How have I never read this book from the ex-Nazi paperclipped to head the US Space Program?
Fascinating stuff:
“And it was here that the genius of great thinkers and inspired artists pointed the path out of desperation. For I sought for some law which should direct the hearts of these men.
Was there, I asked myself, some equation working in their minds as they advanced beyond the frontiers of knowledge, or created immortal music or paintings? But there was no regularity, nothing resembling our so-called laws of nature behind their genius. By no repetitive series of experiments could a mathematical causal relationship be established.
Inspiration put into effect the will of God Himself through the thoughts and deeds of these men. There could only be one answer: it was God, acting through His creatures.
"It was a soul-satisfying illumination of my spiritual darkness to find the transcendental deity manifesting Himself in the creativeness of the spiritual and artistic great. My discovery convinced me that whatsoever is good and desirable is sired by the holy search for perfection and dammed by the receptivity of humility.
"That the majority in their search for truth do not go beyond the material is the greatest of human tragedies. Our schools crowd the minds of our children with knowledge which intoxicates them, perhaps broadening their horizons, notwithstanding. At the gates of the mysteries our schools balk. 'We cannot teach what we do not know' is the slogan. Thus our youth is deprived of humility, their most valuable dowry for the future.”
“Tell me, my friend," Holt said after a pause, "what you believe to be the main obstructions to making technology operate for the benefit of mankind rather than to its destruction?" Ansanto smiled.
“I will try to formulate it for you. Technology is by nature dynamic, while political order, created by man for orderly social living, is fundamentally static.
Continually renewed conflict arises between the static social order, unable as it is to grow with dynamically progressing demands, and the technical advances which create the latter.
A new invention is capable of changing the basis of many lives to a far greater extent than any novel social or political concept. The explosions which have plagued your planet during the last few decades cannot, in the last analysis, have been caused merely by clashes between opposing political ideologies.
The fact is that limited and sovereign states cannot live next to one another on the same planet, once technology has attained a certain definite advancement.
You may be very sure that technology was the real architect of your present government of Earth and that your politicians were only subordinate artisans.
As technical developments progress, political conflict becomes increasingly destructive. This is not simply accounted for by the increased effectiveness of the weapons employed; no less important is the inevitable increase of governmental authority and bureaucracy, which supervenes to direct the complicated social order brought by more mechanization in living. The personal responsibility of political leaders becomes infinite with such advances in mechanization."
“Subjugation of the forces of nature by technology is the only means offered us by God whereby we may strip off the curse of slavery. By this means only can we create a social system where each and every man may unfurl his capabilities to the breeze of freedom rather than permit a chosen few to blossom and bloom while supported by the weary shoulders of the multitude.
Here on our venerable and weary planet we have moved far ahead of your youthful Earth towards the manumission of our slaves by technology.
The difficulties you are presently encountering have a familiar ring in the ears of Martian historians, for we too have suffered them. But you may be assured that you also will master those difficulties, not, of course, without paying a certain price for the freedom thus achieved. This price in part will consist in the leveling of consumer goods which is followed by a general leveling of tastes, modes, and even of human attitudes.
These inevitable concomitants of the technical age affect sensitive souls as does cruel tyranny. It is the luxuriant glory of jungle flowers being transmuted into an orderly garden where each plant is assigned its place in accordance with its size, its color and its form. No longer is it privileged to grow according to its own sweet will. To me, the manumission of humanity is well worth the price."
As an obligatory jungle flower, I strenuously disagree! In ‘freedom to be’ lies the human soul. Submission to bureaucracy and orderliness imposed in pursuit of an abstract ideal world that blossoms only in the head of a metaphysically timid and controlling soul, murders mankind (and the rest of the conscious bearings under its thumb) in the spiritual womb.
Also, Elon's mother has confirmed that he was named after his great grandfather.
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Maye Musk
@mayemusk
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My grandfather‘s name was John Elon Haldeman. I searched through many family names to find it. It’s not easy to find names for your children. Right? x.com/spacesudoer/st…
This gives me hope! Perhaps Elon and the rest of the earth-hating, space -loving, transhumanist, soulless borg wanna-be’s will finally blast themselves off this planet and leave the rest of us alone. And take their discontent and internal misery with its sense of moral superiority, with them.
GOOD RIDDANCE! And don’t let our natural human feet kick you in your greedy, sorry asses on your way out.
Spoiler (sort of)
https://x.com/waltywang/status/1883736901406146618/video/1
Not really. It didn't spoil it for me!
How have I never read this book from the ex-Nazi paperclipped to head the US Space Program?
Fascinating stuff:
“And it was here that the genius of great thinkers and inspired artists pointed the path out of desperation. For I sought for some law which should direct the hearts of these men.
