Spencer Heath Archive

Item 207

Taping by Spencer MacCallum from conversation with Heath at Elkridge MD.

May 13, 1960

     The human ego is primarily animalistic (God didn’t breathe His breath into it until afterwards). That means parasitical. Things proceeding out of animal irrationality generally involve combat, slavery, parasitism. Subjective ideals not rooted in experience, without feet on the ground, are irrational, hence wholly fantastic, basically absurd.

     Ideology based on subjectivism is fundamentally absurd, tends towards combat, subjugation and so forth. Those humans who are most human intuit rationality, calling it morality, harmony (life). Those most animal intuit absurdity, irrationality, conflict. Relativistic science is the handmaiden of relativistic morality, having no intuitions of harmony, beauty, creativity. Hence it is that those who follow Einstein in the physical realm are but an extension of those who follow Marx at the social level. This helps to explain the frequent observation that many who are eminent in physical science are so benighted, socialistic, destructive, as regards any social science. And to hell with it — as the Irishman said. They have no inspiration from on high.

     I can amend what I said to refer to Einstein as a relativist and not to Einstein as a person. I’m taking him as a symbol.