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Chapter Fourteen
The Universal Symphony

There are two opposing power systems in existence. One is the Anticivilization System or AC System for short. The other is the Civilization-of-the-Universe System or C-of-U System for short. Both power systems control all. They are the paradigms in which conscious beings operate. Conscious beings perish in the AC System. And they flourish in the C-of-U System. Today, as throughout history, the AC System dominates life on earth. Tomorrow and forever after, the C-of-U System will dominate life on earth.

The following table compares these two power systems. (Reference: Supra Power by Frank R. Wallace)

As deduced from the 1996 Genuine Power book, the two world-dominating forces—false power and genuine power—have no choice but to collide like the collision between antimatter and matter. This is so because the former now rules the world but the latter is infinitely more powerful. False power has been around so long and is so entrenched on earth that it will not go away without an all-out battle. These two power systems are bound to collide. What will happen when they collide? The real power system will obliterate the fake power system. Then everybody will dump false power techniques to harness genuine power for a wealthy, sexy, and immortal life.

Putting the microscope on these two approaches to power lets one see that false power comprises faking reality in order to gain values. One also sees that genuine power comprises integrating the facts of reality honestly to consistently act on reality—so one can produce values and wealth for oneself and other people.

One might wonder "How could false power dominate life on planet Earth so long?" The answer is that false power requires everyone's mind to be scrambled by illusions and hoaxes. This way, ruling-elite leaders can dupe, drain, and destroy citizens with impunity.

The age of cyberspace has arrived. The computer, external storage devices, and servers will replace paper as the storage medium for information. Eventually, the Internet's servers will store nearly all the text, audio, and video data in the world. When this shift occurs, paper and pens will be essentially obsolete like feather pens and papyrus scrolls are obsolete today. Almost everyone will then bring information from their heads into the physical world via computers and related information appliances.

With the rise of cyberspace, government and business can easily document each citizen's life. Yet, objective law guarantees such documentation cannot turn into an Orwellian nightmare where leaders control and drain their subjects. Instead, a documented life simply means that an individual's activities can be electronically recorded. With superior electronic devices, people will be able to track a citizen's activities anywhere in the world at anytime. Tracking companies will then sell this information to businesses for marketing purposes and to governments for legal purposes.

During the final stages of the fall of anticivilization, everyone—youth and adults—will find themselves under the heat of survival pressure. Linking one's life to survival pressure is what drives one out of the traditional mind and into the perfect mind. Everyone will eventually scramble to dump the disintegrating traditional mind in order to develop the integrating perfect mind. Each individual who goes through this transformation will discover open-ended success. The perfect mind enables anyone to integrate reality objectively for limitless knowledge, power, and prosperity.

An event horizon is the entrance to something, such as the entrance of a black hole. The event horizon of anticivilization is irrationality. The event horizon of rational civilization is rationality.

An anticivilization begins—and every child is drawn into it—via irrationality. That is to say, one enters anticivilization by accepting irrational ideas and mystical notions. For example, the blueprint for earth's anticivilization is Plato's The Republic. That masterwork is filled with non-contextual assertions, specious reasoning, mystical notions, and overt dishonesty. But for that book to impact the world, individuals must have embraced Plato's ideas and applied them to daily life. That is what happened. For over 2000 years, people have woven Plato's philosophy throughout government, religion, education, the media, and more.

However, each individual must accept irrationality on a personal level to remain trapped within earth's anticivilization. Upholding irrational concepts such as God, reincarnation, external authorities, and so on leaves one trapped in the anticivilization. One then perishes within a handful of decades. How can one escape that fatal world?

The way to enter rational civilization—a post-mortal world—is through rationality. One needs to ruthlessly reject all irrational ideas within oneself. Then one needs to integrate rational ideas into one's knowledge to survive and prosper. In other words, one escapes the life destroying anticivilization by rejecting all forms of irrationality. One enters rational civilization by accepting and building upon rational ideas. What is the result? Money, power, sex, and love flow to those who jettison irrationality and consistently act on reality.

