Spencer Heath Archive

Item 961

Penciling on 3×5 cards numbered with gaps as if to leave space for filling in details in outlining an intended larger writing: 1, 3, 5, 10, 12, 13, 30, 50.

Cards together with those of Item 360,

No date

Original -> 960

 

 

 

 

1

This book –

Not the work of a scholar with a great fund of factual data and specific information

One who sees nature and

 

3

Foundation –

Need of knowledge of society

Advance in all other fields

No improvement in political organization or governmental technique for 6,000 years

Why?

 

10

What is Society

Examine the fundamentals

 

The inorganic

How it organizes

Life – unicellular

 “     multicellular

Plant and animal

Symbiosis – organization between parts or individuals

Parasitism – opposite of organization

 

11

Symbiosis as among individuals – chiefly with animals

Biological ties

Family – pack – herd – flock – clan – tribe –

Dependence on nature

Environmental compulsion

Roving habit

Life span – population

Abundance (natural) – increase of life span and numbers.

Scarcity – shorter life span – increase of numbers

Mutual deduction /?/

 

12

Strife – the necessary animal state

Best adjusted survive

Population cycle:

1. Abundance – 2 numbers – 3 Scarcity – 4 greater numbers shorter span – 5 survival of best adjusted

  1 Abundance (for survivors) – 2 numbers – 3 scarcity…

 

13

Working on the environment – instinctive

Working on environment – conscious, not attained by animals, – by mere symbiosis

 

30

How Government Destroys Society

 

50

The Service of Society to the Individual

 

     Spiritual life

 

 

 

Possible division of topics:

 

1.  A Look at the Animal World

 

2.  A Look at the Human World

 

   Animal association versus human association

 

 

   The aesthetic world