We live in constant tension between the urgent and the important. One of the characteristics of effective leaders is that they continually find joy in their jobs. One must understand that and strive for balance in one’s life. Th long string of amino acids of which each molecule is composed twists and turns upon itself so as to produce a three-dimensional tangle. The tangle is not random of accidental, however. The specific twists and convolutions of the backbone (the backbone of the protein molecule consist, of course, of the sequence of segments composed of the backbones of the linked amino acid molecules) of one molecule are just like those of the same protein. The electric forces produced by the side chains that protrude from the main backbone result in detailed attractions and repulsions that cause the array to fold and twist upon itself in a definite, characteristic way. Thus, while the protein molecule is a tangled ball of string, the tangle is designed, not haphazard. The chemical properties of the resulting molecule upon which vital processes of living organisms depend are largely determined by the detailed three-dimensional configuration of electric fields produced by the specific pattern of twisting and folding of the linear array. (Two structural principles go a long way toward accounting for the specific conformations assumed by protein molecules. To begin with, the long-chain molecule has a strong tendency to form a helix—always of the same diameter and pitch—which permits the electric charges on the amino acid segments on adjacent turns of the helix to fit together. However, the side-chain construction of two of the twenty kinds of amino acid—proline and hydroxyproline—is not conductive to such bonding. Therefore, at point where these amino acid components occur in the protein molecule, the helix must make a sharp bend. The resulting succession of straight helical segments separated by sharp bends leads to the kind of tangle envisioned in the preceding discussion.) #RandolphHarris 1 of 19

Many wonder whether protein materials, like simpler organic substances, could be accommodated in a nonvitalistic philosophy based on an assumption of continuity and essential similarity between inorganic and organic matter. The most convincing answer to the question would be a demonstration that the proteins, like urea, can be fabricated in the laboratory out of in organic materials. We now how have the background needed for intelligent consideration of this important question: Can proteins by synthesized? Because the answer to the question is to be something less than a categorical yes, we should start by paying a bit of attention to the difficulties that confront the chemist in working with these giant molecules. Although we have written glibly about the composition and molecular structure of the various amino acids, the number and arrangements of amino acids in a given protein molecule, the patters of twists and folds of the linear array, and the like, each of our assertions could be made only because of literally hundreds of human-years of laboratory effort by brilliant and dedicated chemist. And it has been easier for them to arrive at general properties of proteins than to determine the detailed structure of specific protein molecules. Many of you, like myself, may be wondering what protein synthesis is so important? Well, DNA’s main purpose is to make proteins within the cell. These proteins, which include enzymes that do specific jobs, control the activities of the cell. Different cells have different activities. By controlling protein synthesis within each cell, the genes that make up DNA control the life of the entire organism. Although the outcome of protein synthesis can be involved and quite complex, its purpose is rather straightforward. The purpose of protein synthesis is simply to create a polypeptide—a protein made out of a chain of amino acids. In a hair follicle cell, a protein called keratin is made. Lot of it. Many ribosomes can be working on a single strand of mRNA at once. Protein synthesis is not a slow process, either. A protein chain 400 amino acids long can be assembled in 20 seconds! #RandolphHarris 2 of 19

The keratin made by the hair follicle cells makes long fibers. The cells, growing just under the scalp, eventually die, leaving the keratin behind. This keratin, combined with the keratin left by many other cells, emerge from your scalp as hair. Despite ultracentrifuges, electron microscopes, X-ray spectrometers, artificially radioactive tracer material, paper chromatography, and all the other modern devices and techniques that assist the chemist today, the sheer complexity of the giant molecules of living organisms renders almost impossible the task of analysis, let alone synthesis, it was only in 1958 that F. Sanger, of England, was awarded a Nobel Prize for working out the first complete sequence of amino acids in a protein. It is significant that the protein he chose to work on was insulin, whose molecule contains only 51 amino acid components. By companions, the hemoglobin molecule, which is of average size for proteins, contains more than 600 amino acids! In the mid-1960s, therefore, when we are just becoming able to analyze the detail composition of some of the simpler proteins, it is too early to report great success in their synthesis. However, important progress has been made. Amino acids have been synthesized from inorganic ingredients. And amino acid molecules have been hooked together to form chains or arrays. This, by the way, is not quite as easy to accomplish as might be suggested by the earlier reference to the strong tendency of the backbones of these molecules to hook together. Perhaps an analogy can be drawn with a zipper. The opposing section of the zipper are designed to fit together tightly, but energy has to be supplied by the slide to fit together tightly, but energy has to be supplied by the slide fastener to bend the two sections a bit and force them into the correct spatial relationship before the closed, stable configuration can be achieved. So it is with amino acids. The energy whereby the front end of one backbone is forced into the proper relationship with the back end of the next is usually supplied chemically by temporarily hooking on to one end of each amino acid an energy-rich molecule. This molecule (or the pieces into which it may have been broken during the reaction) drops away from the structure after it has provided the motive power for linking the two amino acids together. #RandolphHarris 3 of 19

