Chapter Thirty-Six
The Geniuses of Society Bring You
Everything You Ever Wanted
“Another sign of a healthy, competitive
industry is lower prices. The statistics
show that the cost of computing has
decreased ten million fold since 1971.
That’s the equivalent of getting a Boeing
747 for the price of a pizza.”
— Bill Gates
Stepping through the doorway into the
Twelve-Visions Era in my mind’s eye, our
geniuses made us rich, made us healthy, made
everything good for us. The geniuses of
society, who first evolved into Neothink,
led the Technological Revolution that raised
our standards of living towards that of
millionaires. We loved our geniuses; they
brought us the gifts of life.
At first, in the late twentieth century, the
geniuses freely rose in the computer world
and brought ordinary children inexpensive
video games that, just a few years before,
only the children of millionaires could
enjoy. My Tenth Vision showed me that
sometime in the first quarter of the
twenty-first century, the geniuses freely
rose throughout the rest of the business
world and brought us inexpensive products
that a few years before only the
millionaires could enjoy. Indeed, this
computerlike millionaire phenomenon
came to more and more industries beyond the
computer industry, making ordinary people
such as you and me essentially millionaires
without lifting a finger.
Looking back over the twentieth-century, the
millionaire phenomenon had already happened
in the computer industry because it was
uniquely free of big-government regulations.
The computer industry gave us a look ahead
at what life would be like in tomorrow’s
Twelve-Visions World.
My Tenth Vision showed me that, to the
amazement of the people, the millionaire
phenomenon came to more and more industries
as we universally removed big-government
regulations. After our get-the-people-rich
government removed most big-government
regulations, technologies in all industries
raced ahead like the computers. As in the
computer industry, where buying power
multiplied thousands or millions of times,
our buying power in more and more industries
multiplied hundreds, sometimes thousands of
times or more. That was because the geniuses
were now free to rise and evolve.
Freeing The Geniuses
Simply put, America’s falling out with big
government freed the potential geniuses of
society to drive our costs toward zero and
our buying power towards infinity. Fantastic
products and services never before imagined
quickly evolved and then became cheap and
affordable. What happened in the
computer/communication world was a harbinger
of what happened in my Neothink Vision of
tomorrow’s Twelve-Visions World. When our
government freed technology and the geniuses
beyond the computers, we lived in increasing
wealth and luxury. People became
economically driven to end big government
and to embrace get-the-people-rich
government.
The
To achieve that never-alone,
always-taken-care-of state, the
get-the-people-rich government shifted the
responsibility of taking care of you — i.e.,
social well-being — from a few hundred phony
career politicians interested in ruling over
you…to a hundred million geniuses in
entrepreneurial jobs (the Fifth Vision) with
rapidly evolving creativity, very interested
in taking care of all your needs and wishes.
Millions of unrestricted geniuses,
aggressively seeking out our needs, very
rapidly answered our every cry for help.
That was the new code of living in
tomorrow’s Twelve-Visions World. Even your
slightest problem had you immediately
surrounded by quality people, by geniuses of
society, wanting to help you. Just one cry
for help sent out from your home over the
Internet, for instance, ever so quickly led
to its cure.
The job of looking out for your well-being
and the social good shifted from impotent
government and its corrupt ruling class to
the miraculous might of an unrestricted
genius-driven society. The unleashed
creativity and new technology made us
wealthy, healthy, safe and solved our
problems. Your problems were the geniuses’
problems to solve. In short, geniuses were
hard at work taking care of you and raising
your standard of living.
Today, big-government career politicians do
not care about your problems, no matter how
real, unless your problems fall into their
self-aggrandizing schemes to rule. That is
the old code of living soon to be left
behind. All good people now have to fight
for their survival. If you contract a rare
disease, you are doomed. In tomorrow’s
Twelve-Visions World, however, unhampered
geniuses using Neothink developed a cure
before the disease destroyed you. I saw
it all in my Tenth Vision. Tomorrow, you
were always safe. Looking back at today’s
world, if you are not happy with your job
and pay or with the direction of your career
and income, you are trapped. In tomorrow’s
Twelve-Visions World, genius-driven
businesses brought you exciting
opportunities including the lucrative career
of your dreams (Vision Five), your passion
in life (Vision One). Today if you are poor
or just not happy with your wealth, you are
rather helpless. Tomorrow, the multiplying
wealth of society rescued your plight.
Today, if you are not happy with love, you
grow more and more apathetic. Tomorrow, the
happiness available from living the life you
were meant to live (Vision Two) helped you
activate a new, superlove (Vision Seven). If
you felt lonely, the enhanced networking of
society brought you quality friends,
especially as your own value to the world
soared (Vision Nine). If you were having
hard times, the curing nature of society
took care of you in every way.
Geniuses were there for you, in minutes.
Money was no longer an issue. A hundred
million geniuses in this country alone took
care of your every need.
