Be brave enough to live creatively. Excellence resides in quality, not in quantity. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. In a curious way, all that we have learned to this point about the structure and properties of the complex molecules of life has not yet invalidated the original vitalistic dogma that organic matter can be created only by living organisms. To be sure, chemists can now manufacture organic material, but are not chemists alive? There is a serious point here: the susceptibility to a purely physical interpretation of structure and properties of an existing complex organic molecule is by no means proof that the many thousands of atoms it contains could ever have been arranged in just that form through the unaided operation of natural law in an inanimate World. If the first American astronauts to set foot on the moon were to find there a message in Russian scratched on its surface, their ability to hypothesize a series of meteoritic impacts capable of producing just the observed configuration of scratched would hardly be likely to convince them that it really happened that way. And in our case, are we really to believe that the blind workings of the ordinary laws of physics, without the intervention of some nonphysical, vitalistic guiding principle, can account for the architecture of the precisely specified, fantastically complicated protein and nucleic acid molecules? What we are about to do is to reopen one of the most impassion controversies in the history of science—the question of spontaneous generation. To be sure, we do not quite stir up this major philosophic issue just by suggesting that natural processes may have been capable of building organic molecules out of inorganic material. For no one contents that a molecule of protein, for example, is of itself alive. However, obviously we are not going to stop there. If we can establish a reasonable and purely physical hypothesis for the origin of the complex molecules of living matter, we are going to try to push our arguments along to account for the ultimate and completely automatic organization of these molecules into living forms. #RandolphHarris 1 of 22

At that point, if we reach it, we shall clearly be coming into conflict with the position held by practically all scientists for a hundred years, a position that was eloquently stated by Louis Pasteur during a public-demonstration lecture at the Sorbonne on April 7, 1864: “And, therefore, gentlemen, I could point to that liquid and say to you, I have taken my drop of water from the immensity of creation, and I have taken it full of the elements appropriated to the development of inferior beings. And I wait, I watch, I question it!—begging it to recommence for me the beautiful spectacle of the first creation. However, it is dumb, dumb…for Life is a germ and a germ is Life. Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the moral blow of this simple experiment. We are about to take the first steps along a path of scientific exploration, that after approximately century and sixty years later, is proving Dr. Pasteur to have been wrong. The question we must treat is: “Before life existed on Earth, how could protein molecules have been formed?” Since the rules of the game we are playing require that we have recourse only to the ordinary laws of physical science for our hypotheses, we must obviously start by inquiring into the physical conditions of the primordial Earth at the time of interest. Considerable progress has been made in astrophysics and paleogeology in recent years. Certain speculations are now believed to be pretty safe with respect to the conditions existing on Earth several billion years ago, before the development of plants and animals. For example, we can be sure there was little if any free oxygen in the atmosphere of the preanimate Earth. This is because oxygen reacts so readily with the minerals that compose the major bulk of the Earth, and is so scarce with respect to those minerals, that it would all be taken up by chemical combination in a few thousand years if there were no continuing supply of free oxygen. #RandolphHarris 2 of 22

 Today the source of supply is plant life, which releases oxygen into the atmosphere at such a rate as to maintain a 20 percent relative concentration of this element in the air, despite its tendency to combine with materials of the Earth’s crust. Before the existence of vegetation, however, there was no way that free oxygen could be maintained in the Earth’s atmosphere. Hydrogen, on the other hand, must have been relatively abundant in the primordial atmosphere. This element is known to comprise more than 90 percent of the mass of the Universe. To be sure, the light weight of the hydrogen molecule renders this gas unusually susceptible to escape from the Earth’s gravitational field, so it is likely that there was a gradual depletion of this element after the original formation of the Earth some five billion years ago. Nevertheless, calculations suggest that appreciable quantities of hydrogen still remained in the atmosphere, three or four billion years ago, when the events we are about to consider took place. Other important constituents of the primeval atmosphere must have been gaseous compounds of hydrogen and other relatively abundant elements, such as nitrogen and carbon. These gasses would include methane, CH4, and ammonia, NH3. Water vapor must also have been present, the result of evaporation of water from the Earth’s surface. The arguments for this kind of atmospheric composition are not entirely speculative. These gases are known to be prominent in the atmospheres of the other planets of our solar system. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, as well as some of their satellites, contain methane in their atmospheres. Ammonia is present on Jupiter and Saturn. Hydrogen is found on all. In the preanimate era, as now, a major part of the Earth’s surface was covered by oceans. The average temperature was higher than it is now, thereby facilitating chemical reactions, but not high enough in this period of interest to boil and vaporize the ocean waters. (This limitation would still have permitted ocean temperatures much higher than what we now consider to be the boiling point of water if, as seems likely, the atmospheric pressure was many times greater than it is today.) #RandolphHarris 3 of 22