Was there, I asked myself, some equation working in their minds as they advanced beyond the frontiers of knowledge, or created immortal music or paintings? But there was no regularity, nothing resembling our so-called laws of nature behind their genius. By no repetitive series of experiments could a mathematical causal relationship be established.
Inspiration put into effect the will of God Himself through the thoughts and deeds of these men. There could only be one answer: it was God, acting through His creatures.
"It was a soul-satisfying illumination of my spiritual darkness to find the transcendental deity manifesting Himself in the creativeness of the spiritual and artistic great. My discovery convinced me that whatsoever is good and desirable is sired by the holy search for perfection and dammed by the receptivity of humility.
"That the majority in their search for truth do not go beyond the material is the greatest of human tragedies. Our schools crowd the minds of our children with knowledge which intoxicates them, perhaps broadening their horizons, notwithstanding. At the gates of the mysteries our schools balk. 'We cannot teach what we do not know' is the slogan. Thus our youth is deprived of humility, their most valuable dowry for the future.”
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Project Mars - A Technical Tale
Werner von Braun (1949) pg205
“Tell me, my friend," Holt said after a pause, "what you believe to be the main obstructions to making technology operate for the benefit of mankind rather than to its destruction?" Ansanto smiled.
“I will try to formulate it for you. Technology is by nature dynamic, while political order, created by man for orderly social living, is fundamentally static.
Continually renewed conflict arises between the static social order, unable as it is to grow with dynamically progressing demands, and the technical advances which create the latter.
A new invention is capable of changing the basis of many lives to a far greater extent than any novel social or political concept. The explosions which have plagued your planet during the last few decades cannot, in the last analysis, have been caused merely by clashes between opposing political ideologies.
The fact is that limited and sovereign states cannot live next to one another on the same planet, once technology has attained a certain definite advancement.
You may be very sure that technology was the real architect of your present government of Earth and that your politicians were only subordinate artisans.
As technical developments progress, political conflict becomes increasingly destructive. This is not simply accounted for by the increased effectiveness of the weapons employed; no less important is the inevitable increase of governmental authority and bureaucracy, which supervenes to direct the complicated social order brought by more mechanization in living. The personal responsibility of political leaders becomes infinite with such advances in mechanization."
Project Mars - A Technical Tale
Werner von Braun (1949)
“Subjugation of the forces of nature by technology is the only means offered us by God whereby we may strip off the curse of slavery. By this means only can we create a social system where each and every man may unfurl his capabilities to the breeze of freedom rather than permit a chosen few to blossom and bloom while supported by the weary shoulders of the multitude.
Here on our venerable and weary planet we have moved far ahead of your youthful Earth towards the manumission of our slaves by technology.
The difficulties you are presently encountering have a familiar ring in the ears of Martian historians, for we too have suffered them. But you may be assured that you also will master those difficulties, not, of course, without paying a certain price for the freedom thus achieved. This price in part will consist in the leveling of consumer goods which is followed by a general leveling of tastes, modes, and even of human attitudes.
These inevitable concomitants of the technical age affect sensitive souls as does cruel tyranny. It is the luxuriant glory of jungle flowers being transmuted into an orderly garden where each plant is assigned its place in accordance with its size, its color and its form. No longer is it privileged to grow according to its own sweet will. To me, the manumission of humanity is well worth the price."
Project Mars - A Technical Tale
Werner Von Braun (1949)
Read it! https://www.amazon.com/Project-Mars-Technical-Wernher-2006-10-20/dp/B01HC9EN4K/ref=sr_1_2
As an obligatory jungle flower, I strenuously disagree! In ‘freedom to be’ lies the human soul. Submission to bureaucracy and orderliness imposed in pursuit of an abstract ideal world that blossoms only in the head of a metaphysically timid and controlling soul, murders mankind (and the rest of the conscious bearings under its thumb) in the spiritual womb.
Questions about Tulsi... the communist?
https://rense.com/general97/Damning-Evidence-On-Ms-Tulsi.php
alternate reality...
Space Sudoer
@spacesudoer
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16h
The book wasn't available in English until 2006.
Also, Elon's mother has confirmed that he was named after his great grandfather.
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Maye Musk
@mayemusk
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16h
My grandfather‘s name was John Elon Haldeman. I searched through many family names to find it. It’s not easy to find names for your children. Right? x.com/spacesudoer/st…
This gives me hope! Perhaps Elon and the rest of the earth-hating, space -loving, transhumanist, soulless borg wanna-be’s will finally blast themselves off this planet and leave the rest of us alone. And take their discontent and internal misery with its sense of moral superiority, with them.
GOOD RIDDANCE! And don’t let our natural human feet kick you in your greedy, sorry asses on your way out.
The muskburger can't get there soon enough.