America and the Psychozoic Era

Wilhelm A. Tietz

1995

Published in:

Locial Trends Newsletter, Jan. 1995, No. 131 and Feb. 1995, No. 132
Mr. Tietz has provided us with a thorough bibliography of sources to verify his material.

More than misuse of technology is involved in the psychozoic era arisen from the rubble of millennia of thought control. For thousands of years of recorded history, nations and empires in their unenlightenment accepted governance based upon an enigma (an ancient obscure perplexing statement, a "parable") whose origin legend dates to genesis and the birth of ignorance and discord.

It describes the autocratic rule of a kingdom by a self-proclaimed omnipotent power whose dictum is of a mental status quo that challenges all attempts at the establishment of an Age of Reason. But its destruction of the powers of creative intellects on the plain of Shinar, Mesopotamia, and their tower and city, was an arbitrary violation of the evolutionary laws governing the Universe and the origin of species.

Today the essential predicament of Man in general is that he is aware of his infinitesimal presence in the cosmos that presents a challenge not only to his overwhelming unjustified ego but to the inherited conditioned ignorance of his ancestral past to which he has given unquestioning fealty and obeisance to authoritarianism.

In an ever expanding cosmic evolution of a Universe containing billions of galaxies whose distances are measured in light-years, our nation since its inception and the Western World exist in an intellectual vacuum that began with the Decree that was pronounced against Copernicus on March 5, 1616 A.D. and the burning at the stake of Giordano Bruno, February 17, 1600 A.D. for having dared to envision the magnificence of the universe, thereby challenging the command of the obscurants and their claim to authority and infallibility.

On March 2, 1972, Pioneer 10 left Earth to travel beyond the Solar System with a message toward the stars. If its intent came to fruition, the discovery of new life would be epochal, confounding the world's philosophies, theologians, the U. S. Supreme Court, and other self-proclaimed authorities.

Should such aliens of Space be of a higher order of intelligence and awareness, what would be their response to a people whose governance is founded upon intellectual stagnation and suppression; human beings who have been engaged in their own extinction? And--of a world where arrogance and greed dominate and ignorance and poverty afflict the many?

In 1989 a satellite called the Cosmic Background Explorer, or COBE, was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base. On April 23, 1992 its findings were reported to scientists attending a meeting of the American Physical Society in Washington, D.C. and was greeted with great excitement. The evidence gathered by the satellite and heavily processed by computer, according to analysis then being discussed, was of our universe when it was young, rapidly growing and held no galaxies at all. It contained only expanding clouds of atomic hydrogen, helium and a few trace elements and was of intense radiation.

The satellite detected a whisper of radiation dating from the Big Bang, which astronomers estimated as to having occurred approximately 15 billion years ago. The original temperature of the radiation is estimated to have been 7,200 degrees Fahrenheit. Over time, as the universe expanded, the average temperature of the radiation is now about 2.73 degrees above absolute zero--or around minus 454.8 degrees Fahrenheit.

The birth of the universe was calculated to one ten thousand billion quadrillion quadrillionth of a second. (A decimal point followed by 42 zeros and a one), of 1 second.

The original radiation is considered to be the afterglow of the Big Bang. Imprints of the afterstructure that shaped our newborn universe an instant after creation were detected and identified as "ripples in space and time." The first thousandth of a second included an incredible "inflation" before medium physical forces such as gravity and electromagnetism became distinct. Space consisted of subatomic particles immersed in radiation. Most of the matter is in a "dark matter" form that defies direct detection, but its gravity gradually dominates the structural evolution of the universe.

In the time period of 300,000 years to about a billion years following the evolution of the universe, the first galaxies formed and gases became dense enough to collapse into stars.

In 1991 the Vatican approved a Dial-a-Pope 900 service number. (900-568-7733), called "Christian Messaging From the Vatican" with the Vatican receiving 50 percent of the charge for each call to the service.

In 1993 the Israeli phone company opened a new fax line to God, (972-2-235-555) which will receive messages that are copied and sent by messenger to the crannies of Jerusalem's Wailing Wall. These calls also are not toll free.

So has the irrational use of technology had its effect upon the world of hundreds of millions of believers.

In the New World, in the 18th century, A.D., Citizen Thomas Paine, Technologist and author of Common Sense, The Crisis, The Rights of Man and The Age of Reason was accused of heresy, subjected to slanderous abuse, and persecuted even to the grave.

