2 What I Am Trying to Do
1In 1959 I was asked by the Marquis Publishing Company to state in one unpunctuated sentence exactly what I am trying to do in life. Advantaged by a third of a century’s frequent re-editing of my 1927 text I did so in 100 words. As time passed I kept on rewriting it. In 1962 Norman Cousins published it in Saturday Review at its 200 words stage. Now rewritten many times, it consists of approximately 3000 words in one unpunctuated sentence.
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3ALWAYS excitedly acknowledging The a priori infinite mystery Implicitly revealed
4 As that which Though relevant Always remains Undiscovered and unexplained And is popularly overlooked altogether In the momentary excitement of preoccupation Only with that which is discovered And especially with realizations
5 Of the new human advantaging significance Of each great scientific discovery Wherein for instance Isaac Newton discovers
6 The rational geometrical rate of change Characterizing the Interattractiveness Of any two celestial bodies
7 While their relative distances apart Vary only at an arithmetical rate Which interattractiveness itself Let alone its inversely varying Second power rate of gain Is neither manifest nor implied By any of the constant physical characteristics Of either of the interattracted celestial bodies When either is considered only separately And only in the unique terms Of one or the other’s
8 Integral dimensions/mass/chemistry And independent electromagnetic properties
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10 And though Newton’s mathematically stated law
11 Of exponentially differing rates
12 Of inversely covarying
13 Mass-distance interattractiveness
14 Of independent celestial bodies
15 Was thereafter found by science
16 To be always unfailingly operative
17 In all macro or micro cosmic
18 Constellating
19 As well as in
20 The dynamic interpositioning
21 Of all individually remote bodies
22 Of all complex movements
23 Newton’s discovered law
24 Never explains
25 Why
26 The interattractiveness
27 Of the remote-from-one-another bodies
28 Occurs or exists
29 Nor does it even suggest
30 What
31 The invisible interattractiveness
32 Is
33 Though whatever it is
34 Is so comprehensively embracing in importance
35 As apparently to guarantee
36 The eternal integrity
37 Of omni-complexedly
38 And everywhere ceaselessly
39 Intertransforming Scenario Universe
40 And even though we give that unexplained behavior
41 The name gravity
42 The name does not explain the mystery
43 For gravity
44 Like all scientifically generalized principles
45 Is inherently synergetic
46 And synergy means the unique behaviors manifest
47 Only by whole systems
48 Consisting at minimum
49Of two independent variables Whose unique system behaviors Are entirely unpredicted
50 By any behaviors or characteristics Of any of the system’s components When each is considered only separately Wherefor it is ever experimentally demonstrable That the unpredicted synergetic behaviors Of strictly assessed system components Constitute scientific manifest
51 Of the a priori mysterious
52 Cosmic integrity context
53 Within which major scientific discoveries occur Which context itself always remains unexplained By such discoveries as Newton’s
54 Of the first power arithmetical Vs. the second-power geometrical Constantly intercovarying
55 Gravitational interattractiveness Of separate bodies in Universe
56 And to the best
57 Of our experientially derived knowledge Only humans’ minds can discover These nonsubstantial interrelationships Existing only between
58 And not of or in
59 Any of the synergetically behaving system’s Plurality of independently orbiting components
60 For it is also experientially demonstrable That in contradistinction to humans’ minds Humans’ brains always and only
61 Inventory differentially The succession of separate Definitively sensed-in Special case inputs and recalls Characterizing each and every Separate and terminalled experience
62 Whose separate special case data
63 Never contain integral physical clues Explanatory of the synergetic behaviors Of the omni-interaccommodative Mathematically generalized principles Always demonstrably governing The complexedly overlapping episodes Of Scenario Universe’s
64 Nonsimultaneous
65 Multifrequenced and magnituded
66 Differentially covarienced
67 Ever intertransforming
68 Aberrationally limited complementations
69 And energetic transactions
70 And being also acutely aware Of our own corporeal limitations Yet ever renewably inspired By personal rediscoveries
71 Of the cosmic integrity
72 Which only intuitively suggests
73 Imminent discovery of further synergetic potentials Innate and gestating in Scenario Universe
74 First hints of which
75 Are realistically noted and sorted
