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Bare Maximum:
“When we get enough power for agriculture, in 1980, we will be able to accelerate the production of food a great deal more. Our acceleration is going to increase. The number of people that are fed with a certain diet is increasing. Despite the increasing population, and the inefficiency of the system, people are getting better and better fed all the time. By 1954-- on the graph-- the majority of the people on the Earth are receiving approximately 1800 calories. This sets you below our bare minimum level: the level at which you can function at all . . . way below our bare maximum, which is the level at which you can be truly human. But the bare minimum is really a sub-human level of existence. It’s an extremely low level of consciousness. But in 1967, the level at which the greatest number of people on Earth, in other words over 50 percent of the people on Earth, are receiving over 2,000 calories, or about 2,400, which gets the majority of humans above the bare minimum. So the majority of world man is presently conscious, conscious of himself as a physical being, but not yet able to function well until he gets up to the bare maximum level.”
¶ Citations
- RBF to World Game, Jun-Jul’69