To have reduced the importance of that first thousandth of a second recording the birth of the universe, and the billions of years of cosmic evolution, to the origin of terrestrial species HOMO and ecocide and genocide, and arrogance and ignorance, engenders the cynical question, "Is the human being a desired specie of life?"

It is revealing to what contemptible matters that dominant despotic obscurants give their attention. The restoration of Michelangelo's The Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel reveals religion as "a monument in the history of human 'ignorance and egotism'", and its "morality as its fundamental myth." During its painting Michelangelo was censored for having portrayed too literally Creation's original Images, a viewpoint expressed by pontiffs over the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, and upon whose instructions the Renaissance masterpiece painting was modified by 38 modesty breeches, ranging from fig leaves to girdles similar to jockstraps.

Before submitting the restoration to public view in 1994, consideration was to be given as to what modesty modifications were to be removed in restoring Michelangelo's original imagery concept.

So is a mockery made of man's pretentious claim to an image of excellence.

Upon entering the 21st century the inhabitants of our nation whose arrogant egotism claims an ascendancy to an image of shared power now reveal the extent of the intellectual vacuum in which they exist, as by the millions they seek their "roots." As presently constituted the United States is a decaying reactionary citadel that has spawned Indoctrinated, hyphenated Americans who choose even in death and burial to be segregated by creed, nationality and race. In 1980 there were approximately 15 million foreign-born persons in the United States of whom 49.5 percent held non-citizen status.

The cultural flux of the United States as reported in 1988 by the Census Bureau indicated that populations of ethnic and racial minorities in the United States will grow seven times faster than that of the non-hispanic white majority over this decade due to immigration and high birth rates.

The aforementioned immigrants represent centuries of static social history and the pervasive aftermath of authoritarian indoctrination and dictatorial rule, from the days of conquistadors, Torquemada and a Franco, to the present, and of Asiatic despotism from Tamerlane to Pol Pot; (these are the roots of the past). They comprise one of the major factors entering into the decision making process involving the creation upon this North American Continent of an Age of Reason and a Civilization based upon scientific principles and technology.

Although even ancient societies have used mathematics and measurement for the solution of purely practical problems, they, even as we, had not learned to think in terms of abstract principles. They had little desire to inquire into the "how" and the "why" of the working of nature with the result that their highly developed engineering and technology bore little relation to their philosophies of life and as a result eventually their civilizations ceased to exist.

The future of this North American Continent, as with other continents of the world, is linked irrevocably to the unwritten natural laws that govern all life and the universe. What is euphemistically referred to as American liberty is as answerable to the violation of these laws in its thoughtless advocacy of exponential growth that has brought the problems arising from the ravenous demands made upon its finite resources by an unlimited population growth and its system of predatory exploitation.

The United States already has become a "have-not" nation through the arrogant and ignorant exploitation of its natural resources, creating a situation fraught with problems of great dimensions that require the abolishment of war, a transition to new energy resources, the stabilization of populations, and a scientific governance of functions through which Man will live in harmony with his environment.

At the present time we have left that governance to the inept, the incompetent and the corrupt. As historical records reveal, corruptions at the top levels of government, such as are now being investigated in Washington D.C., have permeated our government since its formation. A reflection of America's hypocritical rectitude and perpetuated ignorance

As we turn the pages of history, according to Lucretius, Roman poet and philosopher, 96(?)-- 05 B.C., the evolution of humankind is marked by three periods of time distinguished by the materials employed in the making of implements: the Age of stone, the Age of bronze, and the Age of iron, which identified man as the maker and user of tools.

Two thousand years later, after the revolution in physics, and twelve generations after Galileo, in 1967, another astronomer in his comments upon cosmic evolution observed "that the discovery of the expanding universe indicates that growth, change, evolution, affect also the future of the galaxy of galaxies."

Cosmic evolution naturally takes care of such matters as the origin of life. The progression is clear and rational through the whole course--atoms to stars to cells to man. In this progression civilized protoplasmic man has not ventured far from his cenozoic primitive root in respect that he is at the wild, animal level: food, fight, shelter, procreation. Little need had he for ruminations concerning the meaning of life. But the eventual emergence of societies among the primates made meditation advisable--made it necessary for long-term survival.

