WEBVTT 00:00:03.240 --> 00:00:05.240 there. His innocence re found. There also is the radicalization of the 00:00:08.669 --> 00:00:14.347 urban structure. Airport included. This new in a sense is actually as old 00:00:14.380 --> 00:00:18.467 as the first time status of life tour or three billion years ago when 00:00:18.500 --> 00:00:23.986 swiftness was discovered as synonymous with or at least indispensable to 00:00:24.019 --> 00:00:32.019 life. Mm But swiftness his only fitness or to be more precise fitness is 00:00:33.659 --> 00:00:39.906 organized swiftness. The swift traveler, not the hurried traveler is the 00:00:39.939 --> 00:00:44.946 only contented traveler. Then the relatively swift plane passenger 00:00:44.979 --> 00:00:49.607 configuration must not land itself into this semi living airport with its 00:00:49.640 --> 00:00:53.626 diaspora. Monster of a problem. The city included, not even yet 00:00:53.659 --> 00:00:58.836 acknowledged. The truth of the matter is that we have a Julian propensity 00:00:58.869 --> 00:01:02.146 for adding bottlenecks inside of bottlenecks and calling the result of 00:01:02.179 --> 00:01:04.906 product of influence 00:01:04.939 --> 00:01:08.837 on the subject in question. The primary bottlenecks are the connection of 00:01:08.870 --> 00:01:13.956 the city to the airport. The report itself and the secondary bottlenecks 00:01:13.989 --> 00:01:18.676 are the ticket counter, the luggage counter and the door to the airplane. 00:01:18.709 --> 00:01:24.777 Of these five. Only the last is necessary and acceptable, but the ability 00:01:24.810 --> 00:01:29.167 to get rid of the other four is in the new innocent suggested above. The 00:01:29.200 --> 00:01:33.697 new innocence. To use another analogy is when and where mankind's piece 00:01:33.730 --> 00:01:38.686 fits into the puzzle of the cosmos. If man happens and it would not be by 00:01:38.719 --> 00:01:44.456 accident to coincide with himself in Ophelia. That ought to be, then the 00:01:44.489 --> 00:01:48.346 puny problem of the airport will fuse itself into the problem of society 00:01:48.379 --> 00:01:54.286 with millions of others. If not, then it will remain with man as one of 00:01:54.319 --> 00:01:59.307 the minor headaches of his confused species 00:01:59.340 --> 00:02:03.076 Before coming to the constructive part of my proposition. It might be well 00:02:03.109 --> 00:02:07.906 to face the concept of the usual and the unusual 00:02:07.939 --> 00:02:15.117 if by way of illustration, we take an animal, cut it open and observe our 00:02:15.150 --> 00:02:19.797 confidence in what we consider to be usual or natural is shaken. It is a 00:02:19.830 --> 00:02:24.837 bloody congestion. We watch there nothing polite or being about it. That's 00:02:24.870 --> 00:02:30.356 a hell of a creature twitching a universe furiously in pursuit, trying to 00:02:30.389 --> 00:02:35.997 survive, brutally, single minded, awesomely secretive and complex, indeed 00:02:36.030 --> 00:02:43.156 , a most remote stranger to behold. Yet that is what we are. Each of us 00:02:43.189 --> 00:02:49.006 biological organisms and we know 00:02:49.039 --> 00:02:52.406 we are but strangers to ourselves. 00:02:52.439 --> 00:02:57.626 We know what we know of what we are is literally skin deep, and our brain 00:02:57.659 --> 00:03:02.816 contortions float somewhere out in the cold. We know but an abstraction of 00:03:02.849 --> 00:03:06.707 ourselves and we are despondently and disproportionately inclined to live 00:03:06.740 --> 00:03:11.286 by it all. This is to point out that the familiar proposition is not 00:03:11.319 --> 00:03:16.017 necessarily true and that the shock of revelation not not by itself to 00:03:16.050 --> 00:03:20.886 alert one of the presence of the absurd. At a first glance, much that is 00:03:20.919 --> 00:03:25.807 not of our consciousness shocks is absurd and we are quick at rejection. 