Informed decsion making depends on people having accurate information.

We are all human beings, and we all live on Earth.  This is the common ground we all share.  The universe works the way it works, and all we can do is to figure out how to cooperate with it.

Everyone’s perceptions of reality are subjective.  But by triangulating among many people’s perceptions, we can identify things that everyone perceives the same way.  That depends on observability, universality, self-consistency, reproducibility, and debatability.  This results in information that doesn’t let you down.  Anything else results in conflicts of opinion and other people thinking you’re just making stuff up.

People all over the world have figured out how to do this.  The English word for this process is “science”.

We have a serious problem here in America.  The United States Constitution was written in the 18th century.  The Theory of Evolution and the Laws of Thermodynamics weren’t discovered until the 19th century.  That means our government was founded by people who had fundamental misunderstandings about biology and physics, which means human behavior, the environment, and economics.

The lifecycle of a species depends on its relationship to its environment.  Every species always uses all the resources available to it in its environment to survive and reproduce, until the environmental impact of the species balances to the impact the environment can withstand.

If the environmental impact of a species isn’t balanced by predators limiting the population size of the species, eventually the species’ impact will be limited by food availability.  If that happens, the species’ relationship to its environment goes through two pahses:  the colonization phase and the sustainability phase.  First the species eats up all the food it can find and goes through a population explosion.  Then the population size grows beyond what the food productivity of the environment can continue to support.  Then most of the species dies in a famine until the population size is reduced to level the environment can support—which is how the species makes the transition to its sustainability phase.  Since the species is eating its food as fast as the environment can produce it now, the population size of the species levels out far below what the environment could’ve supported if the population size had been limited by predators.

With weapons and medicine, humanity has eliminated predators as a limiting factor on our population size, which is why our species is in a population explosion right now.  We call our usage of resources an economy, and our relationships to each other that determine who decides how resources are used a political system.  But really, those are just the manifestations of our species’ environmental impact.

Capitalism is the simplest economic system to use because it’s the direct manifestation of a species’ colonization phase.  Organisms use whatever resources they can get to advance their own interests in the best way they can think of.  There’s nothing original in that founding principle of Capitalism, because that’s how every species in the animal kingdom relates to its environment.

The global revolution against Capitalism and globalization is happening because our species is the only species in the world that can think far enough ahead to realize we are in the transition between our colonization and sustainability phases, and that if we don’t limit our environmental impacts voluntarily, the environment will limit it for us after billions of people die in a global famine and resultant plagues and wars.  Some people have joined the revolution because they’ve learned about that ahead of time, while other people, like the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, have joined (or in their case, started) the anti-globalization revolution not by learning this in the abstract but because they can see their lives are being threatened by our economic system—because they are the among the first who are being threatened by the transition.

I was a volunteer in the War on Terror.  I trained to land the SWAT team on the roofs of buildings controlled by people who hate our government.  I thought those people were going to be terrorists, not environmentalists!

I volunteered to defend democracy and the freedom of speech.  Unfortunately, George W. Bush doesn’t believe in either of those.  (President Obama is making a lot of big promises, but I’m not holding my breath.  He promised an expeditious withdrawl from Iraq too, and what was that worth?)  When education is outlawed, only outlaws will get educations!

Some official scientists began pioneering this idea from their own direction in the 1960s, when they discovered global environmental unsustainability.  They’ve realized that stabilizing humanity’s impact on the environment depends on the unification of all branches of sciences and humanities.  To this point, we’ve been making a lot of decisions that solve short-term problems but create long-term problems because of things we overlooked.  The environmental crisis has been caused by all those long term effects catching up with us.  If we’re ever going to make that stop happening, we have to figure out how to stop making critical oversights.

Five critical discoveries have made unification of science almost complete.  The Selfish Gene Theory, the Gaia Theory, evolutionary psychology, exponential growth in a finite system, and the Laws of Thermodynamics have connected chemistry to biology, chemistry to ecology, biology to psychology, math to ecology, and physics to biology and economics.  From there, psychology is being connected to neurology, and psychology and ecology are being connected to politics.  The final frontier in the unification of science is a perspective on psychology that can unify it reliably to sociology and anthropology.

