation’s populaces. The more invisible the new masters became the more powerful they found themselves to be while their puppets too seemed to increase their powers in the eyes of the world populace due to the real masters invisibility.
5.52 Prime designing by the international bankers was inherently supra-national as well as invisible. They invested their ever self-augmenting tool and resource capabilities around the earth in such a manner as to control the exploitation at source of all the mineral wealth of earth then coming into usefulness in the tooling and instrumenting of the new industrialization’s multiplyingly complex networks. "Monopolize at the prime mineral and organic sources out of sight and out of mind of the centers of civilizing population" became one of their important strategems.
5.53 The international bankers also controlled the rates of monetary exchange which controlled the relative wages and relative standards of living of the various nations. They designed the scheme of annual payments between national economies by which they transferred their gold from vault to vault in London, Paris, or New York without allowing their gold to be jeopardized upon the pirate infested high seas.
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5.55 Because those great masters of wealth had also one mortal enemy they could not deal with, death, by disease or age-failing body, they did not challenge the independent-ent design science initiative which the medical scientists had seized, monopolized, and developed to far beyond the non-scientific comprehension of the bankers. The doctors alone knew how to stay the bankers’ deaths or to give the bankers health with which to enjoy the riches and power they had won. But the old masters kept the landed architects and engineers functioning in their traditional capacities to do their bidding in detailing and realizing the differentiated out and unavoidably obvious parts of the great commercial masters’ ever vaster overall designs.
5.56 To implement their supra-town, city, state, and nationally patterned system’s controls the G.P.D.W.M.s, i.e., the Great Prime Designing World Masters, needed lawyer confidants whom they could trust as legal design detailers to cope with the complexities of world around customs and laws. Thus it happened that the G.P.D.W.M.s came to finance the building and maintenance and progressive expansion of universities, first giving special, extended, graduate educational advantages to lawyers and medical men. Later on the G.P.D.W.M.s confronted with burgeoning wealth management complexities, came to need super clerks–presidents and vice presidents they called these puppets–to run their increasingly gigantic establishments wherefore the bankers next underwrote graduate schools of business administration.
5.57 By the great financiers’ deeds of gift stipulations all the brightest students were pushed or lured into graduate fields of specialization because the old masters, understanding better than any the power of divide-and-conquer tactics, went in for anticipatory divide and conquer effected through early interception and diversion into specialization of any bright young men who might otherwise rise to challenge the great masters’ supreme world designing authority. Such young bright ones would be detected at an early age and sent in the direction of highbred specialization that would guarantee their "minding their own business." Such specialization would divert their curiosity and possible comprehension of the bankers’ comprehensive, complex, and obscurely phrased controls of world enterprise designing strategy. And the few bright ones who did not get caught in their specialization traps and did in due course catch on to their vast game were invited to become partners of the G.P.D.W.M.s. One of the offspring of the old masters once said to me, "Bucky, I am very fond of you and I must tell you frankly you will never be a success. You go around trying to simplify things when the first law of success is ’Never make things simple when you can make them complicated.’" All unexpectedly these old international banking masters of the world, who for a moment thought they had won the war, lost their earth-embracing controls as of World War One because of the inadequacy of their total supply of loanable gold, even when augmented by silver to match the newer and astronomically multiplying magnitudes of capital requirements for completion of the war effort in the U.S.A. and for the fabulous post-war scale of expanding industrial tooling and weaponry enterprises.
5.58 The finance masters sensing an historical reorientation of the fundamental meaning of wealth (due to the development of industrialization which was founded on man’s progressive intellectual apprehension and mastery of energy, in its associative and dissociative states of matter and radiation, respectively) had foreseen the possibility of a shifting of the base of wealth from gold to energy and had been gradually shifting their fundamental controls over to control of the industrial energy supply which they also had hoped to monopolize through ownership and control of all the world’s central power stations of electrical generation from coal and ownership of transmission lines and rights of way of that power as it passed over their monopolized wire conductors.
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5.60 The old masters were greatly shaken however by the sudden emergence of petroleum as a far more fluid prime energy source than coal and the development of in- ternal combustion engines fed by the flowing petroleum products all of which tended to swift decentralization of physical power control which of course vitiated their carefully developed power plans in important degree. While the masters of the new petroleum empires which soon arose have at times come close to taking over the old banking mas- ters’ comprehensive world prime designing controls the world scene growth of the great new communist power concurrent with the growth of the petroleum empires split world dominance in a prime economic dichotomy and further tended to sub-split the petroleum power itself into a plurality of gigantic but nonetheless internationally competitive sec- ondary power groups. In the same way the communist empire tended and as yet tends to split into competitive sub-empires, at first bolsheviks, mensheviks, white and red, now into orthodox and revisionist, etc.
5.61 It is also worth digressing to mention briefly that in 1953, a third of a cen- tury after the world finance capitalists were gone, an attempt was made by a new and scientifically educated generation of would be world mastering (investment securities sales underwriting) bankers to re-establish prime world control by a bold but unsuccess- ful attempt to persuade democracies’ leaders to hand over democracy’s politically artic- ulated checks and balances (almost subconsciously yet very firmly) rejected the subter- fuge.
5.62 There was a far more fundamental reason, however, than the inadequacy of gold which brought about the pre-World War I banking masters’ loss of terrestrial eco- nomic control. The far more fundamental reason was that 99 per cent of the variable factors, entering into control of all physical, industrial, and weaponry enterprise as of World War I and immediately subsequent years, had vanished from the sensorial ranges of the electro-magnetic frequency spectrum into the vastness of the infra and ultra sensorial physical-universe frequencies ranges of quantum physics, chemistry, and pure mathematics.
5.63 As technology went from wire to wireless, from track to trackless and from visible to invisible controls in general, the old banking masters’ nonscientifically disci- plined brains could not comprehend what was going on in the myriad of scientific special- izations’ invisible advances.
5.64 Paradoxically it is to be remembered that in underwriting the new graduate schools of the universities the bankers themselves had shortsightedly invented, designed, and underwritten this specializations development. Bitter as it must have been to them to realize that they had organized their own undoing the bankers thus became impotent in the prime design function of conceiving the evolutionary prime designs and comprehen- sive systems, potentially to be realized from the new harvest of scientific specialization events. The lawyers, most of whom became specialists but a few of whom the great masters had allowed to become partial comprehensivists, to take seats by their masters’ sides in the formulation and implementation of their grand strategy designs, likewise lacked adequate specialized scientific disciplines necessary to understand and break up the "log jams" of invisible scientific potentials.
5.65 In 1929 the old masters died. The wheels of industry and commerce stopped. The world’s people asked their political leaders to get them going again.
5.66 The people asked their political leaders to get the wheels going because the world’s people never having known of the invisible grand masters believed that their
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5.68 political state heads, whom the grand masters invisibly manipulated, were the real comprehensive grand masters. The political leaders who had played their parts well looked secretly to their old masters for instruction on how to get the wheels going again and found that the old masters had disappeared they knew not where. Having waited as long as they dared for the reappearance of their old invisibly operating masters, who failed to show up, the world’s major nations’ respective political leaders took over. There was nothing else that they could do.
5.69 The politicians who had far less scientific competence than the old masters but who realized that protracted control of their newly realized power could only be maintained by the man who held the gun on the backs of the men who held the guns and that the men who held the guns had by training the ability to talk with the scientists immediately passed the science potentials realizing problem over to their military establishments.
