The open conspiracy : $b Blue prints for a world revolutionWells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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The open conspiracy : $b Blue prints for a world revolution
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Social problems; Sociology; Utopias
Through special _ad hoc_ organisations, societies for the
promotion of Research, for Research Defence, for World Indexing,
for the translation of Scientific Papers, for the Diffusion of New
Knowledge, the surplus energies of a great number of Open Conspirators
can be directed to entirely creative ends and a new world organisation
of scientific work built up, within which such dear old institutions
as the Royal Society of London, the various European Academies of
Science and the like, now overgrown and inadequate, can maintain
their venerable pride in themselves, their mellowing prestige and
their distinguished exclusiveness, without their present privilege of
inflicting cramping slights and restrictions upon the more abundant
scientific activities of to-day.
So in relation to Science--and here the word is being used in its
narrower accepted meaning for what is often spoken of as _pure_
science, the search for physical and biological realities,
uncomplicated by moral, social and “practical” considerations--we
evoke a conception of the Open Conspiracy as producing groups of
socially associated individuals, who engage primarily in the general
basic activities of the Conspiracy and adhere to and promote the six
broad principles summarised at the end of Chapter Twelve, but who work
also with the larger part of their energies, through international
and cosmopolitan societies and in a multitude of special ways, for
the establishment of an enduring and progressive world organisation
of pure research. They will have come to this special work because
their distinctive gifts, their inclinations, their positions and
opportunities have indicated it as theirs.
Now a very parallel system of Open Conspiracy groups is conceivable,
in relation to business and industrial life. It would necessarily be
a vastly bulkier and more heterogeneous system of groups but otherwise
the analogy is complete. Here we imagine those people whose gifts,
inclinations, positions and opportunities as directors, workers or
associates give them an exceptional insight into and influence in the
processes of producing and distributing commodities, can also be drawn
together into groups within the Open Conspiracy. But these groups
will be concerned with the huge and more complicated problems of the
processes by which even now the small isolated individual adventures in
production and trading, that constituted the economic life of former
civilisations, are giving place to larger, better instructed, better
planned industrial organisations, whose operations and combinations
become at last world wide.
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