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Geosocial Revolution:
"There are two main classes of inventions: those which increase and those which decrease the degrees of freedoms. Because men are born immobilized there are few invention opportunities for his immobilization. These are prisons, traps, straightjackets, handcuffs, and caskets. On the other hand there are an infinity of opportunities to invent man’s increased mobilization-- all the way up to the speed of light, 186,000 mps., and in all directions. Means-of-increased-freedom inventing is irreversible.
"Inventions occur when individuals, frustrated by circumstance, eschew negative blaming and undertake positive physical environment reforms rather than abstract human reforms. The latter depend precariously only upon moral, ethical, and legal codes which are enforceable only by negative penalties.
“The silent preoccupations of the artist-scientist, whose inventions subsequently permit mankind to realize his innate potentials without interference with others are in marked contrast to political behaviorisms. Political theories apparently assume that there is no alternative to the word,”