5.70 Thus the Army, Navy, and Air Force War Colleges, maintained for the post-graduate and post-world around military services’ intensive studies by senior military strategists, who had been meticulously trained in comprehensive capability to hold effective liaison with the sciences, came to organize scientific procedures for comprehensive exploitation and progressive reinvestment of the inherently self-reaugmenting industry-science wealth. But the military had been trained to recognize and comprehend only the narrow weaponry "band" of potentials, within the vast generalized significance-spectrum range embracing full realization by industrialization of the new, scientific potentials, inventory.
5.71 Thus it happened that the grand comprehensive design science initiative went exclusively in the direction of bigger and bigger, faster and faster weaponry, while contemporary political leaders not knowing that both the old masters and their entire breed were dead, as descendant political protagonists of the conventional old and familiar political systems controls of the old grand masters or of the latters’ old adversaries–set out futilely to exploit the scientific potentials in weaponry intending to defend the old order against a theoretical but in fact utterly artificial enemy. This greatest nonsense of history came about, approximately as follows–
5.72 When in 1929 the old world commerce banking masters’ controls went dead, a chain reaction series of bankruptcies occurred. It started at first with the farmers who had over-mortgaged their farms to buy the new post-World War I prime-mover, power decentralizing farm working machinery. The farmers over-produced with the new machinery and saw their market prices and profit margins dwindled and unable to make payments to the banks on the farm machinery purchases, the county banks foreclosed their mortgages on the farms. This was before the day of the time payments underwritten only by chattel mortgages on the machines. The chain reaction bankruptcies then closed the smaller county and town banks that had loaned on the farm mortgages and had found the foreclosed farms and buildings approximately worthless and unsaleable to a city-seeking and farm-abandoning population. Next the big western cities’ banks who had discounted the notes of the smaller banks found their foreclosed properties in turn to be worthless. Finally the biggest banks in the eastern United States foreclosed on the great western cities’ banks. By the time F.D.R.’s New Deal was elected three years after the 1929 crash the banks were failing at a rate of 5,000 per day in the U.S.A.
5.73 As F.D.R.’s New Deal government took Congressionally accelerated office in view of the dire national emergency, F.D.R. decreed a national bank moratorium just as the last of the big eastern banks were about to collapse. The money was approximately all paper and it was found that the Great Bankers had nothing in the way of personal wealth
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5.75 as it had always been maintained that they did have with which to pay off the depositors. It had all been a semantic and psychology build-up of never called masters’ credits. Now this credit had blown its vacuum seal.
5.76 The New Deal intent upon a great deal of political and economic reform was nonetheless primarily intent upon rehabilitation of all that was economically valid in the history of the U.S.A. economy and "our way of life." F.D.R. did not intend, despite opposition charges to the contrary, to abandon our constitutionally established democracy and its fabulous legal continuity integrity.
5.77 What was done by the New Deal was also undertaken as far as possible on the crest of a popular democratic mandate, with the wave that provided the crest to be ridden, continually regenerated by popular re-education regarding the issues to be dealt with. F.D.R., inventing the "fireside radio chat," was the first U.S.A. President to confide almost daily to "my friends"–who constituted the majority of the U.S.A. population, much to the pain of the most highly conditioned reflexes of the obsolete old order progeny who were inherently a minority.
5.78 It must be remembered that F.D.R. was a man of great personal wealth and had been brought up in familiarity with esoteric language of economics long ago invented by our old world banking and commerce masters to shoo off the dull ones. F.D.R. was a bright one who had escaped the specialization trap and if the crash had not come along or if he had been born earlier, he would probably have been invited to become a "Partner" of the G.P.D.W.M.s.
5.79 F.D.R. looked upon the American economy and "way of life" patterning as being possibly analogous to an obsolete and gigantic old battle ship but he also looked upon it as being a familiar ship omnisynchronized in its design with a quadrillion times a quadrillion conditioned reflexes of one hundred million American "grown-ups." He, therefore, set about to rehabilitate that familiar ship and its familiar language and ap- purtenances without examination of its bottom and structural theory framing. There was no time now to build a new ship of this size. Everything had stopped–"But everything" –the best efforts of the greatest administrative heads of the greatest corporations and all the admirals and generals and the previous President of the United States notwith- standing.
5.80 F.D.R. succeeded in rehabilitating the old ship and in reblowing life into its costly, hot air engine. As a consequence of that F.D.R.’s emergency decision, the American economy of today (1962) and the American "way of life" looks superficially much the way it has for 150 years. All the categories of "earning a living" have the same names. But the banker today, though he often wears the same striped pants of his pre-World War I prototype and drives up to the bank in his Cadillac is only a clerk. He will hate you if you say so but he has no vast hidden property with which he underwrites the bank’s deposits. He cannot lend the bank’s wealth in directions of his own discretion. He can loan its wealth only in strict accord with government written formulas so lopsided in favor of the bank that failure of the borrower automatically makes additional wealth for the bank. No risks are involved. The banks and the business executives of 1962 are all flunkies which they are beginning to realize but are not yet ready to admit publicly. The most daring degree of freedom of today’s banker is that of his right to try to lure a depositor in an- other bank to switch his deposit over to the alluring banker’s depository.
5.81 When we examine the framing theory of the F.D.R. rehabilitated old ship, i.e., the history of the structure of the economic system of the United States, we
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5.83 discover that so many fundamental changes have occurred that the ship that F. D. R. re- habilitated and all the categories of functioning within it altogether constitute a ghost haunted old "battle wagon."
5.84 As historians have frequently shown, rich and powerful leaders of the early American Colonies such as George Washington led the American Revolution but had no intention in drawing up its Constitution of creating a direct democracy. The new govern- ment was organized in such a way that the powerful older land owners could keep the idealistic new hothouse seedling growth of democracy in good health through the wisdom of his feudal fathers who were not yet ready to let their direct-democracy-plant mature to be transplanted into the outdoor countryside as a regular life-sustaining prime growth. They hopefully foresaw such a time but felt that it must develop slowly.
5.85 Immediately after the development of the Constitution and the subsequent formulation of the Bill of Rights there developed the all important question as to whether or not the United States Government should have the prime design authority accruing to economic mastery of wealth. If the United States as a government were to be allowed to amalgamate the total capital credit authority of its citizenry and lands, it could and would exercise the prime design initiative. This was precisely what the founding fathers had quietly planned to postpone.
5.86 As a consequence of the exercise of the founding fathers controlling will in this matter Alexander Hamilton as their floor spokesman was able to develop precedent- making interpretation of the U. S. Constitutional volition in such a manner that it was agreed Congressionally that the federation of the states was for the purpose of coordinate independence of action but that it was in no way a pooling of properties.
5.87 Hamilton successfully persuaded Congress to agree that the Federal Govern- ment would not have the sovereign capital authority to initiate articulation of capital credit volition and thereby to issue money. Money, it was agreed, was only a convenient token–medium of fractional exchange in citizens’ equities underlain by real ponderous or immobile static property wealth, the wealth which belonged exclusively to private indi- vidual citizens.
5.88 It was further agreed that the Federal Government must borrow at interest from the privately owned banks, formed by property owning citizens, all moneys neces- sary to facilitate government business. The government must carefully budget its ex- penditures and must be careful to refund those expenditures through collection of taxes, excises and import customs revenues.
5.89 When and if the government’s income-outgo budgets were properly balanced, then the government’s borrowing capability was to be honored by the banks and the banks could sell revenue bonds predicated on the government budgeted tax collection solvency. Property acquired by the government was to have no appraised value and could not be borrowed upon. When we hear U.S. financial interests speaking through the conserva- tive political voices demanding balancing of the budget, it is because enormous bond is- sues can be floated (with high revenue for the security brokers) only as the increasing federal indebtedness becomes legally balanced by revenues. Again and again mouth- watering and unbalanced government indebtedness piles up and whenever the new incre- ment is tax balanced on the budget, the lucrative new federal financing issues are authorized.
