| The speed of modern mass transportation allows the community center to be far removed from districts of heavy industry. Thus people who desire to live in communities (and there are some) could live in great blocks of apartments "designed for living" - but these social units would be set in such surroundings of open air and sunshine that the term "city" could hardly apply. Besides this there is the Continental Road system (great multilaned highways following the curve of the Earth as they span a continent North and south - beside them the Great Wall of China good beginning for an embankment - this is the CONSTRUCTION), the Continental Hydrology (a continental system of interlocking rivers, lakes, and canals on which almost all freight would be handled with the least possible expenditure of energy) and the Continental survey of Potential Resources and Energy that will take at least one and many generations of Engineers. There will be jobs for everyone - and time for adult education (the next generation, growing up in an atmosphere of abundance and freedom, will take care of itself). The change over should not take more than 15 years at the most. Even then there will be those thousands who have to be kept busy with their hands, and while it is true that less than 10% of the population need tend the machines, we can spread the work out, at say 4 hours a day, 4 days a week, to include many additional thousands. And, always remembering that such an expansion is merely to take care of those who find it necessary to work, we come to the additional thousands who want to teach, paint, carve wood, be amateur photographers, amateur astronomers, radio hams, leather workers, researcher workers, and the thousand and one other occupations that the human comedy consists of. The making of fine quality shoes and boots, for instance, would be an industry. The master leather worker, however, has a product which cannot be purchased because you have no money. But he can give it to you as a favor or for a favor, or because you can give him something. Is he interested in Magick? Then teach him, brother, and he will make you the finest pair of boots ever fashioned. To demand that he produce those boots at a price is to impose your will upon his - which is unlawful - but for him to make them for you of his own free will! You see - it always comes back to Thelema! Then there are those thousands who have no character, who have no will, who bend with the wind. They will not work? Good. They will not study? Good. Thy will drink themselves to death and contribute nothing but their gaiety to the social welfare? Splendid! Marvelous! We are not moralists. These people are froth. They do not partake of the work of the Technate therefore they can not have attained administrative power or social position through government. Nor is it likely that they have achieved social power through control of the large groups of people that give allegiance to the leaders of the fields of philosophy, art and science. They affect no one but themselves. As Citizens they are entitled to their share of the abundance. Let them have it. Like flies they live and like flies they die. So mote it be. We want only men of character. (5) We do not take human nature into consideration? True. Neither do we take religion into consideration. A man's religion is his own. To attempt to change it, or to "take it into consideration" as though you were going to render a verdict and impose your will on him is not lawful. To attempt to change a man's nature is just as unlawful. The thing to remember here, as always, is that "an energy survey had disclosed certain trends and produced an engineer's report as to the consequence if those trends continue." Here is no room for neurotic opinion making. Here are certain facts and trends - by following these trends and evaluating these facts we can predict (not prophesy) certain future developments, such as the establishment of an energy evaluated economy. These speculations on the effect that an economy of abundance will have upon a people are part of an entirely different problem and have nothing whatsoever to do with the original energy survey. If this distinction is not made and kept clear in the mind there will always be a tendency to confuse the factual engineers report of energy trends and their effect upon a monetary evaluated economy and the purely philosophical gymnastics (which is what they are, no matter how logical) that one can indulge in concerning the life of a people in an economy of abundance. Thus neither Technocracy or the theoretical Technate would "take human nature into consideration". That is something which is none of their business. To truly understand that, of course, one must realize that the question simply does not apply. (6) There would be no prostitution (as an industry). Prostitution as we know it exists to make money. No money, no prostitution Period (7) Abortion would almost totally disappear. An expectant mother who is economically independent need have no fear of (a) illegitimacy, (b) lack of financial support, (c) social censure. With these removed or - more properly - as these would not exist, the only real reason for abortion would be the health of the expectant mother. Secondary reasons would be dealt with by the prevailing attitude of the populace, and if, as may be supposed, that is one in which maternity is considered as being about the best contribution a woman can make - well - it's logical anyway - but then women are so illogical. (8) 90% of crime would disappear. No money, no crime. (9) Fashions would become elastic. Being no longer bound to wear "respectable" or "conservative" business clothing in order to present a front of uniform mediocrity the nature tendency would be to wear that which is most comfortable, most showy, most individual. Conservative fashions in men's clothing contribute to conservative thinking. Variety in clothing tends to stimulate the mind. This is a small point but it indicates an important trend ... Individualism. (10) Disease could be brought under control. How soon is difficult to say. It is perhaps impossible to stamp our disease entirely but it shouldn't take many years to bring it under control. (11) Natural selection will "improve the human race in every conceivable way, so as to have available for service the greatest possible variety of the best Instruments imaginable". When women, as well as men, can afford to be choosy, we find the process of natural selection automatically in operation to the fullest extent. From a standpoint of Law, forced eugenics is an imposition upon the will of the Individual. Natural selection will sift the race through a progressively finer screen once each generation which is probably about as fast as it is advisable to go forward anyway. After all, nothing like having a few "Herrenvolk" around to gum up the works! Anyway - once again we find that when the environment of Man is brought into harmony with the energy laws of the universe, unmolested by the false values of monetary economics, the result is Thelema. (12) etc. As I have access to V mail which is supposed to reach the States in a matter of days instead of weeks I might be able to act as a message center, to a limited extent, between Prime Base and the outposts. This mail is subject to military censorship, of course, and would have to be written in the form of personal correspondence. I note with considerable interest your mania for being absolutely certain that each word was capable of standing the test of being referred to a standard dictionary. Apparently we will eventually have to compile our own dictionary of standard terms - although the children of 4100 are probably already too doomed to plod painfully through that terrible language of the Ancients - English! People have more fun that anybody. Except horses. They sleep with their shoes on.
Love is the law, love under will. I, Rebel; The Intruder (I put these in my pocket to give to Jack. And have been carrying them ever since.) |