They Brought Us Fortunes
The
In the late twentieth century when
conversations at cocktail parties developed
about computers and the Internet and how we
could access for free computing power that
would have cost millions a few years before,
usually some attractive yuppie said
something like, “Can you believe that
amazing technology!” Everyone then shared
looks of astonishment. Little did we stop to
realize that the geniuses of society
brought us that soaring technology and
buying power. And those geniuses would do so
in every industry if free to do so…making
ordinary people rich and healthy.
Sometime in the first quarter of the
twenty-first century, after fifty million
people were exposed to the Twelve Visions,
ordinary people began to admire and love
those geniuses who brought them new
technologies at lower and lower prices. The
love grew despite political rhetoric that
traditionally caused Americans to envy and
dislike the geniuses of society. As the
geniuses improved everyone’s life in so many
ways, the ordinary person developed a warm
fondness for the geniuses of society not
unlike one would for a highly competent
doctor who saved his child’s life, for
instance.
Indeed, imagine if your own child or
grandchild were terminally ill and the
heroic efforts of a highly competent doctor
saved your child. You would forever feel a
warm affection for that doctor who saved
your child’s life. Or imagine a wealthy
person gave you and your family a cashier’s
check for a million dollars. You would
forever feel a very warm closeness to that
person who made your life so rich and
wonderful.
Tomorrow, the people felt similar feelings
towards the geniuses of society, for those
geniuses eradicated diseases and lifted us
into a wealthy and wonderful world. The
hoodwinking by the media that made us envy
and dislike the geniuses of society
subsided. The forces of Neothink were now
too great to be stopped. Sure the geniuses
were rich, because they were geniuses! But
they made us rich, too. Furthermore,
they brought us the gifts of life: wealth,
health, safety, even happiness and love. The
entire population, sometime in the first
quarter of the twenty-first century, felt a
warm closeness to those geniuses who brought
us and our families into an increasingly
wealthy and wonderful life.
We also felt growing contempt toward those
big-government career politicians who
blocked the geniuses and their new
technologies. Career politicians blocked the
gifts and the wonderful lives we were meant
to live. Once the people made the
twelve-piece connections and felt love for
the geniuses of society, then the
Twelve-Visions Era irreversibly took off.
We sat back and watched in awe as the
geniuses of society took care of our needs,
fixed our problems, made our dreams come
true, and made us rich, including the
poor.
Of course, career politicians would not let
go of their ruling power as we entered the
Twelve-Visions Era. They hung on, but they
were part of the old world on its way out
(Vision Prologue). We, in turn, freed the
geniuses of society whose life ambitions
were to solve our problems and needs, large
or small. With the success of the
Example of a Genius Evolving Into Neothink
Just how effective were those geniuses of
society at taking care of our every need or
problem? Instead of me impossibly trying to
describe what I saw in my Tenth Vision,
which overwhelmed me to the point of
euphoric collapse, let me take you into the
life and times of an obscure genius of
society who already lived. That way, I can
show you already proven facts. Now,
since some people say the computer
revolution was unique — an anomaly based on
the invention of the silicon chip — let us
go outside the computer industry. In fact,
let us go back in time before high
technology altogether to see the universal
life-lifting power of the geniuses of
society on their own, even before
their catalytic reaction with modern
technologies. So, let us now travel back a
hundred years…to the down and dirty railroad
industry:
This is a story about James J. Hill, a
genius of society one hundred years ago. He
was well on his way to multiplying standards
of living of entire civilizations of
ordinary people — including the poor.
He was single-handedly taking care of their
every need until he got held down by
big-government regulations. His story
represents all geniuses of society, even
outside the computer and hi-tech industries.
He was a railroad pioneer back at the turn
of the twentieth century, and his story is
brought to light in a book called
Entrepreneurs Versus The State by Burton
Folsom.
Let’s travel back in time to the 1860s.
America was experiencing its first railroad
boom. Railroads were being built all up and
down the East Coast. Well, as Mr. Folsom
identifies in his book, two classes of
entrepreneurs exist: market entrepreneurs
and political entrepreneurs. Political
entrepreneurs make their money by seeking
government subsidies, by getting special
government rights of way, and by accessing
political clout. They seek their success
through political clout with government
officials.
Market entrepreneurs make their money by
providing more and more values and services
to society at lower and lower prices. They
also create more and more jobs for us.
During America’s railroad building boom in
the 1860s, an opportunity arose for big
government. The political entrepreneurs
seeking easy money got together with career
politicians seeking popularity, and together
they created a deception. The deception was
that only the government could finance the
building of America’s first transcontinental
railroad. That deception over 100 years ago
is still promoted today; children read about
it in their history text books in school.
But that was a deception created by
political entrepreneurs so they could line
their pockets with lavish government
subsidies and by career politicians so they
could boost their self-worth by spending
money that they controlled but did not earn.