Early techniques where by the chemist laboriously linked one new amino acid at a time to a slowly growing chain have been supplemented by more recent methods where by chains of hundreds of or even a thousand amino acids can be formed rapidly in the test tube. These synthetic chains are comparable in size with moderate-sized natural protein molecules, and they prove, under test, to have many proteinlike properties. Nevertheless, it cannot quite be claimed they are the same as naturally formed protein. For, owning to limitations of the techniques of synthesis, they are usually made up of only one or two of the 20 different kinds of amino acids. Apart from a few simple proteins, such as fibroin in silk, nature appears not to employ such a monotonous architectural design for its giant molecules. Thus, the protein synthesis machinery uses 22 natural amino acids as building blocks that faithfully decode the genetic information. Such fidelity is controlled at multiple steps ad can be compromised in the nature and in the laboratory to rewrite protein synthesis with natural and synthetic amino acids. Expanding the genetic code with synthetic amino acids through rewiring protein synthesis has broad applications in synthetic biology and chemical biology. Biochemical, structural, and genetic studies of the translational quality control mechanisms are not only crucial to understand the physiological role of translational fidelity and evolution of the genetic code, but also enable us to better design biological parts to expand the proteomes of synthetic organisms. An atom of an element is composed of nothing more than the fundamental particles of the nuclear physicist, held together by the nuclear and electric forces described by laws of physics. A small molecule consists of nothing more than a few such atoms, held together by the forces arising from the sharing of their extranuclear electric charge. The physical and chemical properties of a small molecule are also completely determined by the specific distribution of electric charge in and around the molecule. #RandolphHarris 4 of 19

A large molecule consists of nothing more than an aggregation of smaller molecules, which fit together the way they do only because of the mutual forces of attraction and repulsion deriving from their arrangements of electric charge. When a large molecule twists, turns, and tangles the liner array of which it is basically composed into a complex three-dimensional form, it does so under the precise control of the same forces of attraction and repulsion that arise out of the detailed distribution of electric charge along the backbone and side chains of its array. The resulting chemical and physical properties of the large molecule, be it protein or nucleic acid, are also no more and no less than the resultant of the effects of the detailed three-dimensional distribution of electric charge trapped and held within its tangled web. Fantastically complicated through a large protein or nucleic acid molecule may be, the problem its structure and properties pose to human understanding is one of degree, not of quality. A simple molecule of water, with its 1 oxygen and 2 hydrogen atoms, brings into play exactly the same and as many basic natural laws as a molecule of the protein excelsin, which contains approximately 40,000 atoms! Thus, more than a century after the synthesis of urea by Dr. Wohler, the demonstration that he commenced has finally been completed: there is no need for invoking any special vital principle to account for the structure and properties of any of the chemical compound for living organisms, or it can influence the mechanisms whereby in nature, as distinct from in the laboratory, the complicated molecules essential to life are in fact produced. We shall defer consideration of the evidence for or against the operation of vitalistic principles at higher levels of organization of matter. Considering them human genome contains approximately 30,000 genes, scientists from a broad range of disciplines are working to reveal the structure and function of the proteins encoded by these genes. Their findings could lead to the solution of a multitude of problems in biology and medicine. In addition to structure-function analyses of extant proteins, protein chemists are working to create new proteins with desirable properties, either by de novo design or by altering natural frameworks. #RandolphHarris 5 of 19