5.90 What has not been clearly envisioned, comprehended, widely published, and
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5.92 popularly recognized as yet is the fact that when the 1929-32 private banking bankruptcy occurred, was the fact that Hamilton’s "Convention" or "interpretation" came to the end of its effectiveness. This fact changed the economic framework of America and more radically than would or could an outright political revolution. That this has not been recognized in any formal way is due firstly to F.D.R.’s rehabilitation of the old ghost ship, and secondly, to the fact that in this era of specialization such complex and comprehensive pictures are not readily grasped, and thirdly, it is due to the silence held upon the subject by the vast number of its temporary beneficiaries who intuitively would leave well enough alone.
5.93 The word "banker" and the idea of banks is the same in the public mind a third of a century later as it was before the crash and before F.D.R. froze the banking debacle by his moratorium declaration on the day of inauguration of the New Deal and managed to reopen it again by the simple device of having the United States Government take the sovereign capital credit initiative and amalgamate the country’s industrially organized real capability wealth the astronomically vast industrial tool network and technological knowhow wealth that had come into being long after Hamilton, and therewith guarantee or underwrite all the future deposits of individuals up to $5,000 which would take direct care of the voting citizenry and not of large scale speculative enterprise.
5.94 Inasmuch as the banks’ funds were invested by law at the time primarily in government revenue bonds or in mortgage underwritten private bonds or direct private property mortgages the government’s next step was in effect to issue comprehensive guarantee of all the mortgages. To rehabilitate the mortgages the government loaned funds for the comprehensive repair and rehabilitation of all the buildings on the mortgaged lands and to rehabilitate the land values by government financing of all manner of flood and wind erosion controls, crop price guarantees, et al.
5.95 When the government became the prime underwriter, the Hamilton interpretation was automatically cancelled, for the government in fact became the wealth source of last recourse.
5.96 In the housecleaning that immediately ensued the bank reopenings and audits, it was discovered that the bank owners had only negligible percentages of the required underwriting money. The bankers had been operating on the public’s admiring credit of their astuteness as private venture backers whereby the banks had competed to attract deposits encouraged by their apparent wealth, multiplying capabilities. Laws were passed by the New Deal Government completely divorcing all security selling and enterprise underwriting from bank functioning. Banks became strictly the depositories for people’s earnings and savings. The funds could be loaned to the government or to corporations doing business with the government or on terms written by the government which involved capabilities for the certain recovery of the money.
5.97 In doing all this and more which we will soon examine the New Deal was able to avoid however the semblance of the traditionally associated concepts of socialism. It avoided the appearance of socialism through further rehabilitation of the "old ship" and its historically well known ship’s "Watch, Quarters and Stations Bill" governing the crew and its function categories. To take care of the industrial production categories the government founded the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and as prime capitalist the government endowed that corporation with the largest funds that any corporation in history had ever possessed. The R.F.C. as it became known then set about to rehabilitate all the prime production, process, and service corporations of the United States economy. To do so the R.F.C. advanced capital to the corporations with which to retool
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5.99 and expand the U.S.A. production to new levels of technical capability, capacity, and output.
5.100 Thus the government took over the prime design function, that of master-minding the direction in which the regenerative expenditures of wealth would take.
5.101 The corporate managements were loath to go along with their own corporate rehabilitation programs not that they were not glad to be reopened and for the moment solvent but because they thought it would deprive them of their administrative prerogative as the corporation’s prime designer within its own domain. The corporation executives all had been put into their respective executive positions of power not by the government but by the boards of directors who in turn had been elected by the corporation stockholders whose proxies the old world bankers’ earning prestige had effectively managed to garner to be voted almost exclusively by the O.W.B.s in the annual meetings. The American corporation managements all said to the New Deal, "If you are willing to rehabilitate our corporation, this will be tantamount to socializing the corporations and inasmuch as we are not government appointees which we would have to be if you admitted the U.S. to be a socialist state (which we think it really is) we would not be re-elected to our management position unless you allow us to make profits that pay dividends that win for us the votes of our stockholders." To solve this problem the New Deal agreed with the corporations that when the government placed major procurement orders with the corporations that the government negotiators would allow the corporations to include profits up to 12 per cent in their calculation of their bids and the submission of their bills of cost. The government stipulated, however, that the amount of profit up to the 12 per cent limit would have to be established with each negotiation by agreements of the respective contracting officers of the government and corporations respectively.
5.102 By the bank deposit guarantees, the R.F.C. and other innovations the New Deal was able without formally reversing the Hamilton convention to make the government the prime designing capitalist and to do so without visibly capitalizing the old-fashioned, static type property as national assets–the highways, canals, navy yards, forest reserves, etc.
5.103 The New Deal made the government the invisible prime designing capitalist by avoiding visible property capitalization while pretending that the government loan subsidized and tool rehabilitated corporations were successful going private enterprise institutions thoroughly warranting such credit which the government soon made them seem to be by the simple device of articulating the government’s purchasing capability (which invisibly inferred the government’s capital credit borrowing capability).
5.104 This invisible socialized capitalism worked as follows: When the government (which is we, the people) placed for instance $50 billion of annual orders with the quasi-private corporations (opened up and refinanced by we-the-people without strings for we later cancelled the obligations and allowed the corporations to buy the tools for $1.00) the corporations having so reliable a new vast customer as the government were able to go to the banks (which were we the people) to borrow the working funds with which to buy the raw materials and pay the wages (to we, the people) in order to produce the government-ordered goods.
5.105 The money that the corporations borrowed from the banks was, of course, the people’s money. It was no longer a banker’s private wealth or private credit resource. When the goods were produced and delivered to the government, the government went to the banks and borrowed the people’s money to pay the corporations which money
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5.107 went through the corporations back to refund their loans to the banks. Thus we see the people’s own money guaranteed by the people’s wholly owned government circuiting alternately around through the corporations and then back again around through the gov- ernment to the banks. Both the government as the people and the corporations by subsi- dy within the order pricing are forced each time to pay the banks large interest. The government’s annual debt service is today in the neighborhood of $10 billion. The gov- ernment orders also pay the corporation stockholders $5 billion in dividends at an aver- age of 10 per cent profit negotiated between the government purchasing department lawyers and the corporations a direct subsidy to the individual stockholders all hidden away in the government orders as agreed upon between the government and the corpora- tion management in a United States government treasury department ruling rather than by Congressional action.
5.108 The New Deal found it much more satisfactory to pay off the old lady stock- holders with dividends (the elderly women of America being the majority of shareholders of American corporations) than to have all these women giving up their bridge games and having to stand moaning and groaning in dole or bread lines.
5.109 The 50-billion-dollar orders issued by the government to its prime contrac- tors paid wages and bills that soon went to the purchase of automobiles, ice boxes, etc., which brought about a second round of wages and purchases. The 50-billion-dollar original orders sent capital credit flowing into an economic-dollars irrigation system which pumped the dollars through approximately ten complete recyclings annually thus bringing the gross national product readings of approximately $500 billion or ten times $50 billion of original government order issuing. To make that wage flow secure, the government put a minimum wage rate in force and encouraged labor to up its general benefits demands and agreed to the high wage rates in the government purchase contracts thus indirectly and invisibly subsidizing the wage earner.
