¶ Ruddering Sequence
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‘trim-tab’ size inventions we could, with least physical effort, control the least resistant directions of various fundamental transformings. This could be done by devices which would so control the angle and frequency occurrences of little vacuums and tension which could cause man’s ecological patterning to evolve in preferred patterns. Designs could also detect and discretely vitiate specific subtle vacuums chain-reacting into larger vacuums and thereby holding certain transforming systems on socially deleterious courses.
“How much more powerful is the minuscule ship’s rudder when in good order than a squadron of ships trying to move a rudderless ship in a heaving sea by attempting to push the rudderless one with their plunging bows in preferred directions as do tugs maneuver a big ship in still water when the ship is moving too slowly to have steerage way! Also how futile are shouted words of warning and exhortations in such situations! Only the rudder and the brain that directs the rudder are effective. No wonder Norbert Wiener included the Greek name for rudder in coining his ‘cybernetics’ to identify the newly emergent computer’s”
