From: jim@netlink.cts.com (Jim Bowery)
Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy
Subject: Re: Space and Fusion
Date: 12 Apr 92 04:59:52 GMT
Organization: NetLink Online Communications, San Diego CA

Steve Crocker writes:
>In a post here Jim Bowery points out aspects of the space and fusion
>research programs that seem designed to fail. He wonders if something
>more than ordinary stupidity might be at work here.
 
[Presentation of LaRouche's oligarchist vs republicanist paradigm.]
 
>(4) Particular government science policies should be considered
>battlegrounds where a three cornered war is being waged among
>those who oppose high technology, those who favor a tightly
>controlled technocracy, and those republican (small r) idealists
>who would unleash the power of technology to enlighten and 
>enrich the people of our nation and of the world.
 
A paradigm of history derived from genetic self-interest and human 
migratory patterns subsumes LaRouche's paradigm, providing somewhat 
different predictions:
 
The apparent conspiracy of oligarchists is a phenomenon that emerges 
from the genetic self-interest of a much larger population of people 
adapted to manipulating the laws of human nature to their advantage.
 
I call these the people of the "deep culture."
 
Deep cultures arise in habitats close to their carrying capacity,
where resources are limited and people are expendible.  Your 
"oligarchists" are simply those deep culture individuals who have
out-competed other deep culture individuals.
 
"Shallow cultures" are those at the periphery of human migration
in habitats far from their carrying capacity where people are
scarce and resources are expendible.  In such habitats, the
selective pressure favors those who can manipulate the laws
of nature (as opposed to HUMAN nature) to their own advantage.
 
The process by which polygyny expells excess males from habitats
close to their carrying capacity is the process by which human
migration and racial gradients arose in increasingly marginal
habitats.  Since those habitats require technological adaptation,
shallow cultures tend to be quite attuned to invention and
artificial wealth creation.  Once they have settled a habitat,
they are inevitably conquered by encroaching deep cultures.
 
Deep cultures, understanding the laws of human nature quite well
but not understanding the laws of nature very well, tend to be
very frightened of new technological developments which may
give temporary power to the shallow culture and slow the encroachment
of the deep culture.  
 
Eventually, however, the deep culture always wins.
 
The politicization of space and fusion appear to be simply an artifact
of the way deep cultures treat all activities, ie: as battlegrounds
 of personal influence and power rather than fields of innovation
 and progress.  This politicization has the side effect of selecting
out shallow culture individuals from the cashflows and routing
those cashflows to deep culture individuals who haven't a prayer
of advancing technology themselves.  Thus, for the deep culture,
a happy "accident" occurs in which they get paid for engaging in
political gamesmanship which indirectly suppresses the thing they
fear most:  technical progress and unmanageable wealth creation.
Naturally, deep culture politicos will have strong instincts against 
anything that decentralizes these technology projects.

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