There was more volcanic action than we have today, and this produced local hot spots with their attendant enhanced chemical activity. Turbulence in the air produced by the volcanic eruptions resulted in extensive electric discharges that disrupted the atmospheric gases and aided the recombination of the resulting molecular fragments into new and sometimes more complex forms. The radioactivity in the Earth’s crust was also many times greater than it is now. The consequent bombardment of chemical compounds by high-energy nuclear particles resulted in a higher rate of decomposition and recombination of atomic and molecular fragments than we would observe today. Ultraviolet radiation from the sun beat upon the surface of the Earth with an intensity that today would destroy most modern forms of life because of the extensive chemical activity that it was capable of introducing. This was not because the sun emitted more ultraviolet radiation in those days: rather it was because of the absence of the shielding ozone layer, about twenty miles up, that today absorbs the most energetic of the rays before they can produce their lethal effects on the living things that inhabit the surface of the Earth. This shielding layer of ozone—a special molecular form of free oxygen—was absent in primeval times because it, like the more customary form of free oxygen, can be maintained in the atmosphere only by the action of countless billions of living plants. These, then, were the essential conditions: and Earth largely covered by warm water; and atmosphere largely composed of water vapor, methane, ammonia, and hydrogen; and a substantial rate of chemical activity in the Earth’s surface and atmosphere resulting from intensive bombardment by radioactive particles, extensive lightning discharge, brilliant ultraviolet illumination, and local regions of high temperature. Was there anything in this set of conditions that was conducive to the formation or organic molecules? #RandolphHarris 4 of 22

At first glance, the situation does not look promising. While the conditions were favorable for the breaking dozen of the simple inorganic molecules in the seas and atmosphere into smaller fragments, it is hard to see how this would result in recombination of the fragments into the complex structures of characteristic of the kinds of matter we have called organic. On the other hand, our understanding of the chemical effects of the laws of physics in situations of this nature is not detailed enough to permit us to predict, with confidence, just what would be the results of exposing the specified ingredients to the postulated environment. An experiment might seem indicated. Why not prepare a mixture of the gases believed to have constituted the primeval atmosphere, subject it to one or more of the kinds of energy believed to have been important at the time in question, and see what happens? An obvious experiment? Yes, but if, as seems likely, the result of such an attempt should be negative in the sense of not producing detectable quantities of organiclike molecules, what would it mean? After all, nature had several billion years to perform its experiment; what would be the significance of a failure to obtain positive results in a laboratory experiment lasting only the few weeks or months that would be practicable for this kind of exercise. Discouraging though the prospects appeared, the attempt had to be made. Interestingly enough, it was not made until 1952. In that year S.L. Miller, a graduate student at the University of Chicago, circulated a mixture of water vapor, ammonia, methane, and hydrogen past an electric discharge (to simulate the ultraviolet radiation of the sun). He continued this process for only one week. Nevertheless, when he analyzed his mixture at the end of the experiment, he found unmistakable traced of “organic” compounds, including several of the amino acids! The unexpected success of Miller’s relatively simple experiment naturally inspired others to undertake similar investigations. It was soon learned that Miller’s results could be duplicated and extended. #RandolphHarris 5 of 22

Therefore, teachers are the important link to the future of the World of knowledge and self-esteem for humanity. Let us continue to strengthen the chain that brings us together in a worthwhile and noble cause. Many religious leaders believe in celibacy or abstinence. They want people to remain chaste until they are married to prevent exposing them to dangerous elements, and these Christian leaders urge all men capable of marriage to marry. Therefore, unrestrained licentiousness is not countenanced. God really loves those who turn unto Him and loveth those who have a care for cleanness. Attraction between the genders is seen to some as divinely given and natural, an absolutely universal divine wish, and love is a mimicry of the creative act of God. The Catholic church is very strict and disallows unnatural and “natural” birth control methods other than abstinence because they are unmitigated sins. The Church even refuses the marriage sacrament to men who cannot ejaculate. Included in category are also Eunuchs, they may not marry. For the same reason, nonconsummation because of impotence constitutes grounds to annul a marriage. The nature of semen has long been of obsessive interest to philosophers, medical humans, social reformers, religious thinkers, and athletic trainers throughout the World. It is a key concept in two of the World’s largest religions, Christianity and Hinduism. As we have seen, Hinduism emphasizes the crucial importance of conserving the seed and the mouth also is not a proper receptacle for the seed. It is linked to the spiritual and moral development and with physical health. The properties and essence of semen have also underscored medical thought, from Hippocrates in fourth century B.C. on through William Acton in the nineteenth. For more than two millennia, athletes, too, have fretted as they struggled to honor their coaches’ strictures against preperformance pleasures of the flesh activity, for few able-bodied young men have dared rick defeat by rashly expending their vital energy. #RandolphHarris 6 of 22

