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<h2>forward</h2>
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<p> in
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********************* EVERYDAY LIFE ********************</p>
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<p> by
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T.B. PAWLICKI
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I (C) COPYRIGHT 1988 I
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I T.B. Pawlicki I
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I 843 FORT STREET I
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I VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA I
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I <span class="GPE">CANADA</span> I
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I______________________________I </p>
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<p> Thank you for participating in a pioneering publishing </p>
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<p>venture. </p>
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<p> Mass communication has progressed through four major </p>
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<p>transformations. The first revolution separated the author from </p>
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<p>his audience by means of writing; the LITERATI became a secret </p>
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<p>society of COGNOSCENTI that used its exclusive knowledge to </p>
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<p>dominate the ignorant masses. Modern democracy began when movable </p>
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<p>type made it possible for a message to be received by everyone </p>
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<p>who could read. Recently, radio broadcasting countered the first </p>
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<p>and second revolutions by delivering messages to everyone who </p>
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<p>can't read; television is likely to be the MATADOR of democracy. </p>
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<p>The capital cost of printing plants and broadcasting studios </p>
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<p>limits the messengers to parties of power and wealth, whose </p>
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<p>messages are determined to maintain the STATUS QUO --- natcherly </p>
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<p>--- especially their own status plus all the more quid they can </p>
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<p>quo. The tragic consequence of mass communications has been the </p>
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<p>dissemination of tendencious knowledge to enslave the minds of </p>
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<p>mankind, rather than free us to experience our own ignorance </p>
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<p>until we learn better. A truly free press for truly free minds </p>
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<p>could not exist until the personal home photocopier brought </p>
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<p>publishing within the economic capacity of every person with a </p>
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<p>message and postage. As well as reducing the cost of copying to a </p>
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<p>few pennies per kilowatt hour, the computer completes the </p>
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<p>revolution of mass communications by restoring audience feedback. </p>
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<p>As camels and soups show, quality goes down as participation </p>
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<p>increases, but participation is better for the participators; </p>
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<p>eventually, participators support higher standards.</p>
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<p> Since authors began to write, instead of speaking directly </p>
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<p>to their audience, ideas have flowed in one direction, only. It </p>
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<p>is, however, as impossible to teach without learning as it is to </p>
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<p>learn without teaching, which is why so little is learned from </p>
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<p>reading books. For the first time since the advent of writing, </p>
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<p>the computer makes it possible for readers to contribute to the </p>
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<p>discourse and transform a lecture into a dialogue, a </p>
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<p>conversation, a seminar, a workshop, a global town meeting.</p>
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<p> Finding a publisher for my first book, How To Build A
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Flying Saucer, took nearly ten years; nearly ten more years
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passed while my market grew to critical mass by word of mouth. </p>
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<p>Now people are reading my first book as if the ideas were as hot </p>
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<p>as tomorrow's news, but a whole generation has grown up to </p>
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<p>drinking age --- and another generation has died of cirrhotic </p>
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<p>livers --- since I was working out those early insights. My </p>
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<p>ideas develop so rapidly that I had to rewrite the manuscript </p>
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<p>every year until it was published. Once printed, however, the </p>
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<p>printing plates are as immutable as graven stone. As soon as I </p>
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<p>began to write my personal correspondence on computer, I </p>
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<p>realized that this electronic medium keeps discoveries alive and </p>
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<p>growing through pooling contributions in ways not feasible by </p>
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<p>any other means of communication. The entire industry is built</p>
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<p>by fielding half-baked ideas and then improving them with </p>
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<p>consumer feedback, as it goes along; no other industry advances </p>
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<p>so fast, and in no other industry do the suppliers lag behind </p>
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<p>the advances made by their own demanders. And thus it came to </p>
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<p>pass as I was speaking to the Global Sciences Congress, held at </p>
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<p>Denver in August, l987, that the idea came to me to offer my </p>
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<p>audience my current manuscripts explaining HYPERSPACE to
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everyone who would participate by also sharing their ideas on </p>
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<p>computer discs.</p>
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<p> Ideally, a book of this nature should be transmitted over </p>
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<p>wires to be downloaded by Special Interest Groups on </p>
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<p>international networks. In the present state of the art, </p>
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<p>however, computers still cannot replace paper. This </p>
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<p>unrealistically jealous industry has not yet made files </p>
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<p>universally readable, like sound and film tapes, and it is still </p>
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<p>impractical to transmit text formats and illustrations through </p>
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<p>wires. Even after the computer industry gets its parameters </p>
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<p>together, all of us early worms will remain stuck with our </p>
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<p>capital investments. Therefore, I have decided to print my </p>
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<p>manuscripts onto discs for postal distribution to the computers </p>
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<p>being used now.
