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THE MATERIAL AND Cultural conditions of life
By Professor Dr. Tan Man-Ho
(Chen Wanhe)
(An excerpt from the original work,
Real World Views, Book 17, by Professor Dr. Tan Man-Ho entitled, "The
Astrological Ages: Influences on the Historical Sociocosmic
Octaves or Marxian Historicism, the Age of Aquarius, HEIGRENS
Concept and the Guiding Principles," January
1992 - September 1993 Discourses and 2012 Discourses, Chapter 2, Section A:
"The Material and Cultural Conditions of Life,"
pp. 10~23)
A. THE MATERIAL AND CULTURAL
CONDITIONS OF LIFE
1
“I was led by my
studies to the conclusions that legal relations and the forms of
the state could neither be understood by themselves nor be
explained by what was called the general progress of the human
mind but were rooted in the material conditions of life ……. The
general conclusion which I reached and which and one I had
reached it, continued to serve as the leading thread of my work
may be summed up briefly as follows: men in the social
production which they carry on enter into definite relation
which are indispensable and independent of their wills and these
relation correspond to a definite stage in the development of
their market powers of production.
The sum total of these relations of production
constitutes the economic structure of the society-the real
foundation on which rise legal and political superstructures and
to which definite forms of social consciousness correspond.
The method of production in material life determined the
general character of the social, political and spiritual process
of life.
It is not
the consciousness of men that determines their being, but on the
contrary, their social being determines their consciousness.”
(Karl Marx)
2
The greatest
treasure of an employee is his magic labor power and he has to
meet the crafty businessman to offer his labor in exchange for
money. By labor is
meant also all forms of labor from a human being.
Money can never be stronger than labor power for one is
born with it while the other is also created by the magic labor
itself. The role of
labor and the role of money is not the same.
Labor is still needed to fulfill its maiden role for
Earth. Wherever
there is prolonged exploitation in a certain place, that place
soon becomes hot.
Civil war is rooted from the conflicts within such work
platforms. Labor is the unique energy of the all human
sociocosmoses on Mother Earth and powers its birth, growth and
death. Labor is created from the digestion of the three
being-foods into psyche hydrogens, a portion of which is Labor.
Labor then flows to be ideas, products and services which
enter into the body sociocosmoses, to be consumed, to be
destroyed or to be repaired or to be upgraded and the
syllogistic equation is the Embedded Labor (of the past) + the
Living Labor (of the Continuous Presence) = the Total Labor (of
the Now).
3
The Earth is a
living creature, so is the Great Sociotechnocosmis Being.
Man’s life and activities are indispensably bound with
it. Therefore, as
man is responsible for his own health so he is also responsible
for the health of this creature.
Chaos – endlessness and inertly – such is a feature of
men who race problems from economy to all aspects of everything
which one must face in life, including therefore death.
4
So long wealth is
unequal, superstructures are just means. War is not the way of
reason; it is might, ownership of power and wealth.
The ultimate reality of
democracy is disguised totalitarianism.
External normality of what is right and justice are just
tools. No monopolist
is ready to share his wealth with you.
It is too expensive to lose this piece of wealth.
Democracy …. a tool always to be the ‘lau’
beings.
5
The term human “rights” is just a
“fishy term”. The
organizations of “human rights” group are many.
There can be no such thing as one absolute human rights
group. The golden
rules of human rights are often used as tools for a different
motive. As soon as
one human right group comes into existence another inimical one
comes into being too.
Those who are oppressed and those who oppress others
change names often.
Word such as ‘International’ may just be a departmental gimmick
to fool the minds of the stupid.
Should chance you meet in a ‘clash’ with contemporary
men; you will see a big explosion ‘because’ here these man’s
conscience is already buried in thick mud.
6
Whether you like it
or not the impossible goal of possessive stopinder accumulation
is to process everything - nature, creations, bodies and minds.
What happens now is just “packets” of these properties of
varying sizes concentrated of the earth, with the “motives” of
negating one another or getting rid of one another.
Money gotten is temporary consolation; soon it is lost to
an other. Capitalism
loved but make sure you did get it for yourself, and millions
did not get it; it becomes hope in the bush, soon it is
competition and war at all levels.
7
When objective
natural sociotechnocosmic history loses its natural direction
and balance due from the abnormal psychology of the historical
participants (of the power-possessing beings), alternative
sociociotechnocosmic history begins to emerge (by nature) to
restore this abnormality.
