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En Garde, whole no. 17, April 1946
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page 16. dimensions, within the cosmos, the future is uncertain, the past is known only through an imperfect mechanism known as memory, and even the present impresses itself upon him meagerly through his five limited senses. Yet this limited creature fears to face the idea of fatalism, for, as soon as he conceives an immutable future, he essays to switch his viewpoint to that of the external Sentience and say that things cannot be changed, and there's no use to try. Fatalism in the Orient has almost invariably had this effect; the Arab says "Kismet," and wraps himself in his robes and waits for whatever will come. Even though it is quite obvious that what comes will be different than what would come if he went out and got it. Now that last sentence sounds as if I had changed my viewpoint, doesn't it? Well, I did. I changed from the viewpoint of the external sentience to that of the internal one. And, once inside the cosmos, time takes a hand and we really don't know what the future will bring. Some people do succeed in their ventures, as a result of their own efforts. This seems to indicate that the future can be changed. actually, it means that effort---energy---has been applied to achieve a certain end. The time-lines of certain energy quanta, and of certain atoms flow toward that event. Putting it simpler, if it was foredoomed that you accomplish your aims, you'll go out and accomplish them, in spite of all fatalistic philosophies. If you are foredoomed to fail, you'll fail in spite of all the philosophies to the contrary. And a man can believe in fatalism and still be a dynamic being. Look at Napoleon and his Star of Destiny. It happens that many of the trends of modern physics seem to be leading toward a theory of the universe that demands fatalism as a part of its philosophy. The time will come when the average man will be forced to choose between the fatalism of oriental acquiesence and the dynamic fatalism of which I have been speaking. There can be little doubt that nations like those of the middle east will choose the first form. But Dynamic Fatalism must, and will, become the philosophy of, at least, such intellectually awake nations as the United States. HaIoursetthedynamicfatalismthateverdrivesmetopublishfanzinesandearna HOW MUCH HYPOTHESIS ? Aldous Huxley, TIME MUST HAVE A STOP, has this to say about the subject: "No working hypothesis means no motive for starting the research, no reason for making one experiment rather than another, no rational theory for bringing sense or order to the observed facts. Contrariwise, too much working hypothesis means finding only what you know, dogmatically, to be there and ignoring all the rest." ---- Donn Brazier.
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page 16. dimensions, within the cosmos, the future is uncertain, the past is known only through an imperfect mechanism known as memory, and even the present impresses itself upon him meagerly through his five limited senses. Yet this limited creature fears to face the idea of fatalism, for, as soon as he conceives an immutable future, he essays to switch his viewpoint to that of the external Sentience and say that things cannot be changed, and there's no use to try. Fatalism in the Orient has almost invariably had this effect; the Arab says "Kismet," and wraps himself in his robes and waits for whatever will come. Even though it is quite obvious that what comes will be different than what would come if he went out and got it. Now that last sentence sounds as if I had changed my viewpoint, doesn't it? Well, I did. I changed from the viewpoint of the external sentience to that of the internal one. And, once inside the cosmos, time takes a hand and we really don't know what the future will bring. Some people do succeed in their ventures, as a result of their own efforts. This seems to indicate that the future can be changed. actually, it means that effort---energy---has been applied to achieve a certain end. The time-lines of certain energy quanta, and of certain atoms flow toward that event. Putting it simpler, if it was foredoomed that you accomplish your aims, you'll go out and accomplish them, in spite of all fatalistic philosophies. If you are foredoomed to fail, you'll fail in spite of all the philosophies to the contrary. And a man can believe in fatalism and still be a dynamic being. Look at Napoleon and his Star of Destiny. It happens that many of the trends of modern physics seem to be leading toward a theory of the universe that demands fatalism as a part of its philosophy. The time will come when the average man will be forced to choose between the fatalism of oriental acquiesence and the dynamic fatalism of which I have been speaking. There can be little doubt that nations like those of the middle east will choose the first form. But Dynamic Fatalism must, and will, become the philosophy of, at least, such intellectually awake nations as the United States. HaIoursetthedynamicfatalismthateverdrivesmetopublishfanzinesandearna HOW MUCH HYPOTHESIS ? Aldous Huxley, TIME MUST HAVE A STOP, has this to say about the subject: "No working hypothesis means no motive for starting the research, no reason for making one experiment rather than another, no rational theory for bringing sense or order to the observed facts. Contrariwise, too much working hypothesis means finding only what you know, dogmatically, to be there and ignoring all the rest." ---- Donn Brazier.
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