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The Social Design Of Science -- In Concert With The Cultural Arts
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The social design of science -- in concert with the cultural arts, is a dynamic social concept for scientific statesmanship in which the inter- dependent "laws of nature" proclaimed in the first paragraph of the American Declaration of Independence, serve as the unifying decision- determinants responsible for the functional governance of North America's technology, energy and natural resources in producing and providing the individually expressed physical and cultural human needs of the population of this Continent.
The inter-related, "laws of nature" -- discovered by the Scientific Method through research, measurement, experimentation and verification for predictability, can be functionally harmonized in North America. This can be operational and include all branches of science to supply human needs, delivered daily to every person without the interference of money.
It is the continuous Continental coordination and orchestration of our 38,000,000,000 mechanical/electrical horsepower (as of the 1990s) of high capacity technology on a dynamic energy balanced basis with the Continental land/resources that provide us with our life-style. We can maintain a sustainable society with a non-wastage of materiels that can make possible a moderate and equitable standard of living for all individuals and families -- all in accord with each person's preferences. The consequent high quality consumer goods and services will be obtained by every individual man, woman and child as a right of North American citizenship by means of their daily personal requisitions regardless of age, gender or race.
No better model for the reorganization of their own social operations could be held up to the rest of the world than the actual operation of this Continent on a non-price basis.
The entire 6,000 year history of Price System ideology is a long account of human struggle with scarcity and its derivative woes. What we see today is an increase in the magnitude of social instability that coincides with the continued improper control of our technology. It is similar to an attempt to steer a vehicle at high speed with horse-and- buggy type technology. Our society today responds in much the same manner to our technology being operated with an increase in extraneous (non-human) energy. This results in an eventual complete loss of control.
Technocracy has the only plan yet devised to operate our technology correctly. Put simply, it is a plan which allows the people who built the technology to run it -- but for the benefit of the people directly instead of through the interference of business and politics for mindless profit.
Art, like technology, can flourish best in a culture such as that which is now within reach, where the adversarial relationships of the bazaar are no longer the rule, where leisure to enjoy life is for the first time universally available. Ironically, the ingredients for that life style is here; we have only to realize what we have and organize our affairs to make use of it.