76 Only within our subconsciously operative faculties Which subconscious sortings it seems
77 Once in a while inadvertently produce Synergetic relationship insights
78 News of the arrival of which
79 Are teleo-intuitively communicated
80 To our consciousness
81 Only as spontaneous urges
82 To look again in certain directions
83 Or to reconsider certain
84 Tentative concepts
85 And aware that those subconscious faculties May be intuitively programmed
86 To search consciously
87 For a reliable and orderly means
88 Of inducing systematic conceptualizing
89 Of the significant import to humanity
90 Implicit in the synergetically gestating events
91 At the earliest possible system moment
92 Consciously apprehendable
93 By truth-coupled human minds
94 And also assuming that such conceptualizing
95 Can be directionally oriented
96 In respect to the environmental geometry
97 Of self’s momentary circumstances
98 As the conceptualizing relates angularly
99 To self’s head-to-toe observer’s axis
100 And realizing that the dawning sense
101 Of significant import
102 Gestating in the subconscious
103 Which is suddenly emerging
104 As a discernible generalized principle
105 Together with spontaneous recall
106 Of other already proven principles
107 All of which may be frequency tuned
108 And discretely quantated
109 Into special case realizations of now
110 Thus to serve as a communicable means of entry
111 Into constructively competent participation by humans In the strategic decision making
112 Concerning the special case
113 Formulative options
114 To be selectively and successfully realized
115 And employingly managed
116 Within the relevant set
117 Of generalized principles
118 Governing humanity’s
119 Own evolutionary trending options
120 While also thereafter permitting humanity’s
121 Responsibly followed-through
122 Anticipatory design science accomplishments Of ever more effective and satisfying
123 Human life support artifacts
124 Ever increasing those artifacts’ functional performances
125 Per each unit of resource reinvestments
126 As stated in physical measures
127 Of work or structure produced
128 Per each ounce of matter
129 Each second of time
130 And each erg of energy therein invested
131 And employing only
132 The unique and limited advantages
133 Inhering exclusively in those individuals
134 Who all by themselves
135 Take and maintain the economic initiative
136 By inventing artifacts
137 Developing their production prototypes
138 And proving the latters’ capabilities
139 And safety of use
140 All conducted responsibly
141 On behalf of all humanity
142 As well as on behalf
143 Of the integrity of Universal regeneration itself
144 The individual initiatives being always undertaken
145 In the face of the formidable
146 Physical capital and credit advantages
147 Of the massive corporations, foundations
148 Trade and other special interest unions
149 And political states
150 All of whom seek entropically to turn
151 All such syntropically potential gains
152 Of Advantage for all
153 To their own exclusively special advantage
154 And deliberately avoiding
155 Political ties and tactics
156 As well as all negative activities
157 Social movements and reforms
158 While also concurrently endeavouring
159 By experiment, exploration and published data
160 To inductively excite
161 All individual Earthians’
162 Awareness of all humanity’s
163 Syntropically multiplicative potentials
164 And techno-economically feasible options As well as humanity’s awareness That only by use of such options Can humanity effectively cope with And divest itself
165 Of its entropically dissipative Dilemmas and compromises
166 I seek
167 Through comprehensively anticipatory
168 Design Science
169 And its reductions
170 To physical practices
171 In the form of inanimate artifacts and services
172 To participate in nature’s multi-optioned Continuous and inexorable
173 Reforming of both the physical and metaphysical Environmental events and circumstances
174 Instead of trying to reform
175 Human behaviors and opinions
176 Which latter is all
177 That history’s political powers Have ever sought to do
178 For I am intent
179 Exclusively through artifact inventions
180 To accomplish prototyped capabilities Of providing ever more performance With ever less resources
181 Whereby in turn
182 The wealth augmenting prospects for all humanity Of such design regenerations
183 Will induce their spontaneous
184 And economically successful
185 Industrial proliferation
186 By world around
187 Exclusively service-oriented industries
188 As the regeneratively escalating effectiveness
189 Of the latters’ responsible resource reinvestments
190 Per each unit of resources reinvested
191 Render comprehensively obsolete
192 Any and all economic necessity
193 To sell buy or own anything