There is so much importance for men to conserve their vital energy—a uniquely male form of celibacy—for several perspectives: medicine from ancient to recent times; the nineteenth-century Moral Purity movements in the United States of America and Canada; Indian wrestlers caught up in anticolonialist, nationalist fervor; and the famous brahmacharya experiments of the great Mahatma Gandhi, who tested the state of his indifference involving pleasures of the flesh through intimate and intensely emotional relationships with a series of devoted women. Protestant biblicism attempted to derive ethical demands directly from the Christian Bible, Calvinism particularly from the Old Testament. Another cause was the general Protestant distrust of reason, an implication of the doctrine of living souls’ depravity in all parts of one’s nature, in mind as well as in body, in reason as well as in instincts. (The leading term “total depravity” does not mean complete depravity, but estrangement from one’s true being in all parts of one’s actual being.) Finally, the Protestant principle denies that there can be any human institution, including a church with its doctrines and ethical demands, above the dynamics of history. A system of unchangeable laws of concrete morality contradicts the creative powers in life and spirit, and it contradicts the transforming work of the divine Spirit within and outside the church. Protestantism can accept the element of relativity in ethics and can develop with its help a dynamic doctrine of the natural moral law. This, however, cannot be done without an answer to the question: is there a religious source of the moral demands? If so, how is it related to the formal answer given before, that the moral imperative demands that mortals become actually what one is essentially, a person within a community of persons? What does this mean concretely? What norms of moral action are implied in this demand? It will be necessary to answer these questions in sequence, and to build, step by step, a structure of moral action that embodies both the absolute and the relative, the static and the dynamic, the religious and the secular elements of ethical thought and more experience. #RandolphHarris 7 of 22

First, let us examine the phrase “within a community of persons.” Contemporary ethical theory has strongly emphasized the person-to-person encounter as the experiential root of morality. The decisive reason for this is the basic difference between the encounter of a person with another person and one’s encounter with nonpersonal realities. In the second case, human’s encounter with nature outside of one, for example, there is no limit in dealing with it. Humans can make it into an object, dissect it, analyze it, or construct something new, a technical product, out of its parts or elements. Humans can subject nature, progressively and almost limitlessly in all directions, to one’s knowledge and one’s action. The only limit is the individual’s own finitude. However, no one can actually establish this limit. Before it is reached nothing can resist the living soul’s cognitive and technical attack on nonpersonal reality. Nothing can resist mortal’s will to transform it into an object and to use it for one’s purpose. There is, however, a limit here and now in the ego-thou encounter. The limit is the other person. This seems a simple and obvious statement. However, when we ask: where do we encounter a person? It is not so simple. In every living soul we encounter a person. If we define living beings as human, if they are, according to their psychophysical structure, potential persons, then the answer is helpful. This definition would include all degrees of the actualization of human potentiality, from the newborn child to the mature, wise individual. However, it does not determine which groups withing the psychophysical species, human race, have the personal potential. Throughout human history this has been (and still is in some respects) undecided. Slaves, women, enemies, and special races were considered as objects with limited or unacknowledged humanity. And often children, the sick, and the seniors, the mentally abnormal and criminals were treated as mere objects, even thought they belong to a group whose personal potential was acknowledged, because they had not yet actualized or no longer were able to actualize their personal potential. #RandolphHarris 8 of 22

This uncertainty with respect to beings who can be encountered as persons show that the attempted to escape the relativities of history in the moral realm by formalizing the first principle cannot be successful. In the very moment the principle must be applied, traditions, conventions, and authorities, on the one hand, and criticism, decisions, and personal risk, on the other, determined the ethical demands. Nevertheless, there are indications that living beings’ essential nature makes itself heard in the midst of these uncertainties. Christianity, although it did not liberate slaves, gave them the status of potential persons by conceiving them as equal in their relation to God. And the Stoics, who achieved more than Christianity for political emancipation, did so in the name of the universal logos in which every human being participates. Both movements, and even earlier legislators who limited the arbitrary mistreatment of slaves, must have been aware of the fact that one who turns a human being (in the psychophysical sense) into a mere object suffers distortion of one’s own personal center. The same, of course, is true of the human who treats a woman as a mere object, or of a parent who deals with one’s child as though it were a thing, or of a tyrant who attempts to transform one’s subjects into tools for one’s purposes. They all become depersonalized themselves. Popular enlightenment in regard to these relationships had enlarged the circle of those considered potential persons. The circle in principle includes all human beings, although in reality it never does, even where the all-inclusive principle has been accepted, as, for example, in the racial conflict. This discussion has led us to the deepest roots of what is usually called justice. All the implications of the idea of justice, especially the various forms of equality and liberty, are applications of the imperative to acknowledge every potential person as a person. Here, too, is the point at which every legal system of justice depends on some interpretation, consciously or unconsciously, of the moral idea of justice. #RandolphHarris 9 of 22

