Using the alleged and often repeated number that the US coal reserves are sufficient to last for 500 years, Professor Bartlet exposes the fallacy of “sustainable growth” and how false and dangerously soothing ideas are propagated in the public.

Taking us back to the 1970′es, he analyses the responses and comments of the time to the energy crisis in order to determine how things could turn when it returns: It becomes rapidly obvious that “the experts”, the media and the politicians have no idea and do not understand the effects of growth.

Growth in the rate of consumption of a non-renewable resource, such as a fossil fuel, causes a dramatic decrease in the life-expectancy of the resource. In a world of growing rates of consumption of resources, it is seriously misleading to state the life-expectancy of a nonrenewable resource “at present rates of consumption,” i.e., with no growth. It is dishonest to promote growth in the rate of consumption of a nonrenewable resource while, at the same time, reassuring people about how long the resource will last “at present rates of consumption.”

The more optimistic the prediction, the greater chance that it is based on faulty arithmetic or no arithmetic at all.

Arithmetic, Population and Energy – 5

Sustainable Growth is a world class oxymoron.

Sustainable Growth is an insult to the intelligence of those that possess this rare quality.

An impossible theorem.

View also:

Sustainable growth, premises of an absurdity, part one, part two, part three, part four, part five.

Growth Is Not Development, Is Not Evolution – A distinction between growth, development, and evolution.

Periodic Meshing In Universe

This Boltzmann’s import-export-import-export; entropy-syntropy entropy syntropy, cosmically complementary, human-heart-like, eternally pulsative, evolutionary regeneration system, also locally manifests itself in the terrestrial biosphere as the ever alternatively, omni-inter-pulsing, barometric highs and lows of the weather.

As an instance of chasm-spanning between science and the humanities by conceptually transformative energy-quanta accounting, synergetics conceptually elucidates the Boltzmann import-export, entropy-syntropy transaction and the elegant manner in which nature accommodates the “hidden ball” play of now-you-see-it-now-you-don’t energy transference.

Pattern Sorting and Observing:

When we are able to observe for long enough periods of time, we find all the gears of Universe eventually meshing, though not simultaneously. The next periodic meshing of any two of the gears might take a thousand years or 28 l/2 years or 17 seconds. The important phenomenon to note is that there are great varieties of periods of non-meshing which altogether make the physically observed totality appear to take up ever more room, and anywhere within this expansiveness the locally predominant events occurring within short spans of time appear to be Omni-disorderly. When we compound that realization with the now-known million-fold greater span of electromagnetic reality and the lesser span of direct-sense ranging of the human organism, we begin to comprehend how readily humanity falls into the trap of dismay, fear, and negativism in general. Impatience engenders further myopically disorderly incrementation of information receipts. Those who are impatient for the receipt of the next news broadcasts are only beguiled by negative information. That is what myopia looks for. Chronic short-sightedness spontaneously seeks and tunes in only the broadcast entropy. Syntropy incasts, in contradistinction to entropic broadcast. Syntropy can be apprehended only through overall or comprehensive review of the totally recalled information of long-term experience.

Man has no experimental data to suggest that energy is ever created or destroyed. Though our own overall experience leads us to the discovery of cyclic events that return upon themselves, the local, momentary, physical events seem to be giving off energy and taking up more room despite our own syntropic attempts to re-establish local order. Entropy is defined as the law of increase of the random element. But our experience in physical exploration also reveals to us that every pattern phenomenon has its complementary which is rarely a mirror-image and is most frequently invisible. As the complementary has the effect of cosmic integrity balancing, we realize there must be unseen syntropic events of Universe that are always reordering the environment. Syntropy (IN Gravity) is the law of elsewhere-importing and always-orderly regrouping of the entropic (OUT Radiation) exportings of all dying systems. Aging and death here engender birth and growth elsewhere

Humans, like the honeybee, are born ignorant, pre-programmed with hunger, thirst, and respiratory drives to take in chemical elements in crystalline (triple bond Solid), liquid (double bond Non-compressible ), and gaseous( single bond compressible) increments, as well as with pro-creativeness and parental protectiveness drives. With their directly programmed drives humans inadvertently produce (what are to them) side effects, which results in their doing the right cosmic regenerative tasks for all the wrong reasons or without any reason at all.