194 While coincidently obsoleting as well
195 The economically degenerative practices
196 Of irresponsible one-way selling-off
197 Of the world’s resources
198 All of which chain reactions will trend
199 To ever higher performance attainments
200 Of the ever improving artifact instrumented services
201 And thereby will swiftly
202 Both permit and induce
203 All humanity
204 To realize full lasting
205 Economic and physical success
206 Plus enjoyment of all Earth
207 Without one individual interfering with
208 Or being advantaged
209 At the expense of any other humans
210 Now alive or henceforth to be born
211 And I purpose
212 Through such responsibly evolving
213 Performance improvements
214 Of exclusively service oriented
215 Artifact instrumented industries
216 To accomplish universal economic success
217 Well being and freedom of humans
218 Together with a sustained abundance
219 For all foreseeable generations of humans to come
220 Of all the human life-support essentials
221 Thereby to eliminate all reason
222 For further existence
223 Of any and all varieties of politics
224 Each of whose ideologies mistakenly say‘‘We have the best and fairest way
225 Of dealing with the fundamental inadequacy Of life support
226 On our under-resourced
227 And lethally over-populated
228 Planet Earth
229 And with such design-science-attained Sustainable abundance for all Proven to be feasible
230 And attainable for all humanity by 1985 Will also come obsolescence
231 Of all the political powers’ Historically demonstrated Ultimate recourse
232 To hot official
233 And cold guerrilla warfaring
234 And conscripted sacrifice
235 Of the lives
236 Of whole generations of youth
237 Upon the fallacious assumption That war constitutes
238 The only means of proving Which political system Is the fittest to survive In the misassumedly Inherently lethal
239 Game of life
240 As we have been taught by history That it must be played
241 And with such design science attainable Elimination by obsolescence
242 Of all that humanity
243 Has learned by experience to be undesirable Such as power corruptible Politics and war
244 There will also come cessation
245 Of the history-long missassumed Necessity for individuals
246 To earn their livings
247 That is to prove themselves to be
248 Extraordinarily valuable exceptions to the dictum That humanity is meant to be a failure
249 And all the sovereign political states Will also become obsolete
250 As will also all economic competition
251 For any special profit
252 For any state, corporation or individual
253 And the world will become preoccupied
254 With recirculating all its chemical elements Which as they are totally recycled
255 At an average rate of every twenty-two years Will be progressively reinvested
256 With the ever more effective Interim gained‘‘know how’’ Thus making also obsolete One-way dead ended wastes And scrap monger withholdings To escalate price structures
257 And the most important obsolescence making Will be the elimination
258 Of humanity’s most self-destructive weapon The Lie
259 For Universe operates only on truth
260 And it is the most outstanding truth Of this moment
261 That we have arrived at the threshold
262 Of new human functioning in Universe
263 Which functioning can only be effectively performed With the prime struggle just to survive
264 Being completely disposed of
265 And with it all the debilitative fears Attendant upon that long struggle
266 But midway of the threshold crossing
267 Comes the realization
268 That the only alternative to that success
269 Is the self-destruction of humanity
270 And whether we are to be
271 A complete success or utter failure
272 Is in such critical balance
273 That every smallest
274 Human test of integrity
275 Every smallest moment-to-moment decision
276 Tips the scales affirmatively or negatively
277 Wherefor we recognize that
278 It is both fear and ignorance
279 That delays popular comprehension
280 Of its historically unprecedented option
281 Of total human success
282 For fear secretly grips all wage and salary earners
283 As well as all political and private bureaucracies
284 Wherefor I realize that all humanity
285 Is plunging into an unprecedented state of revolution Which if proving to be predominantly bloody and physical Will probably terminate human occupancy of EARTH
286 Or if, predominantly, metaphysically coped with
287 As a comprehensive design revolution
288 Will probably insure the presence of Earthians
289 For millenniums to come
290 For the design revolution
291 To which I am committed
292 Is the metaphysical and positively objective counterpart
293 Of Mahatma Gandhi’s
294 Subjectively passive resistance
295 And if design science wins
296 Each human henceforth will function
297 In predominantly metaphysical ways
298 In our cosmically designed role As the most effective