The art of being wise is to know what to overlook. I am full of desire. Never straight up balanced, but always learning, I fall in love easily, a small push will do it. And when it happens I always feel I am possess by—am in possession of—something unique and precious, something tht alone can lift me up our of the flat World of dailiness into the higher realm for which life must be destined. Then I want desperately for it to last forever. And when it crumbles, as always it does, I find tht I had been in possession only of something ordinary. And I never learn. I am, I think, unwilling to learn—because I cannot help but believe that what leads me on, however disastrously, is nevertheless what is best in me, most worth hanging on to. The alternative, it seems, is a cynicism so trenchant and bitter as to make life impossible. I understand my ailment but cannot seem to change it. Maybe I do not really want to recover. Maybe that is the secret and sinister nature of this disease, that one does not want to get well. Many people seem to believe that participating in pleasures of the flesh is their primary experience. Everything else give way. It is primary because only thereby can the species extend itself in time. Not that the species, qua species, wants to live forever. The species does not want anything. Other people, with the planet becoming overpopulated, with resources growing scarce, and the culture in American changes so much that abstinence and celibacy are way to extend their life into the future. They have a more capitalistic view, instead of the more tribal mentality. They want to work, stay single, gain wealth, and honor their family name, or build a castle, design a cool car or computer, as a way to stay relevant. Chris Bangle has gone down in history for his changes he made to the 7 Series BMW. They were so futuristic that this body is still being used 20 years later, with a few changes about every 7 years. Doing great things with products and machines or with words is another way to make sure your genetic line is never forgotten. It is like the CEO who retires at the right time, before the ship sinks. This also allows others to reproduce without their heirs being pushed off of the face of the planet. #RandolphHarris 10 of 22

Thus a winnowing of genes over vast reaches of time has sculptured us, like wind shaping sandstone, into creatures of machines of desire. We desire intensely. In a crunch, family, friends, career, honour, even life itself may be swept away. My plight, my curse, my demon, a savage yearning for something I am never going to get. Something to redeem me. From what? From vanity, insignificance, transience. From dung and death. And establishing a family and having children does that for many people. Most of the time I can arrange not to know, but it is always there, lurking, my own beast in the jungle; and sometimes it springs, lays waste my spirit, leaving only shards and rubble of meaning. When life has meaning, desire is held to its proper place—“proper” being the shape and scope and authority allowed to it by the interlocking structure of values that constitutes the meaning of life. When life is without meaning, desire is a supernova out of control. To express desire is to empower the other and disadvantaged one’s self. Catastrophic if unilateral, exalting when married people do it together. However, why would they, even together, choose surrender? Choose weakness over strength? They seem to want to get weaker and weaker, want their legs to give way with love, want to swoon together, fall into each other, totally disappear in each other. They want to die as individuals in the fusion, to be reborn on the other side, a love death followed by magical rebirth. Over and over. And if it is never actually achieved, desire ensures that we keep on trying. However, no matter the pain, one must never seek to be without desire. To desire nothing is to be dead. The glory of life—and there is no other—lies in the desiring of something so much that one will do one’s utmost to achieve it, spending the self, going all the way, holding nothing back. Our society has evolved a social plan, a city plan, an economy and a physical plant, of which this delinquent youth is an organic part. The problem is not to get them to belong to society, for they belong a priori by being the next generation. #RandolphHarris 11 of 22