Throughout history, mystics have proffered a supernatural paradise. That paradise, according to mystics, exists in another life. One enters paradise after one leaves this corrupt earth, or so the story goes. But mystics bury the fact that paradise can be experienced here on earth, now—by all honest, productive people.

Paradise now, here on earth? Is this a Morian Utopia of totalitarianism? No. Not this time. The rise of Advanced Man with a perfect mind and body will annihilate initiatory force, fraud, and coercion. That condition will clear the way for a paradise on earth. What would a paradise on earth be like?

No one currently knows what a paradise on earth would be like. But it is coming, perhaps soon after the turn of the third millennium. Here, in broad strokes, is a picture of a paradise on earth. Everyone would live in an objective-law society. This means that citizens would understand nearly all the laws. Lawyers will not have to interpret unclear or contradictory laws; such laws will no longer exist. Also, impartial justice would reign supreme. This means that objective criminals would be prosecuted while objective producers would be protected—eternally. What would be the result? Everyone would live in an immortal civilization marked by a skyrocketing standard of living and a skydiving cost of living.

Taxation, regulations, inflation, war, crime, poverty, sickness, and death would vanish. With the moral and legal prohibition of initiatory force, coercion, and fraud, the criminal mind and its tools of taxation, regulations, subjective laws, and so on will become obsolete. The criminal mind and its tools of usurpation and destruction will be ostracized into oblivion. Everyone will then flourish—forever.

Before one can enter civilization, one needs to break out of anticivilization. How can one do that?

One needs to break all ties with the illusion-based anticivilization. One needs to disconnect from the insane dynamics that comprise the upside-down world. One can then disregard all humanoid leaders and their salaried value destroyers. Finally, one becomes unable to support dishonest ploys, usurpation, or destruction.

After one has broken all ties with the inherently corrupt anticivilization, one is poised to enter rational civilization. But there are a few things one needs to do in order to enter civilization. What are they?

First, one needs to exercise the noble virtues of undivided honesty and consistent productivity. This means that one has zero gaps in honesty and productivity. One inexorably enters rational civilization on such an ethical base.

Second, one needs to participate in the creation of a rational civilization since it does not yet exist on earth. The job of philosophers is to bring a rational civilization down to earth. But nearly all philosophers worked to advance the anticivilization—except Parmenides, Aristotle, Aquinas, Bacon, Spinoza, Locke, Adam Smith, Rand, Peikoff, and Wallace. Therefore, one can no longer wait for philosophers to fulfill their responsibility. Instead, one can figure out how to use rationality, honesty, valid law & justice, free markets, and sublime art to bring a rational world down to earth.

Once a rational civilization arises on planet Earth—which may occur early in the twenty-first century—one can enter it. How? One enters rational civilization through cyberspace.

One can conduct personal and business communications & transactions throughout cyberspace. Using the World Wide Web, email, newsgroups, chat rooms, and more, one operates in a New World: the pristine Civilization of the Universe.

Once in a rational civilization, what can one expect? One will capture limitless money, superior health, romantic fulfillment, and abiding happiness. Gone will be irrationality, crime, poverty, disease, and death. People who wallow in those anticivilization artifacts will become uncompetitive; they will be left behind.

The upside-down world that is choking life on earth is not a genuine civilization. It is a fatal anticivilization. An anticivilization is the link between prehistoric civilization and a technologically advanced civilization.

Civilization—the actual Civilization of the Universe—has always surrounded planet Earth from every direction. Today, that civilization is coming down to earth.

Philosophy, literature, and poetry create conscious civilization. Works such as The Odyssey, The Aeneid, The Republic, and The Critique of Pure Reason create anticivilization. By contrast, works such as Beowulf, Quantum Crossings, Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand, and Zonpower create rational civilization. Today, with the rise of The Local Group in cyberspace, earth's civilization is guaranteed to flourish—far beyond anyone's expectations or projections.

Civilization, which until today could only exist beyond planet Earth, will arrive through cyberspace. It probably will enter America first and spread around the world. As this happens, civilization will displace anticivilization somewhat like pebbles displace water in a glass. The new will drive out the old. The good will drive out the bad. And, once gone, the anticivilization can never return just like prehistoric civilization can never return. Good days are coming soon.

