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Biosphere:
"He was given enough cushion of resources, and so by trial and error he could gradually discover that his mind was much more important than his muscle; and that his probable functioning was metaphysical and not physical. We are all of us that that extraordinary moment where the totality of humanity is beginning to realize these things. Rather than a few leaders leading ignorant and helpless humanity. When we have man in great fear, when he is ignorant and also fearful, he can panic officially and war has been an enormous official panic: great mandates to employ that which mind has already discovered . . to build up weapons. Under the aegis of the great mandate of fear. The only way the administration really has any great powers is war powers: then they can really undertake anything. If evolution really wanted man to acquire these capabilities, he could only be really motivated to do these things through fear. I hope we are coming to a breakthrough point where we are beginning to do things for logical reasons-- and it is in longing rather than fear. The scientists were making such guns that an ignoramus could be trained to fire it; but they didn’t do anything about the man because the air was waiting there for him to breathe it. You have to find some way to
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- MATTS TAPL, pp. 2-4, 19 Oct '70