In 1987 upon this North American Continent, a papal pronouncement was given to university students calling for a new crusade, whose adherents were to engage with a renewed vigor their ancient ideological assault upon science in the countries of their domicile, stating, "A metaphysical approach is needed as an antidote to intellectual and moral relativism," emphasizing that the purpose of the university was to act "in its privileged roll as protagonist in the encounter between faith and science."

Belief is violence done to the intellect. The extent that we submit to it reflects the degree of acceptance of the dictates of authoritarianism and a refutation of all pretense of evolutionary self development. The destiny of Western Man is and over the centuries has been calculatedly determined and controlled by the petrified tablets of Antiquities dogmatism that call for an acknowledgment of unquestioning obedience and submission to authority. It legislates that "man may turn over and explore a million objects but must not discover the universe," or the love of reason that gives us an insight of all things great and small.

The enlarged frontal lobes of terrestrial species HOMO have brought forth a mental complex holding the choice of positive or negative concepts of performances of altruism, and mutual respect, and also greed, mendacity, distrust and the insanity of ecocide and genocide. This forebrain of the most specialized primates has so complicated man's life that precise programs for living are essential. The program planning requires a philosophy of living and of life described as an assembly of ideals, programs for life that identify this period of time as the beginning of the psychozoic era.

December, 1938

In an article entitled Science and Society, Technocracy stated that North America's rendezvous with destiny prescribes that a minority of scientists "be the nucleus around which this Continent will consolidate its forces for its integration into one geographical entity--one Continental control, one technological organism, one country, one people, one and indivisible," and the language of unification that gave birth to our nation and identify its principles of governance.

The rate of growth of scientific knowledge has accelerated to a point whereby the distance between intellectual wisdom and indoctrinated belief and ignorance has assumed the dimensions of the "red shift" of the galaxies. The continuity from generation to generation has been lost almost completely. Education should be, at least in some respects, the expression of man's highest faculty, the free play of the intellect, his ethos and e'lan vital. The latter is a projection of Technocracy's research, analysis and design. We must again seek the shimmering spark of enlightenment.

There is a new population in our schools as identified in a report released January 22, 1988. The cultures, backgrounds and languages entering California schools are vastly different than they were in the prior decade. The State superintendent of instruction referred to it as "a huge demographic change." It was estimated that one out of every six school children is an immigrant, nearly 17 percent of the state's 4.5 million students--2 1/2 times

what it was 10 years previous, and would increase 5 to 7 percent a year during the next decade (1990s); 613,222 were of limited English proficiency; their language breakdown was 73.3% Spanish, 9.1% Southeast Asian, 7.5% Asian, 2.3% Tagalog/Filipino and 5.8% "other." San Francisco and Imperial Counties have the greatest concentration of these students according to the report.

April 29, 1994. The San Francisco Board of Education, this fall semester under the Immersion Program, will emphasize teaching in primary languages in the public schools. Also, it can be implemented upon request. As an example, about 50 Korean parents asked the school district to provide the immersion program so that their children could become familiar with the language and customs of their native land.

Immersion programs already exist in Chinese, Spanish, and Russian. The school district also is considering developing bilingual programs in Vietnamese and Cambodian.

The immersion program is divisive and destructive in nature, enlarging upon existing discord and disintegration that threaten the principle of unity implied in the forming of the "United States of America" as first expressed officially on July 4, 1776, in the Declaration of Independence and that underlies our culture and civilization.

Two thousand years of propaganda have wrought their havoc upon the Earth and the human mind and body, and only the mute statistics protest. Two thousand years that have denied man his identity. America has erected a predatory macrostructure of special privilege that has robbed the majority of its citizens of self autonomy. It is a society far removed from the ancestral pastoral environment. Man has become alienated not only from the fruits of his labor, but also from the roots of his biology and sense of cooperative kinship in the family of man, and thereby has been infected by and made less resistant to the social syphilis of greed. Man in his final exploitation of his own species and the environment is now engaged in the final "kill"--global destruction. It has been cynically referred to as placing "the people of the world behind the barbed wire of the Global Plantation." A world fascism.

The future must be persistently explored. We must proceed along the evolutionary pathway of the Universe as co-creators on the way to the establishment of a psychozoic haven upon this Continent, in which brain overshadows brawn, rationality overshadows ignorance and superstition, and science and technology eradicate the social syphilis of greed. It is uncannily prescient for us to remember that science provides the power to release the Mind of man from its Babel, to achieve the long sought unlimited creative potentialities, including the creation of cities and nations, but above all, a new culture that will transcend the crude motivations of hunger and money; it will set man's mind free for the true destiny of spirit, the celebration of life itself.