What is the most valuable anticivilization institution? It is the public library. The public library is a cornucopia of values, a wealth of knowledge. And it is an island of rationality among a sea of irrationality.

The next most valuable anticivilization institution is the post office. But this does not compare to the life-enhancing values available at the public library.

The public library offers citizens a spectacular array of values: books, magazines, newspapers, audiocassettes, videotapes, CD-ROMs, computer access, Internet access, live events, information services, and more. True, the public library is financed with gun-backed taxes. However, patrons are able to use library materials and services without charge. This means anyone can use the public library to learn how to read, write, speak, think, and prosper in every area of life. And most public library employees are genuine value producers. They usually are competent and courteous.

No wonder professional value destroyers burned the greatest library in the ancient world: the library at Alexandria. Professional value destroyers understood the profound values available at that library. With a nihilistic vision, they moved in to burn the value—the scrolls—and murder the life—Hypatia. But today, against Advanced Man, all value destroyers are doomed.

Against Advanced Man—men and woman with perfect minds and bodies—value destroyers can only destroy the grand-illusion anticivilization. And the public libraries will continue to deliver values until the Civilization of the Universe overtakes planet Earth. Then the libraries, post office, and other tax-funded institutions will be privatized to offer ever-greater values at ever-lower costs.

In the non-cyberspace world, criminal minds dominate life. There is no exception. The initiation of force, coercion, and fraud are highly competitive in that moribund world. For example, look at Alexander the Great and Adolf Hitler. Both men plundered, destroyed, and slaughtered their way to the top. Subjective laws, fists, weapons, partial judges, prison camps, and cemeteries—i.e., the AC System—work perfectly in the non-cyberspace world.

But do bare knuckles and bullets work in digitally constructed cyberspace? Not a chance. The initiation of force and coercive threats are impotent in cyberspace. These destructive dynamics are ridiculous. That is why people such as Alexander the Great and Adolf Hitler can never rise to power in the cyberspace world.

What succeeds in the cyberspace world? Consistent honesty and productive effort succeed in the cyberspace world. Faking reality to gain values is limited to the non-cyberspace world. And soon, faking reality to gain values, which is false power, will disappear from planet Earth.

One needs to exit the losing non-cyberspace world and enter the winning cyberspace world. One can gain permanent prosperity and protection in cyberspace. Moreover, in cyberspace, one can capture eternal life—both in mind and body.

How does one leave the dying non-cyberspace world and enter the newly arising cyberspace world? One needs to detach oneself from the anticivilization. One needs to break all anticivilization investments—including investments in irrationality, mysticism, dishonest ploys, and politically correct value destruction. Then one needs to incorporate reality, rationality, honesty, productivity, and pleasure into one's life. The results are power, wealth, romance, and happiness—forever.

Most people strive to do specific things and go certain places. After awhile, they fall into a comfort zone and do not want to advance beyond their self-imposed boundaries. They want to remain within their own comfortable boundaries.

But life comprises growth. And growth requires that one constantly advance beyond one's boundaries. Some boundaries are harder to cross than others. For instance, crossing language boundaries can be more difficult than meeting someone new. However, the degree of difficulty one has to overcome is commensurate with the degree of growth one will experience.

In many groups and organizations, members are urged not to cross boundaries. These boundaries might consist of one's nation, race, religion, economic class, age, or other boundary. Most groups and organizations in the anticivilization need their members to remain trapped within preset boundaries. Consequently, many groups and organizations lead their members to stagnation and death by blocking their growth.

Groups and organizations in the Civilization of the Universe, by contrast, do not restrict their members from crossing boundaries. Members eagerly cross boundaries to bring their values to as many people as possible. In this rational civilization, citizens cross ethnic, social, and other boundaries for the mutual benefit of everyone involved.

One can see, for example, how countless boundaries are crossed in the newly emerging cyberspace civilization. Net surfers go wherever values can be found. They are not restricted from web sites because of religious, nationalistic, or other concerns. Crossing boundaries requires rational thought and effort. But doing so lets one deliver values to maximum people while collecting limitless prosperity for oneself.