They could parade around and say, “Look how
important we are. Look how we benefit the
American public. We, the big government, are
building this transcontinental railroad and
opening up the interior and west coast of
America.” …A perfect setup for greedy
political entrepreneurs joining hands with
power-seeking politicians.
So a deception was created: only the federal
government could finance the building of the
transcontinental railroad. The public bought
it, and with great fanfare, Congress went
ahead with it.
There were two companies: Central Pacific
started building eastward from the West
Coast and the Union Pacific started westward
from the East Coast. The government paid
those companies by the total miles of track
they built. So what did they do? Instead of
being bound by the disciplines of a bottom
line, they were getting lavish subsidies
from the government for the total miles of
track they built. So they rushed into the
wilderness to collect government subsidies.
But because they were being paid by the
mile, these companies purposely built the
longest, most circuitous routes they could
possibly justify so they could get more
government money. And they rushed
construction to collect their per-mile
subsidies. They rushed into the wilderness
with poor construction and poor planning.
Remember, the congressmen were spending
money that they did not earn but controlled,
and they wanted to reap the glory for
spending that money. Those politicians,
always trying to justify their jobs, always
trying to show that they benefit the
American public, got into the railroad
business where they had no business being in
the first place. Controlling tremendous
amounts of money they did not earn, they
reaped all this popularity that comes with
spending the money. Now they could say,
“Look how valuable we are; we’re financing
the building of a transcontinental railroad
across America!”
But those career politicians were part of
bogus big government. They gladly spent
money with their flashy “good intentions”,
but they were not interested in exerting the
nitty-gritty effort that honest business
does when it spends money. They were glad to
spend the money, large amounts of money.
They were glad to reap the glory, large
amounts of glory. But they were not about to
get out there and exert the nitty-gritty
effort to put controls on spending and to
make sure that money was spent right. They
were not about to get right down into the
details themselves to make sure that they
were buying the right quality goods at the
right prices and that the railroad was being
built over the right routes…not like a
market businessman would who is spending
that money out of his own pocket.
So the whole program was laced with fraud
from the beginning. The line managers set up
their own supplier companies selling their
railroads substandard quality rails and ties
at exorbitant prices. For, there was no
control over the government money.
In addition, because they were getting paid
by the amount of rail they built, each
company was racing to build as much track as
it could before the other one…to get the
most money from the government. So instead
of taking the proper time to carefully map
out the best routes, especially vital for
building over hills at the lowest uphill
grade, they instead just raced forward and
paid no attention to vital planning and
surveying. No time to be wasted on planning
and surveying, they built track over uphill
grades that were far too steep. They did not
take the necessary time to do anything
right. When winter came, they just kept on
building over the plains, right over
the ice!
Because they wanted to build as much as
possible, they did not wait for the ice to
melt — they just kept on laying track. When
summer came, they had to tear up thousands
of miles of track and rebuild it, before
they could open the line! And to get more
money, the two railroad companies built the
longest routes with under-quality
material. …You can just imagine what the
future operating costs this transcontinental
railroad would endure.
Indeed, when the Union Pacific was complete,
from day one it could not make a profit
because its operating expenses were too
high. First of all, thousands of miles of
shoddily built, under-quality track had to
be constantly replaced. Second, because they
took the extra long route, and it wasn’t
built over the lowest-grade hills, they had
to pay a lot more money in fuel costs, wage
costs, and it took a lot more time to haul
freight across the country. The operating
expenses were so high, from day one the
Union Pacific was never able to make a
profit.
Therefore, the government had to continue to
subsidize the transcontinental line once it
was built. Union Pacific had to continue to
receive more and more government money or it
would have gone out of business and stopped
running. Indeed, Congress had just spent a
fortune financing the building of the
transcontinental line. Now Congress could
not let their prize transcontinental line
declare bankruptcy and close down. So, the
government continued financing it.
After the Union Pacific was built, other
political entrepreneurs got together with
glory-seeking politicians in their areas of
the country and said, “The federal
government financed the Union Pacific,
therefore they have to finance a
transcontinental railroad in our region.”
So Congress went ahead and financed the
building of a transcontinental up North
called the Northern Pacific, and one down
South called the Santa Fe. Of course, both
of those had the same results. They built
extra long, circuitous routes; they turned
into an orgy of fraud: substandard quality
material used, inflated prices paid, no
planning, no surveying, no time taken to
select the lowest-grade hills. So right from
day one, the other two transcontinentals
lost money, and they had to receive
government subsidies just to continue
operating.
In the meantime, there was a young man way
up North, James J. Hill, going about making
a living. He was born in a log cabin in
Ontario, Canada to a working-class family.