5.110 To encourage the corporations to regenerate their own increasing capacities and capabilities, when the corporations in the late 1930’s balked at expending any of their own undistributed profits for the purchase of new machinery, the government agreed to "loan" them the machinery and to allow the corporations to deduct the cost of all research and development from their earnings before calculating their income taxes. This rebat- ing of taxes became another hidden subsidy. It would have been just the same had the corporations paid their taxes in full to the government and the government had then paid out the same amount in subsidies to the corporations, but the latter would have been to visibly underwrite their research and development and that is apparently what both the New Deal and the pseudo-private enterprise corporations did not wish to have visible.
5.111 When next the great newspapers found that they could not pay adequate wages while gathering and distributing the news at the price that the public could and would pay for newspapers unless the papers carried enough advertising, the government’s Treas- ury Department ruled that "advertising" was research and development and thus in ef- fect issued an additional seven to ten-billion-dollar-a-year subsidy to the corporations with the implicit instructions that the corporations must expend that money in advertis- ing. That subsidy built modern Madison Avenue. Madison Avenue then spoke out through its advertising in the newspapers to say how America abhorred socialism. The "old ship" picture was apparently becoming more realistic with every New Deal move.
5.112 Through the interest paid to the banks which distributed enormous wages not only for banking clerks, vice presidents, and directors but for more building of more banks and the wages of their building and through all the hidden tax deductible subsidies
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5.114 and government purchase hidden automatic profits and through the freeing of insurance companies from enforced investment in mortgages and government bonds and allowing them to invest in and underwrite the pseudo-free enterprise prime contracting corporations and by guaranteeing new home building mortgages for 30 and more years, which in effect means government purchase of the homes and loaning of the home to the "owners" and by subsidizing, urban redevelopment, public housing, highway building, and by guaranteeing farm incomes and high labor wages and by subsidizing veterans and sending youth to college and giving vast research grants and scholarships to colleges, universities, et al., the government gradually arranged the total indirect socialization of America. In effect the government socialized the corporations rather than the people and the people kept on playing the same pre-crash name and categories games aboard and within the grand old ship, "Private Enterprise" just as they had played these categories games before it was discovered that bankers didn’t have any money.
5.115 So effective has been both "the game" and the general wealth regenerating scheme of the New Deal that general incomes have risen phenomenally in the third of a century since the great crash and by the time World War II was over the majority of U.S. citizens were so prosperous that they began to think of America as a land of a hundred million capitalists. By the time World War II was over and those who remembered the doings of the "thirties" were retiring or dying off, a new generation of management had come into office and approximately all America was convinced that the corporations were indeed true private enterprises. With World War II over the new era politicians, convinced that U.S. was a pure capitalistic private enterprise economy, were perplexed over the fact that the great war orders which had the economy rolling would no longer be in order. It was here that the U.S. political leaders threw their lateral passes of the prime designing initiative to their military "Defense" establishments. The latter, employing their "Naval, Air, Army War College" techniques of dealing analytically with total world logistical and ballistical capabilities as well as with the full chess game of potential strategic moves and counter moves, were enormously advantaged by the concurrent development of the giant computers which could handle very large families of dynamically accelerating or decelerating variable factors and their complex parameters.
5.116 Advantaged by their mechanical brain controls the prime designers of the Military Defense’s Posture Mannequins–for international show window installations by the largest industrial nations–realized–because their mechanical brains said so–that there was no peacetime validity whatever for their postures, or for their prime designing decision to reinvest the ever enlarging industrial capability wealth almost exclusively in weaponry systems (hot, warm, cool, and cold, designed to sweep out and control ever larger domains and, in due course, the domain of our immediate galaxy) unless the political leaders, who had given them the prime design responsibility, could justify the super defense mandate assumedly furnished them by the democratic electorate.
5.117 The super defense mandate itself could not be validated unless the political leaders and their political machines could demonstrate an equivalent prime design initiative and defense enterprise as being undertaken by a potential challenger to their preferred type of peace. Thus it came about that the prime designing initiative which the old banking masters had monopolized developed posthumous cell dichotomy and the prime design initiative now split into bipolar, world hemisphere, prime antagonisms’ defenses.
5.118 At this stage of world sociological evolution there came into major play one of the earlier and great prime design inventions of the late international banking masters’ initiation, suggested to them by their lawyer lieutenants–i.e.–the corporation–
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5.120 the synthetic man who, if properly designed legally, can do no wrong, assertedly has a fantastic composite brain and foolproof enterprise ingenuity, can avoid almost any responsibilities and can be so large, long lived, rich and powerful that "he" can stay, dominate or even slay any single-handed human or little bands of humans that block the corporation’s way without legal charge of murder because the corporation is obviously not a "real" man, ergo, cannot be a felon. The corporation needs no passport and can take up residence anywhere in the world or in many parts of the world simultaneously, effecting sum totally in coordination of its parts those tasks which might be prohibited in one or the other of its political residences. But no matter how "pure" the corporation may attempt to make its synthetic, scientific integrity image seem, that image is always inherently corrupt for as the corporation’s directors will tell you, the corporation’s first and only real purpose is to make money. If money can be made gracefully, that makes the corporate servants feel graceful and romantically idealistic but it is irrelevant.
5.121 Finding the corporations’, advertisingly claimed, moral and financial greatness, ideological elegance and scientific capability ideal for political viability, the post-World War II governmental civilian defense directors as the prime designers of the military defense posture then set about to subsidize, to the point of complete socialization–i.e., government-guaranteed total livelihood–the approximately "one hundred" largest corporations of their respective hemispherical defense mandates as the prime, production and installations, contractors, for the practical purpose of realizing the military establishment’s prime industrial wealth reinvesting designs as world around dominating, weaponry systems.
5.122 The hundred corporate prime contractors, employed by the unified, prime designing and merged army-navy-air-and-space war colleges’ joint-chiefs-of-staff, who in earlier turn had been sent into play by the otherwise helpless and bewildered political world leaders, who in even earlier turn had been mandated by their respective electorates to–"get the wheels going and keep them going"–when the old banking masters died, then proceeded to inaugurate evolving weaponry systems whose hitting range and power was in continual flux of expanding capability. Thus, the continual changes that the military prime designer turned over to the prime contractors brought about continually shifting patterns of sub-contracting down to the lowest echelon–the citizen who continually shifted his home base to conform with the shifting project allocation and industrial deployment patternings.
5.123 To carry out this vast social preoccupation and wealth regenerating, recirculatory system of the prime designing military it was also necessary to keep the educational system furnaces roaring in order to pour out brains capable of dealing with the myriad of technical and ever more momentarily valid specializations which as quickly as possible were transferred from human brains, muscle, and nervous system functioning into automated functioning wherefore the advanced educational furnaces had to be enlarged and intensified to produce the ever more cosmically ephemeral raw resources, "sophisticated" they called them, with which to prime design the latest round of suprapower, range and velocity defense system tools.
5.124 In the super excited social state of such colossal hemisphere defense competitions the possibility has been entirely overlooked that there might be some entirely different and far more effective way of employing the by now fabulous physical energy production capabilities of world society.
5.125 One such major "other" possibility is that which relates to one of the major
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5.127 unattended functions vacated a third of a century ago by the old financial masters of the earth–that is the prime design prerogative as it can and may be applied exclusively to the promulgation of the successful evolution of peaceful expansions of man’s physical capabilities toward accelerated realization of total physical success for all men. This was the function that the old masters deferred thinking about until such an almost impos- sible era as that of perpetually successful and unchallenged world supremacy of their grand design system. In this area of the vacated function which the financiers had never had the opportunity to exercise we find lingering today only the architect and engineer who are as yet operating on the momentum of their slave routines ever waiting for a master patron’s voice to authorize them to tackle this and that local detailing task. These architect and engineer slaves readily mistake the corporate administration voices of to- day for those of their earlier masters and find themselves handsomely paid and favorably publicized.