Today, an anticivilization pervades planet Earth. That irrational civilization spreads anxiety, hatred, envy, crime, poverty, despair, and death to all. No one can escape these products. But in a diametrically opposite civilization—a rational world—these dynamics do not exist. Why?

In a rational world—the Civilization of the Universe—honesty and effort dominate life. Most people know from personal experience that dishonesty and laziness are competitive in the anticivilization. But in a rational world, these death dynamics are not competitive. Therefore, anyone propagating the scourges of mysticism, dishonesty, and value destruction cannot survive in a rational world. They simply would be outperformed by honest, effort-driven individuals. Where honesty and effort flourish, anxiety and despair vanish. Anxiety and despair give way to security and optimism.

In the anticivilization, politicians, bureaucrats, and Establishment intellectuals attack value production. But in a rational world void of mysticism, value production flourishes. Moreover, in a rational world void of initiatory force and fraud, individuals are free to cure death itself. Regulatory bureaucracies such as the FDA and IRS, who work to block progress, cannot exist in a rational civilization. Therefore, all diseases—especially the mind-disease of irrationality—are forever cured. Citizens of the Universe continuously advance in prosperity, security, and life rather than losses, anxiety, and death.

A common bromide that adults tell children is "The world is not a fair place." Unfairness is the essence of an anticivilization. The parasitical-elite class shrewdly swindles values and life from everyone. Of course, this is not fair. So, adults use the above bromide to condition children as they are methodically drawn into the anticivilization.

Yet, as children grow, they will realize through their own thinking that the upside-down world is not fair. They do not need adults urging them to accept that the world is unfair. This encourages apathy in some children—and criminality in others. Many children who believe they are sentenced to a life of unfairness will eventually give up the struggle to live a fulfilling life. And some children will figure out that "higher authorities" receive unearned values at the expense of the productive class. Some will decide to become those "higher authorities" to receive the unearned. These children transmogrify into criminal-minded adults: parasitical elites, professional value destroyers, and supporters of professional parasitism.

Adults tell children the world is an unfair place—not to inform them, but to get them to accept "the way things are." Children hear from their earliest days that the world is unfair and they must sacrifice their own toys and wants for the benefit of others. Children lack the advanced knowledge needed to understand the altruist/self-sacrifice hoax. Therefore, many children buy into this hoax as they develop. They give up their toys, desires, dreams, and soul. But today, this blight will end.

The foundation for a rational civilization has reached planet Earth: Objectivist philosophy flowing throughout cyberspace. With that indelible foundation, the Civilization of the Universe is guaranteed to arrive on planet Earth, perhaps in a few years. When it arrives, everyone—from youth through adults—will leave unfairness and sacrifice behind to capture open-ended prosperity, love, and fulfillment.

New World pioneers? Who are they? They are individuals who have developed the perfect mind and body. New World pioneers are people who have evolved into Advanced Man. They are the ones who wield unprecedented power that comes from reality-based principled thinking, aerobic conditioning, and a hormonally balanced diet. Additionally, New World pioneers operate from the code of undivided honesty and unyielding integrity. They get whatever and whoever they want.

Why are these people pioneers? They are pioneers because they are the first to evolve into the next stage of conscious life: Advanced Man. Today, they are blazing new trails on planet Earth.

What is the significance of these New World pioneers? These pioneers will (1) bring a rational civilization down to earth, (2) bring everybody into that rational civilization, and (3) deliver eternal prosperity, happiness, and life to everyone.

How does one become a New World pioneer? Anyone can become a New World pioneer by developing the perfect mind and body. Where does one need to be in order to pioneer the New World? One needs to be in cyberspace. Through free-market dynamics, cyberspace will drive a New World—an objective law/valid justice world—across planet Earth.

New World pioneers are roughly analogous to pre-humans who came down from the trees millions of years ago to dwell on land. The following comparison expands this analogy:

The first few who evolve are taking the biggest risks as revealed in the chart above. Yet the rewards are immense: New World pioneers will dominate all the power, money, and romance on planet Earth well into the foreseeable future.

