Inviting First Readers of Fulcrum

“Give me a lever long enough, and I shall move the world.” Archimedes

Imagine a simple fulcrum and lever: a wooden block with a plank across it. When the fulcrum is placed next to a heavy rock, say, and a small part of the wooden plank is wedged under the rock, a small pressure at the other end of the plank can lift the rock. The principle of leverage: a small force can generate a large force around a fulcrum.

The term ‘leverage’ has been used socially. Quoting famous people leverages credibility, my use of Archimedes and naming this book Fulcrum for example. However, there are limits. Just as in the real world example the rock may be too heavy and the plank snap, so there are limits to our psychological equivalent. Unlike discrete objects like planks of wood, our individual psychology extend beyond our person and merge with our social existence, affording us far greater internal integrity and collective cohesion.

Let us put this to the test.

This book is the Fulcrum. The entire readership is the wooden plank. The world is our social world.

Take your time and reflect on this image while reading. The content of this book is structured to allow readers to apply their individual force, their singular and diverse thought and action, to change the collective course of world history. If you hold this precious possibility clearly in your mind and know it to be true in your heart, jump now to the Induction at the back of the book and read your way to the front.

Aware of the overwhelming evidence in the world, your knowledge of history and your personal experience that significant change is difficult if not impossible, continue reading normally from front to back. At some point, you may be pleasantly surprised to find that you are the fulcrum around which the world turns.

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Imagine a simple fulcrum and lever and object. Transpose this to the book, your conscious attention, and a social object which appears immovable or impossible. When considering the social object while reading this book, and placing your attention on a practice, the small pressure of the intention of your mind can shift the social object in your mind. We use this principle of leverage psychologically: a small intent can generate significant motivation around a fulcrum of thought.

Simultaneously, this principle operates socially: with enough people, a small alteration in practice can generate significant social effect. The entire readership over a generation is the lever, the world is our social world.

The content of this book is structured to allow readers to apply their individual force, their singular and diverse thought and action, to change the collective course of world history in a generation. Take your time to leverage this thought fully while reading.

The spatial metaphor of subconscious depth and social construct height is transposed to the temporal reality of our psycho-social reality: the preconscious of the moving moment of now and the postconscious momentum of our collective behaviour. Instead of depths of spirit to plunge as if requiring us to hold our breath as we submerge ourselves into subconscious psychology, we simply attend lightly to the movement of breath as it happens. A simple thing in the moment, requiring less effort not more. Instead of constructing social institutions as if climbing mountain-like edifices or shifting fundamental foundations beneath our feet, merely a small action midstream in the passing of time so alters the course of our social river. A simple thing, in concert, a matter of timing together whether three or three billion of us.

So the Fulcrum is de-spatialised, becomes temporalised. The time it takes to read this sentence, this book. The consequential actions by readers over a generation. A temporal fulcrum around which humanity may turn itself. A revolution as we right ourselves from the traditional trajectory to destruction, externalities, mechanisation and automation; catching our fall and returning humanity to our nature, our singular and unique reflexive wonder within and of our social and organic environment. Simple, light, effortless. Notice: not the book, the inert markings on page or screen, nor the amassing of knowledge or expertise. Not this book or any other book or collection of words. Simply the enlivening moment of reading, itself an action. The implicit relationality realised through unilateral trial of relational practices and tested through social validation in the real world. The action in every reading, every direct and indirect consequential social relation. The zeroing of social distance is purely a process in time, within the self-same momentary psychology and our concurrent social manifestation.

Fulcrum is the unique period of future-history we make for ourselves, transforming traditional civilisation to a humbled network of humanity, a global renaissance and enlightenment. After the Fulcrum, a period of transition as our human balance rights ecological balance, and subsequent generational and organic transmission routes whatever virtual and astral journeys we may conceive and have courage to fulfill.

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