Attainment of the Moon and Global Metamorphosis

It was through ignorance that war was used in the final stages of Earth's process of struggle to reach the Moon. That was possibly the only reason war was ever used at all. Had there not been that almost unknown, supernal goal, it is possible few wars would ever have been fought.

The question boils down now to whether to use war as an instrument of planetary self-government in the future, or not.

The past half-billion years of dinosaur-filled primitive evolution eventually was ended by human constructions-that first and suddenly attained the Moon only decades ago; during billions of years of future, life on Earth will never be the same.

The magnitude of changes now taking place are beyond estimation. Almost nothing is known except that, as many are fond of saying, "Enough war". Earth is tired of war. Scarred and polluted with war, still frantic from it, people all over the world wonder what impels the almost desperate ambitions to justify life as if life needs justification. Building great projects is a neurotic, unfeeling ritual, a rut of habit based on the ancient goal unremembered because of its then-mysterious nature. Whole cities, industries, nations and militaries are still constructed out of monotonous habit.

In each new generation, millions of young people are taught to have the ambitions of pre-Apollo goal-seeking, Spartan regimentation and the European merchant class. Nations are still, again, preparing for totally unecessary future war in numb ritual even as they celebrate new organizations and agreements which they fully intend and hope to honor, even as the no longer existing ancient formless compulsive goal of first attaining the Moon has already dissipated in the sudden, quick, brief success of the Apollo project like smoke on the water.

It's too bad that so many stubbornly, out of sheer pernicious envy or surprise, perhaps because they wanted to be the one's to go to the Moon, refuse to accept the fact of its success. Often they do not seem to accept the fact that, even if the "stories" about the Moon were fiction, they are awesomely close to the half-guessed truth known since primordial times, and the new 'stories' fit all of nature perfectly.

In that light the parallel is visible between two great streams in history. Chinese Taoist civilization was largely sedentary in that it remained in China, adhered from the first to the natural world, and interpreted it slowly and with great care through probability and changes. Technological progress was slow, at a natural rate and no attempt was made to hurry it.

It is a common, stupidly aggressive and monstrously irresponsible Romanesque military habit to invariably cast China's history as inferior or slow. China's role was cautious continuation of the prehistoric patience from proven evolutionary progress, nothing else; it was the conservative branch.

The common, beer-laden Western military mind, on seeing the timelines of China and the Egyptian-Mediterranean-European branch compared, to aggressively gesture with its weapons and say, "Yeah, we got there first, and we get to beat the s*** out of them". That is like a muscle-headed farm kid going out to climb a mountain, kill a bear, or defeat an enemy and on success, returning to the farm, and saying, "You didn't go out to climb and kill and defeat, so we get to beat you out of the world." The common, sheer idiot error is to forget completely that it was planet Earth that went to the Moon, that the Moon does not merely orbit the United States, America, Europe, the Mediterranean, Italy, Rome or Egypt.

Egyptian constructionist dynasties were ambitious in raising masses up through heights to the form famous, durable pyramids, and first estimated the energy of lifting a ship to the Moon. Egypt made from the start a very large mistake which would not be discovered until recently: it knew nothing of the mass-energy equivalence. But it eventually spread out through the Middle East and Mediterranean to Europe, bringing unnecessary war with it wherever it went.

Trade existed between the two realms, and inventions in each were carried to the other. From the same prehistoric origin, two different phases in different orders of progress by different means led to the same goal, the same Moon. You take the one road and I'll take the other road and we'll meet on the Moon together.

Eventually the Moon was reached, with immense losses of life and property. Wars were fought, almost certainly unnecessary wars in the light of whole-world judgement, until the very last. War had been used as a cruel instrument of research. At the very last, the world began reaching hurriedly toward ancient dreams of world-wide peace, communications, transportation and agreement, even automatic translation devices, like the Google Translate on this page, were sought and attained.

The sudden success is breathtaking. No reason now exists to pursue blindly any course toward any imaginable future goal. Yet even now, people in the rut of war are building their private, profit-seeking empires of war machines, hoping for more war, insisting that it must occur despite the facts of history and the hopes of billions of persons. Most of the population of the Earth just wants peace and time to figure out what's true and make it better. They want neighborhood gardens throughout every city, not bombs. They want a chance to tend their own lives, and gardens are at the very heart of the issue, not capricious jobs for capricious factories.

Resolving the balance between gardens and employment cannot be accomplished by one person, particularly not this starry-eyed writer. Yet one thing is clear; if governments do not permit individual persons and families, and small groups of these to form something closer to the nature of homes they can keep and gardens that provide them significant amounts of food, the problems will continue in the same monotonous, unnecessary (except for the Moon) way as they have in the past. Already success is being attained in those domestic factors; people just want freedom to cultivate the family and village scale of habitation in the loveliness of this planet and world.