Spencer Heath Archive

Item 919

Penciling in a notebook

Fall 1950?

Original -> 912

Social discovery —  That the tendency of atoms to combine /so/ as to form more and more complex molecules and of simple biological cells to organize themselves into progressively higher and more complex living beings culminating in man, so there is a like dominant tendency for large numbers of men unconsciously to enter into widespread reciprocal relationships by which they constitute themselves into an organic society — a living organization in which no longer are they mere creatures and destroyers but creators and builders of the environment whence they draw their lives and length of days.

     This new, recently emerging, large and vastly complex form of life, this social organism, has a unique function, a transcendent power, to the like of which no other form or organization of life has ever evolved or attained. All other living things, including men and the nomad, blood-bonded (familial) and the slave-bound (political) organizations of men, are mere consumers and destroyers of every bounty that environment fortuitously affords. They have no accumulating creative power and can only deplete and destroy. They are self-limited organizations of energy, like unstable atoms and molecules and other transitory forms of life doomed to eventual if not imminent extinction except as they evolve into higher and more enduring organizational forms. But the social organization of men

                                      /Breaks off/