well thought out detailed data, endows our contemporary ac-
tivities with a direction and renders their goals more concrete.
Mental effort aimed at forming such a vision enables us to
overcome psychological barriers to free reason and imagina-
tion, barriers caused by egotism and survival of habits from the
past. People fixated upon the past gradually lose contact with
the present and are thus incapable of doing much good for the
future. Let us therefore direct our minds toward the future,
beyond the ostensibly insuperable realities of present age.
There are many advantages to be gained from constructively
planning the future, including the more distant time perspec-
tive, if we can foresee its shape and facilitate pinpointed solu-
tions. This requires that we properly analyze reality and make
correct predictions, i.e. discipline of thought so as to exclude
any subconscious data manipulation and any excessive influ-
ence from our emotions and preferences. Elaborating such an
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original vision so as to make it a reified blueprint for a new
reality is the best way to educate human minds for other simi-
larly difficult tasks in the concrete future.
This would also permit timely elimination of many differ-
ences of opinion which could later lead to violent conflicts;
these sometimes result from an insufficiently realistic apper-
ception of the present state of affairs, various pipe-dream atti-
tudes, or propaganda activities. If it is logically developed and
avoids collisions with an adequately objective understanding of
phenomena which have already been discussed in part, such a
constructive vision can come true in future reality.
Such planning should be reminiscent of a well-organized
technical project, wherein the designers’ work is preceded by
an examination of conditions and possibilities. Executing the
work also requires time-frame planning in accordance with the
appropriate technical data and the human safety factor. We
know from experience that increasing the scope and accuracy
of design activities makes their execution and utility more prof-
itable. Similarly, the more modern and inventive constructions
generally prove more effective than tradition-bound ones.
The design and construction of a new social system should
also be based upon proper distinctions of reality and should
receive appropriate elaboration in many details in order to
prove effective in execution and action. This will require aban-
doning some traditional customs of political life which allowed
human emotions and egoism to play too great a role. Creative
reasoning has become the sole and necessary solution, since it
determines real data and finds novel solutions without losing
the ability to act under real-life conditions.
The absence of such prior constructive effort would lead
both to knowledge gaps about the reality to be operated in and
to a shortage of people with the crucial preparation needed for
creating new systems. Particularly for a nation now affected by
pathocracy, when regaining the right to decide one’s own fate,
would be improvisation which is expensive and dangerous.
Violent disputes among the adherents of various structural
concepts which may often be unrealistic, immature, or outdated
because they have lost their historical significance in the mean-
time, may even cause a civil war.
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Wherever old social systems created by historical processes
have been almost totally destroyed by the introduction of state
capitalism and the development of pathocracy, that nation’s
social and psychological structure has been obliterated. The
replacement is a pathological structure reaching into every
corner of a country, causing all areas of life to degenerate and
become unproductive. Under such conditions, it proves unfea-
sible to reconstruct a social system based on outdated traditions
and the unrealistic expectations that such a structure does exist.
What is needed is a design of action which will first permit the
fastest possible reconstruction of this basic socio-psychological
structure and then allow it to participate in social life’s
autonomization process.
The past has furnished us virtually no pattern for this indis-
pensable activity, which can thus be based only upon the more
general kind of data described at the beginning of this work.
We are therefore immediately faced with the need to rely upon
modern science. At least one generation’s worth of time has
also been lost, and with it the evolution which should have
creatively transformed the old structural forms. We should thus
be guided by imaginings of what should have happened if a
given society had had the right to free development during this
time, rather than by data from the past, presently outdated,
albeit historically real.
In the meantime, many divergent ways of thinking have
taken root in those countries. Private capitalism’s world of
social institutions has become distant and hard to understand.
There is no longer anybody left who could be a capitalist or act
independently within such a system. Democracy has become an
imperfectly comprehended slogan for communicating within
the society of normal people. The workers cannot imagine the
reprivatization of great industrial plants and oppose any efforts
in that direction. They believe that rendering the country inde-
pendent would bring them participation in both management
and profits. Those societies have accepted some social institu-
tions, such as a public health service and free education
through university level. They want the operation of such insti-
tutions reformed by subordinating them to healthy common
sense and appropriate scientific criteria as well as tried –and
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true elements of valid traditions. What should be restored is the
general laws of nature which should govern societies; the struc-
tural forms should be reconstructed in a more modern manner,
which will facilitate their acceptance.
Some transformations already made are historically irre-
versible. Regaining the right to shape one’s own future would
thus create a dangerous and even tragic “system void”. A pre-
monition of such a critical situation already worries people in
those countries, stifling their will to act; this situation should be
prevented immediately. The only way is well-organized effort
in analytical and constructive thought directed toward a socie-
tal system with highly modern economic and political founda-
tions.
Nations suffering under pathocratic governments would also
participate in such a constructive effort, which would represent
excellent input to the above-mentioned general task of treating
our sick world. Undeterred in our hope that the time will soon
come when such nations will revert to normal human systems,
we should build a social system with a view to what will hap-
pen after pathocracy.
This social system will be different from and better than
anything which existed earlier. A realistic vision of a better