00:03:25.840 --> 00:03:29.886 It is almost as automatic as the biological rejection of an organ 00:03:29.919 --> 00:03:34.106 transplanted. That we observe in medicine. 00:03:34.139 --> 00:03:40.557 Mm I am conceptually introducing and not too gently either into the urban 00:03:40.590 --> 00:03:46.997 body. The city terminal a semi solid block of furiously driven events. A 00:03:47.030 --> 00:03:53.406 sanguine and animal turmoil, covertly disciplined and multi directed. The 00:03:53.439 --> 00:03:57.247 para animal we call society falls under the rigor and the rules of the 00:03:57.280 --> 00:04:03.247 biological. For both are of the same universe and both the biological 00:04:03.280 --> 00:04:08.677 animal achiever of incredible complexity and society which is oriented 00:04:08.710 --> 00:04:14.816 towards increasingly more and more complex forms of complexity. Our 00:04:14.849 --> 00:04:22.849 complexity driven. Mhm. Yeah, careful. Look at the nature of complexity 00:04:23.110 --> 00:04:27.806 will show that it is welded to the process of miniaturization. 00:04:27.839 --> 00:04:32.286 Complexity is an increment of coordinated activities happening in 00:04:32.319 --> 00:04:37.356 contracting spaces as there is no complex ification that does not 00:04:37.389 --> 00:04:43.096 coincidentally involve contraction. So there is no city without a 00:04:43.129 --> 00:04:47.707 corresponding miniaturization of the physical structure that supports it. 00:04:47.740 --> 00:04:52.447 It is here that the new level of innocence bids farewell to the romantic 00:04:52.480 --> 00:04:59.406 notion that man and soil must mingle in an inexhaustible embrace 00:04:59.439 --> 00:05:03.267 nature, man and creator. Man with all the cohorts of middle and average 00:05:03.300 --> 00:05:08.746 men are moving away from the soil if hardly closer to that hypothetical 00:05:08.779 --> 00:05:14.397 kingdom of compassion and grace that I like to go. The aesthetic a genesis 00:05:14.430 --> 00:05:19.476 of matter, a kingdom not in opposition to nature, but constructing itself 00:05:19.509 --> 00:05:24.926 into its own transcendent nature. That is to say, the nature of man does 00:05:24.959 --> 00:05:30.106 not dwell in the gilded Hamlets of home and garden, but is thrust in that 00:05:30.139 --> 00:05:34.156 same unfamiliar and frightful turbulence we discover within the contented 00:05:34.189 --> 00:05:40.707 skin of every organism contented because successful. 00:05:40.740 --> 00:05:46.806 But this success is carried by an enormously rigorous discipline guided by 00:05:46.839 --> 00:05:52.176 omnipresent rules. It is actually a miracle that perpetuates itself. A 00:05:52.209 --> 00:05:58.087 triple miracle of consolidation, reiteration and progression. Not as one 00:05:58.120 --> 00:06:02.757 can see the stuff suburbia and megalopolis are made of. But the only stuff 00:06:02.790 --> 00:06:07.527 that can stand and can spell the stresses of life's genesis. 00:06:07.560 --> 00:06:12.806 The case of the airport is becoming a glaring example of insular nonsense. 00:06:12.839 --> 00:06:17.056 Once purpose and instrumentality become inconsequential, the solution is 00:06:17.089 --> 00:06:22.496 automatically out of sight. It is instead historically right that once a 00:06:22.529 --> 00:06:27.687 technique in this case air transportation has been proven as sound, it be 00:06:27.720 --> 00:06:32.207 incorporated in the fabric of reality in the most coherent manner possible. 00:06:32.240 --> 00:06:36.887 Let him go from itself. Those parts that happen to be of no more use in 00:06:36.920 --> 00:06:41.517 the case of air transportation. The airport as an autonomous and 00:06:41.550 --> 00:06:46.207 physically isolated system has seen its day. 00:06:46.240 --> 00:06:54.240 If this is so, it must go the sooner the better. Yes. Mhm Mr salary will 00:06:55.230 --> 00:07:03.230 now show some slides to elaborate and illustrate this material. 