His father died when he was a boy, so Hill
got a job to support his mother. At
seventeen, he moved to St. Paul and got a
job for a shipping company. He started in an
entry-level position, but he loved the
transportation business. He really applied
himself; he began making contacts, and he
began moving up. Before long, he began
making partnerships in local railroads that
were being built in his area. With a
sweeping vision, yet always focussed on
nitty-gritty details, Hill commanded
success. Eventually, Hill decided that he
was going to build the first privately
financed transcontinental railroad way up
along the U.S. and Canadian border, which at
that time was all wilderness with no
settlers!
Well, from the beginning the idea was
labeled Hill’s Folly, and you can see why.
How could someone build a railroad that
could possibly compete when he had to pay
all the building costs himself, and there
were three other transcontinental railroads
farther South that had all their building
costs paid by the government? Moreover,
Hill’s railroad was going to be way up North
where no one lived. Those other three
government-financed railroads were located
in the main population areas of the United
States. In addition, once Hill did complete
his railroad, how could he compete with the
other three railroads when they continued to
receive government subsidies and Hill had to
pay his expenses through his own bottom-line
profits — and the three other lines proved
that no profits existed!
Well, Hill went ahead with his plan anyway.
He had to obey the disciplines of a bottom
line. He could not go rushing into the
wilderness to collect government subsidies.
He had to build his line out West one
extension at a time. He would build westward
into the wilderness a few hundred miles at a
time. Then he would send agents back East to
advertise to farmers in the East. Hill
offered to move people for free into this
western wilderness so they could settle and
start their farms. Then Hill would give them
free rates to ship their crops back to the
markets in the East for a couple of years
until they got established. He gave a lot of
ordinary low-income people exciting new
leases on life and made their dreams come
true.
This worked. For each extension West, he
brought in enthusiastic hardworking farmers;
they’d flourish; he’d build up business on
his track, and after awhile his extension
West made money. From those profits, he’d
finance another extension West…a few hundred
miles at a time. He never stopped. By
turning low-income settlers into land-owning
entrepreneurs, among others, he settled the
entire northern border of the United States
with his railroad. And, lo and behold, in
1890 the first American transcontinental
railroad was built without one penny of
government money! He reached the Pacific
Ocean, and he did it by offering people,
some of whom had little chance at much in
life, an opportunity of a lifetime to own
land and become entrepreneurs.
What an accomplishment. But most amazingly,
one man did it! Not the entire might
of the U.S. Government — one lone man! One
genius of society was raising the prosperity
of an entire nation! But, now that he
accomplished this amazing feat, could he
make it work? Here Hill was with his
transcontinental, way up North when the
population base was farther South; he was
competing against three transcontinentals
farther South that had their expenses paid
for by the government. So, what would happen
to Hill’s transcontinental?
During the building of Hill’s railroad,
since it was his personal money that was
being spent, he personally dug into the
tough nitty-gritty details. With unyielding
disciplines and efforts, he put controls on
everything: He personally surveyed the
routes; he made sure the shortest, most
direct routes were built. When the track had
to go over hills, he would spend time with
the engineers and make sure they picked out
the lowest-grade hills. He personally
supervised the buying of materials to make
sure they got the highest quality rails and
ties for the lowest cost. …So what happened
to Hill’s Folly? Well, from day one, when it
was completed, he made a profit! He ran
circles around the three government-financed
lines because his operating expenses were so
much lower. In addition, his freight took a
lot less time to reach the West Coast. From
day one, Hill made money. From day one, the
government-subsidized transcontinental
railroads never, ever turned a profit.
One man
was running circles around the almighty U.S.
Government! Of course, the incompetence and
greed of career politicians could never
bring values to the people. But one market
entrepreneur could raise the standard of
living of a nation.
This one market entrepreneur’s advantages
kept building momentum and, with a great
irony, left Congress’s follies in the dust.
Hill built up the whole industry of the
Northwest. He built feeder lines. For
example, if copper were found a hundred
miles north, he would build a feeder line,
move in a copper company so they could start
mining and shipping the copper over his
line. If lumber were discovered up in the
mountain, he would feeder line up there,
move in a lumber company, and they would
start shipping the lumber over his lines. If
there was a good clearing for cattle
ranching a few miles south, he would build a
feeder line. …Railroads discovered that
feeder lines became a main source of profit.
But consider Congress’s lines built for
politicians’ own glory and self-worth.
Because those railroads were receiving their
money from the government, they would have
to get Congress’s permission to build a
feeder line. Well, of course, everyone knows
what happens when the government has to make
a decision. A simple black-and-white
decision to build a profitable feeder line
that should be made overnight would be tied
up for months, even for years. All the
incompetent congressmen would get up and
debate over it to get in the spotlight and
appear needed and important. …They cared
only about themselves, not about what was
best for America.
So Hill’s railroad ran circles around the
three government-financed railroads from day
one. In addition, Hill brought civilization
and industry to the Northwest: mining in
Montana, lumber along the North, apple
farmers in Washington, wheat farmers on the
plains. He built up the whole region along
his railroad line.
