Native principles of life form one's character as one willingly ratifies inherent raison d'etre thru participation. Any family, tribe, city or unit-of-being works on the basis of essential principle. Life-potentiality undergirds one's calling in life, and as one is willing, life-potentiality commands and demands within, by and by contributing to the grand designs of culture.

The genuine is also pure and ennobling, showing forth justice and balance. Life being very keenly tuned, justice and balance commend all parts to the oneness, the concord of life. At heartcore one discovers this. Basic justice and balance show one the genuine culture, any culture to which one affinitizes.

Thru direct experience, thru also reflection and memory, the raison d'etre at heartcore points the way and illumines. Genuine character contributes to the culture-stream. One finds degrees of the worth of the culture-stream and loves its purpose; in so loving one participates in its current--something fresh thus aborning, renewing and perfecting.

Excelsior! This referred to the persistent urge of the inhabitants to get more and more thru the stock market system, where stockshare price might go Ever Higher! What marvellous simplification of the myriad issues of life into one predominate transnational value-- stockshare prices! It was no small marvel that the elite in the land of We had gradually selectively engineered themselves into what became computerized marketshare preferential holders. Their ardor for prestigious ranking in the empire had finally thru centuries crystallized a previously erratic system, finally, to order and efficiency. All products and objects in the land could have a computerized value according to what might be fetched pricewise on the market. "What is its worth in We the System? What will it fetch? Let's check the market computer." It was so efficient! The elite's very existence hinged upon their prestigious marketshare holdings. A certain biting fear nagged at the commoners who might slip outside the System.

"Fear being left behind!" No one shouted that gold was king, that fear was the essential driver of the System ("Hurry to keep up!"), that state supervision was everywhere practically. No, because these were nicely integrated into Scientific Efficiency the System. These were just components which had a price, their computerized value! "We are thorough, We are computerized!"

Approaching a wondrous robotic existence, then, We the System, the popular name of this region, had moved on thru the Turnover Period and was no longer referred to as We the People. In the Turnover Period the inhabitants had become convinced that greater benefit would derive from turningover everything to computerized market-valuation. Yet, the transition period toward robotization was painful, as little qualms of personal choice in the land had to be purged out of the inhabitants thru genetic engineering. "What We need is...." How many times one heard that! State Security still flashed their little red signal "Fear We and live!" electronically. The national law was of course Efficiency.

A soothing and dulling of biologic aches and pains was still necessary, but probably not for much longer. Ah, the greatness, that balm and tranquilizer, what but Efficiency?

It was autumn 0101. Several bands of ranking SciEff gathered at a Vermont resort to honor the Way. Efficiency was the very language of the computers, and the intelligence-force named Efficiency! was rallying his captains to greater honor. "Become Efficient! Effective! Affluent! Unstoppable! Marketshare prices then go up and up!" Oh, that irrestible logic, the rates! The captains felt so soothed--higher price-ratings! Growth of holdings at the rate of 3% a year had long been surpassed, that rate was sneered at. Even the low-rated inhabitants wondered why 3% a year accumulation was so often their limit. That was merely treading water. "If We is to become We!, then the rate must increase to no less than 7% a year." Well, computers had gained at more than that, so it must be possible thru Efficiency. But these vacation sessions were remarkably alike. What other path, though? Even to think outside the System logic was of course Inefficient. "Inefficient!" was a wake-up call all right. "Let's not get our signals crossed now," State Security would coo to both themselves and the public. Yes, Security was the glue holding everything nicely in place, its correct price-rate place! "Why, just check current ratings page!", the Security page of course.

Surrounding these two approaches to life there is often enough confusion here in America. Social engineering is not particularly sacred, so while we have individual initiative, shall we?

America has systems--to some of us tools serve our purpose, to some of us people should not become the slaves of a controlling system; rather, the system or systems must be answerable and redressible by the people--as directly as possible--for the common good. I have heard it said that "Science is amoral, it does not determine or address right and wrong, it only presents data and theories." I do not agree with this viewpoint because the scientific tradition/discipline in this viewpoint is conceived as Efficient System a priori, and in fact this viewpoint has or hints at a corollary of potent all-controlling Efficiency. A dilemma is here then, since science means simply knowing, the knowing process in its linguistic root.

We really do not need to start with conclusions but rather with working tools, try some methods, and sustain workable attitudes which can well lead to truth and its appreciation and usage. Science should hardly become bureaucratic, as the spirit of investigation, testing and openness does not harmonize well with the oft clumsy controls of bureaucracy. Nor can science be a finished product. Mind must be, at least in part, unbiased in the quest and pliant to the light--hence derives the knowing process. Knowing is no pile of data, but rather a process including insight, clue, crosschecking, weight of evidence, some reference points.

Science is not simply a method or system to drive man's wants and desires upon the universe. Not at all, but some will persist in this attitude and design, thinking themselves to be legitimately scientific. Should not truth have strong correlations amid life?

The scientific process/path draws conscientious ones onward toward the essential life-principles and to conformity thereto. In contrast, a much adhered to system tends to generate habit and rigidity. Even dynamic systems such as the automobile-&-road system itself may fall short in overall life-coordination because what is gained and lost in achieving high degrees of physical mobility also is wedded to the mobility of thought and should be qualified thereby carefully, in perspective. If man's thoughtlessness is wedded to high mobility, then shallow culture/empire is the upshot.

Another illustration comes in contrasting system to raison d'etre--to central life-purposes. The case of the circulatory system is interesting here. The heart must use rapport, must be masterfully designed and oriented toward masterful design in goodwill if its vast and comprehensive tasks are to unfold well. Correlation of factors in life cannot really be done cheaply. First must be a soundness, a thoroughness of intent that resists being halfway, and later may weigh in how economic one's correlation-of-life-factors process is. Systems come and go, yet truth has been discovered to exhibit constancy. Which do we prefer--the truth-endeavor or convenient methodology not sharpened and spurred on by welcomed scintillating beams of light? This is our crossroads, for people either welcome or do not welcome the light.

Life requires no hack methodologies, being in its intelligence and scope more wondrous and tuned than the mere trial and error process. Science allows for truth, limits via its discipline repetitious rounds of trial and error via exposure of error and analysis.

People can directly know that the light shines steadily, that light proceeds coherently, not haphazardly. Notice the sun. Because we can appreciate this truth, we can become this truth and enjoy sun-centered existence. All can be light-oriented. Memory retains moreso the imprint of beauty than the imprint of trial-and-error. The vantage-ground of truth, as Lord Bacon phrased, suffices nicely and one may from there sacrifce freely toward truth's abundant unceasing unbroken onflow.

We know man carries free will; we know man requires, from start to finish, something greater than bananas and monkey-business. Man must not bastardize thought into thoughtlessness, but orient to the light-dynamic, not least because it is beautiful and because he is so directed in goodwill and freedom. Ho.