This preliminary phase of preconditioned human re-flexing, while lasting millions of years, is a gestative-phase -behaviour that becomes obsolete as humans’ metaphysical mind discovers the principles of precession and discovers only through vast, cumulative trial and error the pattern experience of both terrestrial and cosmic ecology; where after humans will progressively recommit their endeavours in support of the recycling and orbitally regenerative effects, precessionally inter-produced by all independently orbiting cosmic systems. This abrupt 90-degree reorientation constitutes the evolutionary stage through which humanity is now passing, wherein humanity will progressively exchange its exclusive preoccupation with self- preservation for that of supporting Omni-inclusive, cosmic integrity.

The function of local-Universe information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving is a generalized problem-and-solution complex, the solution of which is mathematically expressed as the updated Einstein equation(E=Mc2) E = 2Mc2.

Where E is energy, M is mass, and c is the speed of light in a vacuum.

Recognizing that:

1. This information-gathering and problem-solving function of humans on little, local planet Earth is a cosmically generalized function;
2. Our experiencing of the coordinate integrity of nature’s pattern of initiating the growth of myriads of ecologically inter-complementary biological species is scientifically sorted out; and
3. Nature’s method of trial-and-error evolvement of the successive biological types prospering most successfully under each unique evolutionarily progressive environmental change demonstrates that preferred environment technology eliminates survival only of the fittest;

We come to the full realization that the failures of humans on planet Earth to fulfil satisfactorily and faithfully their generalized information-gathering and local problem solving in support of eternal regeneration of Universe simply means death of this particular planetary installation of mind-endowed individuals. The failure of humans means the function must be performed in local-Universe by other phenomena capable of reliably serving the information agglomerating and problem-solving function. The eternal Universe show must go on.

The reference for this offering is from Buckminster Fuller Synergetics, GRUNCH, Wikipedia, and small bits of tampering by me in brackets – Kelly.

Fibonacci Spiral - Sustainable Growth

“I don’t believe that the exponential argument is valid at the local level.”

Really!? Arithmetic doesn’t hold at the local level and is dependent on the beliefs of “some” politician.

Let us review what we learned in part three:

Growth control is very controversial. The problem is that controlled growth just means growth!

Bacteria In A Bottle:

Characteristics of steady growth in a finite environment. A case of ordinary steady growth.

One bacteria divides to become two; the two divide to become four, the four become eight, then 16, 32, etc…

Suppose we have bacteria that double in this way every minute.

At 11:00am there is one bacterium in a bottle.

At 12 noon the bottle is full.

We have a finite environment of one bottle, and a doubling time of one minute.

At what time was the bottle half full?

At what time did the bacteria realize they were running out of space?

… 5 minutes before 12 noon, only 3% of the space in the bottle is occupied and 97% is just yearning for development; at that time, how many of you would be conscious that there is a disastrous problem coming right at us in the next 5 minutes?

Suppose that at 11:58 (2 minutes before disaster), some bacteria realize there is a problem and send out search parties for additional space… and by a stroke of impossible luck, they find 3 more bottles.

How long will these four bottles be able to sustain the rate of growth? (how much time, the collossal dscovery of 3 times more resources than previously available in history bought to the bacteria community? At what time are all 4 bottles full and disaster strikes?)

This type of steady growth is the centerpiece of the entire national and global economy. Think about it!

Fibonacci Spiral - Sustainable Growth

People write books and conduct seminars promoting the restoration of “sustainable growth” to save the world! How more moronic than that could that be?

Economists and politicians would have us believe that we can continue to steadily increase our consumption of fossil fuels, we will always be able to find more resources to fuel that growth. Let’s remember that the only thing that a politician ever learns after entering office, is the exercise of power!

“In the energy crisis, we have a classic case of exponential growth against a finite source.”

James R. Schlesinger – US Secretary Of Energy – April 25th 1977.

Fibonacci Spiral - Sustainable Growth

What time is it when the remaining reserves is 3 times the total of all you’ve used in all of history?

The answer is: it is 2 minutes before 12!

