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发信人: PeterWang (PW), 信区: Physics
标 题: Richard P.Feynman - The Meaning of It All(12)
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (2002年07月01日08:12:39 星期一), 站内信件
I, in preparation for this lecture, investigated something that was in
my town, in the shopping center. There was a store with a flag in front.
And it's the Americanism Center, Altadena Americanism Center. And so
I went into the Americanism Center to find out what it is, and it's a
volunteer organization. And on the front outside, there is a
Constitution and the Bill of Rights and so on, and a letter which
explains their purpose, which is to maintain rights and so on, all in
accordance with the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and so on.
That's the general idea. What they do in there is simply educative. They
have books that people could buy on the various subjects that help to
teach the ideas of citizenship and so on, and they have, among other
books, also Congressional records, pamphlets on Congressional
investigations and so on, so that people who are studying these problems
can read them. They have study groups which meet at night, and so on.
So, being interested in rights for people, I asked, since I said I
didn't know very much about it, I would like a book on the problem of
the freedom of the Negroes to vote in the South. There was nothing. Yes,
there was. There was one thing which turned up later, two things
which I saw out of the corner of my eye. One was what went on in
Mississippi according to the Oxford city fathers, and the other was a
little pamphlet called "The National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People and Communism."
So I discussed it at some greater length to discover what was going on
and talked to the lady for a while, and she explained among other things
(we talked about many things-we did this on a friendly basis, you
will be surprised to hear) that she was not a member of the Birch
Society but there was something that you could say for the Birch
Society, she saw some movie about it and so on, and there was
something that she could say for it. You're | not a fence sitter when
you're in the Birch Society. At least you know what you're for,
because you don't have to join it if you don't want to, and this is what
Mr. Welch said, and this is the way the Birch Society is, and if you
believe in this then you join, and if you don't believe in this then you
shouldn't join. It sounds just like the Communist Party. It's all
very well if they have no power. But if they have power, it's a
completely different situation. I tried to explain to her that this is
not the kind of freedom that was being talked about, that in any
organization there ought to be the possibility of discussion. That fence
sitting is an art, and it's difficult, and it's important to do, rather
than to go headlong in one direction or the other. Its just better to
have action, isn't it, than to sit on the fence? Not if you're not
sure which way to go, it isn't.
So I bought a couple of things there, just at random that they had.
One of the things was called "The Dan Smoot Report"-it's a good name-and
it talked about the Constitution, and a general idea I'll outline: that
the Constitution was right the way it was written in the first place.
And all the modifications that have come in are just the mistakes.
Fundamentalists, only not in the Bible but in the Constitution. And then
it goes on to give the ratings of Congressmen in votes, how they voted.
And it said, very specifically and after explaining about their ideas,
"The following give the ratings of the congressmen and senators with
regard to whether they vote for or against the Constitution." Mind you
that these ratings are not just an opinion, but they are based on fact.
They are a matter of voting record. Fact. There's no opinion at all.
It's just the voting record, and, of course, each item is either for
or against the Constitution. Naturally. Medicare is against the
Constitution, and so on. I tried to explain that they violate their
own principles. According to the Constitution there are supposed to be
votes. It isn't supposed to be automatically determinable ahead of
time on each one of the items what's right and what's wrong. Otherwise
there wouldn't be the bother to invent the Senate to have the votes.
As long as you have the votes at all, then the purpose of the votes is
to try to make up your mind which is the way to go. And it isn't
possible for somebody to determine by fact ahead of time what is the
situation. It violates its own principle.
It starts out all right, with the good, and love, and Christ, and so on,
and it builds itself up until it's afraid of an enemy. And then it
forgets its original idea. It turns itself inside out and becomes
absolutely contrary to the beginning. I believe that the people who
start some of these things, especially the volunteer ladies of Altadena,
have a good heart and understand a little bit that it's good, the
Constitution, and so on, but they are led astray in the system of the
thing. How, I can't exactly get at, and what to do to keep from doing
this, I don't exactly know.
I went still further into the thing and found out what the study group
was about, and if you don't mind I'll tell you what that was about. They
gave me some papers. There were a lot of chairs, you see, in the room,
and they explained to me, yes, that evening they had a study group, and
they gave me a thing which described what they were going to study. And
I made some notes from it. It had to do with the S.P.X.R.A. In 1943 the
S.P.X. research associates-which turns out to be the ... well, I'll
tell you what it turns out to be-came into being through the
professional interest of intelligence officers then on active duty in
the armed forces of the United States concerning the Soviet revival of a
long dormant tenth principle of warfare. Paralysis. See the evil.