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---</p>
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<p> This enterprise will succeed only if each reader will make </p>
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<p>at least two copies and pass them on. Some readers may not know </p>
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<p>three other people with compatible computers, so it is hoped </p>
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<p>that readers with the most popular computer models will pass on </p>
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<p>to their computing friends as many copies as they feel this </p>
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<p>publication is worth. If anyone can make conversions to </p>
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<p>unpopular computers, a copy returned to me will be passed on to </p>
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<p>other readers out in left field.</p>
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<p> This brings us to the matter of copyrights. Most people
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believe that anyone may freely copy published material in any </p>
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<p>numbers for any purpose as long as the copies are not sold for a </p>
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<p>profit (*1). If legal process were not so expensive, a lot of </p>
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<p>copycats would learn how very mistaken they are. Copyright </p>
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<p>entitles the author to assign legal permission to make copies and </p>
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<p>set the conditions of contract. Although I am assigning all my </p>
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<p>readers the right to make copies and distribute this literature </p>
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<p>freely, the formal copyright remains mine. Any party enterprising </p>
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<p>enough to reproduce these discs by the hundred for sale at a </p>
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<p>profit will very likely interest my attorney to offer a royalty </p>
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<p>contract as a more attractive alternative to a court ordered </p>
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<p>remedy. Any party that fails to include my byline and copyright </p>
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<p>notice will be taken to task for the more serious offense of</p>
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<p>plagiarism.
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<p> Heckling is a part of all public speaking, and most of the </p>
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<p>fun. If hecklers had a fair chance to give their opinions, many </p>
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<p>of them would have more to say than the speakers, and some may </p>
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<p>have better ideas. The only way a reader can add his two bits </p>
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<p>worth to a discourse is by scribbling in the margins of public </p>
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<p>library books. Anything that can be done will be done, so </p>
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<p>hecklers will always be with us, and so will graffiti, along </p>
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<p>with carefully considered letters to editors. Since it is so </p>
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<p>easy to add and subtract opinions to a magnetic publication, a </p>
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<p>lot of opinionated readers are going to do it. The main purpose </p>
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<p>of this venture is to turn audience feedback into an advantage </p>
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<p>--- for everyone --- by encouraging constructive criticism </p>
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<p>guided by rules for fair comment within the laws governing </p>
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<p>copyright and public utterance.</p>
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<p> By the nature of this medium, this publication is going to </p>
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<p>be shared by an unknown number of readers. Those who want to </p>
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<p>give us the benefit of their superior information are asked to </p>
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<p>follow these rules. On those matters that readers can wait for, </p>
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<p>please append your comments to the end of the file. If you feel </p>
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<p>that your information needs to be interjected, then mark the </p>
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<p>beginning and end of your contribution with lines or stars.</p>
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<p>Please include your name and the date so that we know whom to </p>
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<p>credit. If you find mistakes of fact, your immediate correction </p>
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<p>is eagerly asked for. Critics looking for an argument improve </p>
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<p>their chances by including their addresses. If you are so </p>
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<p>offended by some statements that you are compelled to make </p>
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<p>deletions, please mark your censorship with a notice of the </p>
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<p>amount of text you deleted, in numbers of lines or bytes, and </p>
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<p>include your name and date to prove the courage of your </p>
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<p>convictions. Anyone who wants to retain his copyright on </p>
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<p>contributions is advised to include notice of their legal claim </p>
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<p>so that no one will assume that all commentaries and </p>
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<p>contributions are in the public domain. Expect disputes; </p>
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<p>democracy is not for weak stomachs and faint hearts.</p>
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<p> Depending on the number of readers who distribute more </p>
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<p>copies, and the number of contributions added --- not to mention </p>
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<p>subtracted --- my original text will be unrecognizable by the </p>
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<p>time this print passes through a dozen recopies. There is no way </p>
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<p>to know whether all contributors have marked the changes they </p>