The burden of proof and performance is quite the other way: for the system of society to accommodate itself to all its constituent members. However, can it be denied that by and large the official practice is to write these boys off as useless and unwanted and to try to cajole or baffle them into harmlessness? Suppose we look at it the other way. Like any other constitutional group, they exert an annoying pressure, but they are inarticulate. In some dumb way they are surely right, but what the devil do they want? Has much effort been made to ask them and help them find words? We can guess that they want two broad classes of things: changes in the insulting and depriving circumstances that have made them ornery, spiteful, vengeful, conceited, ignorant, and callous—unable to grow; and objective opportunities in which to grow. Let us go back to President Trump. On the same occasion mentioned above, he issued to the press the following formal statement: “The problem of juvenile delinquency has no easy remedy. There is no quick or overnight solution. It is compounded of neglect by parents, broken homes, poor living condition, unhealthy background, lack of medical care, no role models, economic deprivation, mental disturbance, and lack of religious training. It is imperative that we care for these beautiful, beautiful people. We have to get them off the streets and into safe, secure, cleaning housing. Make sure they have food to eat, clothes to wear, and adequate educational opportunities so they become God loving, gainfully employed, tax paying, patriotic Americans. We want them to proud of this beautiful country.” This is not a bad list of background conditions; it satisfied every popular and scientific theory of etiology. It seems President Trump has some plan to improve the institution of modern marriage, especially among folk for whom it is hardly an institution. The less affluent are excluded from many organizations, communities and unions. They often earn less than the minimum wage, they are unschooled; naturally there is economical deprivation, inhumane living conditions. #RandolphHarris 12 of 22

If it is irrelevant to the basic community functions of vocation and war, and wrong on gender, how is their religion relevant? There is no community and not even a community plane; naturally there is unhealthy background. What great concerted effort was being led by former President Trump to remedy these conditions, not overnight, but in the next five, ten, or twenty years? Indeed, his official policy started with tax cuts to stimulate development and increase spending. For instance, when corporations get tax cuts, and tax incentives, they build nice apartments in upscale community with 20 percent of the units designated for those with low-income. This prevent an area from being segregated and down trodden. It also exposes the affluent to people they may want to help obtain education and higher paying jobs, so they can escape the blackhole of poverty. If everyone in the community is disenfranchised, it does no one any good. President Trump also worked to decrease delinquency. Under his leadership, 90 percent of students graduated from high school, and there was an increase and African American and Latino graduated rate, they were staring to become parallel to European American students. He planned to tear down the slums, defund public housing because they disrupted community life. Instead, people would receive a credit card type payment that could only be used to subsidize their rent or mortgage, and all homeowners and property owners would receive government assistance that allowed them to accept federal housing voucher credit cards. President Trump, so heartbroken about the letter he received from residents in Malibu, California about development devastating the community and wildlife life and pushing millionaires out of their homes, which now only billionaires could afford, he planned to disallow building on certain vacant land to protect wildlife, reduce the number of multi-housing units, making decent family life possible. (Suppose you were fifteen years old and returned home at 11 P.M., to a room with Mom and Pop in one bed and two little brothers in your bed and a baby yowling, and people outside loitering and threatening you; you might well stay out till four in the morning.) #RandolphHarris 13 of 22

Also, when their incomes increase, families are ousted from public housing, thus eliminating and penalizing the better models; and on the other hand, other families are not expelled for gang activity, threats, drinking in public areas, noise, harassing other tenants, vandalism, and pungent foul odors as well as fecal matter in front of their units. And the original income and racially segregation cell blocks are themselves bound to increase tension, like any segregation. The Federal Housing Credit Card Voucher system, would allow for the projects to be torn down, and the less affluent to be dispersed throughout the city and country, would gentrify High Risk Neighbourhoods (HRN), and reduce crime, noise, pollution, while decreasing traffic accidents. All of this would have been official policy, but it takes more than four years to Make American Great Again! His plan would also, temporary stabilize families in federally owned buildings either undergoing demolition or construction, by not making families have to pay rent in limbo. They would be treated like human beings in the private sector, not like patients in a mental institution. President Trump toured one of the governments project-based housing cell blocks, and said “It is worst than a prison. Only the cells are larger, and they are chaotic. No law, no order. Just a concrete jungle.” For years biological researchers relied largely on family pedigree studies to support their position that biological researchers relied largely on family pedigree studies to support their position that biological factors contribute to suicidal behaviour. They have repeatedly found higher rates of suicide among the parents and close relatives of suicidal people than among those of nonsuicidal people. Indeed, one study found that over 33 percent of teenage subjects who committed suicide had a relative who attempted suicide. Such findings may suggest that genetic, and so biological factors are at work. Studies of twins also have supported this view of suicide. Researchers who studied twins born in Denmark between 1870 and 1920, for example, located 19 identical pairs and 58 fraternal pairs in which at least one twin had committed suicide. #RandolphHarris 14 of 22