To be a leader means willingness to risk—and a willingness to love. Has the leader given you something from the heart? It is never too late to be what you might have been. You can build your reputation on what you are going to do. There are countless ways of attaining greatness, but any road to reaching one’s maximum potential must be build on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity. More aware of what challenge means, the New York Youth Board has had a policy more calculated to succeed. Its principle is provisionally to accept as given the code of than gang and the kids’ potency-proving values and prejudices; and then, as an immediate aim, to try to distract their overt behaviour into less annoying and dangerous channels. This immediate aim is already valuable, for it diminishes suffering. For instance, if a youth’s addiction is changed from heroin to alcohol, so long as heroin is illegal and alcohol is legal; the youth is less in danger and the store that he would rob to pay for the criminally overpriced narcotic is out of danger, so there is less suffering. Then there is the further hope that, accepted by the wise and permissive adult, the adolescents will gradually come to accept themselves and the spiral of proving will be arrested. Further, that the friendship of the trusted adult will evoke a love (transference) that can then be turned elsewhere. I take it that this is the Youth Worker philosophy. In many cases it should succeed. I am skeptical that it can widely succeed. For here again the young people are not taken seriously as existing, as having real aims in the same World as oneself. To the Youth Board, in their own real World (such as it is), the code is not acceptable, and then teenage vaunts and prejudices cannot lead to growth in any World. To pretend otherwise is playing games and continuing to exclude them from one’s own meant World. How then can the boys be trusting and feel they are understood? Not being morons, they know they cannot be understood in their own terms, which are empty to themselves. They know there is another World beyond, as square and sheepish as they might please to rationalize it, but which is formidable and enviable. (Actually, apart from the code itself and the sphere of their delinquencies, the kids are model of conventionality in their tastes, opinion, and ignorance.) #RandolphHarris 6 of 19

And though they have a childish need for sympathic attention and are proud of having compelled it—“We are so bad, they give us a youth worker”—they are too old not to demand being taken seriously. There is a valuable nondirective approach which makes no judgments or interpretations and gives no advice, but which simply draws the patient out and hold up a mirror; and this is no doubt also part of the philosophy of the Youth Board. However, then, it must be therapy, it must hold up the mirror and risk the explosion of shame and grief or the impulsive defenses against them, violent retaliation or flight. In Youth work this is very impractical. It is different thing to go along with the patient, or worse to seem to go along with him, and provide only the reassurance of attention. Only if the worker can hold out some real objective opportunity, something more than “interpersonal relations,” and make the boy finally see it. Then the philosophy of the Youth Board can succeed. (In New York there has been an experiment of simply urging the kids to go to college—a far-off goal—showing that it is economically possible for them, and promising that the school will follow up. This alone had resulted in rapid academic advances, in I.Q., and less truancy.) My hunch is that the occasional spectacular success occurs not because of the “accepting” method, but because the youth worker does not really belong to the World of the Youth Board either, and his acceptance is bona fide. For whatever motive, he confronts the young people as real. He may be a covert accomplice with the same inner dilemma as his gang, and can pass on a more practical Worldly wisdom. He many be emotionally involved with some of them, so they are in fact important. He may be so deeply compassionate or so inspired a teacher that he creates new interests and values altogether, not the meant World of the Youth Board which is, after all, just what has proved unsatisfactory to begin with. #RandolphHarris 7 of 19