Ignorance and arrogance as herein discussed are the factors not only governing thought control but also our survival as an evolutionary species.

America can no longer be occupied by a high energy, highly complex technological civilization on a haphazard, planless basis, nor under governmental direction by the functionally illiterate. We must plan for survival!

The landed estate of the American people is the resource base on which the American economy functions, and our survival and future welfare depend upon the thought we give to its best use and how we can achieve it.

The story of our nation in the last century as regards the use of forests, grasslands, wildlife and water sources is the most violent and the most destructive of any written in the long history of civilization.

The total area of land available to provide the basic essentials of life--food, fiber and shelter, is limited. The land area of the United States (excluding Alaska and District of Columbia) amounts to approximately one billion nine hundred million acres (1,937,72 6,000), which includes 107.9 million acres of water areas. In its original or natural state about 40% was primeval forest, nearly an equal amount was grass or range lands, the remainder being natural desert or extremely mountainous. By the year 1948 it was estimated that the primeval or virgin forest had been so reduced that it covered less than 7% of our entire land area.

Dr. Hugh H. Bennett, Chief, U.S. Soil Conservation Service, testifying before a Congressional committee in 1939 said, "In the short life of this country we have essentially destroyed 282 million acres of crop and range land. Erosion is destructively active on 775 million additional acres. About 100 million acres of cropland, much of it representing the best cropland we have, is finished. We cannot restore it." In the late 1970s American farmers were losing nearly as much topsoil as they had during the Dust Bowl years of the 1930s.

American nutritionists have calculated that 2.5 acres per capita are required for a minimum adequate diet.

In 1985 there were 256 million acres of cropland harvested for domestic use or 1.07 acres per capita. The estimated total population was 239,283,000, including the Armed Forces overseas. On January 1, 1988, the population was 244.4 million. The U.S. Census Bureau projections for the year 2020 is U.S. 325 million; California 48 million. This data--the relationship of man to his physical environment and a knowledge of the carrying capacity of the land, is vital not only to our survival but demands our acceptance of the responsibility of stewardship.

Even as the carrying capacity of the land is the governing factor determining the continuance of biologic life, so are finite mineral resources and available extraneous energy the life blood of our technological civilization.

In 1980 The National Academy of Sciences published a report entitled Energy In Transition 1985-2010 as prepared by the National Resources Council. It stressed the need for a transition from a major dependence on fossil fuel hydrocarbons, domestic and imported, to a more stable era of utilization of energy sources that are either renewable or available on a scale sufficient for centuries.'

Oil production in the United States peaked in 1970. Domestic natural gas production in 1973. As of 1985 the total proven oil reserves were only enough to supply U.S. needs for less than 8 years, (until 1993). The United States has been a net importer of energy since the early 1950s. The Transition Report recorded as of 1975 that the U.S. consumed more than a fourth of the world's oil production and about half the world's production of natural gas. In 1987 the U.S. imported $40 billion worth of oil, at the time an amount equal to one-third of the country's trade deficit. During the same year, the Pentagon spent $15 billion to protect our supplies.

On January 24, 1990, it was reported that a federal task force led by the Commerce Department was endorsing a proposal to allow independent oil producers to export California crude oil to Japan and other Pacific Rim nations. The task Force also included representatives of the U.S. Departments of Energy, Interior, Transportation and Treasury.

Identification of the source of imported oil, natural gas and minerals will bring a clarity to our expanding political/military ventures such as are now taking place on the continent of Africa.

Petroleum geologists have found substantial reserves of natural gas in some 50 developing countries, with many others holding high promise. Many of these nations have treated gas as a waste byproduct of petroleum production and burned it off without capturing any useful energy. The 21 billion cubic meters of gas Nigeria flared in 1990 represented enough energy to meet all the country's current commercial energy needs, along with those of neighboring Benin, Cameroon, Ghana, Niger and Togo. But oil exporters are not the only ones who waste natural gas. India burned off more than 5 billion cubic meters of natural gas in 1990, enough energy to save the country nearly $700 million on oil import bills.

When oil companies operating in developing countries find natural gas for which export markets are poorly developed, they cap the exploratory wells. To the oil exporters, a commercial-scale find of natural gas needs to be 100 times larger than a find that could be considered cost-effective for local use.