In four of the identical pairs the other twin also committed suicide (21 percent), while none of the other twins among the fraternal pairs had done so. As with all family pedigree and twin research, there are non-biological interpretations for these findings as well. Psychodynamic clinicians might argue that children whose close relatives commit suicide are prone to depression and suicide because they have lost a loved one at a critical stage of development. Behavioural theorists might emphasize the modeling role played by parents or close relatives who attempt suicide. In the past two decades, laboratory research has offered more direct support for a biological view of suicide. The activity level of the neurotransmitter serotonin has often been found to be low in people who commit suicide. An early hint of this relationship came from a study by the psychiatric researcher Marie Asberg and her colleagues. They studied 68 depressed patients and found that 20 of the patients had particularly low levels of serotonin activity. It turned out that 40 percent of the low-serotonin people attempted suicide, compared with 15 percent of the higher-serotonin subjects. The researchers interpreted this to mean that low serotonin activity may be “a predictor of suicidal acts.” Therefore, at annual medical examines, it may also be good for health care providers to use a blood test to measure the level of serotonin in the blood. Because later studies found that suicide attempters with low serotonin activity are 10 times more likely to make a repeat attempt and succeed than are suicide attempters with higher serotonin activity. Studies that examine the autopsied brains of suicide victims point in the same direction. Some of these studies measure serotonin activity by determining the number of imipramine receptor sites in the brain. Recall that imipramine is an antidepressant drug that binds to certain neuron receptors throughout the brain. It is believed the degree of imipramine binding reflects the usual activity level of serotonin; the less imipramine binding, the less serotonin activity. #RandolphHarris 15 of 22

Fewer imipramine binding sites have been found in the brains of persons who died by suicide than in the autopsied brains of nonsuicides—in fact, approximately half as many binding sites has been the usual finding. At first glance, these and related studies may appear to tell us only that depressed people often attempt suicide. After all, depression is itself related to low serotonin activity. On the other hand, there is evidence of low serotonin activity even among suicidal subjects who have no history of depression. That is, low serotonin activity seems also to have a role in suicide separate from depression. How, then, might low serotonin activity increase the likelihood of suicidal behaviour? One possibility is that it contributes to aggressive behaviour. It has been found, for example, that serotonin activity is lower in aggressive men than in nonaggressive men and that serotonin activity is often low in those who commit such aggressive acts s arson and murder. Moreover, other studies have found that depressed patients with lower serotonin activity try to commit suicide more often, use more lethal methos, and score high in hostility on various personality inventories than do depressed patients with relatively higher serotonin activity. Such findings suggest that low serotonin activity helps produce aggressive feelings and perhaps impulsive behaviour. In people who are clinically depressed, low serotonin activity may produce aggressive tendencies that cause them to be particularly vulnerable to suicidal thinking and action. Even in the absence of a depressive disorder, however, people with low serotonin activity may develop such aggressive feelings that they, too, are dangerous to themselves or to others. Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. The real art of communication is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting movement. The dangers implicit in this power vacuum can be gauged by glancing briefly backward at the mid-1970’s. Then, as energy and raw material flows faltered in the wake of the OPEC embargo, as inflation and unemployment spurted, as the dollar plunged and Africa, Asia, and South America began to demand a new economic deal, signs of political pathology flared in one after another of the Second Wave nations. #RandolphHarris 16 of 22

In Britain, celebrated as the home of tolerance and civility, retired generals began to recruit private armies to impose order, and a resurgent fascist movement, the National Front, fielded candidates in some 90 parliamentary constituencies. Fascists and left-winger came close to fighting a mased battle in the London streets. In Italy the fascists of the left, the Red Brigades, escalated their reign of kneecapping, kidnapping, and assassination. In Poland, the government’s attempt to hike food prices to keep up with inflation brought the country to the edge of revolt. In West Germany, wracked by terrorist murders, a jittery establishment rushed through a series of McCarthyite laws to suppress dissent. It is true that these signs of political instability receded as the industrial economies partially (and temporarily) recovered in the late 1970’s. Britain’s private armies never came into play. The Red Brigades, after killing Also Moro, appeared for a time to pull back for regrouping. A new regime took over smoothly in Japan. The Polish government made an uneasy peace with its rebels. In the United States of America, Jimmy Carter, who won office by running against “the system” (and then embraced it), managed to hang on by his fingernails despite a disastrous decline in popularity. Nevertheless, these evidences of instability must make us wonder whether existing Second Wave political systems in each of the industrial nations can survive the next round of crises. For the crises on the 1980’s and 1990’s are likely to be even more severe, disruptive, and dangerous than those just past. Few informed observers believe the worst is over, and ominous scenarios abound. If turning off the oil spigots for a few weeks in Iran could cause violence and chaos on gas lines in the United States of America, what is likely to happen, not only in the U.S.A., when the present rulers of Saudi Arabia are kicked off the throne? It is likely that this tiny clique of ruling families, who control 25 percent of the World’s oil reserves, can cling to power indefinitely, while intermittent warfare rages between North and South Yemen nearby, and their own country is destabilized by floods of petrodollars, immigrant workers, and radical Palestinians? #RandolphHarris 17 of 22