According to a comparison of America and Japanese medical students, Americans tend to regard suicide as an expression of anger or aggression, whereas the Japanese view it as a way to escape pain or as a method of leaving the World on your own terms, instead of being known as a failure. This difference reflects the cultures’ religious and philosophical understandings of the life and death. The Shinto and Buddhist traditions stress eternal change and the transience of life. In the Buddhist view, life is sorrowful, and death is a way of freeing oneself from illusion and suffering. Furthermore, the highest aim of many Japanese is complete detachment from Earthly concerns, total self-negation. Within this framework, death can be seen as beneficial, as an expression of sincerity (makoto) or an appropriate reaction to shame. However, in Japan suicide is not welcomed anymore as a means of solving problems, and it has become a national issue as well as a personal problem. In 2020, approximately 21,100 people committed suicide in Japan. However, it became a national issue before that when Matsuri Takahashi, age 24, a promising graduate of Japan’s top University, Dentus, leapt to her death in December 2015; leaving being a trail of grievances over relentless days. She clocked more than 105 hours of overtime in October, before becoming depressed. Her death, deemed by the government to be “karoshi,” which can be translated to death by overwork. Japan has been forced to confront its work culture after labour inspectors ruled that the death of a 31-year-old journalist had been caused by overwork. Miwa Sado, who worked at the broadcaster’s headquarters in Tokyo, logged 159 hours of overtime and only two days off in the month leading up to her death from heart failure in July 2013. More than 2,000 Japanese killed themselves due to work-related stress in the year to March 2016. According to the government, dozens of other victims died from heart attacks, strokes, and other conditions brought on by spending too much time at work. #RandolphHarris 8 of 19

  These deaths have increased pressure on Japanese authorities to address the large number of deaths attributed to the punishingly long hours expected of many employees. The government wants to cap monthly overtime at 100 hours and introduce penalties for companies that allow their employees to exceed the limit—measures that critics say still put workers at risk. While the deaths are a major issue, I am not sure that government regulation is the answer. Some people really need more money than they earn and the overtime may be helping them to pay their mortgage, rent, medical insurance or care for their elderly parents. If they are not allowed to clock this overtime at their job, they may have to take on a new job, or might turn to criminal activity to earn extra money. The Japanese are also very humble and taught that because life is so expensive and they are so smart, their achieve in the career field denotes their value in life. Many people are looking for rich husbands, with a good job, nice apartment, and fancy car, retirement benefits, and investment accounts. So if a man does not have those kind of things, he may never find a wife. Also, a lot of women do not want to marry and do not want to be dependent on a man and want to prove they are equal; therefore, she may work long hours to demonstrate her value. It is impossible to be simultaneously blasted by a revolution in energy, a revolution in technology, a revolution in family life, a revolution role in dealing with pleasures of the flesh, and a Worldwide revolution in communications without also facing—sooner or later—a potentially explosive political revolution. All the political parties of the industrial World, all our congresses, parliaments, and supreme soviets, our presidencies, and prime ministerships, our courts and our regulatory agencies, and our layer upon geological layer of government bureaucracy—in short, all the tools we use to make and enforce collective decisions—are obsolete and about to be transformed. A Fourth Wave civilization cannot operate with a Second Wave political structure. #RandolphHarris 9 of 19

Just as the revolutionaries who created the industrial age could not govern with the leftover apparatus of feudalism, so today we are faced once more with the need to invent new political tools. This is the political message of the Fourth Wave. Today, although its gravity is not yet recognized, we are witnessing a profound crisis not of this or that government but of representative democracy itself, in all its forms. In one country after another, the political technology of the Third Wave is sputtering, groaning, and malfunctioning dangerously. In the United States of America, we find an almost total paralysis of political decision-making in connection with the life-and-death questions facing society. Fully six years after the OPEC embargo, despite its sledgehammer impact on the economy, despite its threat to independence and even military security, despite interminable congressional study, despite repeated reorganizations of the bureaucracy, despite passionate presidential pleas, the U.S.A. political machinery still spins helplessly on its axis, unable to produce anything remotely resembling a coherent energy policy. This policy vacuum is not unique. The United Starts of America also has no comprehensive (or comprehensible) urban policy, environmental policy, family policy, technology policy. If we listen to critics abroad, it does not even have a discernible foreign policy. Even if they did exist, the American political system would not have the capacity to integrate and prioritize such policies. This vacuum reflects so advanced a breakdown in decision-making that President Carter, in a wholly unprecedented speech, was forced to condemn the “paralysis, stagnation, and drift” of one’s own government. This collapse of decision-making is, however, not the monopoly of one party or one president. It has been deepening since the early 1960’s, and reflects underlying structural problems that no president—Republican or Democrat—can overcome within the framework of the present system. These political problems have destabilizing effects on the other main social institutions such as the family, the school, and the corporation. #RandolphHarris 10 of 19