Dormant. Mysterious. Frightening. The mystic people of the military
orders have had principles of warfare since the Roman legions. Number
one. Number two. Number three. This is number ten. We don't have to know
what number seven is. The whole idea that there are long dormant
principles of warfare, much less that there is a tenth principle of
warfare, is an absurdity. And then what is this principle of
paralysis? How are they going to use the idea? The boogie man is now
generated. How do you use the boogie man? You use the boogie man as
follows: This educational program concerns itself with all the areas
where Soviet pressure can be used to paralyze the American will to
resist. Agriculture, arts, and cultural exchange. Science, education,
information media, finance, economics, government, labor, law, medicine,
and our armed forces, and religion, that most sensitive of areas. In
other words, we now have an open machine for pointing out that everybody
who says something that you don't agree with has been paralyzed by
the mystic force of the tenth principle of warfare.
This is a phenomenon analogous to paranoia. It is impossible to disprove
the tenth principle. It's only possible if you have a certain balance,
a certain understanding of the world to appreciate that it's out of
balance, to think that the Supreme Court-which turns out to be an
"instrument of global conquest"-has been paralyzed. Everything is
paralyzed. You see how fearful it becomes, the terrible power which is
demonstrated again and again by one example after the other of this
fearful force which is made up.
This describes what a paranoia is like. A woman gets nervous. She begins
to suspect that her husband is trying to make trouble for her. She
doesn't like to let him into the house. He tries to get into the house,
proves that he's trying to make trouble for her. He gets a friend to
try to talk to her. She knows that its a friend, and she knows in her
mind, which is going to one side, that this is only further evidence
of the terrible fright and the fear that she's building up in her mind.
Her neighbors come over to console her for a while. It works fairly
well, for a while. They go back to their houses. The friend of the
husband goes to visit them. They are spoiled now, and they are going
to tell her husband all the terrible things she said. Oh dear, what
did she say? And he's going to be able to use them against her. She
calls up the police department. She says, "I'm afraid." She's locked
in her house now. She says, "I'm afraid." Somebody's trying to get
into the house. They come, they try to talk to her, they realize that
there is nobody trying to get into the house. They have to go away.
She remembers that her husband was important in the city. She
remembers that he had a friend in the police department. The police
department is only part of the scheme. It only proves it once again. She
looks through the window of the house, and she sees across the way
someone stopping at a neighbor's house. What are they talking about?
In the backyard, she sees something coming up over a bush. They're
watching her with a telescope! It turns out later to be some children
playing in the back with a stick. A continuous and perpetual buildup,
until the entire population is involved. The lawyer that she called, she
remembers, was the lawyer once for a friend of her husband's. The
doctor who has been trying to get her to the hospital is now obviously
on the side of the husband.
The only way out is to have some balance, to think that it's
impossible that the whole city is against her, that everybody is going
to pay attention to this husband of mine who's such a dope, that
everybody's going to do all these things, that there's a complete
accumulation. All the neighbors, everybody's against her. It's out of
proportion. It's only out of proportion. How can you explain to somebody
who hasn't got a sense of proportion?
And so it is with these people. They don't have a sense of proportion.
And so they will believe in such a possibility as the Soviet tenth
principle of warfare. The only way that I can think to beat the game
is to point the following out. They're right. And like my friend with
the bottle with the label, the Soviets are very, very ingenious and
clever indeed. They even tell us what they're doing to us. You see,
these people, these research associates are really in the hire of the
Soviets who are using this method of paralysis. And what they want us to
do is to lose faith in the Supreme Court, to lose faith in the
Agriculture Department, to lose faith in the scientists and all the
people who help us in all kinds of ways and so on and so on, and lose
faith in all sorts of ways, and it's a way that they have entered into
this movement of freedom that everybody wanted, this thing with all
the flags and the Constitution, and they've gotten in on it, and they're
getting in there, and they're going to paralyze it. Proof. In their own
words. S.P.X.R.A. has qualified, under oath, in the United States court
as the leading, American authority on the tenth principle. Where did
they get the information? There's only one place. From the Soviet
Union.
This paranoia, this phenomenon-I shouldn't call it a paranoia, I'm not a
doctor, I don't know-but this phenomenon is a terrible one, and it
has caused mankind and individuals a terrible unhappiness.
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