00:07:16.839 --> 00:07:21.606 Yeah, 00:07:21.639 --> 00:07:29.639 I'm I'm showing some of the of the schemes that I hope. We'll illustrate 00:07:30.220 --> 00:07:33.707 the the paper, 00:07:33.740 --> 00:07:41.740 this person is a very pure theoretical the diagram showing that the city 00:07:41.939 --> 00:07:48.106 takes the place of the terminal 00:07:48.139 --> 00:07:56.139 and in this case the landing facilities are suggested as are continuously 00:07:56.339 --> 00:08:04.339 around the city. 00:08:04.939 --> 00:08:07.877 This is the same diagram. 00:08:07.910 --> 00:08:13.406 This this was designed for New Jersey, the Meadows 00:08:13.439 --> 00:08:19.827 And the city which was the airport becomes a one million populations urban 00:08:19.860 --> 00:08:26.207 center and according to the land 00:08:26.240 --> 00:08:28.406 system, 00:08:28.439 --> 00:08:33.276 we have we have the landing strips surrounding the city and then the 00:08:33.309 --> 00:08:41.309 access to a a unloading and loading runway in here taxing. So you arrive 00:08:43.100 --> 00:08:50.047 or you leave from the city directly into the into what they call the what 00:08:50.080 --> 00:08:55.707 we used to call the airport. So this takes the place of the airport itself 00:08:55.740 --> 00:09:02.207 becomes the center where most of the people would come and go from. 00:09:02.240 --> 00:09:05.437 Your land is stripped, wood would surround the city and then you would 00:09:05.470 --> 00:09:13.006 have the vertical take off and vertical landing on top of the city. 00:09:13.039 --> 00:09:19.207 This indicates the development of the ground level and underground level 00:09:19.240 --> 00:09:25.307 where the industry will develop. 00:09:25.340 --> 00:09:33.340 This was another site in New Jersey. It was training the same idea. 00:09:38.539 --> 00:09:44.496 Mm hmm. Can you focus on that? 00:09:44.529 --> 00:09:51.407 This was a little model of this concept. You see the taxing in here 00:09:51.440 --> 00:09:59.440 flanked by the industrial plans and you had the taxing with freight 00:09:59.450 --> 00:10:04.506 loading and unloading on this side and loading unloading people on this 00:10:04.539 --> 00:10:11.907 side. From here to the court of the city would take only a few minutes 00:10:11.940 --> 00:10:18.707 on top of the, of the industrial system. Our parks and gardens. 00:10:18.740 --> 00:10:21.207 Yeah, 00:10:21.240 --> 00:10:27.976 this is an elevation of the same structure 00:10:28.009 --> 00:10:36.009 in the section. You can see the the taxing space. So the airplane, the air 00:10:36.230 --> 00:10:40.626 carrier would come in from the landing strips come in here. A lot. A lot 00:10:40.659 --> 00:10:47.407 be serviced and so on. And the passengers would be directly connected with 00:10:47.440 --> 00:10:54.837 the urban centers, 00:10:54.870 --> 00:11:01.636 industries, loading and unloading. I'm not going into the the organization 00:11:01.669 --> 00:11:09.669 of the city because this is not the point of this symposium, 00:11:14.639 --> 00:11:21.856 we're making a large model of the whole land and uh urban organization. 00:11:21.889 --> 00:11:29.889 This was a mock up of this model. This is a new model we're working on 00:11:33.940 --> 00:11:39.687 very briefly this section which which is the mid section of the city is 00:11:39.720 --> 00:11:47.720 all the space related to the urban life, commerce, leisure, culture and so 00:11:48.450 --> 00:11:56.450 on. And those systems are dwelling basically 00:12:02.049 --> 00:12:10.049 those are neighborhood levels, dwelling systems. The city center itself 00:12:14.919 --> 00:12:19.907 in this thickness is the urban life. Here is the private life, private 00:12:19.940 --> 00:12:27.940 life here and there. This develops into a fool a circular organizations. 