Once Hill completed his line to the West
Coast, he did not stop there. He kept
reaching out and pushing up standards of
living. Integrating more and more widely,
into Neothink itself, Hill started reaching
out toward the Orient. What about trade with
the Orient? Hill did some calculations: if
one major province in China substituted an
ounce of rice a day with an ounce of
American wheat, that would mean 50 million
bushels of American wheat would travel over
his railroad to China every year! Think what
that would do for his farmers! Now, he would
make them rich! American farmers exporting
huge shipments of wheat to China — what a
possibility! So Hill sent agents to Japan
and China to begin promoting American trade,
the same way he had done during the building
up of his transcontinental railroad.
In the meantime, we had these political
entrepreneurs in Washington, D.C. still
running around wondering how to get more
government subsidies to line their pockets.
Yet one market entrepreneur was creating
jobs and dreams by the thousands. Indeed,
Hill sent his agents to Japan and China to
start promoting American products, and he
went out and bought his own steamship line.
He raced his ships back and forth between
Japan and China and America. Hill built up
American trade with Asia the same way that
he built up business along his line. He
would send products for free to the Japanese
and Chinese if they would just try them. If
they liked them, they would come back for
more, and Hill would build up the business.
Every day Hill filled his ships with
American grain from the plains, with copper
from Montana, lumber from Washington, cotton
from the South, textiles from New England,
rails from Pittsburgh, apples from
Washington. He would send them all free to
the Far East. The Asians would try these
American goods, and if they liked them, then
they would come back for more.
In fact, Hill went to Japan, met with
Japanese businessmen, and proposed that he
would buy southern cotton, pay for it
himself, ship it to the Japanese for free,
and give it to them free. Hill would
buy the southern cotton out of his own money
if the Japanese would just try this cotton
in place of the cotton they normally got
from India. Well, the Japanese took him up
on his offer; they liked it, and soon Hill’s
box cars were full of cotton, travelling
from the South to the North to the Pacific
Coast and then on to a steamship to Japan.
Hill used this strategy to build up all
kinds of business. In 1900, Japan started a
railroad building boom. Hill recognized the
potential of railroads throughout Asia. At
that time, the world’s suppliers of rail
were England and Belgium. But there were a
few American rail makers in Pittsburgh. So
Hill went to Japan; he purposely underbid
the English and the Belgians, paid the
difference out of his own pocket just to get
the Japanese to try rails made in
Pittsburgh. His strategy worked: Japan
started buying all their rail from
Pittsburgh, which built up the fledgling
rail industry in America.
What happened in the 1890s was nothing short
of a miracle: When Hill started his push
into Asia, trade with Japan was seven
million dollars a year. Nine years later,
with Hill in charge of this American mission
into Asia, American trade with Japan
alone was fifty-two million dollars! And
he was now pushing into China as well! Hill
was causing geometrical increases in
American commerce. He was spearheading, a
hundred years ago, an American dominance of
trade in Asia. In the meantime the political
entrepreneurs, Hill’s so-called rivals, were
still running around Washington, D.C. trying
to figure out how they could get more
subsidies. And Hill just kept on reaching
out, with Neothink, taking care of people’s
needs, and pushing up standards of living
while spearheading a geometrical increase of
American commerce in Asia. That was one
hundred years ago.
As time went by, the other three
government-financed transcontinentals
continued to lose money. The government kept
pouring taxpayers’ dollars into financing
them. The public started getting fed up with
this. In addition, as time went by, the
frauds committed by the political
entrepreneurs started to surface — things
like setting up their own companies to sell
substandard material at overcharged prices.
The American public had to continue to pay
subsidies into this hoax just to keep these
other three government railroads running.
The public finally had enough. So Congress,
those eternal glory-seeking politicians,
started self-righteously parading the
corrupt political entrepreneurs in front of
Congress and the nation, forming
special-investigation committees.
Well, once again, Congress created a
deception: They presented themselves as
protectors of the American public. They
would nobly project, “Look how great we are;
look how needed and important we are; we’re
going to protect the American public from
those greedy and corrupt railroad
executives.” Yet, the root cause of the
problem was Congress itself. Congress was
the culprit! Congress spent other people’s
money in a railroad business where they had
no business being in the first place.
So instead of getting up and confessing,
“Look, the problem was us. We now realize
the problem was us getting into the railroad
business in the first place. We had no
business in there, so now we’re going to get
completely out.” They could have been
honest, but they were not. No, they did not
want to say that because that would have
exposed bogus big government. Instead, they
saw a chance to enhance big government and
to increase their own popularity and
political power for re-election. They
instead self-righteously projected, “Look
how we earn our keep. We’re protecting the
American public.” Congress self-righteously
started parading those corrupt railroad
executives in front of the nation. Congress
made the railroad executives solely to blame
for the transcontinental fiascoes. And then,
to “protect the public”, they proposed to
form tough regulatory authorities such as
the ICC, the Interstate Commerce Commission,
and to pass Sherman Antitrust legislation to
further get in there and regulate the
railroads.
