Prometheus Rising by Aaron Johnson Read Free Book Online

anarchism) or
    affinity-groups (Reich's "Consciousness III"). Recall the hippie
    crash-pad of the sixties, which lives on in many rural communes.
    Back in the real world, the tickets called "money" are the biosurvival
    bond for most people. Anti-Semitism is a complex
    aberration, of many facets and causes, but in its classic form (the
    "Jewish Bankers' Conspiracy") it simply holds that a hostile
    gene-pool controls the tickets for bio-security. Such paranoia is
    inevitable in a money economy; junkies have similar myths
    about who controls the supply of heroin. Thus, as anti-Semitism
    has declined in America, the "Bankers' Conspiracy" lives on in a
    new form. Now the villains are old New England WASP families,
    the "Yankee Establishment." Some Leftists will even show
    you charts of the genealogies of these WASP bankers, the way
    anti-Semites used to show Rothschild genealogies.
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    C.H. Douglas, the engineer and economist, once made up a
    chart, which he showed to the MacMillan Commission in 1932
    when they were discussing money and credit regulation. The
    chart graphed the rise and fall of interest rates from the defeat of
    Napoleon in 1812 to the date the Commission met in 1932, and
    on the same scale, the rise and fall of the suicide rate in that one
    twenty-year period.
    The two curves were virtually identical. Every time the interest
    rate went up, so did the suicide rate; when interest went
    down, so did suicide. This can hardly be "coincidence." When
    interest rises, a certain number of businessmen go bankrupt, a
    certain number of workers are thrown out of their jobs, and
    everybody's bio-survival anxiety generally increases.
    Marxists and other radicals are urgently aware of such factors
    in "mental health" and hence scornful of all types of academic
    psychology which ignore these bio-survival issues. Unfortunately,
    the Marxist remedy—making everybody dependent for
    bio-survival on the whims of a State bureaucracy—is a cure
    worse than the disease.
    Bio-survival anxiety will only permanently disappear when
    world-wide wealth has reached a level, and a distribution, where,
    without totalitarianism, everyone has enough tickets.
    The Hunger Project, the idea of the Guaranteed Annual
    Income, Douglas' National Dividend plan, etc. represent groping
    toward that goal. The ideal can only be achieved in a technology
    of abundance.
    Extreme cases—persons who take their heaviest imprint on
    the first (oral) circuit—tend to be viscerotonic, because this
    imprint determines lifelong endocrine and glandular processes.
    Thus, in extreme they are "baby-faced" in adult life, never lose
    their "baby-fat," are plump and round and gentle, etc. They are
    easily "hurt" (threatened: terrified) by disapproval of any sort,
    because in the baby-circuit of the brain, disapproval suggests
    extinction by loss of the food supply.
    We all have this circuit and need to exercize it periodically.
    Cuddling, sucking, hugging etc. and daily playing with (a) one's
    own body (b) another's body and (c) the environment, are perpetually
    necessary to neurosomatic-endocrine health. Those who
    deny such primordial functions because of rigid imprinting on
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    the Third (rationalistic) or Fourth (moralistic) circuit tend to
    become "dried up," "prune-faced," unattractive, "cold," and
    muscularly rigid.
    The baby-functions of playing with one's own body, another's
    body and the environment continue throughout life in all
    animals. This "playfulness" is a marked characteristic of all conspicuously
    healthy individuals of the sort Maslow calls "selfactualizers."
    If this initial imprint is negative—if the universe in general
    and other humans in particular are imprinted as dangerous,
    hostile and frightening—the Prover will go on throughout life
    adjusting all perceptions to fit this map. This is what is known as
    the "Injustice Collector" syndrome (in the language of Dr.
    Edmund Bergler).