Acceleration of Change Card C00106

RBF DEFINITIONS
Acceleration of Change:					(1)

"There is no longer valid dissent to the concept of accelerated
change in the affairs of man on Earth. The average USA family
now moves out of town every four years. My present official
address for passport taxation combination is in Carbondale,
southern Illinois, the sixth state in which I have had successive
voting privileges. Whether I am in residence or not, my land,
my house, and I whirl constantly around the Earth's axis together
at about 800 miles per hour. All the while our little Spaceship
Earth zooms around the Sun at 30,000 miles per hour, while at
the same time our solar system rotates in its nebular merry-go-
round at hundreds of thousand of miles per hour.

"In all reality I have not left home, as it is usually said of
me. My backyard has just grown progressively bigger. Since
now, the world is my backyard. Where do you live and what are
you are progressively less sensible questions. As of now I am
a passenger on Spaceship Earth. I don't know what I am. I know
I am not a category hybrid specialization. I am not a thing,
a noun. You and I seem to be verbs in evolutionary process.
Are we not integral functions of the Universe?

"In 1917 in the U.S. Navy I had intuited that our intermulti-
plicated acceleration of technical events was beginning and that"

- RBF to B. Farrell; Bear Island; Tape 6A, p.15, 16 Aug 70