In 1980 it was estimated that at least 7 trillion cubic feet of natural gas are deliberately burned off in oil fields around the world every year.

In addition to oil, so-called "strategic minerals" are seen as another dangerous U.S. raw material dependency. It was reported that in 1980, the House Subcommittee on Mines and Mining found that, "No issue facing America in the decades ahead poses the risks and dangers to the national

economy and defense as that presented by this Nation's dependence on foreign sources for strategic and critical minerals, which reveal a vulnerability more serious than the energy crisis."

Every American uses 18,000 pounds of non-fuel minerals (other than coal and oil) each year. Of the 88 minerals the Bureau of Mines regularly tracks, the U.S. imports over half of its needs for 34 minerals.

A major goal of U.S. diplomacy in South Africa is to maintain access to supplies of highly critical strategic materials. Any loss of these materials would be extremely serious for us. South Africa has 85% of the world's known chromium, 70% of its manganese, 80% of its platinum group metals, 47% of its vanadium, and 55% of its gold.

Primitive Kinship societies did not have the concept of ownership and of acquiring wealth. Historically, the accumulation of wealth is linked to the development of hierarchical societies and an elitism with the power to rule, dictate policy and enforce social control.

The world that has herein been described is a world divided economically and ideologically by a political, mercantile, military hierarchy whose outlaws of arrogance and greed have plundered the Earth and put our technological society at risk as the previous data reveals. Human behavior is intimately related to the availability of basic resources. When a shortage of resources threatens life styles or life itself, rivalry for resources leads to aggression and ultimately to war.

Warfare is not a product of the human biology of aggression; it is a product of human culture. War, and malign technology, are social inventions born of arrogance, of the ethics of dominance and competition, of denial of gentle values and separation from nature in the Nuclear Age. This sickness is extreme. "Unfettered" technology rules and may destroy us, not through historical necessity, but through failure to control it, to make it serve and honour the ecological imperative of civilization.

Civilization connotes social organization of a high order, marked by humaneness and accompanied by advances in the arts and sciences. In 1918-19 the collective, cooperative mind that is Technocracy gave birth to a most fruitful promise that would put an end to the exploitation of humanity and its environment upon this Continent and surpasses the Agricultural, Industrial and Electronic Revolutions in creative purpose and fulfillment.

The forethought of Technocracy, under the guiding direction of Howard Scott and the research of the Technical Alliance, has taken science out of the laboratory to plan for a new social order beyond anything the world has yet known. With knowledge and dedication, under its auspices there is hardly a limit to what the human race may creatively achieve!

It is a new system of governance, a Technate, a government of functions, as the next peaceful evolutionary step in America's destiny. It is the total scientific coordination of all the physical functions essential to the needs and survival of human kind and necessary for the development of a civilization worthy of the intelligence of Man on this North American Continent. It's essence is energy, the life force, and its administration is the control of the physical factors of a social area for functional purposes, not the control of people. These functions are designed not only to fulfill human needs but to be in harmony with the ecological environment of its biotic potential.

Each functional sequence of operation of the Technate represents the greatest knowledge applicable to its purpose, arrived at through interdisciplinary research, with the cumulative gathering enriching the totality of each citizen and assuring the continuance of the evolutionary process of society.

The criterion of performance would determine the qualifications of those citizens operating within the organizational structure of government. Each person would fulfill her/his responsibility as a citizen on the basis of their selective determination, knowledge, competence, personal growth and mutual cooperation. Based upon knowledge and ability, the positions of function rise up through the ranks of all the subdivisions in each sequence of the system to culminate in a general staff of operations headed by a chief executive of the entire social system identified as the Continental Director.

Inasmuch as the only common denominator of all goods and services is energy, a Continental management of all flow lines of production and distribution would be put into operation, providing the only exact measure of production costs, that of energy units, and the means of equitable distribution.

Operating under a balanced load system of production and distribution, commensurate with, and having a concern for nonrenewable resources and ecology, this scientific operation would free every man, woman and child from economic dependence upon another and would provide full consuming privileges for a lifetime. The work ethic, born in an age of scarcity, would have been replaced by the right to live with dignity, making possible the self-realization of humankind. There would be neither taxes nor debt, slaves nor masters, poor nor rich, despised nor exalted, for all would be known simply as Citizens of the Technate of North America!