Calousia: The Best Future: Let's Get There

Table of Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Addendum #1

Addendum #2

Addendum #3

Addendum #4

Addendum #5

Addendum #6

Index

About the author 

Copyright © 2016 by Warren A. Musser

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To humanity, the Milky Way’s self-transforming and self-transcending species.

You are Calousian creators.

Commit fully to fulfilling your potential.

Go for it!

Anything less will severely diminish what you are.

Acknowledgments

I want to thank Muriel Castera Rawson, for without her financial support the present work would not have been possible.

I also want to thank my wife, Elizabeth, and our two children, Diane and Kimberly, for their continuing love and for putting up with Dad’s project that never seemed to end.

Many thanks also to physics professor Charles Shapiro of UCSF, and engineering professor Daniel DeBra of Stanford, both of whom offered helpful suggestions. Others who contributed significantly to this book include Hana May Dahl, Bradley Fisher, Pauline Fisher, Kimberly Musser, and Barbara Ellis.

Introduction

This book provides something our species has never had before, something of first importance.

It concerns the future of the progressive process that has taken us from the hunting-and-gathering way of life known to our ancestors (say 50,000 years ago) to the modern ways many in the advanced part of the world experience today.

Books on this subject invariably extrapolate from present trends; for example, they attempt to predict where growing science and technology will take us at some future time.

This book, the product of my dedicated fifty-five years of persistent effort to foresee humanity’s future, is different. It’s not an extrapolation. Instead, I use a new and more complete future-seeing method that encompasses the entire progressive process. It includes both (a) the abilities that growing science and technology can eventually give us and (b) those it cannot. (limits).

There is a great advantage to this method. This interaction of expansion and limits gives us something our species has never had before. It’s the best of all futures to know. It’s the knowledge that our progressive process offers us a brilliant, natural summit. I call this summit Calousia (kah-lou’-see-ah). This book will make clear why this potential Calousian summit is our best possible future, why it fulfills our species’ extraordinary potential, why it’s attainable and certain to exist.

Being aware of Calousia has a special importance because reaching this future is not just something destined to happen to us; it’s something we must work hard and deliberately to achieve. Up until now, being unaware of this brilliant summit, we had no specific future to strive for. We therefore just kept shuffling forward, reacting to ever-faster arriving changes. But now that we know Calousia exists, we can, for the first time in human history, begin the planning and effort necessary to reach this brilliant summit. And this new activity is important because, as Calousia explains, if we continue with our current short-term, reacting approach, our species will fail.

Calousia will briefly review our human history and where we fit in universal history. You will learn how our progressive process works, and why, strange as it may seem, our species’ effective environment is not Earth and solar system; it’s the universe itself. You will also learn how I prove Calousia exists, and then about some practical steps we should take now to reach this brilliant Calousian future.

After this you will discover some quite unexpected consequences of the existence of Calousia.

And, yes, Calousia is our species’ best future; let’s get there!

Part I

The Task and the Setting

The caterpillar eats and eats,

Unaware that in doing so

It is transforming itself

Into a beautiful butterfly.

The human learns and learns.

Chapter One

Where Is Our Species Going?

Yes, this book presents something important that our species has never had before. It’s Calousia, the existence of a potential human future that is specific, brilliant, certain to exist, and quite accessible, provided we make the necessary changes. Calousia is a system consisting of Calousian individuals, their society, their territory, and all the material entities associated with them.

Calousia is made evident by a new, more complete understanding of how our species’ primary, long-term, self-developing process works. And Calousia is the most important future to know, because it’s the summit of this process.

The name Calousia derives from two classical Greek words, kalos and ousia, meaning beautiful existence. The name is not meant to signify a utopia but rather to characterize a distinctive future in which the mastery of science and technology (sci-tech) enables Calousians to live the most advanced possible lives.

What is the value of identifying this Calousian summit?

One advantage is that it lets us, for the first time, form an understanding of the whole progressive advance of our species—from technological novice to master—so this self-developing process becomes much more understandable. It’s like you know what the new puppy given you will look like when it reaches maturity.

Another advantage is that because we can already foresee aspects of the technological summit, we know it to be far superior to our present situation. In consequence, we realize that reaching this summit offers all humanity a new goal, a primary purpose—to get to Calousia. In other words, now that our species has become aware of the brilliant summit, it makes sense, for the first time, to struggle toward and reach that specific Calousian summit.

Until now, our species has been like a man who couldn’t get home because he didn’t know he had one and so had no reason to try. We didn’t know that our progressive process offered us a home, either, an advantageous summit, so we had no reason to attempt to reach it. But now that we know Calousia exists and that it fulfills our species’ extraordinary potential, it makes sense to strive for that goal.

