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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
- NINE CHAINS TO THE MOON, p.x, 1938