Well, Hill knew what was going on; he knew
what the story was here. So Hill moved to
Washington, D.C. He set up residence in the
country’s Capitol. He personally talked to
the congressmen. He testified before their
special committees. He told them what was
going on: the root cause of the problem was
big government getting in there where it had
no business being in the first place,
financing those railroads, spending other
people’s money on rails. That caused the
corruption. Hill gave the example of his
railroad. He did not accept one penny of
government money while his railroad built up
all the industry in the Northwest. And now
his line was promoting an explosion of
American trade into Asia while the three
government-sponsored lines were sinking in
corruption.
Now, the congressmen were intelligent men.
They were college educated. They knew what
Hill was saying. They knew he made perfect
sense. They knew his account was the truth,
but they did not care because they wanted to
justify their own jobs. So they ignored him.
They ignored Hill, and they went on to pass
the ICC and the Sherman Antitrust
legislation, which enabled them to get in
and heavily regulate and punish the
railroads.
Hill even wrote a book on this whole ordeal
and circulated his book to the congressmen,
explaining the situation. He presented all
the evidence that showed how Congress was
doing the wrong thing. But the
big-government ruling class ignored Hill
because they wanted to advance their own
power. The career politicians went ahead and
passed the ICC, passed the Sherman Antitrust
legislation. And what did that do? Those
regulations “for the public good” made it
illegal for railroads to make any special
deals with customers. They had to charge the
same standard rate to all customers.
Therefore, the Neothink dynamics Hill used
to build up his railroad, to move in people
for free, to make their dreams come true, to
ship their freight for free or for a low
cost until they got established…was now
illegal! Those same dynamics that he was now
using to spearhead an American dominance of
trade in Asia were all now illegal! Hill was
a genius of society who was pushing up
ordinary, even poor Americans into
prosperity — and WHAM! Big-government
regulations smashed him down. Hill’s drive
into Asia was over.
The year after the ICC’s legislation passed,
America’s trade with Japan alone dropped by
40%. Now remember, Hill was spearheading a
geometrical increase in trade. Trade
with Japan and China was increasing
geometrically. Now Congress passed this
legislation and, plop, everything dropped
40%.
Hill was forced to sell his steamship lines,
he got out of trade completely with Asia,
and he was so frustrated, he retired.
Suddenly, the miracle was over. He could no
longer make ordinary and poor people wealthy
and happy.
Now, this was a hundred years ago. Let us
stop and look at the implications of this.
Let us stretch this out to see what Congress
really cut off a hundred years ago. It was
bad enough they cut off Hill’s trade with
Asia back then and destroyed the wealth,
lives and dreams of many entrepreneurs
dependent on Hill’s dynamics, but let us
project that into the future to see what
they cut off today:
Throughout the past two decades, you have
heard our President and top CEOs and top
economists say that America’s greatest
danger economically is its trade imbalance
with Asia and our lack of international
competitiveness. But who in the world knows
that a hundred years ago Hill was
spearheading an American dominance of trade
throughout all of Asia? That trade dominance
was cut off by big-government regulations.
Who even knows that? Nobody mentions that
today, but everyone has warned about “the
greatest economic danger facing America
today”. Americans have lost jobs by the
thousands, have been outcompeted, factories
have closed down. Yet who knows that one
hundred years ago this one genius of
society, one man, learned how to tend
to people’s needs, make people’s dreams come
true, and spearhead an American dominance of
trade with Asia? Who knows that a hundred
years ago a man named James J. Hill started
something really magnificent that would have
painted an entirely different picture of
America’s future than that of uncertainty
today? Big government destroyed that
prosperous future when they destroyed Hill a
hundred years ago.
The politicians back then knew what they
were doing. They were intelligent men. They
were college educated. Hill went and
explained the facts to them. Typical of big
government, however, they only wanted to
increase their political powers. The career
politicians wanted to advance their images
and egos. So they ignored Hill, and they cut
off something magnificent a hundred years
ago. No different than today, the ruling
class back then stopped our great, great
grandparents from rising into a paradise on
Earth.
So there you have an example of what just
one genius of society can do for everyone.
And you can see that the geniuses of society
will rise in any industry at any time, not
just in the computer or hi-tech industries,
if not held down by the big-government
regulations. And you can see that, when the
geniuses rise tomorrow in all industries,
our problems, needs, and dreams will quickly
be tended to. In short, the Twelve-Visions
Society tomorrow — a supersociety with
millions of James J. Hills — will take care
of us and make our dreams come true.
Now, imagine a hundred-million geniuses of
society (Vision Five), a hundred-million
James J. Hills all using Neothink…their
progress accelerated by modern technology.
