One thing is certain about this book: the movie rights aren't worth much.
But the motivation to write
this book was never mere commercial success. It began as my own
personal search for Truth. The more that I learned of Truth, the better
picture emerged of the struggle of humanity over the millennia for the
attainment of the next stage of human existence. It now appears that we
are truly on the brink of achieving that goal. But we must not allow
the myopia of day-to-day life to persuade us to discard that goal in
favor of some goal of considerably lesser importance.
So, at its base, this book
begins as a political polemic, exhorting reluctant mankind to "stay the
course" of change into what we can be, and will be if we pursue the
goal we have been sleepwalking towards for ten millennia. The
relationship to contemporary politics is closer than I would have
wished it to be. For example, one idea which is being actively pushed
by Newt Gingrich is the idea that every person ought to be either
working or learning for their entire lifetime, from cradle to grave.
That is so extremely close to my own analysis, presented in Book V,
Section H, that it lacks only my concepts that work should be for the
happiness of as many humans as possible, and that working and learning
must be balanced with each other, for Newt's statement to be a
complete expression of what I believe should be the ultimate
intelligent rules of conduct for mankind.
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RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA; JANUARY 4, 1996.