Greetings,
This isn't my view, but it contains elements that Jay(I think), Don
Chisholm, & I agree with. The recent posts about definitions of science
were still in my memory when this arrived. It had been fwd to Gaia
Preservation Coalition list.
Steve
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From:
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Sat 12:44 PM
Subject:
Re: Irrelevance of posting about the pathology of the Price System
To:
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This is taken directly from the introduction of the Technocracy Study
Course.
Technocracys application of Science to the operation of our social
system is absolutely our only Chance for Survival
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I CAN'T LET THIS PASS WITHOUT VOICING DISAGREEMENT. CERTAINTY RE FUTURE IS
IMPOSSIBLE. "ONLY" DISQUALIFIES THE STATEMENT FROM SERIOUS CONSIDERATION.
BUT PLEASE CONTINUE.(SK)
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This is the first of three e-mails. I begin with this statement.......
Technocracy for 65 years has pointed to the Price System (Which is
Defined as any social system that effects its distribution of goods and
services by means of any system of trade or commerce based on commodity
valuation and employing any form of debt token or money.) is out of sync
with the natural world in which we exist.
"Technocracy is dealing with social phenomena in the widest sense of the
word; this includes not only actions of human beings, but also
everything that directly or indirectly affects their actions.
Consequently, the studies of Technocracy embrace practically the whole
field of Science and industry. Biology, climate, natural resources and
industrial equipment all enter into the social picture.
No one can expect to have any understanding of our present social
problems without having at least a panaromic view of the basic relations
of these essential elements of the picture.
All things on the earth are composed of matter and therefore requiire a
knowledge of chemistry. These things move, and in so doing involve
energy.
An understanding of these relationships requires a knowledge of physics.
Industrial equipment, as well as the substances of which living
organisms are composed, are derived from the earth. this requires a
knowledge of geology and earth processes.. Man is himself an organism
and derives his food from other organisms. Hense, a knowedge of biology
is necessary.
Technocracy states: We have Chance not a Choice, it is Science vs Chaos.
Science is, in a dynmic sense, essentially a method of prediction. It
has been defined as the method of the determination of the most
probable.
In tossing a coin, how does one know how many times heads will turn up?
How does a demographer (or a life insurance actuary) know how many
people will die next year? How does a geologist know where to drill for
oil? How does the designer of a building determine how many elevators
will be required? How does the weather bureau predict what the weather
will be tomorrow. How can the astronomers predict to within a second an
exlipse of the sun 150 years hence?
These are all illustrations of scientific predictions. Some of these
predictions, as you well know, are all based on the same fundamental
principles of reasoning from the basic facts. When more facts are known,
more accurate predictions can be made.
That is what is meant by the most probable; not that by this method one
knows exactly what will happen, but by its use one can determine more
nearly what will happen than by any other method.
Science is more than a dry catalogue of facts; it is a dynamic and
powerfull tool before which all problems shall some day yield."
This quoted material is taken from the introduction to The Technocracy
Study Course.
If you wish to understand the world as it really exists you must have
some understanding of Science, this is why the Study Course begins with
an introduction to Science.
The political leadership of the USA, claim we are the richest Country of
Earth and yet almost 1/3 of our children are without adequate medical
care, most of that 1/3 go to bed hungry. This and we have more
billionars extant than any other country on earth.
Take all of the acquired knowledge of so called Great Philosophers of
the past and stick it in the trash pile where it belongs.
Now like Morley's Ghost I will be sending in sequencial e-mail the first
of 2 Science News articles, the first will follow immediatly. The
second I must retype, I will explain later.
These two articles should make it crystal clear what is relevent to our
continued existance as a species on this planet.
Thank You! Paul Cordsmeyer, Member-in- good-standing, of
Technocracy, Inc.