00:12:30.440 --> 00:12:38.440 Uh huh. Those are other examples of cluster systems which would again 00:12:40.110 --> 00:12:45.606 incorporate landing facilities in this case, vertical landing facilities 00:12:45.639 --> 00:12:53.639 within the city itself. 00:13:00.440 --> 00:13:05.907 This is a much smaller scheme and without landing, vertical landing and 00:13:05.940 --> 00:13:13.207 vertical takeoff from the top of one of those columns. 00:13:13.240 --> 00:13:21.240 This is about 30,000 population, the one before it was about 250,000. 00:13:22.240 --> 00:13:30.240 And there are cut out to show the inside, 00:13:30.850 --> 00:13:36.626 This is another one of about 300,000 and again, I'm showing a vertical 00:13:36.659 --> 00:13:43.587 takeoff airport. Let's call it. 00:13:43.620 --> 00:13:49.106 This is the same structure. 00:13:49.139 --> 00:13:56.907 This at the airport, 00:13:56.940 --> 00:14:03.787 This is another one and this is again the landing facilities on top of the 00:14:03.820 --> 00:14:11.820 city. This is about one km inside. It's a cube And about 400,000 00:14:12.490 --> 00:14:17.636 population 00:14:17.669 --> 00:14:24.717 one kilometer inside. And that's the airport, 00:14:24.750 --> 00:14:29.407 the inside of it. 00:14:29.440 --> 00:14:37.440 Another another example with again vertical mhm system will take off and 00:14:37.669 --> 00:14:40.907 landing. 00:14:40.940 --> 00:14:47.947 This is a dam which is also an urban center with again airport on this 00:14:47.980 --> 00:14:51.606 platform 00:14:51.639 --> 00:14:56.297 the same in front of you. 00:14:56.330 --> 00:15:02.756 And finally here is a concept over over an urban lever. This is a section 00:15:02.789 --> 00:15:08.896 of a system that would develop for hundreds or thousands of miles and you 00:15:08.929 --> 00:15:15.766 have your urban life organized on the sides of this main structure which 00:15:15.799 --> 00:15:21.276 is mainly transportation and industries. And on top of this structure, you 00:15:21.309 --> 00:15:29.309 have an endless airport in a sense that you can land at any any position 00:15:30.519 --> 00:15:36.476 in any section of this urban system, possibly every 100 miles or 200 miles 00:15:36.509 --> 00:15:43.467 or so and served directly the urban life at the productive life. So 00:15:43.500 --> 00:15:47.817 everything would be so organized that has to be a few minutes away from 00:15:47.850 --> 00:15:55.850 anything else. Yeah. Uh huh. So this is, as I can see it is really the, 00:15:57.539 --> 00:16:05.376 the most efficient approach to organizing life and uh logistics in one 00:16:05.409 --> 00:16:13.006 continuous system. 00:16:13.039 --> 00:16:21.039 And I didn't answer. 00:16:24.549 --> 00:16:31.386 It's with great delight. We invite you to the podium to invite you to 00:16:31.419 --> 00:16:39.197 focus on the aviation environment, particularly in the light of the urban 00:16:39.230 --> 00:16:47.230 structure. Mr McCartney. Mhm. 00:16:49.840 --> 00:16:55.587 Thank you. Mr Beckett. Ladies and gentlemen, uh an expert is defined not 00:16:55.620 --> 00:16:59.927 as a man from out of town, but a man who makes no little mistakes in his 00:16:59.960 --> 00:17:04.157 widow celestial blunder. And for me, the best way of making a celestial 00:17:04.190 --> 00:17:07.226 blunder would be to talk about aviation. I only have the normal 00:17:07.259 --> 00:17:11.546 experiences of an american citizen uh such as I had today, spending quite 00:17:11.579 --> 00:17:14.957 a long time, an hour and the end of the runway at Salt Lake City or the 00:17:14.990 --> 00:17:18.397 night before when I made two unsuccessful attempts to go from Portland to 00:17:18.430 --> 00:17:24.707 Eugene Oregon. Everything that this brilliant man, Silveria said, I think 00:17:24.740 --> 00:17:28.486 uh evokes a response for me. I think airports of places. One would rather 00:17:28.519 --> 00:17:33.006 not be in airplanes that