5.128 It is not irrelevant to our search, for understanding the reasons for the over- long postponed self-establishment by architects of their design science initiative on a parity with medical science, to note that because architects sometimes draw or sculpt or speak freely for their own personal satisfaction that they also tend to think of them- selves as extremely independent beings, at least outside of their earning-a-living hours. False magnification of the sense of freedom established first by their architectural training years and secondly by their extra-curricula expressions makes them overlook their economic imprisonment and belittles the compromising significance of many of their routine tasks, which they toss off as harmless whimsies or ignorance of business clients. The world of architecture is a superficially charming world. It draws youth of good will and creative dreams. It is, therefore, paradoxical that it is precisely in the world of the economic slave architects, engineers and industrial designers that we find all the evil practices of yesterday hidden away in the easy-virtue ethics of venerably "accepted practices."
5.129 Here it is that the corporation managers may hire non-scientific designers to steal their competitors’ ideas as well as their superficial, corporate, promotional virtues. The architects and industrial designers are taught even as students to compete against one another in stealing the ideas and design inventions not only from each other but from successful postgraduate practitioners rather than being taught as are the young scientists, to make meticulous accrediting note of each and every item of the original work of others which they logically employ in their own problem solving. Thus, quite incidentally, the minute new steps to greater understanding of physical universe brought to bear by the acumen of each scientific development reporter come into exqui- site visibility and as such become magnificently celebrated.
5.130 To understand the enormity of the as yet unrecognized and, therefore, un- punishable anti-social crimes that take place in the world of architectural, engineering, and industrial design in exploitation of the naive innocence of those A.E.I. slave de- signers, we must take major stock of the very largest fundamental changes that have taken place most recently in the celebrations of man on earth.
5.131 The greatest of these all history’s intellectual orientation changes is the at first scientific then technical then industrial and lastly political shift of mankind’s think- ing frames from the Newtonian Norm of "At Rest," and inherent changelessness, as seemingly constituting the apparently fundamental law and order of nature and, therefore, to be most reverently, scientifically, technically, and economically served and conserved –shifting over to the Einsteinian Norm of "Continual Evolutionary Change" as the prime characteristic of nature which must be most reverently, scientifically, technically, and
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5.133 economically served and conserved.
5.134 For long the political bases of bipartisanship were fashioned, on the conservative right, which, happily husbanded no change, being quite content with their "in" position, and, on the radically conservative left by the agitators for reform in the manner of sharing the changelessness of nature. But now as a consequence of the shift from the Newtonian to the Einsteinian both the right and left are immersed in, and mutually profiting in, the economic realization of "change" being normal. In reality the old political bases are utterly vanished. In the non-realistic static geographical frames of political representation the obsolete political paraphernalia still lingers, soon to be abandoned of realistic necessity and popular demand. All that is now at stake between the old political parties is a shift in patronage blessings to be derived from the commonly approved dynamic economic system, the shift over to which few laymen, politicians, or industrialists realize stems directly from Einstein.
5.135 Far more important to our immediate consideration, however, in respect to the shift from the now scientifically invalidated Newtonian changelessness concept of physical universe to Einstein’s normal evolutionary change acceleration, is the opportunity of present and future humanity which has been essentially overlooked in the maelstrom of the historical shift, to wit:–the following.
5.136 In the concept of changelessness the most impressive assets of man’s existence were the seemingly "real" physical increments which could be "possessed" or occupied and guarded by man–and around which he has organized a vast body of law, governing that possession and the "rights" and "means" governing its transferred possession.
5.137 In the concept of constant inexorable change the most valuable assets of man are his utterly abstract, weightless "ideas" which permit his swift recognition and adjustment to the ever changing pattern. The most valuable ideas are those which not only comprehend the change but also the trendings of the change and anticipate the next important change events–as does the good driver of a car, a pilot of a plane, a captain of a ship–thereby enabling the safe and satisfactory dynamic, forward, transformative processing of man in evolutionary universe.
5.138 In the industrial era the meaning of wealth has also been radically transformed in concert with the cosmological revolution. Wealth which used to mean "real" inert physical property now means the industrially organized capability of man to deal with forward events of evolution. Pertinent to that meaning of wealth is the physicists’ Law of Conservation of Energy" which states that "energy may be neither created nor destroyed." Energy is finite and inexhaustible because non-destructible. Energy as radiation and energy as matter are intertransformable, as well as inexhaustible and it is control of their organized intertransforming that constitutes industrialization and forward capability of man. The energy factor of wealth is inexhaustible. The intellectual factor of wealth is inherently self-multiplicative. Every time intellect makes an energy control experiment–intellect learns more. What it learns that it adds to the wealth is definable as a valid idea. Ideas are the multipliers of wealth–valid ideas that are reduced to demonstrable practice by the individual are the essence of wealth.
5.139 The most prodigious and continuously displayed want-ads of the last decade have been those of the prime contractors’ corporations and their multitude of subcontractors–of scientific specialty developments and manufacturing corporations–clamorings for scientific and engineering designers even though there are no such
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5.141 academic degree categories and no such courses in the scientific or technical educational systems for the simple reason that this objective–a new and unprecedented designing function in the frontiers of science and technology–is inherently either exploratorily successful or inventive. Any man may explore but to be exploratorily successful in science is worth a Nobel Laureate and to invent is legally "an act of God." Neither successful exploration nor invention may be anticipatorily contracted for nor taught. But that "impossibility" is exactly what the prime contractors have contracted to pro- duce on behalf of the national defense’s prime weaponry system’s design initiative authorities which specious contracture it is wishfully hoped may be swiftly enough grati- fied by 30-billion-dollar-a-year expenditures in laboratories, tools, instruments, and in mammoth research personnel acquisitions, wherefore the prime contractors, admon- ished by the prime designing military to avoid any Congressional investigation embar- rassments occassionable by sub-subcontracture with non-politically tidy parties no mat- ter how excitingly promising their inventive reputation, sub-contract with the most Ph.D. degreed and scientifically named, specialty sub-contracting corporations who open their personnel hunting offices on all the university campuses seeking to harvest at the earliest possible moment the total crop of bright young ones most probable to make successful explorations and inventions all predicated on the statistical theory that if one hires and implements enough personnel, then the one-in-a-million, right-bright idea men will be caught in the contractors’ nets.
5.142 The human generated literally weightless and ephemeral ideas and inventions despite enactment of patent and copyright laws have not as yet been even mildly protected by such property laws as safeguard the so called real, physical, and inanimate equities. People are jailed for stealing a loaf of bread. They are rewarded for stealing ideas.
5.143 While inventions and new "fangled" ideas were anathema to the Newtonian era’s assumption of changelessness as normal, quite clearly good new ideas and inven- tions, which are reducible to practice and which also demonstrate greater efficiency, are now in reality the most valuable "properties" of the Einsteinian age.
5.144 For every workable invention the individual "digs" his brain and works a thousand "dry holes." In 1925–in the last few minutes life of the old masters’ world power–and eight years after the income tax was invented, at the request of the old mas- ters, according to a published statement of a major producer in the petroleum industry.
5.145 Congress gave to all mining industries a tax deduction rate designed to repay them for an amount equal to the capital they exhaust by producing their minerals, and to encourage them to look for new reserves.