The big oversight the official scientists are still making is the fact that the political system of America was founded by people who didn’t know any of these things, and who made faulty assumptions about them.  Getting people to continue using the political system we have depends on preventing the public from learning this stuff.  And a lot of powerful people have made a lot of big political plans that depend on our continuing to use the political system we have.  Despite the big promise that all Americans have the right to an education, in a country whose government was founded on 18th century superstitions, effective education is political insurrection.

The Selfish Gene Theory unified chemistry and biology at the molecular level. Every organism is made up of genes and proteins manufactured in chemical reactions that are triggered by the genes.  But there are so many chemical reactions taking place in any organism that no one person could keep track of them all.  The Selfish Gene Theory is evolution at the molecular level.  It unified chemistry and biology by identifying that any chemical reaction that happens in biology must contribute to the replication of the gene that triggered the chemical reaction in one way or another.  You can find this in The Selfish Gene, by Dr. Richard Dawkins.

The Gaia Theory unified chemistry and biology at the planetary level.  The combined chemical reactions of each each individual organism in an environment interacts with the combined chemical reactions of each other individual organism.  That makes a local environment one really big chemical reaction.  Every local environment is connected to every other local environment by the air and the water.  That makes the global environment one single, gigantic chemical reaction.  That Gigantic Chemical Reaction has continued for 3.5 billion years because the energy from the sun powers a stable pattern of chemical reactions between carbon and other molecules.  That pattern has been destabilized from time to time, like with the meteorite impact that exterminated the dinosaurs, but it has always restabilized—the Gigantic Chemical Reaction has never been destabilized so severely that it has come to an end.  The greenhouse effect, and the environmental crisis in general, are being caused by humanity destabilizing the Gigantic Chemical Reaction accidentally.  And even if we don’t destabilize it badly enough to exterminate all life on Earth, we might destabilize it enough to exterminate the human race, or most of the human race.  You can find this in Gaia, by Dr. James Lovelock, or in his more recent book, The Revenge of Gaia.

Evolutionary psychology unites biology and psychology.  This is the Selfish Gene Theory applied to human behavior, to see how the environment created our brains, and how our brains make us think.  Every thought, feeling, and belief begins with a chemical reaction that must’ve helped our ancestors survive and reproduce.  Ours is the only species of mammal that walks on two feet, which leaves our other two feet—which are now our hands—free for other uses.  One of those is the use of tools—meaning, any object we can use to do something that we can’t do with our own bodies.  That lets us affect our environments more than any other species, so we affect our environments to help ourselves survive and reproduce.  Tool use also depends on people imagining uses for tools and remembering situations in the past that were, or could’ve been, affected by tool use.  As a social species, communication with each other has also had a big effect on our survival and reproduction.  Those three abilities combine to give us the ability to recognize large, abstract patterns of cause and effect—which is also known as human intellect.  The evolution of human intellect let individuals survive and reproduce more easily in the short term, but it also affected the world in ways that destabilize the Gigantic Chemical Reaction of the world in the long term.  The increased effect we have on the world through our use of intellect and tools is now changing our living conditions faster than genetic evolution can keep up with.  We have natural blind spots in our perception of the world, because we are now affecting the world in ways our ancestors never were able to.  You can find a very thorough introduction to evolutionary psychology in How the Mind Works, by Dr. Steven Pinker.

