The collective term we humans use to describe what we value is “wealth”.

IMPORTANCE –def–> The amount of wealth effected by an event compared to the total amount of wealth.

WEALTH (effected)
WEALTH (total)

RISK –def–> What is the amount wealth that could be lost during an event – action, reaction & resultant.

OPPORTUNITY –def–> What is the amount of wealth that could be gained during an event – action, reaction & resultant.

ALLOWED ACTION –def–> Any action is allowed which does not injure or hurt.

SYNERGIC ACTION –def–> Any allowed action which helps.

DYMAXION ACTION –def–> The least synergic action that triggers an event that produces the greatest gain in wealth.

Alfred Korzybski writing in 1921 — In the earliest times the religious, philosophical, legal and ethical systems had not been invented. The morale at that time was a natural morale. Humans knew that they did not create nature. They did not feel it “proper” to “expropriate the creator” and legalistically appropriate the earth and its treasure for themselves. They felt, in their unsophisticated morale, that being called into existence they had a natural right to exist and to use freely the gifts of nature in the preservation of their life; and that is what they did. … After the death of a man, some of the objects produced by him still survived, such as weapons, fishing or hunting instruments, or the caves adapted for living; a baby had to be nourished for some years by its parents or it would have died. Those facts had important consequences; objects made by someone for some particular use could be used by someone else, even after the death of one or more successive users; again the experiences acquired by one member of a family or a group of people were taught by example or precept to others of the same generation and to the next generation. Such simple facts are the corner stones of our whole civilization and they are the direct result of the HUMAN CAPACITY OF TIME-BINDING. (01/12/02)
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So, in the nineties and now the double 0s, we see the same kind of sentiment, “We are running out of fossil fuel and here is what we must do to fix everything.” Ladies and gentlemen, we will do nothing of the sort. We will do nothing of the sort because it is not human nature to operate in such a mode. The world is not run by any kind of intelligence that looks ahead, sees an impending crisis, then relays that information to the world’s population and the world’s population immediately takes the appropriate action to head off the crisis. The world is run in a “reactionary response” mode. The world has 239 countries, at last count, made up of countless different local governments. These 239 countries contain over six billion people. It is the height of presumptuousness to say that we will be able to tell them anything, must less tell them that they must drastically change their lives. No, what they will do is they will deal with each crisis as it arises and not one day before. That is, they will react to the crisis when it hits them in the face and will respond in whatever manner that their nature dictates. (01/12/02)
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