5.146 Rates differ, based on the scarcity of the minerals and on the difficulty in finding them. The petroleum rate is 27 1/2 per cent; for sulphur and other strategic minerals it is 23 per cent; for copper, iron, and materials for cement it is 15 per cent; for coal and salt, 10 per cent; and for sand, gravel, and shell, 5 per cent.
5.147 Why most for oil? Because it is hardest and most expensive to find. Only one in nine test wells finds any oil or gas; only one in 44 finds enough to permit the operator to break even.
5.148 In the publishing world of New York idea stealing is called "brain picking."
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5.150 Nothing is so easy to steal as the right-bright idea. The department manager steals his subordinate’s–Joe’s–idea and wins favor with the vice president who in turn steals the idea from his department manager and sells it as his own to the company president. In turn the company president steals the idea, makes it his own, presents it to the board of directors and gains himself a twenty-five-thousand-a-year raise, because the company earns a million more by virtue of Joe’s idea.
5.151 In the preindustrial continental isolations of yesterday nations’ local conceits and deceits could go unchallenged for centuries. But today’s false premises and self-deceits both public and private fall swiftly apart in the revealing light of scientific investigation and competition. Intellectual integrity will win tomorrow’s battles with accelerating inexorability. Political and commercial sham and false premise institutions will vanish with startling rapidity.
5.152 It is dawningly in evidence that world society is about to discover the intrinsic value of fundamental ideas and that the present slave functionings of architects, engineers, industrial designers, interior decorators, fashion designers, advertising copy-writers, public relations innovators and manipulators, as corporation hireable thieves of individually invented ideas successfully promoted by competitor corporations probably will, in the not distant future, come to be considered morally and civilly reprehensible. But for the moment the whole designing profession deals only in the superficially innocuous paraphernalia of the now fallacious and obsolete Newtonian changelessness concept which yesterday was rendered livably interesting only through the superficial changes in fashion, styles, and orders of interior and exterior decorating or in engineered nuances of physical "differences" and "individualities."
5.153 So complex is this whole picture and so conditioned are the social reflexes in respect to the maelstrom of concept transformations that it is all too easy to understand why it has happened that the static–or unchangeable, earth-anchored type of space conception designers–the architects, et al.–were not called in by the prime or subcontractors of the Space Age’s acceleratingly changing contractual obligations to help them in their outer space invasion requirements to do ever more with less in order to produce the corollary condition of the most highly compacted energy capabilities, deliverable at the greatest distances, with the greatest accuracy and remote control niceties, with the least effort, in the shortest time.
5.154 While the space age blasts its satellites into orbit, mesmerized, everyday social preoccupations are essentially with the irrelevant past’s changeless, romance-engendering and enchanting remoteness. Politicians become more earnest politicians. Pretentious governmental and corporate bureaucracies exploit the historical prime design initiative by playing games of hide and seek contractual procedures, at hundred billion dollar expense leaps of "enlightened" guessing competitions with their curtains’ obscured ideological adversaries.
5.155 While that most paradoxical chapter of all history is being written the great opportunity is overlooked that the architects and engineers and professional designers in general now could go back to school and learn the fundamentals of chemistry, physics, economics, general systems theory, logistics, ecology, and scientific history thereafter taking as prototype the long ago successful comprehensive initiative taken by the doctors and many artists and poets individually throughout all time whereby the architects, engineers, and designers might take the oath of organized professional dedication to world man’s service as did the doctors and prepare themselves, on their own service-inspired initiative, to deal competently and effectively with rendering man’s external,
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5.157 extra-corporeal tool complex organization fit to adapt total man to survive and prosper in the evolutionary acceleration of universe, thus offsetting all the economic evils of uncoordinated enterprise anarchy without killing enterprise and in fact greatly increas- ing the wealth generating capability of individual enterprise within their design scien- tists’ comprehensive, commonwealth generating, world systems.
5.158 The historical economic clock points to this moment as appropriate for such design science initiative taking. The world stock markets present clearly the viewpoint of world industry and enterprise-riskers and co-riskers. Throughout the whole history of stock markets bleak war news always made the markets go up, for the news meant that the weaponry and munitions expenditures would be vastly increased. In the 1962 Cuba-U.S.A.-U.S.S.R. crises in which the atomic warfare of World War Three came nearest to breaking out for the first time in history the stock markets dropped, which means that for the first time in history man’s greatest financial wager is on the produc- tion of peace generating industry and not on war. The combined economic and world psychological climates are ripe for the reorientation of the world’s prime design initia- tive from weaponry to livingry.
5.159 I said at the outset that if I could bring all the converging factors into evi- dence that we might be able to state the problem properly and if so that the greatest problem of our day might be to bring that problem with all its complex ramifications into focus.
5.160 To start off with it is demonstrated in the array of events which we have touched on that we don’t have to "earn a living" anymore. The "living" has all been earned for us forever. Industrialization’s wealth is cumulative in contradistinction to the inherently terminal, discontinuous, temporary wealth of the craft eras of civilization such as the Bronze Age or Stone Age. If we only understand how that cumulative indus- trial wealth has come about, we could stop playing obsolete games, but that is a task that cannot be accomplished by political and social reforms. Man is so deeply condi- tioned in his reflexes by his milleniums of slave functioning that he has too many inferi- ority complexes to yield to political reformation. The obsolete games will be abandoned only when realistic, happier, and more interesting games come along to displace the obsolete games. That coming along of the better games is the prime designing respon- sibility of the new profession the architectural scientists whose birth we hope and think we are witnessing and the possibility of which we are going all-out to aid.
5.161 It is mainly to be recognized by the architectural scientist that playing the game as America and Europe were doing at mid-Twentieth Century was fine for America and Europe but these game-playing industrial countries were operating at so relatively low an efficiency of performance per units of invested resources that North America with seven per cent of the world’s population and Europe with 25 per cent together with a world around set of scattered city populations consisting of eight per cent of the world’s popula- tion, altogether totalling 40 per cent of the world’s population were using 100 per cent of the world’s industrial metals. It is also mainly to be recognized that these "game" play- ing countries thought that there was no other way to play their game with equally satis- factory standards of living and degree of freedom results. So thinking, they assumed that other people were "just out of luck."
5.162 These countries on their own private governmental initiative would not have done anything about altering the overall performance per cent’s of invested resources. Therefore, the same a priori organic intelligence that makes human babies satisfactorily despite the ignorance of the human baby factory managers is seen to be inexorably at 54
5.163 work in the external organic development of man and is apparently intent upon upping the overall efficiency of the performance per units of invested resources to such a degree that all of humanity may be served by the same total world inventory of meltable and re- investible industrial metals at higher standards of living enjoyed at higher degrees of freedom than any man has as yet known. (See Chart 30, page 30 of illustrations, Buck- minster Fuller, by John McHale, George Brazillier Publishing Company, 1962.) In order to accomplish this external organic birth of a total world industrially advantaged man "nature" or the universe inventing and evolvingly operating comprehensive intelligence set the "communism" playing industrializationist competitively against the "capitalist" playing industrializationist in a super game of the radically threatened annihilation of one another against which each must develop its retaliatory devastating capability. This be- came a competitive race to send the most hitting power at the greatest speed and with greatest accuracy to the most targets at the greatest distance all of which required a phenomenal step-up in doing more with less. And inasmuch as the intelligence feedback of their computer implemented and progressively automated competitive systems became inherently self-accelerating and self-augmenting the rate of evolutionary step-ups of the competition capabilities brought about an ever swifter rate of obsolescence of the progres- sive stage tools of doing more with less, which having been progressively tooled up for the respective massive retaliatory capabilities of both the "communists" and the "capitalists," provided an unexpected industrial mass productive capability biproduct which was the re- application of the principles of doing more with less to the home front living needs, not only of their own economies but of the economies of the other 60 per cent of underprivi- leged humanity whose allegiance to these respective causes both the "communists" and "capitalists" were courting. Altogether, the biproduct curve of this unexpected livingry advance promises 100 per cent industrialization of all humanity realized out of the same inventory of metals now serving 44 per cent of humanity to be realized within another thirty years, or one generation of mankind. It is this curve of inexorable acceleration being accomplished by the universal intelligence integrity that may conceivably be recog- nized and directly served by the architectural scientists. If the latter become competent enough in their comprehension of this total picture to be able to seize the world initiative in undertaking its conscious realization then as a biproduct of their so doing, they will put the world effectively on notice not only of their undertaking but of the comprehensive picture of world developments and the childish game playing in such an educationally ef- fective way that world civilization will become increasingly intrigued with the new game of playing it "straight" and the high tide of hazard of world atomic and biological war- faring will swiftly recede and presently disappear.