Exponential growth was the discovery that began the study of humanity’s impact on the global environment.  This unified math with environmental science—meaning, biology.  When population sizes of species grow, they grow at an exponential rate.  The more offspring each organism of one generation have, the more organisms there will be in the second generation, who will each produce more offspring in the third generation, and so on.   For instance, if each female in a generation raises four offspring to adulthood, generation after generation, the growth rate of the species stays constant, but the size of the species increases each generation.  At a constant doubling of the population size per generation, after 10 generations the population size will be over 1,000 times its original size.  A team of scientists called the Club of Rome, led by Dr. Aurelio Pecci, discovered that humanity’s population size is growing at an exponential rate, and our use of tools—also known as technology—is increasing at an exponential rate.  Each individual’s environmental impact is increasing at an exponential rate through the consumption of natural resources and generation of pollution, while our population size is also increasing at an exponential rate.  The Club of Rome realized that exponential growth couldn’t continue forever, which meant something would stop it eventually.  The exhaustion of our resource base would lead to a global famine, along with wars and plagues.  Based on the numbers the Club of Rome had to work with as of 1968, humanity’s global environmental impact would lead to disaster sometime in the 21st century.  Based on the numbers they had to work with in 1998, we had already passed the carrying capacity of the Earth in the 1980s and are now living by consuming the resources the environment needs to replenish our renewable resources.  It’s not too late to restabilize our relationship to the environment, but our window of opportunity is closing.  Their first book about this was called The Limits to Growth, and their most recent is The Limits to Growth—The 30 Year Update.

The Laws of Thermodynamics unite physics with ecology—meaning biology—and economics.  The economic system of the universe works by one simple, but very big, mathematical law.  Out of all the possible arrangements of anything, including molecules, cells, people, or ideas, there are more disorganized arrangements than there are organized arrangements.  The more changes you introduce to a collection of things, the more results, and therefore the less order, you end up with.  This is why all non-living things wear out eventually. For instance, if you open the hood of a brand new car and change one thing at random, the chances are much higher that it will make the car run worse instead of better.  Life is a gigantic chemical reaction that depends on a lot of order to keep it stable.  That’s true for each of our individual lives, and it’s even more true of the global environment.  One of our biggest blind spots is our inability to recognize that every time we change stuff in the world to make our own lives easier in the short term, we break down the patterns of the natural environment in the long run.  Every time we extract natural resources from the environment to build houses or machines or whatever is useful to us directly, we make those natural resources stop doing whatever they were doing before.  And what those resources were doing before was helping to keep the rest of the environment stable.  You can find this in Entropy, by Jeremy Rifkin.

You can learn how each of these discoveries work by reading books about each of them.  By reading five books by different authors you can give yourself enough background in Planetary Biology that you can start teaching it to yourself by recognizing the patterns to watch for whenever you read books about science, current events, history, or even philosophy.  There are a lot of books being written about the greenhouse effect and sustainable living right now.  Some of them are full of inaccuracies, and some, especially ones about the greenhouse effect, are intentionally published as anti-science propaganda disguised as science.  Any book about real environmental science relates these five discoveries to each other:  How individual organisms survive and reproduce in stable patterns generation after generation, and adapt to changes in their living conditions when they happen; how all the organisms in an environment balance each other’s environmental impact and keep the environment stable in the long run; how people make their decisions by using whatever they believe to be true to try to survive and reproduce, and why they make mistakes by misinterpreting their situation sometimes; how the accelerating growth in our species’ population size, resource consumption, and generation of pollution is causing the environmental crisis; and how the environment is breaking down in the long run as a result of people making the decisions they believe to be best in the short term.

I write all of my books about how these five factors interact with each other, so that instead of reading five books by other people you could just read one of mine.  Or you could read one of mine plus other books by other people, if you want to learn more about specific topics, or learn a broader understanding of Planetary Biology in general.  All of the books I’m publishing here is a part of a web of information I’m weaving.  Each book overlaps with others in some parts and contains some new information.  If you already have a background in Atheism, anti-Capitalism, farming, Anarchism, or evolutionary psychology, you can start with the book for that background and then learn other backgrounds by reading how the same information overlaps with someone else’s situation.

The official scientists still facing two critical obstacles.  The first is that they’re missing an all-encompassing perspective on human behavior.  Evolutionary psychology to this point has focused on how individual decisions are made and how that produces the entire realm of human behavior.  No evolutionary psychologists have yet figured out how to work in the opposite direction, from a broad perspective on the entire realm of human behavior down to the individual decisions that create it.  The second major obstacle is a way to teach all this to the public.