Psycho-abnormalities of power-possessing beings on mother
Earth’s organic layer set directions of the natural
sociotechnocosmic history on disastrous historical tracks
producing much destruction of biocosmic, sociocosmic,
technocosmic and a substantial portion of the geocosmic spheres.
Alternative history or interpretation of this objective
natural sociotechnocosmic becomes very necessary.
The interpretation of history has always been influenced
by the intervention of the more powerful ruler beings ……. thus
the natural historical process and its events are always being
“distorted” with occasional artificialities, failed experiments
of history and “unbeconings.”
8
Of all the
sociocosmic stopinders in the grand scheme of our Sociocosmic
Octave Being, the ONLY note that has a REAL Biological Life is
the note bearing the name ‘INDIVIDUAL’.
All the other notes in this octave have ONLY Sociological
Life or Legal Life or Sociocosmic Life or Artificial Life or
Instrumental Life or Social Relations of Production Life (SRPL)
or as the cunning Machiavellianistic Lucifer would say,
“Trouble-Making Life”).
For the Technocosmic Octave Being, its life could for now
merely be called Technocosmic Life or Mechanical Life for the
lower notes and Electrical Life or Electromagnetic Life for the
higher notes and ‘Synthetic Logical Life’ or ‘Artificial
Intelligent Life’ or ‘Electronic Life’ for the Computerian-ICT
Sub-Octave of our Technocosmic Octave Being.
For the Sociotechnocosmic Octave Being, it is a hybrid
“species” of the two beings – sociocosmic beings and the
technocosmic beings.
9
The reciprocal
utility theory of “to-use-and-to-be-used” or the reciprocal
using of beings and the inherent inner contradiction and
subsequent external attraction to it.
There are the states, the various types of state species
existing, growing, feeding and breeding on mother Earth’s
surface. In taking
care of the organization one needs giving birth to it, watering
it, weeding it, caring it, providing it with sunlight and
fertilizer while it is still young.
All these require rewards - it is work to be rewarded.
It is operating work and all operating work must be
rewarded. When a
branch reaches its ripe age it bears fruits - one can reap the
fruits. That is what
the general organic nature such as the human beings have been
doing for the past thousands years in producing and reproducing
their social beings.
The hitherto social beings on planet
earth are what is objectively created and existed to remain
impermanent.
Tomorrow our fellow friends are “happily” re-doing it in hope of
the better. These
friends said that it was badly created by the blind and confused
beings who were very stupid and unqualified for the intended
purpose of the Ray of Creation leading to such abnormality.
10
The
sociocomoses are becoming more and more mechanical and gather
many obstacles from the natural ‘social relations of
production’. The
sociocosmoses are only operating in world 48 and World 96 as the
‘social relations of production’ champions are deeply asleep,
and “awake” only in order to add in another obstacle to this
‘social relations of production’.
Even after any attempted revamp of the system, the
outcome is still due to their sleep-wake consciousness.
11
Complicated
social relations of production (private properties and greed
interests to cite them) that are exploitative or unfair always
lead to troubles.
Only simple social relations of production (production
supporters) that obey the forces of the representatives of
production (working people) give lesser troubles.
12
Capitalism
is an ultimate principle of ‘from each as much as possible and
to each as little as possible’.
Socialism is an ultimate principle of ‘from each
according to his ability to each according to his work’.
This itself is difficult
to come by.
Communism is the ultimate principle of ‘from each according to
his ability to each according to his needs’.
This is even harder!
Except for man of higher being, ordinary man’s greed for
power, money, properties and control is truly unpredictable.
Every religion, every class, every race, every crony, every
group of similar belief or thoughts or culture and all others
are hungry for the upper dominating ‘lau’ positions in the
higher sociocosmic stopinders. Each power group does not know
when it will be toppled!
The underlying deep psychological principles of capitalism,
socialism and communism are explained as follow:
The psychology of exploitative
accumulation of wealth in all its forms (early and modern social
relations administrative structures) for oneself is the
psychology of capitalism, that which fairly and justly
accumulates non-exploitative wealth based on the amount of work
delivered by oneself to the sociocosmoses is the psychology of
socialism, and finally, the Godly, godless and esoteric
religious psychology that accumulates wellbeing and the
satisfaction of the Maslowian Hierarchy of human needs based on
delivery of one’s natural ability and work to the sociocosmoses
is what is the psychology of real Communism.