What time is it when the remaining reserve is equal to the total of all that you’ve used in all of history?

The answer is: it is 1 minutes before 12!

There is a belief that if you throw enough money at holes in the ground, oil is sure to come out! As half of the oil ever discovered has been consumed, i/e the remaining reserve is equal to the total of all that has been used in all of history: it is therefore one minute before 12! How likely are we going to now suddenly find more oil than has ever been discovered before?

Arithmetic, Population and Energy – 4

Sustainable Growth is a world class oxymoron.

Sustainable Growth is an insult to the intelligence of those that possess this rare quality.

An impossible theorem.

View also:

Sustainable growth, premises of an absurdity, part one, part two, part three, part four, part five.

Growth Is Not Development, Is Not Evolution – A distinction between growth, development, and evolution.

Fibonacci Spiral - Sustainable Growth

Humans In Universe Water

In Chapter One of Critical Path: Speculative Prehistory Of Humanity, Buckminster Fuller states that because water is essential to all the biological organisms’ ecological systems of regeneration on our planet, the following 4 major facts about water are vitally important: (Please note that number two has been disproved since the book was written)

1. Vital fact number one: Biological life is 50% water. Earthians are hydraulically designed technologies. Their structure consists of a balance interaction between tensive & compressive forces.
2. Vital fact number two: We do not know of any water in Universe other than that on our planet Earth. Even though that fact number two has been disproved since: we now know there is abundant water in Universe – Water in the Solar System – Water in the Universe - Water in Universe – Water in the Universe: Abundant? – it doesn’t really change Bucky Fuller’s observation that the as abundant as it seems on Earth, with the oceans, etc…, on a 12 inches diameter Earth globe, the ocean’s average depth would be smaller than the thickness of the ink used to print them!
3. Vital fact number three: water freezes and boils within close limits – Anywhere in Universe, except inside Earth’s biosphere the water would be either frozen, boiling, evaporated, or incandescent. Our terrestrial biosphere is a unique environment essential to the survival of humans.
4. Vital fact number four: water gains and loses heat more slowly than any known abundant substance. The world ocean’s thermal stability keeps the world’s temperature changes at minimum; they act as a flywheel does to steady rotational speed on a mechanical device.

The importance of water underlined in the first pages of Critical Path will be revisited several times along the pages of the book; Bucky Fuller putting a special emphasis on the influence of water on Human settlements, the development of the Human mind and the birth of Human power structures.

Humans in Universe - Lagoon

Humans In Universe Terrace Farming

Humans In Universe Terrace Farming

"Excuse me Sir, I am prepared to make you an attractive offer for your square."

This is part three of a series that exposes the idiocy that sustainable growth is the future of humanity. See the video at the bottom of the article.

Part two was about the use of semi log scaled paper where a straight line represents steady growth. Projections of future prices were made using a steady rate of inflation…

We saw that in 1986, the world population reached 5 billion people and was growing at the rate of 1.7% per year. The doubling time is 70 / 1.7 = 41 years; That means that at this “modest” rate the world population doubles every 41 years. In 1999, the world population reached 6 billion and we can calculate that the rate of growth has decreased to 1.3% per year… In spite of this reduction, the world population is still growing by over 80,000,000 people every year.

Should this reduced 1.3% population growth rate continue, the world population density would reach one person per square meter of dry land in approximately 780 years!

The lesson is that

ZERO POPULATION GROWTH IS GOING TO HAPPEN!

We can debate whether we like zero population growth or don’t like it, it is going to happen; whether we debate it or not, whether we like it or not, it is absolutely certain that people could not live with that sort of density on the dry land surface of the earth.

therefore, today’s high birth rates will drop & today’s low death rates will rise… till we have exactly the same numbers and zero growth. That will happen in a relatively shorter time compared to 780 years!

What sort of options are available if we wanted to address the problem?

As you can see, the options that make the problem worse are “as sacred as motherhood” and devoted to the humane goal of lowering the death rate, whereas the ones that solve the problem are generally considered distasteful and not considered…

However, zero population growth is inevitable and is going to happen! It is obvious that Nature is goint to choose from the right hand list and we don’t have to do anything… Except be prepared to “live” with whichever option nature choses to solve the problem.