In my family we’ve been working on a solution to both of these puzzles for about 75 years.  My grandmother was an artist, philosopher, and teacher, so she was always observing everything, thinking about everything, and teaching things to people.  My grandfather was an airplane engineer and later an architect.  Engineering is applied science.  Specifically, it’s a perspective on science that recognizes that learning how stuff works is necessary to figure out how to make stuff happen.  It doesn’t sound like there’s anything special about that discovery until you consider the fact that if you go to college to major in science, you have to major in a particular field of science.  Nowhere in America can you major in How All the Different Branches of Science Fit Together.  That means that every scientist who is trying to figure out what’s going wrong with the world and what to do about it is going into the situation with a lopsided perspective on science as a result of having been highly trained in some area of science and not in others.  My grandparents were married for 67 years, so between them they got a lot of practice at observing everything, thinking about everything, and talking about everything, in terms that are observable, universal, self-consistent, reproducible and debatable.  And that’s what my dad learned growing up.

In 1968, when the Club of Rome met to start studying humanity’s impact on the environment mathematically, my dad was going to college to be a mathematcian.  The pioneers of environmental science were saying that if global disaster was going to be prevented, radical social change would be necessary.  Radical social change depends on people discovering or learning new ideas that work better than the old ideas.  In 1968 radical social change was happening in the streets, so he dropped out of college to see what was going on.  In the environmental crisis, radical social change means people learning how to use science to get things done.  One more mathematician wasn’t going to change anything.  So he moved over to social work, energy efficient construction, and education.

I’ve worked in theatre most of my adult life.  Theatre turns the entire realm of human behavior in to a fine art.  Actors, directors, and writers are able to work together to create realistic human behavior artificially because they’ve figured out enough about psychology on their own to get the job done.  Evolutionary psychologists and theatre artists have each figured out a lot about human behavior, they’ve each figured out a lot of things the other group hasn’t, but their discoveries also overlap with each other enough that anyone with enough background in both science and art could connect the two.  That’s something else you can’t major in in college, which is why nobody seems to have figured out how to do it.  Nobody but me, that is.

When I was training as a flight instructor I had to learn a lot about psychology.  You also have to learn a lot about psychology to be a pilot in the first place, in order to keep your attention focused where it needs to be focused to keep from getting into pilot error accidents.  This was during the evolution versus intelligent design debate.  When I started looking around to see what else I could learn about psychology, I soon found out about evolutionary psychology.  I immediately started noticing the parallels between evo-psych and theatre.  Soon I figured out how to combine the two to show how you can use Hollywood movies to teach evo-psych.  Soon after that I figured out how to connect psychology to its biological origins by working down from the entire realm of human behavior to individual decisions.  And once I discovered that, I realized that I and every other volunteer in the War on Terror were throwing our lives away to maintain George W. Bush’s blissful ignorance.

Turning the Tide on Religious Fundamentalism is an introduction to my theatrical approach to evolutionary psychology, and how it connects to environmental science.  This is a easy-to-use guide to unified science that science and education activists can use to drive creationism out of public school once and for all by  proving that Peace on Earth and Good Will toward Men depends on people learning more evolution, not less.

Planetary Biology and the Anti-Capitalist Revolution is about how the anti-globalization revolution is the manifestation of our transition between our species’ environmental colonization phase and our sustainability phase.  A lot of people who don’t want to die in a global environmental disaster are struggling to change our species’ economic relationship to the environment before it’s too late.  A lot of other people are struggling for related causes.  But this isn’t a book about the revolution in the sense of it being journalism, it’s a book about how to win the revolution by teaching yourself Planetary Biology and using it to take over the public education system of the world, by proving that our current education system is killing our grandchildren by supporting the current economic system that can only lead to environmental disaster.

