The Neuro-Geography of Terrestrial Politics
by Astronaut Russell Shepherd

Terrestrial politics are Newtonian-Euclidian.  They are based upon territorial mammalian competitions between neighboring hives who share the same neurotechnological level.  Each quantum jump in neuro-technology increases the size of the political unit.  Tribes are swallowed-up by neighbors who have superior artifacts.  Higher technology nations set up territorial boundary tensions of greater extension.  China and Russia confront each other along a 3000 mile border with the same nervous, bluffing robot postures of four-foot mammals protecting turf.

Ideological differences are, of course, irrelevant in mammalian terrestrial politics.  The enmity is instinct-robot.  Neighboring gene-pools have to compete according to a relentless law of territorial (plus-minus) magnetism.  To occupy an ecological niche is automatically to be "against" those who inhabit the neighboring niche.

To illustrate the limbic (primitive-brain) nature of Old World politics in 1978 consult the map.  Note that Morocco receives its arms from America and that its neighbor, Algeria, obtains weapons from Russia.  The border between the two neighbors is tense.'=

Note that the next country, Tunisia, receives its arms from America and quarrels with both its neighbors, leftist Algeria and leftist Libya.  Poor confused Egypt, caught between a Black and White ambiguity switched (in 1975-1976) from Russia to America.  Egypt now manages to maintain hostile contact with both its neighbors--Libya and Israel.  (Regardless of the ideological paradox!)

ROBOT MAMMALIAN -- TERRITORIAL CONFRONTATION

Continuing down the zoo-cages of our animal past, we note that Israel fights Syria.

Syria growls at Israel above and Iraq below.

Iraq fights Iran.

Iran snarls at Afghanistan.

Afghanistan frowns at Pakistan.

Pakistan hates India.

India is tensed against China.

China suspiciously rubs up against Russia and the South East Asian states -- all of which distrust their neighbors, regardless of ideology.

An examination of the politics of Southern Africa will reveal the same checker-board sequence of neighborhood confrontations.  South East Asia provides a similar confirmation of the theory that terrestrial politics produces an almost perfect unbroken sequence of robot mammalian-territorial confrontations.

We seem to deal here with a magnetic ordering of plus-minus charges in neighboring units.  With robot regularity, and with an amazing disregard for common sense or political principles, each country opposes its neighbors.

It is of interest that such a renowned political theorist as Henry Kissinger was so totally robotized--like iron filings held in a magnetic field--in confrontation with Russia, that he failed to understand this neuro-political principle.  Kissinger believed in the Domino Theory; if South Vietnam fell, then all the South East Asian nations would topple shoulder-to-shoulder into monolithic Communism.  This paranoia, for which 50,000 young Americans died, completely disregarded the obvious.  Once Saigon collapses then nature takes over!  Cambodia attacks Vietnam.  Vietnam raids Laos.  Thailand snarls at Vietnam.  And all South East countries oppose their northern neighbor China.

So far we have considered the East-West sequence of polarization.  Next, let us examine some North-South factors.  The map of Africa reveals that the principle of neighbor-antagonism exists.  What the political map does not show is the fact that within African countries (which were arbitrarily defined by European colonists) tribal enmities continue to rage on.  Africa is a checker-board of mammalian savagery.  Ninety percent of African countries are ruled by assassins and military chiefs.  Mafia capos.

Now look north to Europe.  Until World War II, Europe was also a checker-board of quarreling neighbors, each ruled by a feudal chief.  The technological quantum-leap taken in the 1940-War forced a change in territoriality.  Technology always increases the size of the gene-pool territory.  The Eastern Bloc nations were forced together into a monolithic entity--confronting the union of West European states.  The border-tensions no longer exist between nations but along the great East-West wall, the Iron Curtain.  We note, also, that ninety percent of West European countries are ruled, not by military dictators, but by elected representatives.

This North-South bifurcation of the genetic highway has produced a fascinating left-right division which perfectly parallels the cerebral hemispheric split.  The right-hand, i.e., the northern countries developed logic, rationality, manipulation of artifacts and symbols.  The new technologies require larger networks of harmonious collaboration.  The energies of thousands of people must be linked-up to maintain an automotive business or a Coca Cola industry.  Technology creates larger and more intelligent gene-colony units.

Why did the right-hand-continent, Europe, develop the technology and carry the freedom-gene upward?  Why did the left-hand-continent, Africa, fail to produce mobility-freedom-gene-pools?  Why did Africa develop slavery and Europe capitalist-democracy?  Why did the genetic highway veer north instead of south when it burst out of the Middle-East (i.e., the mid-brain)?  Why did the northern Mediterranean centers light up in sequence:  Greece, Rome, Venice, Paris, Madrid, Lisbon, London?

Surely there must be some basic neuro-geographical principle that explains why Africa now swarms with slavery and paleolithic savagery and why the right-hand-northern lobe has provided the centers and pathways along which the species has evolved.  Why did the freedom-genes cluster along the North Atlantic beaches?

MOVEMENT OF SMALL MIGRANT GENE POOLS STIMULATING INDEPENDENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND INTELLIGENCE

Why did the intelligence-technology breakout occur from West Europe--not West Africa?

Think of evolution as an ascent--literally a climb, a series of intelligence tests which activate the velocity-attitude-freedom circuits.  From the Mid-East mid-brain there are two pathways.  The Southern route is the easiest; the Arabs took it, slid off along the low road.  Insectoid armies oozing from the east, sending, not gene-pools, but soldiers and military bureaucrats.

The high-road North was a ladder, a series of ledges to be scaled.  Look at the map.  First the Dardenelles to be crossed.  Then the prickly mountains of Greece, the fingered peninsulas.  The Balkan mountains.  The high Alps.  Rugged land, uninviting to Mid-Eastern sultans.  Choked with geographic barriers offering refuge to ascending gene-pools.  The story of evolution is the ascent of Celtic Out-Caste gene-pools on the shoulders of the teeming Eastern autonomic-involuntary centers.

A glance at the map reminds us that the human race is literally a Mobility-Contest; small gene-pools racing to keep ahead of the engulfing wave of insectoid collectivism.  The Human Race is exactly a competition of speed.  Small gene-pools being squirted ahead by swarming pressures into empty ecological niches where new realities (Plan-Its) can be created.  The human race is run to the West.  The Contest is between the collective and the individual.  The Contest:  can the individual freedom-gene-pools accelerate fast enough to leave the planet before being over-run by Eastern hivism?

The issue is, however, never in doubt.  The swarming pressure of the primitive-past lapping at the outskirts of the frontier is simply a signal to speed up.  At exactly that moment when the forces of homogenous unity, one-ness, socialist-equality, cultural-determinism seem to become dogma--exactly at that moment genetic-elitism reappears among the out-post-out-castes and new gene-pools assemble on the frontier out-posts.  Everyone on the frontier is self-selected for frontier behavior.  The new ecological niche is always filled by those who are robot-templated for mobility, independence and change.  An important caste to any species.

The ascent of gene-pools up the Atlantic in the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries was a genetic-selection process of gigantic significance.  It must be recalled that immigration to North America involved an amazing seed-blossoming of gene-pools.  Very few immigrants made the climb alone.  Typically, each European gene-pool sent its best fertile stock.  Once a beach-head had been established in the new ecological niche, more settled members of the gene-pools could follow.  But in most cases new gene-pools were formed by mutated-migrants of former old-world gene-pools.

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