299 Local Universe problem detector and solver In the spontaneous support
300 Of the vast complex reciprocal scheme Of celestial energy’s
301 Increasingly disorderly and expanding Local entropic stellar exportings And their elsewhere concomitant Increasingly orderly and contracting Syntropic planetary importings (As for instance here upon planet Earth) This being the now dawningly realized Cosmic function of Earthian humans To solve locally evolving Universe problems Both physical and metaphysical Thus locally fortifying the integrity Of eternally regenerative Universe
302 Whose cosmic omnicircumferential embracement Integrates as gravity Gravity being thereby
303 Always more vectorally effective Than the sum of all local and nonsimultaneous Radial disintegrations of radiation Even as do a few barrel hoops Successfully resist
304 The radially outward escape Of the individual Exclusively disintegrative Crowded together Individual staves of the barrel As also myopically preoccupied Ignorantly disintegrative humans Are bound together upon our planet By cosmically embracing benign laws And necessities of Universe
305 Such as those guaranteeing the integrity Of eternally regenerative Universe Manifest in the invariable relationship
306 Of cosmically greater effectiveness of gravity
307 Than the disintegrative effectiveness
308 Of equally energetically endowed radiation
309 Which invariable superiority relationship
310 Is also manifest but ever more comprehensively
311 In the eternally greater
312 Cosmic-integrity-guaranteeing effectiveness
313 Of the always synergetic and syntropic
314 Metaphysical capabilities
315 Of comprehensively operative generalized intellect
316 Over the always energetic and entropic local
317 Physical capabilities
318 Which are exclusively operative
319 Only as local terminal special case episodes
320 All of which principles succinctly elucidate
321 The necessitous nature of Universe’s grand design strategy
322 For installing developing and maintaining
323 The complex problem-solving humans
324 And evolving their complex ecological support
325 Upon our local Universe monitoring planet Earth
326 And it is only
327 By elimination of all self-deception that the highest
328 probability
329 Of humanity’s discovery
330 Of its metaphysical capabilities can occur
331 And do so within cosmic evolution’s critical time limits
332 And because it is also true
333 That only by elimination of all this self-deception
334 Can this self-discovery be accomplished
335 Because the a priori otherness
336 Inherent in the fact of self’s birth
337 And essential to the awareness
338 Of life itself
339 Wherefor comes full realization
340 Of the omni-interdependence
341 Of all humanity
342 Which if cultivated instead of frustrated
343 Will increase synergetically
344 To provide total physical success of all humanity
345 Truthful self-discovery being the initial step Toward humanity’s ultimately qualifying For its unique local-Universe-monitoring functioning We humans were designedly born Naked ignorant and helpless
346 Endowed with the few conscious drives
347 Of hunger thirst procreation curiosity and fascination To learn only by ourselves
348 And only through millions of years
349 Of often painful trial-and-error experiences
350 And lonely realizations
351 That our muscles and physical power
352 Are utterly subordinate
353 To our mind’s Universe-embracing comprehensions Wherefor in the trial-and-error struggle for survival Lasting throughout the past
354 Millenniums of millenniums
355 Those exceptional individuals
356 Who have been fortunate enough
357 To be able to earn the right to live
358 Have had to do so
359 By proving that they had special capabilities
360 Which seemed functionally essential
361 To continuance of the successful heirs
362 Of those fortunate few
363 Who only by force of superior
364 Bodily size strength and cunning
365 Later augmented by arms
366 Had originally commandeered
367 The supposedly limited resources
368 And as yet have the superior weapons
369 With which to sustain those claims
370 However the spontaneous
371 Full life-support franchise
372 Which has always been accorded
373 By all humanity
374 To all new born children
375 Usually sustained in the past
376 Until the age of six
377 Has been progressively extended
378 In recent decades
379 First to include primary school years
380 After which came successively high school
381 And college years
382 Then post graduate and doctoral years For those who wished them
383 And now with full life support becoming feasible The scholarship franchise
384 Will soon become spontaneously extended
385 By revolutionary necessity
386 To cover all the living years
387 Of all humanity
388 And with life time fellowships for all
389 Will also come elimination