Zapatista University is a version of Anti-Capitalism written for third-world farmers.  Planetary Biology is complete enough as a body of information at this point that you don’t even need books to learn it anymore.  If you live on a farm—or even have a vegetable garden and a pet—you can teach yourself Planetary Biology by learning how the cycles of nature you can see in front of you, interacting with each other all over the world, led from the evolution of life up to the greenhouse effect, environmental crisis, war in Iraq, and the anti-globalization revolution.  I grew up in a farming town and I lived in Ecuador in 1992, the year the IMF pillaged Peru.  The anti-globalization revolution began with the Zapatista Army of National Liberation in southern Mexico in 1994.  In 2006 the teacher’s union held a protest in the city of Oaxaca that was put down violently by the police.  With the public support the teachers won after that, the government was driven out of Oaxaca altogether for six months, and the people set up their own form of government until the army invaded the city and reclaimed it for the federal government.  The rebels took over the radio stations and universities in the city and started teaching and broadcasting what they wanted to learn and hear about.  So this book is basically 40 stories that can be told over the radio or around a campfire so third-world farmers can get a better background in education for free than anyone is getting in colleges in the United States right now.  If students, teachers, and farmers all work together, using Anti-Capitalism and Zapatista U together, so much the better.  I haven’t found anyone who can translate entire books in to Spanish yet, but I’ve posted the entire text of Zapatista U here, so the fact that I don’t know of any Spanish translations of it yet doesn’t really prove anything.

Planetary Biology, Neo-Anarchism, and the Political Future of the World covers all the same material as Anti-Capitalism in slightly different terms, plus an additional 10 chapters specific to the Anarchist movement.  Neo-Anarchism is the rejection of political ideology altogether, including traditional Anarchism.  The effective education of Planetary Biology is politically revolutionary by definition, because every government on Earth was founded by people who didn’t know about it.  Now people have constructed systems of reward and punishment to create certain patterns of behavior, but given that those political systems are founded on faulty assumptions about the world, they can’t possibly produce the intended results.  We could simply figure out where we went wrong and fix the problem, except for the fact that some career politicians have figured out how to use the existing political systems to their advantage.  That means the public learning enough about Planetary Biology to prevent global disaster in the long run is a threat to the people who giver the orders to the United States military in the short run.  The Anarchist movement is humanity’s best hope right now, because even though traditional Anarchism is also founded on faulty assumptions about the world, it has the unique advantage that its members have gotten a lot of practice at social organization, but elaborate political structures have not been founded on its faulty assumptions.  On the other hand, speaking as someone who is not a member of the middle class majority of the Anarchist movement, who has been engaged to a wealthy heiress, who has lived in a Third World country, and who has trained to kill people who hate our government, with all due respect, watching a bunch of middle class Americans trying to have a revolution by believing that having emotions gives them magical powers is a fucking joke.  People being allowed to believe in anything they wanted would be a revolution if the entire world was Disney Land, and if you were raised to believe the entire world is Disney Land, I can see how you would make that mistake.  But a political movement dominated by middle class people who wish the world worked a certain way and who get their feelings hurt every time someone tells them they’re wrong is a political movement dominated by a bunch of daydreamers who think they have powers that give them special access to inherent truths of the universe that other people don’t have.  If you believe that you and your friends have magical powers that other people don’t have, you implicitly believe yourselves to be superior to the people of the other group.  And if that’s your idea of Anarchism, there’s a good reason you’re not winning, and that a lot of people think you have no idea what you’re doing.  I’ve seen dozens of forms of classism like that in the Anarchist movement.  On the other hand, if you middle class revolutionary wanna-bes would quit talking about your radical Disney Land ideology for a moment and re-think your strategy, anti-authoritarianism is a lot simpler that you’re making it.  The education system, the government, and the environmental crisis have gotten so tightly intertwined that the political future of the world has come down to one simple fact:  If you’re aren’t learning anything new, you aren’t having a revolution, and if you are learning anything new, you are having a revolution. The decentralization of information results in a decentralization of effective decision making power.  The working class is always bigger than the ruling class, and whenever lots of people start to die, the working class is the first to go.  Ready or not, global political instability is upon us.  At this point it’s only a question of who’s going to win.  I devote a lot of this book to ongoing debates in the Anarchist movement, so if you don’t already have a couple years of background in the Anarchist movement, everything that makes this book different from Anti-Capitalism will be over your head.

