Suppose there is an expression - "He was ahead of his time". So they say about famous thinkers, artists, or people whose living position, views are out of reach for most. Why they can to be ahead of their time, not to mention contemporaries?
Because they do not consider progress as a process of slow accumulation of knowledge and experience, which is achieved from generation to generation, and in which the role of the individual, in general, is passive.
Such people consider progress as their own task. Such people are able to donate for their goal the opportunities, the career and other things, which are vital material welfare for majority. These people are demonstrate unwittingly by own example, what kind of progress people can reach in their lives. They demonstrate that the essence of progress is reflected in personal growth, which then manifests itself in the creation of any new wealth. That these material values - is just one of the consequences of real progress.
And since by that path today, as in all ages, are able to move forward only a few people, then, on the one hand, it indicates a practically inexhaustible possibilities of progress, but on the other hand, it indicates that we still do not live in progressive society.
As you can see, thought, which was arisen thanks Kapitsa, is make the opportunity to see exactly most global phenomena and processes inherent in our lives.
But what it gives at personal level for each of us? It allows a completely different angle to look at the possibilities of our lives. Because, ultimately, it only depends on the person, will be his life whether interesting, will be his life whether filled with unprecedented achievements, which can only he achieves, or it will be like everyone else reduced to achieve some small advantage (cell phone, car, mansion, bank account...) in the way of service someone's interests?..
The choice depends on the person.
And most interestingly, this choice may be made at any age. In other words, it's stand up for progressive way to experience the happiness of a full life, never too late.
And finally, the issue of unnecessary heroism. In modern society, where on the base of existing financial and economic rules is made clear distribution of roles for all those who involved in the game of the increasing of the property (which is based on those rules), for those who would want to accomplish themselves accordingly to progressive tasks, therefore independently, need, how century ago, to reveal personal heroism. Therefore the person who decided on an independent path, he decides to carry material deprivation and lack of understanding from others... Few people able stand this. But since the new financial and economic regulations on the basis of which we are creating a financial turnover among civilized people, and those people who are striving for civility, are aimed at creating conditions for the implementation of advanced and simple cost-effective projects, and, ultimately, creating opportunities for the full implementation of any talented person, very soon the full-fledged realization and high civilized principals will become the norm.
The basis for practical solutions and actions, as you can see, is the formation of new ideas through collaboration with those who have been able to reveal personal heroism for the achieving of his own personal heights and civilized qualities in the existing conditions, with the likes of Kapitsa.
This is the first manifestations and the results of the free intellectual turnover, which was mentioned in the beginning, or basic informational task of this site.
The start of this process does not look simple. Trips to Moscow, meetings, the formation of new views, forming of the circle of the first investors from the number of people seeking to civilization, in order that, finally, you could familiarize youself with these ideas and new possibilities that are opened based on them. But it could not be different, because we move by the unknown path. A further acceleration of free intellectual turnover depends on the number of people who participate in it as an intellectual, and financial.
These are the consequences of supporting by Sergey Petrovich of idea of free intellectual turnover and of his thought that everything happens within a limits of human life.
But the conversation with Sergei Petrovich, friend of paradoxes, was related to many important aspects.
- I have a feeling that the world is rushing somewhere without intellectual part.
- I feel this too. And you're absolutely right, that pay attention to it. This is a very serious crisis: the politics lags behind economic development, the gap between word and deed, between thoughts, ideas and spirit... And it covers the whole world.
I would suggest you look at my article on demography, which summarizes much of what I done lately.
- You link what we talked about the crisis with the demography?
- Yes. Demography is the best way display processes taking place. See, it's rapidly increasing population growth curve for four thousand years. But less than a hundred years, she switched on the shelf - population growth will cease. And we are in the centre of this switching.
- What is it entail?
- This is exactly what I was researching. Standing on the shoulders of giants, as Newton said, I tried to go a bit further. I would suggest you look at it, and then we would to continue.
Soon we returned to the conversation.
- The most important thing in your article - this is the information component of human development. And probably my most profound worry is precisely the fact that the responsibility for it must be correctly performed. Because this role does not undertake any commercial media and states, due to natural causes. It is the responsibility and the need of people who understand it. All the complexity depends of this.
- Because, as explained here, technology development, as well as many others take place faster, than the understanding of the circumstances that they create. In fact, a necessity for serious restructuring of consciousness.