Or we can exercise the one option that is open to us: that option is to choose first from the right hand list.l We have to find something that we can go out and campaign for…

Here is the human dilemna for its future; everything we regard as good makes the problem worse; and everything we regard as bad, helps solve the problem.

Education so far is also making the problem worse as it has not reduced the ignorance of the problem.

Nature is already choosing from the right hand column: we’ve all heard of the ravages of the AIDS epidemic in Africa…

At a 6% rate of growth as in the 70′es & 80′es, Boulder, Colorado, will, in 70 years, be larger than Los Angeles. It is obvious that Boulder valley cannot accomodate the population of Los Angeles; therefore Boulder population growth is going to stop. the only question is: Will we be able to stop it before it is wall to wall to wall and we are all choking to death?

The answer is we probably won’t! Boulder elected officials, as most other elected officials and the rest of the population have no idea and do not comprehend what is going on:

A 1960′es brochure promoting Boulder, reported that “Doubling its population in 10 years, Boulder… is indeed a stable and prosperous community.”

WHAT!?

A doubling of the population in 10 years is stable?

This is indeed an idiotic statement! They don’t even understand the meaning of the words they put down on paper!

But, isn’t a bigger city a better city? The beauty of population problems is that their consequences are already visible around us. Someone that is today 10 years old, will be 60 years old in 50 years; there is no changing that, it is ineluctable and “predictable” – one of those instances where the future is already there – For the price of an airplane ticket, one can easily see what Boulder will be like by going over to Los Angeles.

Arithmetic, Population and Energy – 3

Sustainable Growth is a world class oxymoron.

Sustainable Growth is an insult to the intelligence of those that possess this rare quality.

An impossible theorem.

View also:

Sustainable growth, premises of an absurdity, part one, part two, part three, part four, part five.

Growth Is Not Development, Is Not Evolution – A distinction between growth, development, and evolution.

What does it really mean?

This is part two of a series that tears to shreds the absurdity that sustainable growth and compounded interest are the future of humanity. See the video at the bottom of the article.

In Part One we learned that some human problems are tied to the exponential function which people mostly do not understand in spite of its simplicity. The exponential function describes the size of anything that grows steadily – for instance 5% per year. It is a situation where the time required for a growing quantity to increase by a fixed fraction is a constant. It is ordinary steady growth. If it takes a fixed length of time to grow 5%, then it follows that it takes a longer fixed length of time to grow by 100% – This longer time is called the doubling time.

The doubling time is calculated by dividing 70 by the % growth per unit of time; for instance, for a 5% growth per year, doubling time = 70/5 = 14 years.

doubling time = 70 / growth rate.

The number 70 is approximately 100x Ln(2) = 69.3 (if you wanted to know the tripling time, you would use the natural log of number 3, etc…) but it is not essential to know that, if you just remember the number 70, you’ll know more than 99% of the population. Now, every time you see a percentage growth in a news story, you are able to easily calculate what is the doubling time and make sense of it. For example, if you heard that something has grown 7% per year for a decade, you would not be alerted, right? However, if you saw that “crime has doubled in 10 years”, you might worry and wonder “what the heck is happening?”

You are now able to compare both a 7% increase over 10 years or the doubling of crime in a decade as being exactly the same propositions. Doubling time = 70 / 7 = 10 years —>anything that grows at a 7% rate over 10 years, doubles in size.

More generally, after one doubling time, the growing quantity is up to twice its initial size, two doubling times is 4 times the initial size, three doubling times is 8 times, four is 16 times, five 32 times, six 64, seven 128, 256, 512… After just 10 doubling times, it is 1000 times larger than when it started!

One other powerful property of a steady growth is that the growth in any doubling time is greater than the total of all the preceding growth. i/e every time that the growing quantity doubles, it takes more than all that you’ve used in all the preceding growth. This is what President Carter was referring to in his famous speech on energy in 1977:

…”and in each of those decades (the 1950’s and 1960’s) more oil was consumed that in all of mankind’s previous history.”…

President Jimmy Carter, April 18th 1977

Last, we learned of an easy to calculate consequence of a steady growth over the length of a human life time (approx 70 years): at 1% growth, the quantity would double over a human lifetime; at 2%, it would be 4 times larger in a human lifetime; at 3%, 8 times more; at 4% 16 times, 5% 32 times, 6% 64 times, 7% 128 times, etc… Hummm, as Einstein remarked on the power of compounded growth, he may have mis-estimated its consequences…

Most people have zero understanding of the consequences of the simple arithmetic of steady growth.