The anticivilization and the Civilization of the Universe are exact opposites. What exists in one cannot exist in the other. For instance, death is the final product for each Citizen of the Anticivilization. By contrast, immortal life is commonplace for each Citizen of the Universe. Or, Citizens of the Anticivilization experience miserable poverty while Citizens of the Universe experience exhilarating prosperity. Even concepts have opposite meanings in these radically different worlds. For example, in the anticivilization, the concept "good" refers to something bad. But in the Civilization of the Universe, the concept "good" refers to something good.

The anticivilization consists of socialism, fascism, communism, and totalitarianism—i.e., some blend of collectivism. The Civilization of the Universe comprises laissez-faire capitalism, which is now coming to planet Earth.

With the rise of cyberspace and Objectivism, a rational civilization will now overtake planet Earth's inchoate civilization. As cyberspace propagates Objectivism around the world and into government, business, education, and the media, a new civilization will arise: the Civilization of the Universe.

Such a civilization comprises individualism. Each individual conscious being—rather than groups, society, or the state—is the highest value in a rational civilization. Individual rights replace human rights, minority rights, and all other group rights as the basis of valid law and a just society. Crime drops as prosperity rises.

In the Civilization of the Universe, no one can legally violate an individual's right to his or her person and property. In the anticivilization, by comparison, some people must be able to legally violate the individual rights of others. Earth's Grand-Illusion world would come crashing down if individual rights were inviolable. Taxation, arbitrary regulations, the IRS, the DEA, to name a few, all violate individual rights. How? They violate individual rights via a deadly combination of political-policy laws and political-agenda justice. All this occurs for one purpose: to perpetuate the 2400-year-old parasitical-elite class. But the Age of Individualism exterminates parasitical-elites, political-policy laws, non-objective justice, and the entire anticivilization.

The following table contrasts the Age of Collectivism with the Age of Individualism.

After three thousand years of perpetual suffering, the Age of Individualism has arisen to replace the Age of Collectivism.

The Age of Individualism is now overtaking the Age of Collectivism. That is made possible by an irresistible blend of cyberspace and Objectivism. This new age of cherishing and protecting the individual rather than the group has radical implications for everyone. The following list summarizes key changes that will occur as the Age of Individualism overtakes the Age of Collectivism.

1. Philosophy: Objectivist philosophy replaces Subjectivist philosophy. This culminates in radically new modes of conscious life: objective cognition, honest morality, and totally free societies.
2. Psychology: Clean, healthy, efficacious minds brimming with earned self-esteem replace unhealthy, effete, mystic-laden minds. This enables everyone—from ordinary people to superstar performers—to live independently, work productively, feel deeply, and love profoundly.
3. Morality: Undivided honesty and unyielding integrity replace strategic dishonesty and pragmatic ethics. This drives crime and unhappiness toward zero as individuals rationally pursue their own self-interest and happiness.
4. Politics: Unbridled capitalism flowing throughout cyberspace replaces political agendas designed to control and drain the productive class. Then producers everywhere will rise to flood planet Earth with superlative values, money-generating jobs, and plunging prices so everyone can enjoy infinite prosperity.
5. Relation to Self: One's self grows into a mighty value rather than a diminishing entity. One articulates one's values, pursues rational goals, achieves success, and lives a life beyond one's childhood dreams.
6. Relation to Others: Honest, benevolent, value-for-value relationships replace parasitical, manipulative, and exploitative relationships. This yields premium romantic, family, friendship, and business relationships.
7. Relation to Reality: The perfect mind overtakes the traditional mind to become mankind's new survival mechanism. The perfect mind, which functions through reality-based principled thinking, firmly anchors one's consciousness to reality for valid knowledge, real power, and ceaseless riches.
8. The Goal of Life: Immortal happiness replaces sacrifice and suffering as the supreme goal of life.

The Age of Individualism will now bring the above changes to planet Earth. Since this new age protects individual rights, it dooms the criminal mind. When citizens recognize that the conscious individual is the supreme value of the universe, no one can rise to control, drain, or destroy the individual. Therefore, criminal-minded people will have to either become productive, self-supporting citizens or perish in public ostracism.