5.164 It is a prime principle of the dynamism of industrial wealth that the more that it is used, the more that it multiplies its wealth of organized and unlimited universal energy capability. No concept could be more diametrically opposed to the concept of swiftly exhaustible and entropically wearoutable static property "thingness" wealth which as yet dominates the dogmatic arguments of political reactionaries. Theirs is the con- cept of a national debt which is continually increasing as an accounting of the supposed swift depletion of yesterday’s static property bounty. The fact is that the current $300 billion U.S. Federal debt and the $700 billion private corporate and individual in- debtedness is like a paper accounting game whose total trillion dollar "indebtedness" is more than balanced by the synergetic totality of integrally organized and going industrial capability which means that if we burned up all the present books of U.S. financial ac- counts (not the books of economic account) tomorrow all the rivers and dams, all the veins and lumps of coal, and the muscles and brains, and topsoil and seed, and the super- markets and their well-filled shelves, all the people and all the knowledge and experience and their power and tools, machinery, buildings, highways, wires, rails, radio stations and T.V.s, and all the rest would be there, we would have to tell everybody that the
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5.166 accounts were destroyed or we could just give everybody and every corporation new ac- counts and credit limits so that they would not use things up faster than they could be produced until we are given time to produce bigger and faster machines which we will certainly very shortly do. Everything would go right on working. We might even issue tickets to use all the facilities instead of distributing that 4 per cent interest on yester- day’s trillion dollar paper debt which interest amounts to forty billion dollars annually which is one hundred and thirty-three million dollars per day (which means one dollar distributable to each U.S. adult per day to help him pay his carfare and telephone calls and newspaper for which we tax him one dollar per day for the privilege of living in the U.S. democracy). Of course this one hundred and thirty-three million dollars per day fictitiously organized interest is not now being distributed per capita and is being issued to a relatively small group who eventually put into broad circulation for the whole of the economy is dynamic and money "deposited" in the bank amounts to immediately loanable paper imprinted digits which fly out of the bank instantly. The only essentially impor- tant part of this game as played either by the capitalists or the communists is that you keep on opening the science-built main valve of universal energy flowing into the regen- erative industrial organism whose educational and technological feedback multiplies in capability wealth a millionfold faster than do guinea pigs reproduce and multiply. The industrial science illiterates whom "the game" dignifies with the name reactionaries call this process "spending" which is an obsolete Newtonian static norm expression. While Americans were slow to catch on to the regenerative characteristic of industrial wealth in contradistinction to the static property wealth of preindustrial era economics, they should have been adequately educated by the performance of Russia and the dictator organized pre-World War II Germany, whose performance was predicated upon the Rus- sian observation that the U.S. economy in the days leading up to World War I and during World War I when the hard goods purchases from the U.S.A. industrial economy by warring Europe began to exceed by one then two then three fold the value of all the bankers’ gold in the world. All the world had been convinced up to then that there was no wealth as such extant in the world greater than that of all the gold of all the bankers. Russia in revolution saw that the U.S.A. democracy coming into the war to save democ- racy taking up its throttle and dredge mining and manufacturing and producing tools and more tools and goods without regard to money limits. The bankers had bought from America all they had money to buy and all that they had the nerve to ask for on credit above their total bank accounted wealth and as yet they hadn’t scratched the new tooled up synergetic production capability of industrial America. To get the rest of this capacity put into play on the old banker master’s side, they had to get America into the war and did so whereat America just up and said well what do we need now to win the war and the bankers and the general and admirals replied "full industrial capacity production including ships and men to get that production to the European front." In the one year of 1917 America mined, refined, manufactured, and produced more copper than in the entire cumulative history of all men’s copper mining and refining all over the earth. This was typical of the new energy wealth spigot that was tapped. After the Americans had produced and delivered to Europe hard and soft goods exceeding by five- fold the total pre-1914 wealth of all the bankers’ gold, the bankers seeing that the war was soon to be won said to the Americans, "How are you going to pay for all this?" "Pay for it?" America queried in astonishment, "We have produced this from our own natural wealth." "Oh, no," said the bankers, "you forgot Alexander Hamilton. You as a government do not have any money and your government is going to have to borrow from us, the banks, (which the bankers did not admit were empty having been "spent" several times over before getting America in on its own) in order to clean up your war accounts." So America then invented the Liberty Loan Bonds and the income tax with which to meet this surprise demand. The war was over. America retired into America and into enjoying its new toy, the automobile. But Russia which had on its revolution
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5.168 retired from the war watched America unwittingly articulate this fabulous, limitless, new wealth of energy universe realizable through the synergetics of industrialization production.
5.169 Of course, Russia had to have industrialization as soon as possible and (naming themselves, U.S.S.R., after the U.S.A. heroes of this drama which the Rus- sians credited the Americans with as a consciously brilliant new contribution, rather than the inadvertent act of an "all-out" good will and "join-up" spirit of American democ- racy) they established their progressive five-year-plan stages of industrial tool acquisi- tions. If Russia had not seen this new industrial wealth-generating demonstration of the U.S.A. and had simply applied socialism (as Communism) to their essentially farming economy, they would have multiplied the sixteen million who died by starvation in their first fifteen years’ operation by severalfold, and there would be no Russia as we know it today. Russia today is a direct product of industrialization, rather than socialism, which apparently takes no account of what type of political system employs it.
5.170 The U.S.A.’s unwitting example of industrial wealth generation was then emulated by Hitler’s Germany and Mussolini’s Italy which rose to industrial energy might sufficient to almost knock the world out in only twenty years from their utter bankruptcy of the 1918 military defeat.
5.171 That our inadvertent industrial success has been realized despite our funda- mental ignorance of the synergetics of industrialization is fully documented by our pre- occupation with this "game" today in which we are as yet able to deceive ourselves into believing that wealth comes from bankers and that people in Cadillacs are of a superior stock to people in Ramblers. America and Americans are wonderful but they have been as naive as they have been fortunate, fortunate as the unwitting beneficiaries of all these millenniums of cumulative scientific and technical experiences that went into the slow gestation of industrialization–conceived in Asia milleniums earlier, born in Europe, and dropped as a foundling on America’s colonial doorstep, which grew to manhood in 1917, mistaken by its foster parents in the U.S.A. for just another business venture of old-world commerce and agricultural economies.