place, our vehicles which are occupied by shoe 00:17:33.039 --> 00:17:36.776 salesman glamour is something which has never entered an airplane in spite 00:17:36.809 --> 00:17:43.167 of stewardesses or an airport. Uh I think the only only observation I have 00:17:43.200 --> 00:17:47.127 to make about aviation before I talk about the subject I care about which 00:17:47.160 --> 00:17:51.286 I have some relevance. I think, to your preoccupations is that by and 00:17:51.319 --> 00:17:54.217 large aviation has given herself over to the concept of the speed of the 00:17:54.250 --> 00:17:57.417 trip is rather more important than the quality of the trip. And I would 00:17:57.450 --> 00:18:01.566 say that that is a very adolescent view that older men have always 00:18:01.599 --> 00:18:04.986 realized of course that the quality of the experience is rather more 00:18:05.019 --> 00:18:13.019 important than speed of the trip. Okay. Yeah. Mhm. 00:18:13.039 --> 00:18:18.107 Yeah. All right. So what I'm not going to talk about is ecological 00:18:18.140 --> 00:18:23.086 planning. I suspect engineers and people engaged in almost all activities 00:18:23.119 --> 00:18:27.286 new until recently. Nothing about ecology at all. And they assumed that 00:18:27.319 --> 00:18:31.887 God given right to destroy nature for private greed, benefit and malice uh 00:18:31.920 --> 00:18:37.357 and did so with all joy and great expedition as a result of luna, Leopold 00:18:37.390 --> 00:18:41.377 needed county airport. People in aviation have now begun to understand the 00:18:41.410 --> 00:18:45.627 ecology is something rather important. And I believe the SST our final 00:18:45.660 --> 00:18:51.486 aeronautic idiocy will yeah, leaders into understanding the stratosphere 00:18:51.519 --> 00:18:56.776 before we emulate the activities which Krakatau, I was able to do. I think 00:18:56.809 --> 00:19:00.867 we had two years of gloom in the world and two years without harvest as a 00:19:00.900 --> 00:19:05.437 result of the particular matter which caricature put into the stratosphere. 00:19:05.470 --> 00:19:08.816 Lamont called the Ecologist at Cornell believes that this can be 00:19:08.849 --> 00:19:14.617 accomplished by a TSS TSS and this would be a final accumulation and 00:19:14.650 --> 00:19:20.627 idiocy. This. Yeah. And the aeronautic. First without doubt, I have water 00:19:20.660 --> 00:19:25.506 here. 00:19:25.539 --> 00:19:27.836 Well, because you really have to know about ecology whether you want to or 00:19:27.869 --> 00:19:32.887 not. And I'm a man who stands halfway between you and ecologists that is, 00:19:32.920 --> 00:19:36.377 I'm a recent convert. I'm not a biological scientist but I consume them 00:19:36.410 --> 00:19:40.357 and have learned from them and I make an enormous amount of income 00:19:40.390 --> 00:19:43.917 relative to me that is a man who has so long lived in ignominy and poverty. 00:19:43.950 --> 00:19:48.486 I make a fair amount chastising the likes of you have income out of all 00:19:48.519 --> 00:19:52.457 those who have a strong feeling of guilt about what you've been doing to 00:19:52.490 --> 00:19:57.877 the environment or if you don't have it should have. So I will talk now on 00:19:57.910 --> 00:20:01.236 the general subject of ecology and ecology is the basis for planning, 00:20:01.269 --> 00:20:04.506 because I've got to pump up some adrenaline. I will tell some stories 00:20:04.539 --> 00:20:11.207 which I need in order to pump up some adrenaline. Uh The first story, I 00:20:11.240 --> 00:20:14.687 use these mercilessly and if anybody can get me better ones, I'll replace 00:20:14.720 --> 00:20:20.147 the present ones with the ones you tell me for a moment. The first story 00:20:20.180 --> 00:20:23.207 is an image conceived by Loren Eiseley, a great cultural anthropologist at 00:20:23.240 --> 00:20:28.066 the University of pennsylvania. Eiseley realized