This viewpoint is the viewpoint of Fourth Dimension, and
all these psychic moments can be found in a single modern
contemporary man ‑ changing focuses, mixing psychological
moments, now open and now hidden expressions of these principles
of life throughout the last few periods of contemporary Aquarius
history. The
practice can be objectivized with the support of the sociocosmic
principles derived and improved from the existing heritage from
the outcome of what might be called the ‘world of contemporary
modern management techniques’ now found already deeply in the
body of our Great Sociotechnocosmic Being.
13
The
emotional hydrogens of the beasts of the Bible, the Holy Quran
and all other holy religious scriptures are the products of the
earlier psychological vessels of the earlier model of man of the
Piscean history where real opium or hallucinating substances are
produced in small quantum.
The opium produces “the sigh of the oppressed creature”,
becomes the “heart of the heartless world”, the “spirit of a
spiritless situation”, the “soul of a soulless situation” and
the sheep amongst wolves and sheep-wolves.
This type of hydrogen is obsolete and is hardly
produce-able or restorable during our Aquarius history.
14
The energy
of history that gives faith, hope, love and conscience for the
productive class of workers from being chronically exploited to
historical extinction is not democracy, not totalitarianism, not
capitalism, not communism, not religion and not the various
instrumenting administration but the energy from and for itself
against just this history of itself as a historical majority
social and real being.
Its leader is its own leader from its own social blood,
and its culture is just the same in the
laujinggong configuration, its ‘democracies’ also issue from its
own social blood.
Its capitalism is simply its own capitalism and must be a win
capitalism from itself (from the people), by itself (by the
people) and for itself (for the people).
Losing this spirit to fight loses the chance for
historical protection for itself.
The winner will order administrative ‘exploitation’ of
the loser! The
history of a big nation is the history to be the sole winner on
Earth according to the natural history of a nation, as no big
nation plans anything to become a loser.
Even in a simple competition, there exists no such thing
as planning to compete for the last position.
For the big and “friendly” nations, the measure of the
levels of commercial and military technology is still the
measure for supremacy and world domination.
For nations which finally achieve itself with nuclear
weapons, intercontinental missiles capability and precision
targeting, it will continue to disarm the weaker nations to
remain so as to preserve its own supremacy and to be the sole
Ti-lau being
(hegemon) on Earth. Struggles become a hundred thousand times
more Machiavellianeous and intricated and whatever good
intentions that might prevail in all sociocosmic stopinders on
mother Earth might be just used to serve the purposes of the
power-possessing Hasnamussian beings with the smiling faces.
The weak and the poor exploited nations
have to look for ‘Great Dear Leader’ to give them the faith,
hope, love, conscience, reason and strength.
Piscean religions gave them a God or some gods to console
their inner being psychic centers and were quite successful
during the Piscean Age but the same offer were quite useless in
the dawn of the Aquarian Age.
They cannot trust democracy, religion, aids and empty
promises of the cheaters and enemies who need to be fed rather
than to feed. They
are the most despised classes who are also the most stubborn
world challengers to global exploitation world-wide.
15
It just
happens the way it happens, unknowingly market economy, is
different from conscious looking from outside market economy.
One operates at a lower level of understanding while the
other operates at a higher level.
The marketing of political concepts by
political institutions are often financed by the state, the
private sector and the political groups.
Democracy concepts can be marketed, however they can be
banned.
Religion, fourth way and knowledge must
go through the process of marketing if they want to expand the
first line of work, the second line of work and third line of
work cannot possibly escape the economic laws of marketing.
It is not easy to sell a religion, a fourth way or an
idea for a price. It
is democratically run by the group of owners and exploiters
because only those who have shares are the rich ones.
The poor ones hardly have any share.
Socialism became management of capital
(capitals) or capitalism in a democratic and fair way as it
belongs to all the people who produce it.
There is no contradiction between socialism and capital.
Because those are two ways to manage capital: 1)
Dictating through the owners
2) Democratically run by all (true socialism) through
vote. It is a
temporary vanguard to prevent the mismanagement of capitals to
ensure that they are fairly managed.
Dictatorship is serious - it ensures democracy of
properties. To
convert socialist property to individually own private capital
appears to be democratic but those who did not get it knows of
the untold suffering murder behind the privatization which is
artful robbery but essentials at times for special reasons.
Capital is a common property a social
product which is active in nature.
Capital has always belong to all those who produce it.
Since it belongs to all the people, it has to be managed
democratically like belonging to all instead of belonging to a
few. Capitalism
means an individual or a group of individuals here laid claims
to this social product, the reason being historical, greed,
security individualistic fear, and so on.
It also means exploitation or white-stealing capitalism
and always gives trouble to mankind.