- I tried to find the dynamics of these processes. The masses do not give high performance. Then I started coming to the realization that society has a layer of growth - the people, who are at the forefront of progress, and exactly they create increase of new values in science, culture, technology...
- Correctly.
- But, it seems to me, the layer of growth can be much wider, if that is the free flow of information, on the positions that we are standing, will find widely spreading...
- Yes.
- The question is in the quality information. Because as you say, bad information...
- It's just noise that clogs the signal. Look at the Internet, it is not structured. On the contrary, everyone is afraid of its structuring, they fear control. Better such the flow of information than any artificial limitations ... It's a complicated question. You can not demand from it more than it gives.
- On the other hand, the Internet, that was created as a space for free information, they first of all started to use for the commercial dissemination of information. Although the effective development of mankind depends on that the information is in free spreading.
- I object to the concept of intellectual property in general. And I talking about it a lot. What is a school? This is the method of distribution and multiplication of intellectual property. There is no property in this case...
- It seems to me that the creation of an information resource that would be characterized by a fundamental, literally scientific quality, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, that resource would be freely available on the Internet, would help to appear informational or, rather, an intellectual space, to which very many people are drawn.
- You are absolutely right. People should have a choice. And in this sense, the logarithmic scale should be sharp.
- Lack of choice of holding back the development of the people who are capable of it.
- Here I quote: "The more I know, the less I understand..."
- But it is also extremely interesting. Pass into the unknown...
- That's why I mention these words.
- But only few people are able to accept it as a credo.
- I see the significance of this case. People such as my father were seen, what is in fact significant...
- Where are such people more, in the CIS or abroad?
- Such people in generally few. But they are necessary. This is vanguard, very small advanced detachment the people who really govern the development of mankind.
- The market exploits needs...
- They believe that money is the goal. But money is not the goal. Money - this facility. In addition, even during the war, if you need money, you will print them, because you have no them, but you need to win. When we win, then we will sort out with money. Money - is the greatest fiction. By the way, the great economists have written about this a lot.
There is a famous quote from Keynes, one of the greatest economists. Keynes, in essence was an ideologue going out of the Depression, he said that it's need inflation to run production, through printing money. And he writes the following:
"Imagine that in a hundred years, we become eight times richer than today.
Assuming that there will be no major wars, no significant population growth, the economic problem can be solved.
This means that the economic problem is not if we look to the future, the permanent problem of mankind.
Then you can ask me why this is so weird. A strange, because if you look not to the future but to the past, we find that the economic problem, the struggle to maintain living standards, it was always the most urgent problem for humanity.
And not only for humankind, but also for any species, from the moment when life arose even in their most primitive forms. That is why we specifically created by nature with all of our impulses and deep instincts in order to resolve the problem of the economic, the problem of maintaining living standards.
If the economic problem is solved, mankind is essentially deprived of its traditional purpose.
I was horrified to think about the re-evaluation of the instincts and habits common man, which are embedded in his consciousness for many generations, when he was forced in a few decades throw away these ideas. Using the language of today, we should expect a general nervous shock. In other words, for the first time since his inception, the man will face his true permanent question of how to use their freedom of economic goals, how to use his free time, which science and the production won for him. In order it to be wise and generally acceptable and service good goals. There are also other changes in various spheres, to which we must prepare, when the accumulation of wealth becomes not important socially. Must be significant changes in our moral foundations. We must free ourselves from pseudo moral principles, which for hundreds of years brought us to, in essence, swinish state, and which, at the same time being hailed as the most significant. At the same time, they are the most filthy of the qualities of human... "
- If I not mistaken, Shakespeare said that if a person is reduced to basic needs, it will turn into an animal.
- That's it. The man is great in that it has a consciousness and mind.
- We tend to identify ourselves with the outside world, with it's goods.
- Yes.
- And at the same time the most important qualities that must be formed, it must be formed in us.
- This is what limits us today.
- Sergei Petrovich, still I would like to focus on the sensation, which is inherent in you, other people who are acutely and deeply perceive the essence of the real processes. One possible answer to it would be the creating of the intellectual resource, in order to actually create opportunities for the proper formation of consciousness.
- I can only agree with this plan globally. But how it can be to lead in life?
Vladimir TESLIN