JF Ptak Science Books LLC Post 306

“C. Ludwig”, the author of The Call of our Nation Back to the Humble Life a Sign in our Time of the Automatical [sic]Machine Age, published in St. Louis in 1935, has a somewhat impenetrable approach to a philosophy of development.  This of course is spotlighted quite brilliantly in the title of this work, especially –if you take quick notice–when you consider that the man in the tree with the electric saw is working at it like a cartoon character (unless the whole tree falls down and leaves him in mid-air on his special anti-gravity branch). Actually, I can’t spend the time with it, it is just too far into a personal, shadowy and self-anointing belief  system filled with paradox and the bizarre.  I’m really just after the pictures, which even though they are displayed here out of context, are indeed still out of context while in context.

The masonic-like all-seeing eye pyramid is another odd bit in a series of all-seeing-eye bits, none of which seem to follow the other and none of them make particular extended sense individually. There are five of them, and they seem to prove that 1+1+1+1+1 = 1.

I could go on for some time about these singular illustrations, attempting to make graphical points for invisible reasoning in the text, but I won’t. I think that these stand quite well enough to represent the author’s straight-through-the-loop, singular, outsider-logic  reasoning.  In a way, they are of their own beauty.

(I just couldn’t resist this last one, featuring the Panama Canal and a balancing figure, having nothing whatsoever to do with the text or each other.)