But What First Motivated Me Wasn't Anything

[...] To Judge From The Internet Postings That People Have Sent Me, Probably Most Of What You Learned [about Me] Was Nonsense.

No, What Worries Me Is That I Might In A Sense Adapt To This Environment And Come To Be Comfortable Here And Not Resent It Anymore. And I Am Afraid That As The Years Go By That I May Forget, I May Begin To Lose My Memories Of The Mountains And The Woods And That's What Really Worries Me, That I Might Lose Those Memories, And Lose That Sense Of Contact With Wild Nature In General. But I Am Not Afraid They Are Going To Break My Spirit.

To Those Who Think That All This Sounds Like Science Fiction, We Point Out That Yesterday's Science Fiction Is Today's Fact. The Industrial Revolution Has Radically Altered Man's Environment And Way Of Life, And It Is Only To Be Expected That As Technology Is Increasingly Applied To The Human Body And Mind, Man Himself Will Be Altered As Radically As His Environment And Way Of Life Have Been.

My Occupation Is An Open Question. I Was Once An Assistant Professor Of Mathematics. Since Then, I Have Spent Time Living In The Woods Of Montana.

The Techno-industrial System Is Exceptionally Tough Due To Its So-called "democratic" Structure And Its Resulting Flexibility. Because Dictatorial Systems Tend To Be Rigid, Social Tensions And Resistance Can Be Built Up In Them To The Point Where They Damage And Weaken The System And May Lead To Revolution. But In A "democratic" System, When Social Tension And Resistance Build Up Dangerously The System Backs Off Enough, It Compromises Enough, To Bring The Tensions Down To A Safe Level.