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Ruddering Sequence:
"feedback system science. No wonder the early Egyptian and Greek shipmasters stood in the stern of their ships facing forwardly alongside the single-oar-steering slave as the crew of backwards-facing slaves tensed at the banks of vacuum fulcrumed oars. Here is the picture of society straining at its slavishly accepted work, backing up blindly into its future as an,often nearsighted, excursion captain cons the course.
"My philosophy also takes heed of the approximately unlimited ratio of length to girth of tensional controls which always tend to pull true, versus the very limited length-to-girth ratio of pushing devices which, when pushed, tend to bend and break.
“Philosophically it is clear that trim tabs in the trailing edges of trailing devices-- in the tail-end of tail-end events-- at the stern of the ship as the last event and not at the bow as the first event. The bow is important to keep the ship on a chosen course but the stern rudder puts and holds it on the chosen courses. The real steering takes place when the non-scientifically informed observer thinks”
