Artifacts (1)

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Artifacts:

"I feel that your letter is correct in its statement of the

problem, but it suggests more governmental or private patronage

focused on social, political, and economic reforms such as can

only be effected by complex agreements at the sovereign nations' level.

"If you look into my work... you will find that I committed

myself in 1932 to solving problems by artifacts: what I call

reforming the environment rather than trying to reform human

behaviors. Nature is ceaselessly transforming. Every event

has six equieconomical alternatives. Eternal transformation is

inexorable. Discovery and employment of the principles employed

in nature may bring about the desirable environmental conditions

spontaneously inducing omnifavorable human behavior.

"When humans have vital need of reaching the other side of a

roaring river's rapids, if I design and produce a bridge to the

other side, I am sure they will use it spontaneously instead of

risking their lives in trying to swim across.

"Inasmuch as nature's omni-inexorable transformings consist of

a plurality of equieconomical, alternatively employable,"

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