"When Woman is Boss"....Happy Birthday to Nikola Tesla

[ghostsinthemachine]

Amazing interview from 1926. One of the great shames of this world and country is not listening to this man.

Colliers, January 30, 1926

The life of the bee will be the life of our race, says Nikola Tesla, world-famed scientist.

A NEW sex order is coming--with the female as superior. You will communicate instantly by simple vest-pocket equipment. Aircraft will travel the skies, unmanned, driven and guided by radio. Enormous power will be transmitted great distances without wires. Earthquakes will become more and more frequent. Temperate zones will turn frigid or torrid. And some of these awe-inspiring developments, says Tesla, are not so very far off.


AT SIXTY-EIGHT years of age Nikola Tesla sits quietly in his study, reviewing the world that he has helped to change, foreseeing other changes that must come in the onward stride of the human race. He is a tall, thin, ascetic man who wears somber clothes and looks out at life with steady, deep-set eyes. In the midst of luxury he lives meagerly, selecting his diet with a precision almost extreme. He abstains from all beverages save water and milk and has never indulged in tobacco since early manhood.

He is an engineer, an inventor and, above these as well as basic to them, a philosopher. And, despite his obsession with the practical application of what a gifted mind may learn in books, he has never removed his gaze from the drama of life.

This world, amazed many times during the last throbbing century, will rub its eyes and stand breathless before greater wonders than even the past few generations have seen; and fifty years from now the world will differ more from the present-day than our world now differs from the world of fifty years ago.

Nikola Tesla came to America in early manhood, and his inventive genius found quick recognition. When fortune was his through his revolutionary power-transmission machines he established plants, first in New York, then Colorado, later on Long Island, where his innumerable experiments resulted in all manner of important and minor advances in electrical science. Lord Kelvin said of him (before he was forty) that he had contributed more than any other man to the study of electricity.

"From the inception of the wireless system," he says, "I saw that this new art of applied electricity would be of greater benefit to the human race than any other scientific discovery, for it virtually eliminates distance. The majority of the ills from which humanity suffers are due to the immense extent of the terrestrial globe and the inability of individuals and nations to come into close contact.

"Wireless will achieve the closer contact through transmission of intelligence, transport of our bodies and materials and conveyance of energy.

"When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance. Not only this, but through television and telephony we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face, despite intervening distances of thousands of miles; and the instruments through which we shall be able to do his will be amazingly simple compared with our present telephone. A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket.

"We shall be able to witness and hear events--the inauguration of a President, the playing of a world series game, the havoc of an earthquake or the terror of a battle--just as though we were present.

LOTS MORE: http://www.tfcbooks.com/tesla/1926-01-30.htm

[Warpy]

1. As prescient as he was about technology

he completely underestimated the fervor with which men would fight to keep women subservient nonpersons, especially men who call themselves religious.

[Hydra]

2. He was an idealist

We could be a lot further along now if there hadn't been as much opposition to him. The same things that blunted his progress also blunted the progress for women- ignorance and greed.

Still, things are moving fast than they ever have, and the people committed to keeping women under thumb are slowly dying out. Maybe we'll see the ERA pass in the next 10 years.

[Warpy]

3. Nah, new misogynists are being made every year

just like new racial bigots are being made every year. Stinkin' thinkin' will always be with us, it's just our job to make sure it's ridiculed and doesn't gain any sort of cultural foothold again.

[Hydra]

4. Sure, there are still new ones coming

But not at the rate that people like my Grandparents are dying out. The religious right knows it- their days are numbered as top dog of social policy, and once they aren't, they'll quickly become irrelevant.

I often make the same point though- we need to make sure they never get a chance to work their evil again(as you put it cultural foothold).

[Joe Chi Minh]

5. Tesla happens to have been a devout, if unorthodox, Christian, who claimed

he drew inspiration for many of his major discoveries from the Bible.

Here is just one quote:

"When we recognize this, we cannot help wondering how profoundly wise and scientific and how immensely practical the Christian religion is, and in what a marked contrast it stands in this respect to other religions. It is unmistakably the result of practical experiment and scientific observation which have extended through the ages, while other religions seem to be the outcome of merely abstract reasoning."

"The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power. My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible; therefore I devoted the next few months to the study of this work."