Just how wisely will the shell-shocked (and future-shocked) politicians in Washington, London, Paris, Moscow, Tokyo, or Tel Aviv respond to a coup d’état, a religious upheaval, or a revolutionary uprising in America—let alone to the sabotage of the oil pipelines, poisoned water, and voter fraud? Apparently, they do not care. Only Tomi Lahren and FOX News are talking about the tyranny. If, a former Governor of California, Jerry Brown, predicted when leave office that “the future is fully of darkness, massive debt, and crisis,” after he had just let an entire town burn down, mismanaged the forest, allowed a homless crisis to happen in the “World’s 5^th largest economy,” and let a dam break, thereby killing a lot of people, wild life, and causing devastating property damage, how would these same overworked, nervously twitching Fourth Wave political leaders, East and West respond? Again, they did not seem to care. They elected his protégé Gavin Newsom. It is scarcely reassuring to look at a map and note that California, barely able to maintain domestic law and order, pontificates about setting trends for the rest of the World and being richer than a lot of other states and even countries. What happens, asks another chilling scenario, when Mexico begins in earnest to exploit its oil—and faces a sudden, overpowering influx of petro-pesos? Will its ruling oligarchy have the desire, much less the technical skills to use the bulk of that new wealth to “take back California,” and use the combined resources to feed its long neglected, malnourished, and long-suffering peasantry? Perhaps Gavin Newsom should spend less time putting all that grease and his hair, and Joe Biden should step down, or stop acting like he is deranged and lost his mind? My friend’s father who actually has Alzheimer’s seems much more coherent and aware than Joe Biden does. If a war were to break out, how would Washington respond? And how would the huge populations of Chicanos in the highly coveted suburbs and less affluent areas of America react? Can we expect even semi-intelligent decisions about crises of such magnitude, given today’s disarray in California’s leadership, Congress and the White House? #RandolphHarris 18 of 22

Economically, will governments already incapable of managing marco-economic forced be able to cope with even wilder swings in the international money system, or with its complete breakdown? With currencies hardly under control, the Voodoo economics still unexorcised, the Eurocurrency bubble still expanding unchecked, and consumer, corporate, and government credit ballooning, without help to get through this pandemic, can anyone look forward to economic stability in the years ahead? Will Americans be priced out of America and have to start moving to developing countries? Given skyrocketing inflation, full employment, a credit crash, or some other economic and natural catastrophe looming, we may yet see private police and armies in action. As we seem to be advancing, we also seem to be reverting to the Wild, Wild, West. There will be militias patrolling our streets, and a high demand for individuals who know how to build houses and are willing to bargain, an increased demand for auto science engineers, and also cars without the big engines, all the computers, and power windows. Some consumers will want to have new cars, but ones that are simply so the less affluent can afford them. Many people want to move away from buying used cars because they hear about how expensive they are to maintain and how frequently they have to go in the shop. With everything being so expensive these days, a used car could cause some to lose their homes or rental units. Not everyone is rich, but that is the way California is ran, but when you look at the streets, there are homeless tent cities popping up in community that never had a homeless crisis. Finally, what happens when, among the myriad religious cults now flowering, some spring up to organize for political purpose? As the major organized religions splinter under the de-massifying impact of the Fourth Wave, armies of self-ordained priests, ministers, preachers, nuns, and teacher are likely to appear—some with disciplined, perhaps even paramilitary, political followings. With the President and Governors and Mayors lose their status, control and power the way award’s shows have? #RandolphHarris 19 of 22

