Spencer Heath Archive

Item 486.

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All existence is action. Action requires structure, motion, time.

Existence is only a word for action that is obscure or unknown.

States of being, such as heavy or light, hot or cold, light or dark, are in reality kinds of action in which the motion and time, as such, are obscure.

Motion that is collisional disorganizes structure.

Structures least organized have least complex mass, shortest motion and highest frequency or time — minimum duration, shortest cycle of action. Structures most organized have most diversity of parts — complexity of mass – most diversity of motion without collision, and lowest fre­quency or time — maximum duration, longest cycle of organization.

     Family (clan, tribe) is mere biological organization. It has no bond but blood. Without social organization, it is nomadic, predatory on its environment and on its own kind. Nomads do not sow and reap, produce and create. They only destroy. Since many must perish it is best that the strong should survive. War is normal to nomadism. – All their extra-tribal relationships are collisional.

     Society is a higher form of organization. It does not depend on family.  Its members have no need to be related by blood or descent. They have a psychological bond. They practice a new kind of ownership and property — not self-serving property owned for the use of self, but social-ized property owned for the use and service of others. All property so held is capital property, property with respect to which contracts are made for its use or exchange. Ownership is the psychological relationship between men through which contracts are made.

     The social organization consists of and is distinguished by its non-collisional relationships. Covenant or contract is the only alternative to collision and conflict.