390 Of the defensive inferiority complexes And the historical survival fears
391 Of all people of all circumstances
392 Which in the past
393 Have always frustrated
394 Humanity’s urge to learn for itself By direct experience and observation How most effectively to comprehend phenomena Instead of judging and guessing opinionatedly As a consequence of credos and dogmas Relayingly inculcated by others
395 And with all survival fears of all people eliminated By universal FULL-LIFE-SPAN Fellowships To study Universe
396 And seek understanding
397 Of the cosmic functions of humanity
398 Humans will swiftly develop their innate urge To demonstrate competence
399 Thus qualifying themselves to participate
400 In producing services to all humanity Wherefor the most spontaneous
401 And popularly sought for privilege of individuals
402 Will be to qualify for membership
403 On humanity’s research and development teams
404 Or on its equally significant
405 Production and service teams
406 Just as humans now qualify
407 For participation in amateur athletics
408 Such activity having become
409 Completely divorced from
410 The concept of earning a living
411 And with the majority of humanity
412 Engaged in study and self disciplining
413 Direct experimental discovery
414 And familiarization with advantages to be gained
415 By understanding and use
416 Of the thus far discovered
417 Generalized scientific principles
418 Governing all Universe events
419 Will also come elimination
420 Of all wasteful daily travel
421 To the 90 percent of all jobs
422 Which are the non-wealth-producing
423 Specialized bureaucratic jobs
424 Which had been invented
425 By both private public and governmental
426 Power administrators
427 To keep people dependently obligated to them
428 As well as too busy to make trouble
429 For the power masters
430 Whose instincts said
431 ‘‘Divide to conquer
432 And to keep conquered
433 Keep divided’’
434 This having always been the prime strategy
435 Of all the grand strategies
436 Of all history’s power masters
437 And with such daily travel elimination
438 Will come vast reductions
439 In world energy resource consumption
440 The significance of which
441 Can be appreciated
442 When we recall (A) that science has standardized
443 the quantifying
444 Of energy characteristics and behaviors
445 In terms of lifting a given weight
446 A given distance outwardly from Earth
447 In a given quantity of time
448 As for instance the work done
449 In lifting one pound one foot in one minute
450 I.e. in foot-pounds per minute
451 Or gram-centimeters per second
452 And (B) that it has also been discovered by geophysics
453 That each gallon of petroleum
454 Photosynthesized from Sun radiation
455 Into hydrocarbon molecules
456 Regeneratively proliferated by ecological organisms
457 Harvested and buryingly stored
458 As concentrated fossil residues
459 Within this Earth’s crust
460 By wind water and gravitational power investment
461 Is so long drawn out a process
462 Requiring so much energy
463 That it costs nature
464One million U.S.A. 1960 dollars worth of energy
465 As combined work pressure and heat
466 And chemical interexchanging quantities
467 Stated in scientifically defined constants
468 Operatively sustained
469 Over the requisite millenniums of time
470 Necessary to produce each gallon of petroleum
471 When that much energy
472 For that much time
473 Is priced at the same rate
474 At which electrical energy is charged to us today By the public utility companies Stated on our monthly bills
475 In money units for each kilowatt hour Delivered to us of that much energy
476 Wherefor in Cosmic Costing
477 Of the regenerative affairs Of Physical Universe
478 Wherein all metabolic interexchanging
479 Is meticulously accounted
480 To the last unit
481 Of electron-rest-mass value
482 Each average automobile commuter
483 Costs nature several million dollars each day To go to his ecopolitical-system-invented job For which work the economic system Usually pays these right-to-live earners Far less than one hundred dollars a day While less than 10 percent of them Produce any real wealth Of direct human life support
484 Which means that a few humans
485 Who pooled together enough money
486 To buy enough machinery
487 To poke pipes deeply in the Earth Are tapping Universe’s progressive Local energy accumulating
488 Which when attaining a critical mass magnitude Some ten billions of years hence probably Has been designed to inaugurate a new star To replace others which have burned out
489 All of which energy accumulating
490 Cost Universe the one million dollars per each gallon Which the human needs exploiters
491 Misassume to have cost nothing Wherefor they take for themselves
