As Letter to the Reader

This little book should be regarded as a letter in itself to all decent thinking people on the planet Earth (28). It is a recipe for the solution of the one and only problem that is facing mankind which is: his own extermination by his own hands. Normally, it is not usual for a scientific work, to look like a letter to the reader, but rather is a reader silently understood. I must speak to you reader, because the problems we have to deal with and the solution, constitute such vital knowledge, vital for you and everybody else, that, after coming to know, you are under the obligation to do something. In everyday life situations, not knowing might be an excuse for not acting properly, for acting wrongly, or for refraining from action. There might not be enough and easy access to knowledge, one simply has not been told. In our case however, all humanity is directly at stake, and, when you have read, you know. When you know, you do something. A similar warning of gaining responsibility through getting to know, was once given (though not heeded) by Tietjens (1931) with regard to the knowledge of ideation, of human influence and thinking (for curation, education, etc.) as explained in his book Desuggestion. It made the medicine men of today directly responsible for the unnecessary suffering, often for life (asthma, epilepsy, migraine, sleep troubles, anorexia ideata and other phobias or compulsions etc.). Unnecessary, because an expert session of one or two afternoons would effect a cure. The very theory underlying it was already published in 1815 (Waterloo year) by Brandis. Experiments, since, did confirm. Tietjens in fact said:

Either what I write here is true, and in that case it is of infinite practical importance for every human being; or else it is false, and then its acceptance would be infinitely dangerous. Everyone, therefore, who is not completely asocial, everyone who possesses a spark of idealism, MUST EITHER HELP IN THE DIFFUSION OF THESE IDEAS OR MUST ENTER HIS PROTEST AGAINST THEM [capitals mine]. He cannot venture to ignore them. (capitals mine)

This warning, as said, was with regard to direct human happiness, but it is just as appropriate for this book here in hand. You see, reader, you simply cannot know and do nothing. Originally, I was involved in the preparation of a much larger book about our problem, its cause, and its solution, but, as we all know, time is getting short, the need for immediate action is so imperative, that I decided to write a very short abstract of the solution first. Besides, I do not know how to get such a large work on social scientific matters printed, in competition with all the trash that is rolling from the presses nowadays (29). Says H.G. Wells, the excellent (and only) mondial sociologist (30):

Our schoolteachers have had no proper training themselves, and they miseducate by example and precept, and so it is that our press and current discussions are more like an impromptu riot of cripples and deaf and blind minds than an intelligent interchange of ideas.

The clearheaded reader can observe this all about him up to the smallest detail, from the foul anchor as symbol of seafaring, to the teacher that cannot teach, barely write. As Spencer shows, all laymen in social issues are always ready to produce their opinions on these issues. And, it is a fact that even social scientists are laymen in mind science, in ... social science. They are not interested in the workings of mind, i.e. in ideation. Most social scientific literature ... ? Rubbish indeed (31). According to Haeckel, this has been so since 1911, and Spencer, Wells and others knew it to be true earlier than that. So, lacking the means of having the large work printed by private ways, yet the need for action getting greater everyday, I try a short version first, and go and search for a merciful purse. The main book was originally planned to be called: Catastrophe or Education, derived from Wells' very pointed statement of:

The outlook for mankind is a race between education and catastrophe. Outlook.

World-Problems ask for World-Solutions and this is solely a question of (re-) education. All man-made problems are ideational (and number dependent), not physical, thus, an ideational (educative) solution is required (see also Wells' 'Joan & Peter', 1918). He knew it, in 1930. It is high time that we come to know, a 55 years later. Know about our problems, but most of all ... the solution. In his days, the nuclear bomb was not invented yet, trees were not dying so perceptibly, but, ... there already was the problem of man's suicide clear to see, from 3000 years of literature onwards.

I am talking about the inevitable time when, unless we do something to stop it, men will be hunting men through the ruins for food. Wyndham, Lichen.