Capitalism also means that capital is not managed
democratically, how can a piece of property which is yours and
yet not yours but dictated by the owner/owners become(s) a
democratic thing for sale?
The ultimate goal of corporations is to
accumulate capital; the owners and managers democratically run
them. It excludes
people who do not own it such as the workers and the
administration who also contribute this capital.
16
Contemporary music
and songs are but automatic subjective ‘uncontrollable’
expression if not ejaculation of the inner world of the
disordered hearts in their quest for harmony.
Man pants for music and songs to heal his weak infantile
soul like he pants for his vitamins to heal his undernourished
body due to heavy work stress.
17
Religion
which preaches human good begets solutions that could not avert
wars. Each religion
promises nothing new but each of them seeks to espouse and helps
to develop just, up to this day, the well-known universal human
values. Filter away
those loose statements in the essential books and you will get
the basic principles in all religions, the basic principles of
all human values.
18
Education now comes
from the mass media, especially from TV programs and the
internet. These
materials and contents come like a storm and easily create
confusion. We
uncontrollably allow ourselves to be ‘trained’ and educated in
the Confusion of the Tongue.
Our minds have been entertained.
Thanks to contemporary newspapers, comic books, cinemas,
social media, and theatre, the psyche of man has turned upside down.
We could not go far.
The entertainers have trapped and occupy our minds.
Yet there is freedom and there is no one who can really
control your thoughts for long, nor can one hide what one has
done.
19
Every product or
service or idea after it comes out from the womb of the
sociotechnocosmic body or born from it has a precious
sociotechnocosmic life which it has to protect and survive in
“terror” of the multiautomarketing feeding exchanges.
So it has ability, capability, flexibility and
diversification that give wonders and colors to the Great
Sociocosmic Being from World 48 and World 96, and so often
surprises us. Why do
commodities look so funny, strange, fetishistic, friendly and
sly? Why your money
flies out from your pocket like Mr. Quickly?
Why flowers must become colorful to bees?
20
The
life-span of man is about 70 years, but life-span of a religion
or a democracy or an “ism” can be a thousand year.
Mankind must remember that all these are born and must
die, even if you do not really believe and/or even if it is
proven to be the most perfect ever known to mankind.
Because nothing really is permanent, and every so-called
absolute unchanging which we have accepted by our feeble mind is
just one of these changing things.
21
A religious
ruler cannot run a country without having to decide on which
system of economy to set up for that particular country.
This knowledge is not available in the Holy Scripture.
It is precisely this point that he disqualifies himself
as a young leader even though for all his life, he might preach
a thousand goodies.
It is impossible to preach good brotherhood and religious
goodies while at the same time the basic question of who should
own the means of production remains untouched and unresolved.
So long as the ownership and benefits of the means of
production remains in the hands of a handful of religious
leaders, no amount of good ethical teaching can be recognized in
the eyes of good to be truly godly.
22
Workers
ownership of the means of production/democratic principles to be
used in running the common property/management by objective
(MBO) becomes more effective only when ownership and rewards
have become an organic part of the worker/from each according to
his ability, to each according to his work only produces
historically like any capitalistic countries unequal individual
wealth. To enable the realization of modern type of slavery and
exploitation, ownership (of all kinds of assets on Earth) must
still be given to the few individuals or to a few lower
sociocosmic stopinders, and must be separated from non-owners.
Exchanges must be unequal or market-based with unequal
benefits. The
cleverer ones must get more from the stupid during these buying
and selling and also during making agreements.
Artful strategies are created a hundred fold. The conning
is numerous small bites with occasional big bites, eternal and
unstoppable. The law
of reciprocal feeding applies to higher man.
23
How can they
use the word “one family” in managing a business which is run by
pyramidal principles of exploitation? Payment is so unjust for
all the various individuals.
This amounts to using sugar-coated bullets, like most
other “ambushes”. We
are all ONE FAMILY, but the upper group reaps the golden
harvest! Internal
exploitation and styles of management is critical!
24
All human
creation is a result of the delivery of intelligent energy from
the working people.
Even the most advance super computer is a product of the
intelligent creativity of the working people. The working people
are sociocosmically stopindered as a sub-octave marking its
survival technique and method of struggling for survival in the
harsh world. We are
now seriously looking at the stars to escape from Earth.
25
Why buy
expensive money?
Business should see money just like any other commodity.
You should get it as
cheaply as possible but also take accounts of the people who are
providing it.
Exchange not good money for bad money and good business for bad
business!
26
Nation is
not indispensable, its existence is dependent.