Arithmetic, Population and Energy – 2

Sustainable Growth is a world class oxymoron.

A “Sustainable Growth” is an insult to the intelligence of those that possess this rare quality.

An impossible theorem.

View also:

Sustainable growth, premises of an absurdity, part one, part two, part three, part four, part five.

Growth Is Not Development, Is Not Evolution – A distinction between growth, development, and evolution.

A “Sustainable Growth” is an insult to the intelligence of those that possess this rare quality.

An impossible theorem.

This is the first part of a 50 days long, tearing to shreds of the absurdity that sustainable growth is the future of humanity, series on TheTrimTab.

We start with a conversation with A. Bartlett from the University of Colorado that establishes the premises of our series:

Arithmetic, Population and Energy – 1

View also:

Sustainable growth, premises of an absurdity, part one, part two, part three, part four, part five.

Growth Is Not Development, Is Not Evolution – A distinction between growth, development, and evolution.

Dave Ginsberg - Spaceship Earth

“Humanity is moving ever deeper into crisis – a crisis without precedent. First, it is a crisis brought about by cosmic evolution irrevocably intent upon completely transforming omnidisintegrated humanity from a complex of around-the-world, remotely-deployed-from-one-another, differently colored, differently credoed, differently cultured, differently communicating, and differently competing entities into a completely integrated, comprehensively interconsiderate, harmonious whole. Second, we are in an unprecedented crisis because cosmic evolution is also irrevocably intent upon making omni-integrated humanity omnisuccessful, able to live sustainingly at an unprecedentedly higher standard of living for all Earthians than has ever been experienced by any; able to live entirely within its cosmic-energy income instead of spending its cosmic energy savings account (i.e., the fossil fuels) or spending its cosmic-capital plant and equipment account (i.e., atomic energy)-the atoms with which our Spaceship Earth and its biosphere are structured and equipped-a spending folly no less illogical than burning your house-and-home to keep the family warm on an unprecedentedly cold midwinter night. Humanity’s cosmic-energy income account consists entirely of our gravity-and star (99 percent Sun)-distributed cosmic dividends of water power, tidal power, wave power, wind power, vegetation-produced alcohols, methane gas, vulcanism, and so on. Humanity’s present rate of total energy consumption amounts to only one four-millionth of one percent of the rate of its energy income. …Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to make it economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.”

– R. Buckminster Fuller, from the introduction to Critical Path.

“Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance. We know now what we could never have known before-that we now have the option for all humanity to make it successfully on this planet in this lifetime. Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will b a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment.”

– R. Buckminster Fuller 1980.

“What are the resources? What are the tasks necessary to make 100% of humanity a success? How can we ever do so without ever advantaging one human at the expense of another? How may we render all the world and all its treasures enjoyable available to all men without having one interfering with or trespassing upon the other? How may we reform the environment so that the integrity of all society is not violated by the free initiatives of the individual nor the integrity of the individual violated by the developing welfaring advantage and happiness of the many? Man is born a potentially complete success. The reasons humanity loves its children is that they start off in such perfection of potential. Man, as designed, is obviously intended to be a success just as the hydrogen atom is intended to e a success. It is only the fabulous ignorance of man and his long and wrongly conditioned reflexes that he continually allowed the new life to be impaired albeit lovingly and unwittingly”.

– R. Buckminster Fuller – NASA Speech, June 1966

As Korzybski, the founder of general semantics, pointed out, the consequence of its single-tagging is that the rose becomes reflexively considered by man only as a red, white, or pink device for paying tribute to a beautiful girl, a thoughtful hostess, or last night’s deceased acquaintance. The tagging of the complex biological process under the single title rose tends to detour human curiosity from further differentiation of its integral organic operations as well as from consideration of its inter-ecological functionings aboard our planet. We don’t know what a rose is, nor what may be its essential and unique cosmic function. Thus for long have we inadvertently deferred potential discovery of the essential roles in Universe that are performed complementarily by many, if not most, of the phenomena we experience.