that man was about to 00:20:28.099 --> 00:20:33.576 infest space. And he conceived at that time when man from space would be 00:20:33.609 --> 00:20:38.367 able to look from this disadvantage at the earth. This man in space, then 00:20:38.400 --> 00:20:42.167 hypothetical man in space was able to see the earth from this great 00:20:42.200 --> 00:20:46.147 distance. In the small rotating orb, he perceived it was green green from 00:20:46.180 --> 00:20:49.597 the maritime algae in the oceans, green from Virgil on land. He perceived 00:20:49.630 --> 00:20:53.157 the earth really was covered by green biosphere. It was indeed a green 00:20:53.190 --> 00:20:56.826 celestial fruit. And as you looked at it more closely perceived it on this 00:20:56.859 --> 00:21:01.236 green celestial fruit. Our home on the biosphere, there were blemishes, 00:21:01.269 --> 00:21:05.806 necrotic pathological tissue, brown, black gray and from these extended 00:21:05.839 --> 00:21:09.256 dynamic tentacles, he perceived that blemishes upon the world life 00:21:09.289 --> 00:21:13.637 epidermis, where in fact the city's works of man and asked is man but a 00:21:13.670 --> 00:21:18.397 planetary disease. And I think the conclusion is, if you were a planetary 00:21:18.430 --> 00:21:21.476 doctor from far out in space, looking about the and the earth and seeing 00:21:21.509 --> 00:21:25.847 the one species was multiplying itself at an exponential rate. And not 00:21:25.880 --> 00:21:29.056 only extra pitting other species but extra pitting the environment which 00:21:29.089 --> 00:21:32.986 was essential for its own survival, you would conclude indeed that man was 00:21:33.019 --> 00:21:36.046 a planetary disease. But if you looked at it a little bit more closely, 00:21:36.079 --> 00:21:40.217 one would also wish, of course, for a as a sort of celestial penicillin, 00:21:40.250 --> 00:21:44.887 which one could dust upon the particular planetary diseases and vaporize 00:21:44.920 --> 00:21:47.786 them, let's say. But it's important to recognize that not all men are 00:21:47.819 --> 00:21:52.256 quickly planetary diseases. The Defense Department is almost totally, I 00:21:52.289 --> 00:21:55.826 would say, composed of planetary disease. All these people have given 00:21:55.859 --> 00:22:02.746 themselves over to s the intercontinental ballistic missiles and um who 00:22:02.779 --> 00:22:06.897 are these Pietrus in people who are concerned with Numa cokie and anthrax 00:22:06.930 --> 00:22:11.066 and agents of biochemical warfare. These men may very well wake up in the 00:22:11.099 --> 00:22:14.316 morning wash shave dress, but you know, brush their teeth and put 00:22:14.349 --> 00:22:18.486 deodorant under the armpits. But they're deluding nobody. They are in fact 00:22:18.519 --> 00:22:23.937 not men, their ambulance pathological disease disguised as men. Their wife 00:22:23.970 --> 00:22:27.127 should not admit them to bed. Their Children shouldn't kiss them. Their 00:22:27.160 --> 00:22:30.857 friends shouldn't greet them to their ministers Rabbis and police should 00:22:30.890 --> 00:22:36.066 excoriate them. This should be reviled and persecuted. However, I think I 00:22:36.099 --> 00:22:38.857 don't want to dwell on this particularly, but merely to induce her 00:22:38.890 --> 00:22:44.847 inappropriate sense of guilt where it properly reposes. Uh So you know, if 00:22:44.880 --> 00:22:48.296 you have any reason for guilt, by all means accepted and I will give you 00:22:48.329 --> 00:22:53.167 some more. Um as a man who was born a presbyterian, I learned a 00:22:53.200 --> 00:22:56.177 fundamental lesson. That is the audience must have a profound sense of 00:22:56.210 --> 00:23:00.006 guilt before it will move towards salvation. And as we know, written on 00:23:00.039 --> 00:23:04.286 the wall, it's not many, many tickle a parson that says ecology, ecology, 00:23:04.319 --> 00:23:10.847 ecology. Truth there. We are planetary diseases. Um All of the atomic 00:23:10.880 --> 00:23:16.707 warfare people, uh the biochemical warfare people, the napalm defoliation 00:23:16.740 --> 00:23:21.296 people, the dow chemicals, Montrose chemicals, all of the reign of death. 