There are no nations but humans in social actions on
mother Earth.
International laws are invented by a minority group of cunning
representatives from a few nations in hope of cheating the
unsuspecting sleepy representatives of the weaker nations.
27
Free
enterprise is merely an empty slogan in an oligopolistic
economic system because the wealth of the whole nation has
already fallen into the hands of a few groups of magnates.
Yet the quest for free enterprise does break down
oligopolistic economic systems. The Purgatory
Equations of Exploitation, EL (Embedded Labor) + LL (Living
Labor) = TL (Total Labor), TL - EL = LL = WS (Wage/Salary) + SS
(Stolen Surplus)! (Referred to Richard D. Wolff)
28
Build
whatever you can social materially in your life time!
It looks like you have no choice.
This is your social responsibility that is also from your
natural social instinct.
The essence of this instinct is to plan, organize, lead
and control your social goals.
The social goal can be ‘profit-orientated’ and
‘profit-optimization’ if not general capitalistic accumulation.
One thing is certain if you are to insist on this
essenceliness you will find that you have to take out more from
the surplus for the Common Good of all.
Otherwise, you will be “sly” because you have violated a
certain precept such as “Do not steal.”
29
The chemical
factory of the Fourth Way Teaching has an analytical study of
the psyche process.
Annie Besant uses the geometric descriptive method like other
psychologists on this matter.
Annie Besant’s insight on human emoting is deep.
The three centers are basically vibrating.
If the frequencies (cycle per second) are different and
not in step, forces cancel one another and reinforcement cannot
happen. Although
there seems to be a link between effort and quality in
production both increases and decreased proportionally; a wrong
effort would not improve the quality.
30
Learn to dance with
the tendencies and ‘I’s of the beings around you.
Such is the way of the water.
They want to test your Taiji by illegal intrusion, by a
subtle method of trespassing.
Your body is like hardware, your psyche like software.
But the dance is still the pursuit for more benefits.
Both your hardware and
your software must be upgraded to process the tendencies and
‘I’s around you. If
your hardware is not developed how can your software be
developed? That movement which is perpetually proceeding within
us should be observed constantly and regulated by the observing
‘I’ through the will of this observing ‘I’.
31
Many of these
beings are just being brought and put into work by what are
called ‘job appointments’ and ‘employment contracts’ – a magic
bondage that is to remain there till their own destruction and
disintegration. The
highest form of slavery occurs in a way of service charges, head
tolls, bonds, guarantees, etc. for the trading of labor across
countries. These
highly professional ‘wordings’ are employed like sausages and
dressings in the process of reciprocal feeding to survive.
A person who is productive is entirely different from a
person who craves for wealth.
One creates while the other craves for possession.
Transform your material possessions into commercial-able
things of value.
Such is the inevitability of living in a
capitalistic-socialistic world. Your produce ends up in
others' ownership in an unequal return Equation of
Exploitation.
32
According to the Field Theory of Kurt Zadek Lewin a
behavior is the result of equilibrium between driving and
restraining forces.
Driving forces activate their own restraining forces.
Decreasing the restraining forces is normally a more
effective way to encourage change than by increasing the driving
forces.
Between the productive forces (driving
forces) and the social relations of production
(restraining-appropriating forces), the liberation of the
productive forces is more effective by decreasing the
restraining forces of the social relations of production.
This is a finding in the effectiveness of change.
You can’t really succeed in getting workers to increase
productivity by intensifying greater exploitation and by
introducing stiffer laws and punishments because sooner or later
the workers will become a more destructive force, a force that
destroy their own exploitation.
If
you want to truly understand something, try to change it.
- Kurt Zadek Lewin
33
Insides are not only looking at insides; they also look
at outsides. But
outsides have insides too!
They are real and their insides are also looking at their
own insides as well as outsides which again have insides.
By assuming insides as real and outsides as unreal or
insides is the only one exist while outsides are non-existing,
we committing an error in our observation.
The world is known only by the inside and the insides of
the outsides!
34
Gurdjieff – a man of
many ‘dimensions’ – a majority of man may not acquire as many
‘dimensions’ compared to Gurdjieff's.
To execute differently conditioned movement type - this
is the way to acquire new dimensions in movements.
To think and feel differently is to acquire new
dimensions!
35
Does it work that a
body politics that in reality works for the part and claims to
work for the whole?
The body politics that I lived is stable only because of the
existence of races – not necessary! More to it for sure -
perhaps a colonial manipulation.
Real laws are essence (substructure) but ordinary laws are mere forms
(superstructure).
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