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Neo-Tech is a matrix of new technology and techniques that identifies mysticism and neocheating. The purposes of this paper are l) to present a general overview describing the major contributions of businessmen, inventors, and rational thinkers to world civilization; 2) to relate the historical interaction between the honest, productive, and thinking people of the world, on the one hand, and the dishonest destructive mystics and neocheaters, on the other; and 3) to show how the State, one of the chief institutional bastions of the neocheater and mystic, has many times taken perfectly innocent technology and either tried to destroy it because it threatened the existing state of affairs, or used it in such a manner so as to enrich itself and its supporters. In other words, people who compose the State have used new inventions for anti-social and anti-life purposes.
Men and women who have been free of mysticism and neocheating have contributed the most to civilization throughout the ages. Mankind's material and spiritual welfare has depended on their being left alone and unhampered. Civilization has only progressed as these productive thinkers -- these creators -- have been able to offer their wares and ideas to the societies in which they live. Wherever and whenever the reigning powers have refused to allow this to happen, such societies have eventually floundered and civilization stagnated.
Civilization (by which we mean, human progress in the production of wealth, culture, and understanding) rests on the efforts of the trader, the independent thinker, and the honest person who respects other people's property, earns what he gets, and refuses to give or take the undeserved. Since the very dawn of civilization, there has been an ongoing struggle between those who had the brains and courage to dream of and then implement new ideas intended to improve mankind's standard of living, and those who were dead set to maintain the status quo and preserve their positions of power in the world as it existed. The innovators and free-thinkers have often been met with the gravest suspicion and hostility, regardless of the benefits they offered. Many of the great inventions of human progress have been labelled fantasies by the priestcraft and pseudo intellectuals of their day. The struggle of businessmen and inventors to grow, produce, and distribute values while under the constant dishonest attack of the mystics and neocheaters has never ceased.
Although some inventors and businessmen have turned into neocheaters themselves, for the most part, they have been benevolent, heroic, and moral figures. Their opponents -- the mystics and neocheaters -- have always been malevolent, villainous, and immoral since they have been intent upon using force, violence, mysticism, and irrationalism (often under the power of the reigning government) to subdue their opponents and stifle change. The historical fact of the matter is that very seldom have the innovators -- the businessmen and inventors -- had the desire or the need to enforce their ideas and projects at the point of a gun or to justify them under false pretenses. The values offered by the businessman-inventor sustain themselves. Such people rely on reality to convince other people of the values they offer. They deal with men by means of free, voluntary, unforced, uncoerced exchange -- an exchange which benefits both parties. Their opponents are the priesthood, government, and pseudo intellectuals who use information for the purpose of dominating and controlling other peoples' lives.
These basic skills and tools were developed over the millenniums. Early man certainly lived a difficult and dangerous life. Food had to be gathered and animals had to be hunted and killed. Man was primarily a forager and when food became scarce he moved on to a new area, keeping only what he could carry with him. The animals he hunted were often stronger, larger, and better endowed by nature for combat. But Stone Age man had other advantages.
He was a biped and the use of his hands gave him an enormous advantage.
Stone Age man's most important advantage over the animal kingdom was that he possessed a brain which permitted him to think and then arrive at solutions to his problems. Even though he might be disadvantaged physically, his superior mental abilities -- when he chose to exercise them -- allowed him to escape the automatic controls of nature.
Eventually this led to the development of consciousness as outlined by the Princeton Professor Julian Jaynes in his book, The Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind, Houghton Mifflin, 1976, and further identified by Frank R. Wallace in Neo-Tech III, I&O Publishing, 1980. Consciousness presented man with a dilemma: Consciousness allows choices and actions beyond the bounds set by nature.
Tools were first made of naturally formed rocks and stones. These first "tools" were probably used for pounding, throwing, and placing an edge on other pebbles. The ability to control fire allowed Stone Age man to not only keep himself warm, but made it possible for him to cook meat and increase the variety of his diet.
As man's Stone Age tools became more refined, the most inventive realized that even more sophisticated tools could be created. To chop down a small tree, trim off its branches, and impart a point to one end, required the invention of the hand axe. Some unknown innovator and benefactor to humanity thought that securing a sharp-edged rock to a sturdy stick would result in a more powerful and productive tool; and he was right. The hand axe was a many purpose instrument which could be used to fashion a wood spear, a digging stick, or to skin animals and cut up meat. Even on this primitive level of technology, man could use his tools aggressively against other men. Laziness as a cause of neocheating and mysticism emerged. It was far easier to use a hand axe or spear as a threat to expropriate cooked meat from another's campfire than to hunt down an animal, build a fire, and cook it.
The bow is one of the world's oldest machines with more than one part and is certainly the oldest energy storing device. It had an enormous influence on the development of Stone Age man, turning him into a much more efficient hunter. For the first time he could hunt animals farther away than the distance he could throw a spear. Thus man's inability to run as fast as the animals he was hunting no longer placed him at a disadvantage. The date of invention and the inventor of the bow and arrow are not known, but the earliest pictorial representation of the bow is found in a North African cave painting that dates from 30,000 to 15,000 B.C. The oldest surviving bow dates from around 10,000 B.C. and was found preserved in a bog in Denmark.
The person or persons responsible for originating, implementing, and mastering the use of these and other Stone Age inventions were individuals who chose to observe the world around them. They perceived that improvement to their own welfare could only come about through the application of human energy, multiplied by tools, to natural resources. Human energy -- the strength of any one individual man or woman -- was limited by nature; but if tools could be devised, that strength could be concentrated or increased many times. Such inventions as the hand axe and the bow illustrate this.
The inventor or discoverer was often made a social outcast -- a leper -- since he upset the existing state of affairs. It is an undisputed fact that many of the world's greatest inventions have been labelled fantasies by the priesthood -- by those interested in preserving the status quo. The god or gods would be angry at man for daring to harness nature to satisfy his needs in a more efficient or new way. Although we have no written records from the Stone Age, the Greek mythological figure, Prometheus, who captured fire for man, illustrates the banishment meted out to those thinkers and creators who dared to break with the established traditions. Similarly, thousands of years later, the Inquisition again exemplified the neocheaters' treatment of those who dared to think for themselves. Imprisoned and tortured, heretics were considered outcasts from society. In fact, mankind's cyclical history of `dark ages' then `renaissances' and `enlightenments' and then `dark ages' again is indicative of the age-long struggle between those who choose to live through automatic laziness, while attacking the values produced by others, and those who live through integrated and value-building (i.e., productive) efforts. It is the perennial struggle between the politician, the theologian, the witch doctors, the Attilas, the Hitlers, and the elitists against all the Atlases -- the honest, hard working and hard thinking people, including industrialists,
businessmen, and scientists -- of the world.
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I. Purpose
II. Introduction
III. The Major Contributions of Businessmen, Inventors, and Rational Thinkers to World Civilization
[Note: World Population 25,000 years ago was about 3,500,000]The Basic Tools and Skills of the Hunter and Food Gatherer
The Development of Consciousness
The Hand Axe and Spear
The Bow and Arrow
The Societal Situation of the Innovator During the Stone Age
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