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ON POLITICS


	These  essays are  mainly concerned  with  ways of  improving
human life by  introducing new technology.  Any new technology has to
develop  and  survive  in  its  social  and   political  environment.
Unfortunately,  it  seems  that  the  present  social  and  political
environment  is not  very  favorable to  proposals to  merely improve
life.   This  is  because present  political  and social  thought  is
organized  around menaces and  not around  opportunities.   Perhaps I
just haven't read the right literature,  but I have not been able  to
find a discussion  of this point  by certified social  scientists, so
this is strictly an amateur effort to analyze why this is so and what
might be done about it. 

	First  let  us  consider   the  left-right  polarization   of
politics.  The left wingers enumerate the following menaces:

	1. Reduced standard of living for the majority because of
increasing exploitation of workers.  That this would occur is an
inference drawn by Marx, but historically it hasn't occurred.  However,
Marxists and people influenced by Marxism often interpret events
that occur or might occur as having this effect.

	2.