But, goaded by youth, we older ones are now taking second looks at almost everything. And that promises many ultimately favorable surprises. The oldsters do have vast experience banks not available to the youth. Their memory banks, integrated and reviewed, may readily disclose generalized principles of eminent importance. The word generalization in literature usually means covering too much territory too thinly to be persuasive, let alone convincing. In science, however, a generalization means a principle that has been found to hold true in every special case.

The principle of leverage is a scientific generalization. It makes no difference of what material either the fulcrum or the lever consists – wood, steel, or reinforced concrete. Nor do the special-case sizes of the lever and fulcrum, or of the load pried at one end, or the work applied at the lever’s other end in any way alter either the principle or the mathematical regularity of the ratios of physical work advantage that are provided at progressive fulcrum-to-load increments of distance outward from the fulcrum in the opposite direction along the lever’s arm at which the operating effort is applied.

Mind is the weightless and uniquely human faculty that surveys the ever larger inventory of special-case experiences stored in the brain bank and, seeking to identify their intercomplementary significance, from time to time discovers one of the rare scientifically generalizable principles running consistently through all the relevant experience set. The thoughts that discover these principles are weightless and tentative and may also be eternal. They suggest eternity but do not prove it, even though there have been no experiences thus far that imply exceptions to their persistence. It seems also to follow that the more experiences we have, the more chances there are that the mind may discover, on the one hand, additional generalized principles or, on the other hand, exceptions that disqualify one or another of the already catalogued principles that, having heretofore held “true” without contradiction for a long time, had been tentatively conceded to be demonstrating eternal persistence of behavior. Mind’s relentless reviewing of the comprehensive brain bank’s storage of all our special-case experiences tends both to progressive enlargement and definitive refinement of the catalogue of generalized principles that interaccommodatively govern all transactions of Universe. It follows that the more specialized society becomes, the less attention does it pay to the discoveries of the mind, which are intuitively beamed toward the brain, there to be received only if the switches are “on.” Specialization tends to shut off the wide-band tuning searches and thus to preclude further discovery of the all powerful generalized principles. Again we see how society’s perverse fixation on specialization leads to its extinction. We are so specialized that one man discovers empirically how to release the energy of the atom, while another, unbeknownst to him, is ordered by his political factotum to make an atomic bomb by use of the secretly and anonymously published data. That gives much expedient employment, which solves the politician’s momentary problem, but requires that the politicians keep on preparing for further warring with other political states to keep their respective peoples employed. It is also mistakenly assumed that employment is the only means by which humans can earn the right to live, for politicians have yet to discover how much wealth is available for distribution. All this is rationalized on the now scientifically discredited premise that there can never be enough life support for all. Thus humanity’s specialization leads only toward warring and such devastating tools, both, visible and invisible, as ultimately to destroy all Earthians. Only a comprehensive switch from the narrowing specialization and toward an ever more inclusive and refining comprehension by all humanity-regarding all the factors governing omni-continuing life aboard our spaceship Earth-can bring about reorientation from the self-extinction-bound human trending, and do so within the critical time remaining before we have passed the point of chemical process irretrievability.

Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviours that will avoid extinction.

Living upon the threshold between yesterday and tomorrow, which threshold we reflexively assumed in some long ago yesterday to constitute an eternal now, we are aware of the daily-occurring, vast multiplication of experience generated information by which we potentially may improve our understanding of our yesterdays’ experiences and there from derive our most farsighted preparedness for successive tomorrows.

Anticipating, cooperating with, and employing the forces of nature can be accomplished only by the mind. The wisdom manifest in the Omni-inter-orderliness of the family of generalized principles operative in Universe can be employed only by the highest integrity of engagement of the mind’s metaphysical intuiting and formulating capabilities.

