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aim is to help assure our
civilization survives and flourishes. |
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What is
our civilization you might ask. It is the flower of Western
Enlightenment Civilization, the one based on the principles stated
in the Decleration of Independence of the United States of
America - We hold
these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of
Happiness - survives and
flourishes (see llpoh.org for a more
extensive discussion).
There always individuals and groups that
aim to deny others these unalienale rights. The 9/11 events
are a grim reminder that we must always be on guard agains a descent
to a new Dark Age.
So, what's this "Prime Radiant"
stuff?
According to Isaac Asimov's
autobiographical accounts discussing the origin of the Foundation
Trilogy
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The date was August 1 1941. World War II has been raging two
years. France had fallen the Battle of Britain had been fought and the
Soviet Union had been just been invaded by Nazi Germany. ... I thought
of soldiers of military empires of the Roman Empire- of a Galactic
Empire- ... Why shouldn't I write of the fall of the
Galactic Empire and return of feudalism written from the viewpoint of someone in
secure days of the Second Galactic Empire? After all I had
read Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire not
once but twice. ... built up the notion of a vast series
of connected stories that were to deal in intricate
detail with the thousend-year period between the First and Second Galactic
Empires. .... illuminated by the science of psychohistory ....
psychohistorian Hari Seldon established a pair of Foundations ... to make
sure that forces of history would bring about second Empire after
one thousand years instead of the thirty thousand that would be
required otherwise. .." |