5.172 What does all this add up to? It adds up to the fact that there is ample wealth being generated by industrialization to be able to take care of everybody aboard the ship in an increasingly handsome manner. This is because science has tapped and technology has put the plumbing on enough of the unlimited energy sources of universe to run that energy in and through enough prime movers to produce whatever man needs. The only limit is tool capacity and scientifically and engineeringly disciplined knowhow. We do not need to tax ourselves. That’s just part of the "game." The wealth issues not from out of bank deposits’ printed numerals but from the tooled energy flow whose increased flow is inadvertently augmented by the Defense Departments of the major governments.
5.173 It also adds up to the fact that America was advanced enough industrially, at the time of the New Deal take-over after the 1929 Crash, to be able to undertake this comprehensive support of all its citizenry. If the New Deal had simply said, "There is enough to go around and we are going to go into direct socialism," there would not have been enough to keep people busy. They would have had to stand around in lines to re- ceive their dole which would have been soul-destroying even if the dole was of high standard. It also adds up to the fact that in Russia they did not have enough or approxi- mately none of the industrialization at the time of their revolution. They have never had up to now enough of the universal energy tapped and plumbed in through an industrial organism adequate to take care of everybody’s needs. After 46 years of their successive
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5.175 industrial stage planning, Russia is approaching adequacy of industrial plant to take care of all its citizenry.
5.176 China has started to climb the ladder of industrialization, and because of the advanced knowhow at this moment of history, will climb that ladder of industrialization more rapidly than it has ever been ascended before, possibly in one-half the time per capita that will be required for Russia’s half century overall requirement for only a quarter of a billion people. China started with half a billion and will have a billion when she is industrialized. All of our stocktaking adds up to say that energy harnessing and industrialization are the only differences between the unsuccessfully scrounging-along craft-tooled stone age man and the present high economic success of the United States. The difference isn’t a political system or "the game" most attractive to the playing by the respective world economics. Russia calls it "socialism," America calls it "capi- talism," but it is "industrialization" itself which uniquely spells out the difference be- tween pre-1917 Russia and pre-1775 America.
5.177 Take away the industrialization from either and leave both their present populations and call it socialism or capitalism, both countries would witness 100 mil- lion deaths by starvation, far more devastation than would be wrought by atomic bombing. For that matter it would be the major phase of devastation that would occur as a conse- quence of an atomic bomb exchange. Those that would be killed by the bombs would be the lucky ones, for those that lived would see their industrial machinery so devastated as to be unable to support the hundreds of millions who survived the bombing whether or not they were in the bombed areas.
5.178 This whole essay touches briefly on what amounts to the fundamental cate- gories of information which govern the total challenge to the architectural scientist.
5.179 It will not be alone sufficient for the architectural scientist to design ways in which the total resources of the earth may adequately sustain 100 per cent of humanity though that is a good beginning.
5.180 It also will be necessary for the architectural scientist to spell out and de- sign the way in which computer-articulated comprehensive automation will produce and distribute high standard sustenance to any man anywhere without impeding the degree of freedom with which man may explore his earth and universe.
5.181 The architectural scientist will have to design the conversion of all the cities of the earth into mammoth universities. In order to keep everyone busy in the most- worthwhile way, the architectural scientist will have to provide means for inhibiting the whole world population into a vast educational system. This educational system must be designed to include a regeneratingly improving documentary television programming. The universities will in effect become a manufacturing industry for the production of the intelligence generating and regenerating tools.
5.182 The architectural scientist will have to assume the occupation by man of the three-quarters of his earth’s surface heretofore approximately unoccupied by man in the ocean depths and polar regions. Designing the environmental controlling means to make the increased occupation of the earth a comfortable and enjoyable experience.
5.183 It goes almost without saying that the architectural scientist will also have to design the means of occupying the moon and other planets as well as the means of constructing our own artificial way station planets.
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5.185 The architectural scientist will have to provide for the vastly increased ex- ploration backwards into man’s earlier history and into the history of earth and universe. There is probably a physical, intellectual and mathematical law which requires that man explore backwardly in balancing degree with his forward explorations and formulations.
5.186 The architectural scientist may through adequate and competent search and research joined with the psychologists, poets, and artists come to the realization that all men being children, such games as "capitalism" or "communism" though utterly obsolete have demonstrably romantic inspirational reflex stimulation and may have to be resorted to for some decades to come in order to keep man safely preoccupied while his new orientation in universe and its now unschedulable new potentials and realizations emerge.
5.187 The architectural scientist will have to design the pioneering establishments of complex production, installation, maintenance, removal, and reinstallation, service capabilities on a global basis in respect to large and small environment controls, oper- ating at an air deliverably tooled-up level of anticipatory capability and overall economic efficiency beyond any known present conceptioning. This new omni-deployable environ- ment controlling, sanitary and metabolic-process-facilities service establishment will immediately inherit on earth the space-medicine-developed sanitary and metabolic process equipment for which billions of dollars are now being spent as one of the key requirements for putting men into space and onto the moon for protracted periods. The exquisitely light-weight, compact equipment that will be necessary to solution of the "closed circuit" metabolic survival of man will provide the little black tack box proto- type for mass produced earth distribution of an autonomous and deployed geodesic dome dwelling machine service industry as an extension of the telephone company, telephone booth deployment program.
5.188 If, as I am intuitively inclined to expect, the university youth of the world were to seize now the overall design initiative, no longer waiting to be retained profes- sionally by clients, and were to effectively employ the total reorientation of fundamental concepts in respect to the harvest of knowledge accruing to all the vast heritage of man’s experience on earth, as well as to the scientific probing of the invisible ramifications of physical universe, in the formulating of their comprehensively designed ecological and logistical world planning and were thus enabled to demonstrate that it is irrefutably feasible and practical to convert the world’s total mineral and chemical resources, which are now engaged in servicing only a minority of manking–at the industrial network level of effectiveness and satisfaction–into swiftly realizable servicing of 100 per cent of humanity, at higher levels of adequacy, effectiveness, and satisfaction than have ever been known to any man or have been dreamt of by any man, then in a soon to ensue major world political crises, the student’s previously and widely published, integrated physical world retooling design, certified through its experimental reductions-to-practice wherev- er critical technical functions were theretofore unproven, to be practicably operatable at a comprehensively effective level will be adopted and implemented by world society mandate.
5.189 When the world’s resources thus are rendered adequate by design competence to the service of 100 per cent of humanity, at highly advanced standards of living and enjoyment of total earth, the long world history of warfaring, which has ever been pre- dicated upon the assumption that there is not enough to go around and that only the most powerful minority could survive, would be forever terminated.
5.190 So long as the world’s people remain preoccupied with their exclusively
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5.192 local survival problems, and egocentric commitments have top priority, while leaving dangerous world problems to solution only by man’s political leaders within the latters’ narrow range of available and short-term expediencies, the warring will continue be- cause political leaders are neither disciplined in physical invention and design revolution capabilities nor empowered to consider, let alone undertake, coordinate world enter- prise involving total abrogation of the world’s local sovereignties as well as time involve- ments beyond the political leaderships prerogative limits.
5.193 So long as youth negatively importunes its political leaders to forego mili- tary defense strategies while youth fails to see its own positive potential in its opportu- nity to seize the prime world design initiative and its responsibility to institute self- disciplined education in world resources and human need trend studies, and thereafter its responsibility to redesign the physical operations tooling of man to render that tooling adequate and appropriate to the 100 per cent ecological success of world society just so long will man remain frustrated and in ever more imminent danger of race annihilation.
5.194 Emergence from the abyss of economic and political frustrations may only be realized through intellectual competence and calmly disciplined comprehensive foresight, articulated through design science. When this is done by self-emancipating young world manhood, there will be a spontaneous, natural, and lasting world peace in respect to the economic and political affairs of men on earth.
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