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<p>make. Neither is there any way to know whether they have their </p>
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<p>facts correct, unless they cite their sources for reference. </p>
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<p>Furthermore, these discs are communicated person-to-person </p>
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<p>through private, first-class mail, making the message into a </p>
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<p>conversation between acquaintances rather than a publication to </p>
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<p>strangers; it is permissible to say things in private and </p>
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<p>personal mail that is regarded as unethical, if not illegal, in </p>
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<p>public utterance. Therefore, all readers must always remember </p>
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<p>and bear in mind that the copy they are reading is a </p>
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<p>BOUILLABAISSE stirred by many cooks, not a FILET MIGNON SAUTEED </p>
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<p>by a chef. Unless you receive a copy that you can certify as </p>
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<p>unaltered from the original, do not believe anything that </p>
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<p>offends your common sense and don't hold the original author or </p>
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<p>signed contributors responsible for statements and/or context </p>
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<p>that may have been altered by hecklers who prefer to remain </p>
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<p>anonymous (*2). My own editors have altered my manuscripts until </p>
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<p>I could hardly recognize my publications as my own compositions </p>
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<p>--- usually for the better. If some party suffers personal </p>
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<p>injury from this special interest group disc, everyone who </p>
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<p>receives it becomes suspect. This is an utterly novel kind of </p>
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<p>case for the courts to rule on, not quite so much privileged </p>
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<p>privacy as a closed computer conference but still a one-on-one </p>
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<p>private correspondence. I dare say that honest mistakes will be </p>
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<p>excused with a pointed finger, but deliberate malice producing </p>
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<p>suffering to an identifiable person, when proven unjustified in </p>
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<p>these litiginous times, will be liable to legal penalties. We may </p>
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<p>protect ourselves from slanderous or obscene remarks by scanning </p>
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<p>each disc immediately before mailing, to check that no one else </p>
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<p>has run the copy and added comments disgraceful to polite </p>
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<p>company.</p>
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<p> I have enough discoveries in my head to keep me writing </p>
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<p>full time for ten years --- I should live so long. In the </p>
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<p>likelihood that my insurance is vastly underrated, I am </p>
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<p>curtailing my research and graphic design in order to put as </p>
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<p>much of my time as I can into getting my ideas written. </p>
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<p>Unfortunately, the charter members of this publishing revolution </p>
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<p>will receive bare bones of text, a dearth shared by everyone who </p>
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<p>buys Version 1.0 of any program. The economy of electronic </p>
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<p>publication, however, enables me to update my text whenever I </p>
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<p>get a break, add animated illustrations in colour, and enliven </p>
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<p>the text with creative layouts in future editions. Most </p>
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<p>important of all, as copies eventually find their way back to me </p>
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<p>with accumulated reader input, new editions can be issued with </p>
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<p>the latest and most extensive information --- better than </p>
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<p>anything I can do. This publication can be considered as a book </p>
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<p>written by its best qualified readers. In order to receive </p>
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<p>updates and new books, all readers will have to send me their </p>
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<p>names and addresses, regardless whence they received their </p>
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<p>copies. Please bear in mind that my resources are exceedingly </p>
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<p>limited, and expect to wait like a Christian for me to follow up </p>
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<p>in my spare time. I expect this enterprise to be taken over by </p>
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<p>more resourceful enthusiasts.</p>
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<p> The definitive version of this disc book will be written on </p>
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<p>an APPLE IIc, in ASCII files; the animated illustrations will be </p>
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<p>rendered with DAZZLE DRAW and FANTAVISION --- if I can't find </p>
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<p>more practical graphics programs. I invested in the APPLE system </p>
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<p>because I believed all the press reports that the computer field </p>
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<p>has more APPLE trees planted than anything else. I am deceived; </p>
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<p>MS-DOS is the most widely used operating system on this scene. </p>
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<p>This original version, however, is written on a KAYPRO II </p>
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<p>operated by CP/M 2.2 in WORDSTAR 3.3. files. It will take me </p>
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<p>time to convert WORDSTAR files to ASCII, and then convert both </p>
