¶ Planetary Democracy (2)
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Planetary Democracy:
"developments. Humans tend to think that Universe is waiting upon them to make the evolutionary decisions. I do not. That is why I have tried to stress the fact with you today that-- when considered before they occurred-- all the technological events in my life were thought to be absolutely impossible. Therefore, they were not the consequence of society deliberately undertaking to bring them about. Individual inventors, often called ‘crackpots,’ broughtthem into realization. It was completely unexpected.
"When I was five years of age no one realized that we would develop any of the 20th Century technology. Anyone who even suggested humans reaching safely to and returning from the Moon were 'called lunatics and in jeopardy of being incarcerated in a lunatic asylum.
“As an infinitely small detail in designing terrestrial ecology Nature designed the honey bees with their chromosomic drive to go after honey in order to have them inadvertently cross-pollinate the veretation; so too, by a million other chromosomically programmed behaviors, nature arranged to grow and”
¶ Citations
- RBF in committee transcript, US Senate, 15 May’75