From Euclid's geometry to Archimedes' calculus to Leibniz's adding machine to Babbage's electronic computer to the ENIAC to mainframe computers to personal computers to the Internet to Berners-Lee's World Wide Web, man has journeyed from caves to cyberspace. What is cyberspace? Cyberspace is a digital communications medium that links everyone via networked computers.

At the close of the second millennium, 0.00% of the world's population fully understand the profound impact cyberspace will have on planet Earth. Cyberspace is the medium through which the Civilization of the Universe will come down to earth. And that means sweeping changes for everyone—philosophically, psychologically, existentially.

In cyberspace, force, coercion, and fraud are uncompetitive. So is the traditional mind, along with the entire anticivilization. The perfect mind is the mechanism that succeeds in cyberspace.

Upon entering cyberspace, one encounters a wide-open civilization: a super civilization without limitations on knowledge, prosperity, growth, excitement, and happiness. In fact, penetrating cyberspace lets one leave the mortal anticivilization to capture an immortal life.

How does one penetrate cyberspace? One penetrates cyberspace via email, chat rooms, newsgroups, and the World Wide Web. Anyone can create a personal or business web site with text, pictures, sound, video, and more. Individuals can even do this free of cost. People can get free Internet access, for example, at www.netzero.com. They can get free email, for instance, at www.yahoo.com. People can get a free web site, for example, at www.freeservers.com. And people can use Internet newsgroups, for instance, at www.google.com without charge.

Today, people do not even need a computer to penetrate cyberspace. People can penetrate cyberspace, for example, through a library computer linked to the Internet or through a television, i.e., Web TV.

Most likely, future developments in cyberspace will be exciting. Who knows what the computer geniuses will develop next? One thing is certain: Cyberspace is now permeating life on planet Earth. Individuals will increasingly become connected to the Internet as powerfully new, low-cost technology floods the market. This technology will ensure that nearly everyone penetrates cyberspace.

What is the ultimate implication of advancing technology? Everyone eventually will become part of cyberspace, then the Civilization of the Universe.

The works of the Greek philosopher Plato opened the door for an anticivilization to sweep planet Earth. That event happened over two thousand years ago. Today, the works of the American philosopher Ayn Rand have opened the door for the Civilization of the Universe to sweep planet Earth. That event can happen early in the twenty-first century.

In the anticivilization, force and fraud dominate conscious life. In the Civilization of the Universe, competitive effort dominates conscious life. In short, gun-wielding thugs yield to competitive value producers as the Civilization of the Universe overtakes the anticivilization.

The Civilization of the Universe is objectively good since it delivers limitless wealth, abiding happiness, and immortal life to all human beings. The anticivilization is objectively bad since it directly and indirectly kills all human beings. Therefore, draining the anticivilization dry is a beneficial—even noble—act.

Pumping the anticivilization dry benefits everyone: entrepreneurs, businesspeople, artists, teachers, and more. Even con artists, parasites, and criminals benefit. Why? When the anticivilization is drained to its vanishing point, the Civilization of the Universe takes over. In the Civilization of the Universe, individuals lose incentive to commit crimes—both overt and hidden crimes. The concealed horror that criminal-minded people live with vanishes, as does their criminal actions. Everyone becomes a growing value in the Civilization of the Universe. Hidden terror is unknown to Citizens of the Cosmos.

Prime targets to pump dry are coercive governments and fraudulent religions. These entities control the wealth and power among earth's anticivilization. They have the biggest payoff when pumped dry. Big-time criminal minds that operate destructive governments and mega-hoaxed religions have assembled empires based on deception, coercion, and force. Such targets yield maximum profit to people who drain these institutions of evil. Furthermore, draining these empires of evil will speed up the demise of socialism, fascism, communism, and the anticivilization itself.

What will follow upon the collapse of the anticivilization? A rational civilization will arise. That civilization functions through the moral and legal prohibition of initiatory force, fraud, and coercion. This means individual and property rights reign supreme. As such, each citizen keeps what he or she earns. All individuals and groups—including governments—are prohibited from usurping money and property from Citizens of the Universe.