Dozens of laws with immediate impact on family life cancel and contradict one another, worsening the family crisis. The educational system was flooded with construction funds at precisely the moment when school-age population begam to plummet, thus provoking an orgy of useless school building, followed by a cutoff of funds when they are most desperately needed for other purposes. Corporations, meanwhile, are compelled to operate in a political environment so volatile that they literally cannot tell from one day to the next what government expects of them. First, Congress demanded the General Motors and the other auto manufacturers installed catalytic (what some people call Cadillac) converters on all new cars in the interests of a cleaner environment. Then, after GM spent $300 million on converters and signed a $500-million ten-year contract for the precious metals needed for their manufacture, the government announced that cars with catalytic converters emitted 35 times more sulphuric acid than cars without them.  At the time, Chrysler’s vice president, Alan Loofbourrow, said the were “The dumbest thing that ever happened to the automobile.” The controversy was about the catalytic converter, Detroit’s major technological change for it 1975 cares. The converter, in a stainless-steel case hooked up between the engine and the muffler, and was thought would probably never be seen by the car buyer, and if it were to break down, one would never know it. However, if it worked, two major auto emissions—carbon monoxide and unburned hydrocarbons—would be reduced sharply. The converter was designed to cleanse the exhaust after combustion, so the engines, which had been turned in past years to reduce emissions, could be reset to improve gasoline mileage. Yet, if the converters did not work, the clean air drive would be crippled, and new pollutant, sulphuric acid, would slip into the atmosphere. The converter, in effect, was a small chemical processing plant, using platinum and palladium as catalysts to change the hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide fumes into harmless carbon dioxide and water on their way to the tailpipe. #RandolphHarris 11 of 19

When the converters were brought up to speed, they cut fumes by 25 to 33 percent of the standard. It was also required that these systems last 50,000 miles because they do deteriorate. Also, lead in gasoline was found to destroy the effectiveness of the catalysts, so nonleaded fuel was ordered on the market by the Government.  This was all part of the Clean Air Act, which passed in 1963. Because Catalytic Converters are so expensive, for example on a V8 or V10 BMW, which has two catalytic converters, replacement can be in excess of $4,000.00. These parts are often the target of thieves because the part contains valuable precious metals. Catalytic Converters typically happen on cars with more ground clearance, since it is easier to access the part. Regardless of the type of vehicle you have, there are some steps you can take to help prevent theft: If a secure garage is unavailable, park in well-lighted areas close to the building entrances. Weld the catalytic converter to the vehicle frame, which can make it harder to remove. Consider buying an aftermarket part similar to a metal cage that can be installed to over the converter. Install a car alarm with a vibration alter sensor. Engrave your vehicle identification number (VIN) to the converter, which can help make selling the part harder and help alter you if your converter is ever stolen. At the same time, a runaway regulatory machine generates an increasingly impenetrable mesh of roles—45,000 pages of complex new regulations a year. Twenty-seven different government agencies monitor some 5,600 federal regulations that pertain to the manufacture of steel along. (Thousands of additional rules apply to the mining, marketing, and transport operations of the steel industry.) A leading pharmaceutical firm, Eli Lilly, spends more time filling out government forms than doing heart-disease and cancer research. A single report from Exxon, the oil company, to the Federal Energy Agency runs 445,000 pages—the equivalent of a thousand volumes! #RandolphHarris 12 of 19