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<p>to MS-DOS. The few graphics included on this disc are drawn with </p>
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<p>keyboard characters. Since the ASCII code is standardized only </p>
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<p>for alphanumeric characters, computers using different keyboard </p>
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<p>codes will produce surprising characters --- the trouble is not </p>
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<p>in the disk or your computer.</p>
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<p> As long as computers remain inconvenient to read in bed or </p>
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<p>on public transportation, I shall concurrently try to find </p>
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<p>publishers for paper versions of my disc books. These discs hold </p>
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<p>the beginning of a 75000 word paper book, heavily illustrated </p>
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<p>with animated illustrations included on disc, under the title </p>
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<p>TIME TRAVEL --- The Secret Science of The <span class="EVENT">UFOs</span>. Availing myself
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of the impermanent and quasiconversational nature of magnetic </p>
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<p>correspondence, I have included many speculations and tangents </p>
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<p>on these disks to stimulate response; these unessential essays </p>
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<p>will be deleted from the paper version. The heaviest reading is </p>
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<p>the Second Chapter; once you establish the theoretical </p>
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<p>foundation laid in my repetitive manner of logic, the rest of </p>
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<p>the book is freeway, much like the First Chapter. For the first </p>
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<p>time, the theory and engineering of time travel are explained in </p>
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<p>sufficient practical detail for young physicists to begin </p>
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<p>constructing their own Philadelphia Experiments in their home </p>
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<p>workshops; at least one researcher I know is doing it already, </p>
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<p>in California. Let me know whether you are willing to buy </p>
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<p>TIME TRAVEL --- The Secret Science of The <span class="EVENT">UFOs</span> at a prepublication
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price of $10 or a postpublication price of $16. Send no money. I </p>
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<p>only want to know whether there is a market for a paper book </p>
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<p>before I invest more than I can afford to print it. I apologize </p>
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<p>for my inability to acknowlege subscribers to this paper book by </p>
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<p>individual letters, as they are received; at a dollar a letter, </p>
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<p>the cost of mailing is prohibitive. Subscribers will be notified </p>
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<p>individually to write their cheques when the response is </p>
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<p>sufficient to underwrite publication. In the meantime, enquiries </p>
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<p>from royalty publishers are welcome. Zees is a bootstrap </p>
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<p>production, Dollink --- my apologies to Zsa Zsa. </p>
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<p> END OF FORWARD </p>
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<p>*1 This is the belief taken by the Government of the United
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States, especially its Public Broadcasting System. Assuredly,
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what the lord hath given us starving authors with one hand, he
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taketh away by truckloads driven by the other. With legal
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protection like we got, we are better off with our pirates.
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Unless you are a government authorized freebooter, however, the
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first hand lays down the law.</p>
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<p> Readers who copy programs published in magazines are
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subject to the same legal strictures. The magazine publishers do
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not assign its readers the right to make copies of their text to
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give to their friends, much less sell.</p>
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<p>*2 The most heavily edited and censored book in the world is
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the Holy Bible, yet its readers are convinced every copy is the
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original and every last Word of God. Evidently, God has
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afterthoughts --- The New Testament. The Holy Koran is an even
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later Word of the very same God compiled from the very same
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orginal Scriptures. And don't forget the equally Holy Book of
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Mormon. I can relate to Him; I am also compelled to rewrite my
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original words innumerable times as I get my act together. </p>
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<p> I believe the Bible; it is the publishers I question. I
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have no doubt that God inspires all His chosen publishers, but I
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wonder whether He chose every publisher; after all, the Bible is
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in public domain. If God inspired the American Constitution, in
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which I believe more than the Bible, He is the Source of the
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First Amendment --- entitling Larry Flint to turn a dollar in
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the pre-eminently profitable religious market. It isn't belief
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in the Bible that fomented the most vicious wars, but belief in
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the infallible veracity of the publishers.</p>
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