The Theory of Evolutionary Relativity is the academic version of my work.  This focuses on my theatrical approach to evolutionary psychology, and its connections to other fields.  That includes a working class perspective on the education system, an activist perspective on science, and a working class activist perspective on the environmental crisis.  I grew up in rural Maine, so officially that makes me a dumb redneck, which is why I didn’t do better in white-collar college than I did.  But I have 8 years of post-secondary education now and I’ve published over 2,000,000 words on the products of my education so far, so if you think I don’t know how to write in complete sentences, guess again.  In this book I assume a high level familiarity with evolutionary psychology and memetic evolution, so if you’re already well informed about those topics and want to jump straight into new territory, that book is for you.  If you don’t have a college level education in those things, I don’t recommend it.

Finally, the three volumes of 42 is my main body of work.  This is where I get to write the way I talk, about the things I think about.  This is an encyclopedia to the science behind everything in the entire world, but told as a collection of philosophical stories that illustrate the science.  I don’t quote statistics, I introduce concepts.  The three volumes of 42 are the center of my web of information.  You can read any of my other books as an introduction to 42, or if you want to jump right into the middle of everything, you can start with 42.

Volume 1 focuses on my theatrical approach to human behavior.  This is an exhaustive philosophical top-down intoduction to evolutionary psychology, in which I show how human behavior is replicated in theatre to build conflict over the course of a play or movie, how theatre artists use the same techniques to eliminate conflict in dealing with each other, and how the same techniques can be combined with discoveries in evolutionary psychology to eliminate conflict among races, religions, cultures, genders, generations, and every other division among people.

In Volume 2 I convert from philosophy to hard-core science to show how the principles of human behavior at the individual level interact to create more complicated patterns, like emotional interactions among people, political systems, economic systems, and humanity’s relationship to the environment.  If you’d prefer to start with hard-core science instead of philosophy, you can read Volume 2 before Volume 1.

In Volume 3 I show how the material from the previous two volumes combines to create the causes and ideologies that make up the global progressive movement.  The global progressive movement is struggling against the unsustainable, imperialistic political and economic systems that the Founding Fathers of the United States accidentally started and that people like George W. Bush are exploiting for their personal benefit now.  Activists all over the world have realized that in order to struggle effectively against the most powerful political system in the history of the world, they must unite on common grounds.  Objective reality is the common ground we all share, so the science of everything in the world is the key to their political cohesion.   Different groups of people have figured out different parts of the previous two volumes, and overlooked other parts.  That means anyone who learns where their own political movement has gone wrong can fix the problems that are preventing them from cooperating, or from cooperating more, with people from other movements.  Science gives us a universal language of humanity, especially for people who are struggling for the future of humanity.

Since I was tricked into throwing my life away for George W. Bush, when I filled out my copyright application for the Library of Congress and found it had a line for Alternate Title, I wrote in The Third Testament, just because I thought that in the midst of the intelligent design debate that would be a funny title for a book about evolution.  I assumed someone at the Library of Congress was going to either cross it out or reject my application.  So when I got my application back, you can imagine my shock and awe when discovered that the federal government under George W. Bush’s administration had actually awarded me the copyright!  He didn’t get thrown in prison for lying to start a war, but maybe he’ll at least burn in Christian fundamentalist hell for his complicity in promoting evolution over creationism.

I got into researching all this psychology to write better aviation instruction manuals.  Now I consider myself to be training airforce pilots in the War of Ideas.  I post audio versions of my books here for free so you can make as many copies as you want and distribute them to anyone you want.  Everything on this site is free for all non-commercial reuse.