00:23:21.329 --> 00:23:26.986 Patricia isn't disease types. This guy's as men. And of course our great 00:23:27.019 --> 00:23:32.697 great corporations whose products may be household words, but who are not 00:23:32.730 --> 00:23:38.177 yet talent trained uh certainly fall in this category too. Not least, of 00:23:38.210 --> 00:23:44.806 course. The great polluters of Detroit, all of these are without some 00:23:44.839 --> 00:23:50.627 degree or other planetary diseases. Alright, the next story is my own 00:23:50.660 --> 00:23:54.236 blood. From bread from introspection. On the proliferation of nuclear 00:23:54.269 --> 00:23:58.947 power And respect of this. Present in my nightmare. Some white coated 00:23:58.980 --> 00:24:06.066 sepulchral noncombatant warrior has decided that some temporary human 00:24:06.099 --> 00:24:12.006 squabble between. Some miscalled. The great powers can be resolved 00:24:12.039 --> 00:24:16.897 atomically and in nightmare. He resolves it atomically. And so the earth 00:24:16.930 --> 00:24:21.607 earth is covered with a rain of atomic weapons which extra pit all life 00:24:21.640 --> 00:24:25.826 save in one deep latin slit were long and you to radiation persists a 00:24:25.859 --> 00:24:30.197 small colony of algae. These little uni cellular plants and they perceive 00:24:30.230 --> 00:24:33.786 that all life has been extra pated saved. A and the whole business of 00:24:33.819 --> 00:24:39.447 evolution of mutation, cooperation, competition, adaptation, 2.5 billion 00:24:39.480 --> 00:24:43.556 years of this must ensue at least in order to recover only yesterday. And 00:24:43.589 --> 00:24:47.546 they come to an immediate spontaneous and unanimous conclusion next time. 00:24:47.579 --> 00:24:55.579 No brains. 00:25:05.339 --> 00:25:08.246 It's not an idle discussion this battle of brains because we believe of 00:25:08.279 --> 00:25:13.137 course a man is justified by brains that man is in fact man brain, 00:25:13.170 --> 00:25:16.586 everything from the neck up is splendid and justifies everything from the 00:25:16.619 --> 00:25:21.887 neck down is faintly sweaty, harry, carnal, sinful and the proper function 00:25:21.920 --> 00:25:27.127 of brain is for brain to subjugate dominate this carnal sweaty glandular 00:25:27.160 --> 00:25:33.417 lower part uh which is of course essentially Judaism and Christianity. And 00:25:33.450 --> 00:25:38.637 this has been extended to assume that man brain has exactly the same role 00:25:38.670 --> 00:25:44.036 to cardinal sweaty glandular nature and the role of man. Man brain is in 00:25:44.069 --> 00:25:48.647 fact to conquer and subjugate nature. So that if one wants to understand 00:25:48.680 --> 00:25:52.516 the enormous disaffiliated, which is the fruits of Western man's work over 00:25:52.549 --> 00:25:57.036 2.5 1000 years of time, then one can understand it beautifully in terms of 00:25:57.069 --> 00:26:01.167 the explicit creation story absorbed by Judaism, Christianity and humanism 00:26:01.200 --> 00:26:05.316 , which simply says that man is an exclusively divine everything else is 00:26:05.349 --> 00:26:08.976 rubbish. There's a hierarchy with men at the pinnacle God, the arc angels 00:26:09.009 --> 00:26:15.117 and man and then the sort of dandruff falls below and man is exclusively 00:26:15.150 --> 00:26:18.617 divine. He's given Dominion over life and nonlife Dominion. This is not a 00:26:18.650 --> 00:26:22.447 term for negotiations. Little discussion about Dominion lie down his 00:26:22.480 --> 00:26:25.836 dominions. The Sergeant Major view of the universe. Man is a Sergeant 00:26:25.869 --> 00:26:29.427 major and everything will bow down before him. And of course if you have 00:26:29.460 --> 00:26:33.496 any doubt about this text and the third line absolutely concludes. It says 00:26:33.529 --> 00:26:37.187 that man is licensed to subjugate the earth. And if you want to find a 00:26:37.220 --> 00:26:40.697 text for the non competent 00:26:40.730 --> 00:26:45.597 extra pitcher of all life, the man who wants to make atomic harbors with 00:26:45.630 --> 00:26:51.957 Alaskan harbors with atomic bombs or Panama canals or simply drive a 00:26:51.990 --> 00:26:55.597 bulldozer. You have in fact the perfect text here. If you want to see the 00:26:55.630 --> 00:26:58.836 reason, if you want to find the text which has motivated instruction 00:26:58.869 --> 00:27:02.736 accomplished by Western man at all time, that is a text. And if you want 00:27:02.769 --> 00:27:06.226 to see what the operator verb of Western man is towards nature, you find 00:27:06.259 --> 00:27:10.387 it it is in fact conquest and Dominion and subjugation. And of course 00:27:10.420 --> 00:27:14.486 brains are the instrument of conquest, Dominion and subjugation, we have 00:27:14.519 --> 00:27:19.226 got to see that this is a madness. But there's no conception of a man. Uh 00:27:19.259 --> 00:27:23.826 you know with an ambulance brain, one has to have the area from the neck 00:27:23.859 --> 00:27:29.546 down. And I am so glad we do. Uh There is no conception of man without 00:27:29.579 --> 00:27:35.147 nature uh matters. And in fact profoundly natural. This conception which 00:27:35.180 --> 00:27:39.887 is our view of nature is the basis for our conquest which really finally 00:27:39.920 --> 00:27:43.417 can only involve our self mutilation are self destruction. There's a view 00:27:43.450 --> 00:27:46.937 of man and nature which must be eliminated because neither does it have a 00:27:46.970 --> 00:27:52.377 neither has an adaptive value. No it doesn't has no adaptive value at all. 00:27:52.410 --> 00:27:56.357 But even worse is an absolute guarantee of our extinction. Our extinction 00:27:56.390 --> 00:28:00.026 will result from men who believe that they are exclusively divine. The 00:28:00.059 --> 00:28:05.117 nature is where is not protected by God, That man's role is to dominate 00:28:05.150 --> 00:28:09.887 nature and subjugated. And if you want the metaphysical symbol for Western 00:28:09.920 --> 00:28:12.536 man's due to nature, you can see it very explicitly in the garden of 00:28:12.569 --> 00:28:16.476 Versailles. I suggest to you this best represents our view of man and 00:28:16.509 --> 00:28:20.427 nature man. God in nature, the best symbol deserves being created. 00:28:20.460 --> 00:28:24.857 Consider it. This garden took half the Treasury of France during the life 00:28:24.890 --> 00:28:29.236 of louis the 14th to make the main axis was a mile and a half long. The 00:28:29.269 --> 00:28:33.316 cross axis is half a mile wide. The two axes come together. The the Palace 00:28:33.349 --> 00:28:37.016 of Versailles which the purpose of which is only to represent this 00:28:37.049 --> 00:28:42.296 conjunction at the axis in the Palace of Versailles is the bedroom of 00:28:42.329 --> 00:28:46.576 louis the 14th At the axes, in the bedroom is in fact the bed of Louis the 00:28:46.609 --> 00:28:52.306 14th and on the bed lies louis the 14th King, remembered by divine right 00:28:52.339 --> 00:28:57.627 lying transacted. You see by the twin axes with all nature Docile 00:28:57.660 --> 00:29:01.607 tractable plants gathered into an embroidery pattern line form, 00:29:01.640 --> 00:29:06.117 symbolizing his divinity, symbolizing and representing his Dominion over 00:29:06.150 --> 00:29:10.236 nature and his success in subjugating it. He louis the 14th, lying in his 00:29:10.269 --> 00:29:16.130 bed, regretting profoundly the fact that it was not entirely symmetrical.