492 What the money-game calls‘‘pure’’ profit Over and above the cost of their mechanical operation And sell a million dollars cosmic-cost-gallon For less than one cosmic-cost paper dollar Which million-for-one is not difficult to do And dwarfs the historical folly Of the American Indians
493 Who sold the Island of Manhattan in New York
494 To the Europeans
495 For one bottle of whiskey
496 And with the popularly proven adequacy Of life support for all humans And with Universal recognition That being born
497 Makes it mandatory upon world society
498 That each human is entitled
499 To healthful growthful lifelong support Constructive and instructive travel And access to the full inventory
500 Of information and knowledge and news And all of the thus far accumulated wisdom 90 percent of humanity will spontaneously Disengage from their specious ‘‘jobs’’ And 90 percent of all the modern Fireproof business buildings of the world Will become vacated by the obsolete non-wealth-producing Exclusively money or political-kudos-making businesses Permitting those buildings’ conversion Into dwelling studio facilities
501 Having all contemporary conveniences
502 Already installed
503 Most of which conveniences are utterly lacking Or are only inadequately provided In the slum flats and squatteries
504 In which the majority of humanity now dwells
505 All of which foregoing changes
506 And their elimination of the survival fears
507 Exploitation of which always has underlain
508 All trade union management and political strategies
509 Will permit technological automation
510 To produce at 24 hours per day
511 Rather than for only eight hours
512 While computer automated travel facility booking
513 And video-automated matchings
514 Of all‘‘availables’’ with all‘‘wanteds’’
515 Will be operative as a 24-hour information services continuum
516 Eliminating all newspapers’
517 Personal want and merchandise advertising
518 With vast savings of the newsprint forests
519 And with satellite sensoring
520 Of each and all humans’ positive and negative
521 Individual electromagnetic field responses
522 To given problem solution propositions
523 Integratively read out
524 By computerized world monitors
525 And with world around Satellite relayed telemation
526 And universal cable TV feedback
527 And universal two-way TV
528 Beam and cable feedback
529 Humanity will come to know instantly
530 What all humanity’s
531 Reactions and dispositions are
532 In respect to each and all problems
533 As they arise
534 And all humanity will dare to yield spontaneously
535 To the will of the majority
536 For if the majority
537 Makes a wrong judgment
538 The effect will be swiftly manifest
539 And the majority can immediately alter the course
540 Without any negative scapegoating
541 All of the foregoing and
542 Its many similar ramifications
543 When compounded with our now proven capability
544 To house and service all humanity At higher standards than .
545 We heretofore have ever experienced Plus our organized knowledge Of how to provide all humanity With an annual energy advantage Equivalent to the U.S.A.’s of 1972 And do so by 1985
546 While simultaneously phasing-out
547 All use of fossil fuels and atomic energy And deriving our sustainable energy supply Entirely from our annual energy income Of Sun power and gravity effects Ever operative around our planet As wind water wave tidal Sun methane alcohol
548 Eruptive and thermal sources All of which foregoing
549 Design science revolution
550 Will phase out warfare
551 And release all of humanity’s Highest production technology From killingry into livingry production And a world around computerized Integrated life support system And with all the foregoing events Humanity will be reoriented From its one way entropic Me-first energy wastings To its syntropic circulatory Synergetical you-and-we
552 Cosmic ecology regenerating functions
553 All of the foregoing will release Our minds to perform their unique Universe searching
554 Inventing capabilities And information conserving In support of which functioning
555 We humans alone
556 Amongst all known organisms
557 Were given conscious intellectual access
558 To the family of exclusively mathematically stateable Metaphysical principles
559 Ever demonstrably governing
560 The cosmic integrity
561 Of eternal regeneration
562 And because the meaning of design
563 Is that all the parts are interconsiderately arranged
564 In respect to one another
565 And because all the generalized principles
566 Are omni-interaccommodative
567 Which is to say
568 That none ever contradict any others
569 The family of thus far scientifically discovered Generalized principles constitutes a cosmic design To which human mind has
570 The only known access
571 Other than that
572 Of the comprehensive
573 Absolutely mysterious
574 Intellectual integrity context
575 Of Universe itself.