We are able to assert that this rationally coordinating system bridge has been established between science and the humanities because we have made adequate experimental testing of it in a computerized world-resource-use-exploration system, which by virtue of the proper inclusion of all the parameters-as guaranteed by the synergetic start with Universe and the progressive differentiation out of all the partshas demonstrated a number of alternate ways in which it is eminently feasible not only to provide full life support for all humans but also to permit all humans’ individual enjoyment of all the Earth without anyone profiting at the expense of another and without any individuals interfering with others.

While it takes but meager search to discover that many well-known concepts are false, it takes considerable search and even more careful examination of one’s own personal experiences and inadvertently spontaneous reflexing to discover that there are many popularly and even professionally unknown, yet nonetheless fundamental, concepts to hold true in all cases and that already have been discovered by other as yet obscure individuals. That is to say that many scientific generalizations have been discovered but have not come to the attention of what we call the educated world at large, thereafter to be incorporated tardily within the formal education processes, and even more tardily, in the ongoing political-economic affairs of everyday life. Knowledge of the existence and comprehensive significance of these as yet popularly unrecognized natural laws often is requisite to the solution of many of the as yet unsolved problems now confronting society. Lack of knowledge of the solution’s existence often leaves humanity confounded when it need not be.

Intellectually advantaged with no more than the child’s facile, lucid eagerness to understand constructively and usefully the major transformational events of our own times, it probably is synergetically advantageous to review swiftly the most comprehensive inventory of the most powerful human environment transforming events of our totally known and reasonably extended history. This is especially useful in winnowing out and understanding the most significant of the metaphysical revolutions now recognized as swiftly tending to reconstitute history. By such a comprehensively schematic review, we might identify also the unprecedented and possibly heretofore overlooked pivotal revolutionary events not only of today but also of those trending to be central to tomorrow’s most cataclysmic changes.

It is synergetically reasonable to assume that relativistic evaluation of any of the separate drives of art, science, education, economics, and ideology, and their complexedly interacting trends within our own times, may be had only through the most comprehensive historical sweep of which we are capable.

There could be produced a synergetic understanding of humanity’s cosmic functioning, which, until now, had been both undiscovered and unpredictable due to our deliberate and exclusive preoccupation only with the separate statistics of separate events. As a typical consequence of the latter, we observe our society’s persistent increase of educational and employment specialization despite the already mentioned, well-documented scientific disclosure that the extinctions of biological species are always occasioned by overspecialization. Specialization’s preoccupation with parts deliberately forfeits the opportunity to apprehend and comprehend what is provided exclusively by synergy.

Today’s news consists of aggregates of fragments. Anyone who has taken part in any event that has subsequently appeared in the news is aware of the gross disparity between the actual and the reported events. The insistence by reporters upon having advance “releases” of what, for instance, convocation speakers are supposedly going to say but in fact have not yet said, automatically discredits the value of the largely prefabricated news. We also learn frequently of prefabricated and prevaricated events of a complex nature purportedly undertaken for purposes either of suppressing or rigging the news, which in turn perverts humanity’s tactical information resources. All history becomes suspect. Probably our most polluted resource is the tactical information to which humanity spontaneously reflexes.

Synergetics Introduction: The Wellspring of Reality – R. Buckminster Fuller

Please make sure that you have all reviewed The Crash Course prior to the event; and if you have 40 minutes, you can listen to an interview of Chris Martenson by Jim Puplava at the link listed below.

The full Crash Course can be accessed following the links below:

Crash Course Part 1, The nature of the crisis: 3 Beliefs; The convergence of Energy, Economy & Environment; ExponentialGrowth, Growth vs. Prosperity.

Crash course part 2, Money: What is money? How is it created? The Federal Reserve System & a brief history of US money; the true nature of Inflation.

Crash Course Part 3, The State Of The US Nation (and the world): Calibration for very large numbers. How much debt? A US failure to save. Assets and Demographics. Bubbles. Lies and fuzzy numbers.

Crash Course Part 4, Everything starts, and stops, with energy: Peak Oil; Energy Budgeting; Energy and Economy.

Crash Course part 5, Environmental data: The Shape Of Things To Come, or are we there already? Future Shock. What should I do?

Crash Course Bonus Audio: An Interview with Chris Martenson.

Looking forward to this week’s The Bucky Call special – please be on time.

The recording of this special The Bucky Call will be posted on TheTrimTab.com