This mandarin complexity weighs the economy down, while the jerky, on-again-off-again responses of government decision-makers add to the prevailing sense of anarchy. The political system, erratically zigzagging from day to day, greatly complicates the struggle of our basic social institutions for survival. Now is this decisional breakdown a purely American phenomenon. Government in France, Germany, Japan, and Britain—not to mention Italy—exhibit similar symptoms, as do those in the Communist industrial nations. And in Japan, a prime minister declares: “We increasingly hear about the Worldwide crisis of democracy. Its problem-solving capability, or the so-called governability of democracy, is being challenged. In Japan, too, parliamentary democracy is on trial.” The political decision-making machinery in all those countries is increasingly strained, overworked, overloaded, drowned in irrelevant data, and faced with unfamiliar perils. What we are seeing, therefore, are government policy makers unable to make high priority decisions (or making them very badly) while they chase frenziedly about making thousands of lesser, often trivial, ones. Even when important decisions are extruded they usually come too late, and seldom accomplish what they are designed to do. “We have solved every problem with legislation,” says one hard-pressed British lawmaker. “We have passed seven acts against inflation. We have eliminated injustice numerous times. We have solved the ecology problem. Every problem has been solved countless times by legislation. However, the problems remain. Legislation does not work. An American TV announcer, reaching into the past for an analogy, puts it differently: “Right now I feel the nation is a stagecoach with the horses running headlong, and a guy trying to pull in the reins, and they are not responding.” This is why so many people—including those in high office—feels so powerless. A leading American senator privately tells me of his deep frustration and the feeling that he cannot accomplish anything useful. He questions the ruin of his family life, the frantic pace of his existence, the long hours, hectic travel, endless conferences, and perpetual pressure. He asks, “It is worthy it?” #RandolphHarris 13 of 19

A British M.P. poses the same question, adding that “the House of Commons is a museum piece—a relic!” A top White House official complains to me that even the President, supposedly the most powerful man in the World, feels impotent. “The President feels as though he is shouting into the telephone—with nobody at the other end.” This deepening breakdown of the ability to make timely and competent decisions changes the deepest power relationships in society. Under normal, nonrevolutionary circumstances, the elites in any society use the political system to reinforce their rule and further their ends. Their power is defined by the ability to make certain things happen, or to present certain things from happening. This presupposes, however, their ability to predict and control events—it assumes that when they yank on their reins, the horses will stop. Today the elites can no longer predict the outcomes of their own actions. The political systems through which they operate are so antiquated and creaky, so outraced by events, that even when closely “controlled” by the elites for their own benefit, the results often backfire. This does not mean, one hastens to add, that the power lost by the elites has accrued to the rest of society. Power is not transferred; it is increasingly randomized, so that no one knows from moment to moment who is responsible for what, who has real (as distinct from nominal) authority, or how long that authority will last. In this seething semi-anarch, ordinary people grow bitterly cynical not merely about their own “representatives” but—more ominously—about they very possibility of being represented at all. As a result, the Third Wave “reassurance ritual” of voting begins to lose its power. Year by year, American voting participation decreases.  In the 2020 presidential election fully 46 percent of eligible voters stayed home meaning that a president was elected by roughly one quarter of the electorate—in reality only one eight of the total population of the country. More recently, pollsters found that only 12 percent of the electorate still felt that voting matters at all. #RandolphHarris 14 of 19

Similarly, political parties are losing their drawing power. In the period 1998-2020 the number of “independents” unaffiliated with any party in the United States of American shot up 400 percent, making 2020 the first time in more than a century that the number of independents equaled the membership of one of the major parties. People have little faith in their governments, especially since this COVID-19 crisis hit and President Joe Biden said, “I have no plan. Let the states deal with it.” Causing a wave of disenchantment to sweep the nation. Asked why, a Danish engineer speaks for many when he says “Politicians appear useless in stopping trends.” Two years of economic chaos, militarization, catastrophic economic disorders, increases in the cost of living (it is not just a housing supply and demand issues), insufficient basic food production, increases in crime and drunkenness, corruption and thieving, but above all of an uncontrollable drop in prestige of the present leadership in the eyes of the people. More than anger, citizens are now expressing revulsion and contempt for their political leaders and government officials. They sense that the political system, which should serve as a steering wheel or stabilizer in a change-tossed, runaway society, is itself broken, spinning and flapping out of control. Thus when a team of political scientists investigated Washington, D.C., recently to find out “who runs this place?” they came up with a simple, crushing answer. Their report, published by the American Enterprise Institute, was summed up by Professor Another King of the University of Essex in Britain: “The short answer…would have to be, ‘No one. Nobody is in charge here.” Not just in the United States but in many of the Third Wave countries being battered by the Fourth Wave of change, there is a spreading power vacuum—a “black hole” in society. Most people are now much more ready for the widening in loyalties which World-order schemes would involve, but they are not at all as ready as they should be. Thus, they unnecessarily deprive themselves of the clear advantages of such an order and go on foolishly enduring the troubles of the old order. #RandolphHarris 15 of 19

