Spencer Heath Archive

Item 147

Pencil by Heath on notepad paper,

an outline for an intended writing or a talk,

or just thinking with a pencil in hand?

No date

 

 

 

Society

Biological nature

Living organisms

Kinds of units

Cosmic  — Physical

Organic — Vegetable

          Animal

Animal Units

Degrees of Consciousness

 Imagination

 Rational power

Human Units

         Tribal, Pastoral, Agricultural, Mercantile, Industrial

 

Patriarchal

Political

Exchange relationship Seizure relationship

Ancient world dominantly

Oriental – Despotic

 Seizure basis

Medieval world

Spontaneous – Feudal

Exchange basis

Corrupted by despotic tradition

 

Modern world

Political department – Seizure

Economic department – Exchange

 

Conflict between Government and Business (exchange)

Basis of Conflict

Seizures

Pathology of Restrictionism

Disemployment

Scarcity

Speculation

Monopoly

Why pathology in any organism?

Under function – Over function

Government as Restraint

To forbid and to command

Government as Service

To aid and exchange

Nature of group enterprise

Specific labor

Administrative labor

Government as a group enterprise

Specific services – political

Administrative services – proprietary

How can this functional adjustment be attained?

Two motivations:

Animal – tropic

Human  – aesthetic

 

All to what avail?