In the United States of America, it is not hard to imagine some new political party running Father Jimmy Swagger or Joel Osteen or Joseph Smith or Russell M. Nelson on crude “law-and-order,” “anti-porn,” “abstinence,” “celibacy,” “liquor and drug prohibition,” program with a strong authoritarian streak. Or some as yet unknown Anti Jane Byrant or Milton Allimadi or Jozsef Szajer demanding imprisonment for gays or “gay-symps.” Such examples provide only a faint, glimmering intimation of the religio-politics that may well lie ahead, even in the most secular of societies. One can imagine all sorts of cult-based political movements headed Lucien Greaves, Alex Jones, David Duke, Creflo Dollar, Gregory Dollar or Jesse Duplantis. I am not saying these scenarios will necessarily materialize. They could all turn out to be farfetched. However, if these do not, we must assume that other dramatic crises will erupt, even more dangerous than the riots of the 2020s. And we must face that our present crop of Fourth Waver leaders is grotesquely unprepared to cope with them. In fact, because our Fourth Wave political structures are even more deteriorated today than they were in the 1990’s, we must assume that governments may be less competent, less imaginative, and less farsighted in dealing with the crises of the 2000’s and 2020’s than they were in the decade just past. And this tells us that we must re-examine, from the roots up, one of our most deeply held and dangerous political illusions. Stop ignoring politics and religion. If you must, find groups on social media to communicate with, even under an unofficial name to keep your privacy. Stay aware. Organize. The human situation which has emerged from the cataclysm and anguish of war and crisis, still shows insufficient spiritual awakening. And yet this awakening—and this alone—is the only instrument of our salvation that is worth looking for because it is the only one which is not doomed to be destroyed. All other instruments may be effective in ordinary times, but we are living in exceptional times. Today they can offer only the illusion of success or happiness with the actuality of failure of misery. #RandolphHarris 20 of 22

However, so few people are fortunate enough to have the time, leisure, energy, and opportunity for spiritual culture, that the awakening from social lethargy is often the first sign of any awakening at all. The social awakening may nowadays be a troubled upheaval rather than a smooth progress. However, human egoism and passion being what they are at the present evolutionary stage, this is inevitable. However, the awakening must be understood as the first part of a deeper awakening from spiritual slumber which is yet to come. We must see in all this social renovation a necessary preliminary and unavoidable preparation for the subsequent spiritual one. When the political, scientific, and economic reorganization of the World which is going on before our eyes culminates, when more settled conditions begin to prevail again, humans will realize that materialism has brought them its best and worst. And realizing, they will tun to discovery of their inner needs. Therefore we may expect no general spiritual awakening in our own lifetime whilist this external new era is being established, but after that such awakening will surely come because it is evolutionarily due. Thus there is room for both an optimistic and a pessimistic outlook; neither along is quite true. If we look only at the next few years, there is gloom all around; but if we look through them to some decades father ahead, there is light. Those who believe in a sudden religo-mystical revival to change humankind almost overnight, are far from philosophy. However, still they are only being foolish. Those however who not only believe this, but also believe that it is they or their particular religious organization that will help to bring bout the revival, are also being self-conceited. Just as the Germans were presented with the choice between revolution and democratic evolution as well as the chance of escaping a misery so much worse than anyone can imagine, so humanity today has both choice and chance. The real decision is between obedience to a spiritual leading or denial of it. With all too many people, both among the vanquished and the victors everything within themselves remains as before the war. If anything, they are even spiritually emptier than before, because the negative feelings of bitterness, resentment, selfishness, suspicion, or violence have now taken hold of their hearts. #RandolphHarris 21 of 22

If we look the situation of contemporary humanity fully in the face, putting aside suggestion and propaganda, we shall have to confess that its salvation will never be brought about by the little mystical groups and large religious sects. The “Kingdom of God on Earth, is not a political concept but a personal one. Its realization will never be found outside but only inside the individual mind and heart. It is neither spring nor summer: it is Always with towhees, finches, chickadees, California quail, wood doves, with wrens, sparrows, cockatiels, juncos, cedar waxing, flickers, with Oakland A’s, San Francisco Giants, Dallas Cowboys, all in my yard, of a perpetual Sunday, all morning! All morning. Happy is every one that reveres the Lord, that walks in His ways. When you eat of the labour of your hands, you shall be happy, and it shall be well with you. Your wife within your house shall be as a faithful vine, your children like olive plants, around your table. Behold, surely thus shall the human be blessed that revers the Lord. The Lord bless you out of America: and may you see the good of America all the days of your life; and see your children’s children. People upon America. The Sabbath is welcomed with light and departs with the glowing light of the Havdalah candle. When the shadows deepen and the stars appear in the Heavens, we take reluctant leave of our cherished guest. We kindle the Havdalah candle, chant the Hamavdil prayer, and inhale fragrant species, thus sending the Sabbath forth with a burst of light on wings of song, praying that her blessed influence linger on until we greet her again on the next Sabbath eve. Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid, for God, the Lord, is my strength and song, and He is become my salvation. Therefore with joy shall you draw water out of the wells of salvation. Salvation belongeth unto the Lord; Thy blessing be upon Thy people. The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. The Lord’s people had light and joy, gladness and honor. So be it with us. I will lift the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the Lord. Blessed art Thou, O Lord our God, King of the Universe, who creates the fruit of the vine. #RandolphHarris 22 of 22

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