Finally, because we become aware of where the summit is and why it exists, we can begin to effectively manage our way toward it. We can see better where we are now in the process and how far we are from the top. We are better positioned to choose and then take the difficult, necessary steps required to reach that summit. For example, we know better what sci-tech we must acquire. We have a better chance of managing the accelerating introduction of new technologies and their consequences (e.g., economic, social, environmental). Finally, we can begin to think productively about what fulfilling the potential of our species means, about what we want to be at the summit, and how we want to live there.

This is why knowledge of Calousian existence is so important.

What Is Calousia Like? To help answer this question, let’s look at a sample of humanity’s past.

Snapshot of Our Past

Imagine that you were born earlier than you were—some 12,000 years earlier—and that you now find yourself living as an ancient Aborigine in central Australia. You are homeless because you live by hunting and gathering the food nature provides, and since you soon exhaust the easy-to-find local supply, you and your group must keep moving to fresh territory.

This constant moving means you can own only what you can conveniently carry. As a woman you carry about twelve pounds of equipment, including a wooden bowl, cooking tools, a digging stick, and perhaps a flint knife. As a man you carry a shield, a spear and spear thrower, a boomerang, and a stone ax, the last often hanging on a belt made from the hair of your mother-in-law.

Having neither a home nor clothing, at night you sleep naked and uncovered on the ground, perhaps on some gathered leaves. On very cold nights you sleep close to a small fire you’ve made.

You are intelligent and a sophisticated hunter and gatherer, but your extremely low sci-tech provides scant understanding of the world. You think the sun a woman, the moon a man, and Orion an emu, an ostrich-like bird, and that all of them stay nearby when not in the sky. Almost all stars are campfires, but certain ones are malignant brothers who kill the very ill by pinching their throats. All the physical aspects of your environment—for example, its hills, distinctive rocks, water holes, and caves—exist as a consequence of the activities of ancestral spirit beings. Animals, plants, and humans exist because spirits enter them.

Not understanding procreation, having sex and the conception of a child are two separate activities. Your father is not the man living with your mother; he’s a kangaroo. Fathers are those ancestral spirits who take many forms. Your mother identified your father as a kangaroo because one of these animals happened by when she first felt you in her abdomen. One consequence of this parentage is that you cannot eat kangaroo meat.

If you suffer an illness or injury, the cause is always due to the magic practiced by a human or spirit. The sinister consequence is that a death often causes the death of the quite innocent whose magic is suspected to have been the cause.

Your language names only three specific colors: red, white, and black. You use the same word for green, blue, and yellow.

As a man or woman you enhance yourself with a bone through the nose, often a kangaroo thighbone. In addition, you wear scars on your chest, made by flint-knife cuts followed by rubbing in ashes. As a woman, to be particularly attractive you might knock out a front tooth.

You are lighthearted, but anxiety lies just beneath. This is because you see your world not as operating by laws but governed haphazardly by spirits, some of which are mercurial and good but most of which are bad. You attempt to gain their help or avoid the dangers they can inflict by spending much of your time participating in ceremonies, obeying traditions, and practicing magic.¹

This morning, while you sat naked on the dusty ground and the gusting wind blew sand in your eyes, the paint-smeared, wild-haired witch doctor/shaman danced and chanted about you, using his magic to cure that deep bite on your throbbing, festering leg. Being injured, you wondered how you would find or kill your next meal.

Snapshot of Today

Now think of your advantageous life today, if you are lucky enough to live this way. You wear clothing of many different kinds, including hats and shoes, depending on your activities and the weather. You may have a home that is automatically heated and cooled, with lights brightened or dimmed and perhaps turned on and off automatically. You sleep on a bed hardened or softened to taste. Your kitchen may contain a gas or electric stove, a microwave oven, a refrigerator, instant cold or hot water at the sink, a garbage disposal, and a dishwasher.

Appliances automatically wash and dry your clothes. If you plan to travel, you drive a car or fly in an airplane. Your doctors and hospitals provide real cures to help you live a longer and more healthful life, and you enjoy many kinds of entertainments, such as color TVs, movies, DVDs, cell phones, sports events, theaters, symphonies, art galleries, dance halls, and clubs.

Supermarkets exemplify how advantaged you are today as compared with your distant ancestor. The average supermarket carries more than 39,000 items.² These include all kinds of meat and poultry you don’t have to kill and dress yourself, fish you don’t have to catch, and milk without the care of a cow. They offer butter, fresh-baked bread and delicious pastries, and many kinds of fresh fruits and vegetables so easy to pick up. They provide frozen dinners and, even in midwinter, fresh-frozen strawberries and peas, and flowers flown in from warmer regions.

Furthermore, the supermarket’s delis sell ready-to-eat salads and cheese and meat dishes, following tasty recipes that call for herbs, rich spices, and condiments. You can buy beverages (plain and carbonated), beer, ale, wine, and higher alcoholic drinks, along with snacks, assorted candies, and desserts, including ice cream.

Indeed, the food available to the average supermarket customer of today far surpasses what was available even to kings a hundred years ago.

This