You cannot imagine, because the image goes
beyond anything we can know today.
Held Down in the Darkness
My Tenth Vision showed me that in tomorrow’s
Twelve-Visions World, looking back at
today’s world was very frustrating. We saw
how career politicians and bureaucrats
ruling over us and holding down society
today caused the only injustice that no one
could see, because no one today could see
ahead into the Twelve-Visions World
tomorrow. One obvious example, America would
have been the dominant trade of that huge
upswinging in Asia, but we never had a clue.
America’s problems with the trade deficit
and people losing their jobs to
international competition would have all
been reversed. But no one saw that. Instead,
we were held down in the darkness. Looking
back, no one except those who read The
Twelve Visions could see the injustice
of government ruling over us and holding us
down.
James J. Hill started pushing ordinary and
poor people up toward that paradise on
Earth, but he was slammed back down by big
government. Tomorrow, once we lived in the
Twelve-Visions World and could see the
injustice of former big government, to look
back became painfully hard to do. The people
in the Twelve-Visions World realized that
every life lost on the battlefield, all
famine and sufferings in America and around
the world in the twentieth century and early
twenty-first century, including deaths from
diseases…all of that was encompassed in the
Great Suppression — the ruling class holding
down America from soaring into the
Twelve-Visions World.
The Geniuses Pulled Everyone Up With Them
In this Tenth Vision of tomorrow’s
Twelve-Visions World, the geniuses of
society were free to go up, and they pulled
everyone up with them, including the poor,
just as Hill was doing. All our needs were
taken care of. We did not have just one
James J. Hill, for we had thousands and then
millions of James J. Hills making ordinary
people’s dreams come true.
Tender youth could rise and rise quickly.
Tender youth today, by contrast, cannot rise
because they cannot struggle through the
big-government regulatory web and risk being
eaten alive like Hill.
Unburdened technology in tomorrow’s
Twelve-Visions World, regulated not by
glory-seeking politicians and bureaucrats
but by objective private services, advanced
incredibly fast. Science, business, and
medicine, no longer being pushed down by big
government, advanced incredibly fast,
similar to the nonpoliticized computer
industry of the previous two decades.
Upon setting free all industries and
launching the mighty Technological
Revolution, genius-driven new technologies
quickly took care of all our problems.
Disease, unemployment, poverty, obesity,
insecurity, stagnation, racism, crime,
budget deficits, the national debt,
government abuse, Social-Security
deficiency, illiteracy vanished along with
big government. So did our personal problems
such as a lousy job, lousy love-life, an
uncompetitive body, a stagnant mind, an
embarrassing home, car, and overall
financial self-worth.
Consider that in 1936, mankind reached a new
high with the completion of Hoover Dam to
harness the Colorado River. After thousands
of years, man reached a level of technology
that could control nature on a large scale.
But man took only another 33 years to go to
the moon. Civilization was begging to
progress geometrically, which
occurred in my Tenth Vision sometime in the
first quarter of the twenty-first century
when the big-government
legislative/regulatory web was swished away
and super technologies and unrestrained
geniuses made us wealthy, healthy, and safe.
Too Painful To Look Back
Some readers of this very page lost their
lives to disease or lost a precious loved
one. Looking back at our loss was hard. My
childhood friend John who, at 12 years old,
ran and played with all the other children;
but the next year, muscular dystrophy
started taking over his tall and handsome
body. John first needed crutches, then a
wheelchair, then an electric wheelchair…his
long, limp body strapped in with a seat
belt. In those days, John and I would go
around doing things that young men do. John
was almost in my world, talking about sports
and girls. Yet, John would never experience
those things. I could sometimes see in
John’s eyes his longing to throw off his
seat belt, jump out of his wheelchair, and
scream, “Here I am world! Here I am!” One
day John got a cold, and just a young man,
he died. Yet, geniuses in tomorrow’s
unrestricted Twelve-Visions Society would
efficiently cure his disease.
Looking back, big government held down the
lid on America including cures to diseases,
but we could not see the harm caused by big
government. Tomorrow, it became almost too
painful to look back at what and who
we lost.
Consider looking back at the following
image: Imprisoned by hunger, little children
in poverty-stricken third-world countries
hoped for a little fish with their rice for
dinner. If James J. Hill were not stopped
100 years ago, along with the other market
businessmen since Hill, then those poor
countries would have been industrialized and
prosperous a long time ago.
Instead, those third-world children suffered
and died to the bitter end of the twentieth
century and into the twenty-first century as
the “glorious” big-government “good
intentions” flourished and lived. The Great
Suppression went on and on.
American children have always felt
excitement about their futures. Yet,
tomorrow when we looked back we realized
that America, the land of opportunity, was
also the land of disillusionment and
disappointment. The drop from childhood
dreams to adulthood reality was a deep
letdown. Indeed, American adults carried a
subdued sadness every day…to the end. Before
the Twelve-Visions World, Americans died
unfulfilled, without experiencing wealth,
romantic love, the life they were meant to
live.
