Rationalization Sequence (2)

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Rationalization Sequence:

"It is central to my philosophy that everything in the Universe

is constantly in motion, atomically if not visibly,

and that opposing forces throughout this kinetic picture are

always in neat balance; furthermore, that everything invariably

moves in the direction of least resistance.

"The history of man's creative effort is the story of his

struggle to control 'direction' by the elimination of known

resistances.

"To the degree that the direction of least resistance is controlled

by vacuumizing the advance and de-vacuumizing the wake, the

course of society can be progressively better charted and

eventually determinable with a high degree of certainty.

"The creative control, or streamlining, of society, by the

scientific-minded (the right-makes-mightiest) is in direct

contrast to attempts by scheming matter-over-mindists (the

might-makes-rightist) to control society by increasing, instead

of lessening, resistance to natural flows through such devices

as laws, tariffs, prohibitions, armaments, and the cultivation

of popular fear.

Citations

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