That we are moving toward some kind of single World Commonwealth is certain. That we are not emotionally ready for it is also certain. For the events and inventions which are pushing us forward are ahead of our ideas and ideals. The tragic needs of our time do not find a commensurate mentality to meet them. The Europeans, for example, cannot be persuaded to renounce their state sovereignties, cannot be made into common citizens of a frontierless continent against their will. How much more will this be the case with a World-citizenship scheme? However, in the end humanity will find itself unable to keep the peace between its diversified groups without creating a separate paramount international association—be it central, federal, or league. A World organization which can legally settle international disputes and which possess the armed power to enforce its decisions or to resist aggressions cannot ultimately be avoided. Humans, in their present stage of moral evolution, cannot be effectively governed without the use of some kind of physical coercion nor can their national disputes be settled without some means of physically enforcing decision. The peoples are being evolved from within and driven from without to the point where only a World association will fit their political needs. Such an authority would possess the usual administrative powers. First, it would be a legislature whose jurisdiction would extend over the whole field of international matters and regulate by agreed laws the political, commercial, and cultural relations between the States. Second, it would be a tribunal where final judgement would be pronounced upon disputes, aggressions, and alternations of frontiers. Third, it would be an executive equipped to maintain order and enforce laws actually worked out to preserve peace. However, besides the necessity of preventing possible internecine wars the practical advantages of such a common authority are so obvious that the administration of the otherwise independent units will sooner or later be forced by developments to accept it. Such advantages would include a customs union, a common currency, a common transportation system, and probably a common armed force. #RandolphHarris 16 of 19

However, the danger here is that a paramount supranational power may develop into a tyrannous suprastate. It may be that adequate checks and safeguards can be devised by statemen against it, but in the end it can be overcome only by overcoming the moral and mental defects in humans which could cause it. If humans are not evolved enough to support such an ideal institution as a World family of democratic nations, they are not so low that they cannot supper the beginnings of such an institution. If a nation is unwilling to be its neighbour’s keeper, it ought at least be willing to be its neighbour’s helper. It is inevitable that as humans become more truly spiritually minded, they will become more internationally minded. And this is certain to reflect itself in turn in their political systems. The end of such a process can only be the formation of an international commonwealth. Hence, every political measure which promotes this end is a right one and every measure which obstructs it is a wrong one. However, it must be also well-timed or it will defeat its own end. The League was ill-timed. The right for a solely regional scheme was after World War I. Instead, too much was attempted by way of the League, which inevitably failed. However, after World War II, a regional scheme alone would likewise fail. The present suggestion adapts itself to this factor of proper timing. In has been predicted that the principle of co-operation would be the only principle to emerge from all the postwar conferences as being effective enough to solve their thorny problems. It will have many possible spheres of application but the first and major one will be in the direction of peace. So we venture to predict again that failure of international co-operative action to create and sincerely to sustain some kind of assembly of representatives drawn from the different nations, will lead directly to the catastrophe of a third armed conflict more terrible than this planet has yet known. It could lead to this in one and a half to two decades. Metropolitan cities would not be able to escape heavy bombing and wide destruction. Such an honest and determined assembly of nations would be better protection for every country than any army, navy, or air force. #RandolphHarris 17 of 19