In tomorrow’s Twelve-Visions World, looking
back became almost unbearable, for we saw
what was lost. We failed at our dreams in
the twentieth century and early twenty-first
century because we were in a society in
which we could not win. My Tenth Vision
showed me that the Twelve-Visions Society,
by contrast, would not let us fail. Instead,
it made our dreams come true and made every
ordinary person, including the poor, wealthy
and healthy.
Looking back, people shook their heads in
disbelief. The legal battles, regulations,
and legislation made opportunities at
success limited, costly, and risky. We
glumly looked back at the stagnation that
killed our dreams, weakened our marriages,
and destroyed the thrill of love we felt
only during the first few weeks or months of
falling in love. And, most painfully, we saw
how our children absorbed from us our
hopeless resignation, just as we had from
our parents.
The Disgraceful End
In the first quarter of the twenty-first
century, with the dissemination of The
Twelve Visions, the Great Suppression
came to a disgraceful end. Neothink was
setting free stagnant minds everywhere. Big
government could not continue to hold on and
strangle progress and kill our dreams. The
success of The Twelve Visions ushered
in The Twelve Visions Party.
With the success of The Twelve Visions
Party, society no longer got pushed down
with us being squeezed into stagnation-traps
where we had always lived. Career
politicians lost. Their big-government
regulations and harmful legislation — always
in the name of the “social good” — lost.
Their bogus purpose for government lost:
Promote social “prosperity” and provide
social “well-being” through social and
regulatory programs “for the social
good”…“good intentions” to “serve the
people” (a deception, enforcing what is
deemed the “social good”, “good intentions”,
or the “national will”…mere men and women
playing God with our money, morals,
businesses, and our lives).
With the success of the Twelve Visions
Party, the proper purpose for government
won:
Physically protect the people from force (or
threat of force) with protection-only
legislation, police, courts, prisons, and
national defense (plain reality, defending
against and punishing initiatory force).
Tomorrow we looked back and realized in
disgust that, as with the transcontinental
railroads, our career politicians spent our
money to ostensibly enhance our “well-being”
and promote social “prosperity”, but they
really wanted the glory and “importance”
that went with spending other people’s
money and ruling over us. They did not
want anything to do with the effort, though,
that went into building values, which market
businessmen and women put themselves through
every day when spending their own money.
Career politicians and regulatory
bureaucrats today suppress all industries
(the computer industry being the most
fortunate, least politicized industry).
Career politicians today suppress our entire
economy and standard of living as they did a
hundred years ago with the railroads. Market
businessmen, by contrast, are interested in
creating and building values, not in ruling
others. They create miracles for the human
race, from Hill’s transcontinental railroad
to Jobs’ computer software and beyond.
The Miracle Makers
Tomorrow, the miracle makers, the unburdened
market businessmen and women, dramatically
improved our well-being and prosperity. A
Twelve-Visions Society, flourishing with
geniuses, handed us the gifts of life,
especially wealth, health, and peace.
Prior to the Twelve-Visions Society, the
erroneous idea in the anticivilization that
government could “promote social prosperity”
sort of sneaked up over the previous century
through career politicians finding ways to
self-indulge at spending our money to become
more and more likable for re-election.
Indeed, spending other people’s money
was a fast way to build favorable illusions
in the twentieth century and early
twenty-first century. But when the people
caught on sometime in the first quarter of
the twenty-first century, the career
politicians’ careers ended with great shame.
In this Tenth Vision, market businessmen and
women replaced career politicians. Geniuses
of society rose and threw open the lid on
society and lifted society toward its
destiny of great, great prosperity. Each
person was pulled up, our wheelchairs left
behind. The whole world was then lifted as
the communications revolution obsoleted
distance and boundaries.
Paradise On Earth
The Tenth Vision showed me that in the
Twelve-Visions World, irrationality
disappeared. Poverty and crime vanished. In
the Twelve-Visions World, the motivation for
people to do dishonest things reversed. In
time, in that world of disappearing
irrationality, the idea of crime and
eventually war became archaic. We achieved
paradise on Earth.
Perhaps this all sounds like Utopia. But my
Tenth Vision showed me tomorrow’s
Twelve-Visions World truly reversed the
motivation for people to do dishonest
things, for most problems disappeared, and a
millionaire standard of living was automatic
— far easier and more lucrative than any
possible crime. With the success of the
Twelve Visions Party, the era of wealth and
peace was here, finally and forever.
Before the Twelve Visions, the people never
knew about this wonderful world. We only
dreamed about it when we were children. We
needed to “see” it through these Twelve
Visions.
Today, we live in a lucky time. Huge
financial rewards beckon us to the Twelve
Visions Party. Our get-rich era is coming. |
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