The ultimate evolution of the twenty-first century will be toward a democratic World association, acting through an international parliament, and international tribunal, and an international executive, which would impartially regulate, coordinate, and boldly envelop the entire economic resources of the planet as a whole. When all nations can thus share equitably in the common wealthy and productivity, one of the prime causes of war between them would completely vanish. Past events have tragically proved the truth of these statements. Many of the calamities such as monetary collapse, trade depression, and labour strikes which descended on classes, masses, and nations were caused by their failure to recognize the immense power of the principle of mutual help and by their inability to meet the events of this historic turning-point with the understanding they demand. The first nation to recognize the one and to meet the other will do much, not only for herself, but also for all other nations. Both moral development and practical exigencies will require us in the end to subscribe to the fundamental truth that prosperity, no less than peace, is one and indivisible. However, unfortunately, we are not yet emotionally ready to climb such a height. We must expect, therefore, that different kinds of troubles will plague us from time to time as the penalty of our unreadiness. We have accept the solid fact that humans do not change overnight, that starting new institutions and necessarily filling them with the same old faces that we already know, will not and cannot bring about a new World. Until we begin to recognize this and start working for new hearts and new minds more than for institution, we shall not come near to solving our problems. Today, the mission of philosophy is a planetary one, for truth is needed everywhere, and for the first time can be transmitted everywhere. We speak here in terms of geographical fact, for vested religious interests and totalitarian political despotisms still continue to serve their masters, the darker forces of evil, by obstructing the contemporary planetary enlightenment. #RandolphHarris 18 of 19

Unless humanity recognizes the demonic powers are loose in its midst, are inspiring hatred, violence, suspicion, and greed, it will not go down on its knees to ask help from a power greater than and beyond itself. Unless we look behind the World’s problems into the real and spiritual problems which they reflect, we cannot properly understand them or solve them. “Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) are those who observe justice [treating others fairly] and who do right and are in right standing with God at all, times,” reports Psalm 106.3. Elders, we have been here so short a time and we pretend that we have invented memory. We have forgotten what it is like to be you, who do not remember us. We remember imagining that what survived us would be like us, and would remember the World as it appears to us, but it will be your eyes that will fill with light. We lose you again and again, as we turn into you, eating the forests, eating the Earth and the water, and dying of them departing from ourselves, leaving you the morning in its antiquity. The Holy One is great, blessed be He. God is also humble. For the Lord our God, He is God of gods, and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty and revered God, who regardeth not person, nor taketh a bride. And it is written: He doth execute justice for the fatherless and the window, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment. It is repeated in the Prophets, as it is written: For thus saith the high and exalted One that inhabieth eternity, and whose name is holy, I dwell in the high and holy place with Him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the contrite ones. It is a third time stated in the Writings: Sing unto God, sing praises to His name; extol Him that rideth upon the Heavens, whose name is the Lord; and exalt before Him. And it is written: A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in His holy habitation. The Lord our God be with us, as He was with our fathers; let Him not leave us, nor forsake us. And ye that cleave unto the Lord your God are alive every one of you this day. For the Lord hath comforted America; He hath comforted all her waste places, and hath made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving and the voice of melody. It pleased the Lord for His righteousness’ sake, to make America great and glorious. #RandolphHarris 19 of 19

Cresleigh Homes

Dinner’s outside tonight! You can tell when a builder has taken care to thoughtfully design every aspect of a home when there’s even an outdoor dining area.

We’re obsessed with the patio at the Riverside Residence 1 model…and we can’t stop picturing all the parties and events that will take place there!

When we ended the tour of our Cresleigh Home, we thought that love was over, that we were really through. I told her that we would begin anew somewhere else.

And you can all believe me, we sure intended to, but we just could not say goodbye, after the tour was through.

The chair and then the sofa, they broke right down and cried, the curtains started wavin’ for me to come inside. I tell you confidentially, the tears were hard to hide, and we just could not say goodbye.

The clock was striking twelve o’clock, it smiled on us below, with folded hands it seemed to say, “We’ll miss you if you go.”

So we went back and signed the mortgage agreement, and when I looked around, the room was singin’ love songs, and dancing up and down.

And now we’re both so happy, because at lest we found the Cresleigh Home of our dreams. We just could not say goodbye. https://cresleigh.com/cresleigh-riverside-at-plumas-ranch/residence-1/

With four floor plans available, ranging from approximately 2,000 – 3,500 square feet offering, three to five bedrooms, we are certain you will find the home that fits your needs and lifestyle.

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