No one knows in terms of day-to-day living what that world will be like. Thus, today, man is on the verge of a radical shift—more radical than the shift from Prehistoric Man to Traditional Man. Timothy Berners-Lee's great invention, the World Wide Web, will speed up the transition from anticivilization to the Civilization of the Universe. And from the position of cyberspace, anyone can aggressively pump the anticivilization dry to benefit oneself and the world.

An icon is a symbol of something, typically of great influence. For example, the icon of Christianity is the crucifix. Or, the icon of ancient Egypt is the pyramid.

Civilized life on planet Earth has gone through three economic stages or ages. Those ages are the agricultural age, the industrial age, and the information age. Identifying the icons for each age enables one to quickly grasp the essence of each age. The icons for each age are listed below:

The table above reveals the icons for each economic age. Additionally, this table reveals the basic shift in power that occurs when a new age overtakes an existing age.

When a new age arrives, opportunities open up for everyone. Today, man is at the beginning of a new age: the information age. And it is now overtaking the industrial age. This means unprecedented opportunities for each person to capture limitless prosperity.

When a new age comes along, most things from previous economic ages become insignificant. If one does not "have it made" in the industrial age, one does not need to worry. One does not need to be successful in a prior age to prosper in a forthcoming age. In fact, the more successful one is in a fading age, the more that person will tend to resist the approaching age. Those who already "have it made" generally do not want to change their lifestyle.

But each new age affects everything. Money and power flow to those poised to usher in the new age. For instance, Bill Gates was not a successful industrialist who parlayed an industrial fortune into an information empire. Gates was completely disconnected from the industrial economy. He started with nothing. Little by little, Bill Gates assembled an information-age empire that turned him into the richest man on Earth. And he might become the first person to amass a net worth of one hundred billion dollars—even while he is a young man.

Scott McNealy (Sun Microsystems), Larry Ellison (Oracle), Jim Clark (Netscape), and Andy Grove (Intel) followed a similar pattern. They sensed the beginning of a new age and worked diligently to profit from it. By understanding the icons of the ages, nearly anyone can profit greatly from the information age.

An anticivilization and a rational civilization are diametrically opposed. They are not connected in any way. An anticivilization delivers eternal death to everyone. A rational civilization delivers eternal life to everyone. The problem is that everyone on planet Earth lives in an anticivilization. How can human beings enter a rational civilization?

Before entering a rational civilization, one needs to understand what keeps individuals trapped in the anticivilization. A closed, non-integrated thinking process keeps everyone trapped in earth's anticivilization. Narrow-range thinking keeps everyone chained to a fatal civilization controlled by professional parasites. From this earthbound mentality comes subjective laws, biased justice, armed bureaucrats, prison camps, and cemeteries.

Philosopher Socrates, superstar Jesus Christ, military strategist Joan of Arc, cosmopolitan Giordano Bruno, and businessman Harry Helmsley learned the hard way. Professional parasites killed each of these giants in order to preserve the anticivilization and their own unearned livelihoods. Citizens who are not politically prosecuted or murdered perish through gun-enforced stagnation. In the anticivilization, everybody turns to dust.

Yet, conceptual conscious beings do not need to perish. They can live forever. However, a lethal combination of anti-life doctrines, criminal minds, subjective laws, value-destroying bureaucracies, weapons, jails, and cemeteries convince everyone that conscious beings are mortal. That assemblage of government force and religious fraud has been very persuasive—until today.

Objectivist philosophy and cyberspace have arrived. Both are here to stay. The combination of these two entities will end the grotesque spectacle of destroying values and murdering human beings.

Today, anyone can exit earth's inchoate civilization. One can enter a rational civilization by abandoning the traditional mind and developing the perfect mind. Doing so automatically flips one into a rational civilization. One will pleasantly discover upon changing one's mind that one can no longer make contact with the anticivilization. Death and destruction fade into a bygone era. High-paid liars, full-time thieves, and professional murderers can no longer harm one's person or property. One holds an unconquerable power over all destructive people—a power beyond God and Traditional Man, a power known only to Advanced Man.

Upon replacing the traditional mind with the perfect mind, one instantly transposes into a rational civilization. Every area of one's life—mind, body, emotions, love, work, money—flourishes without limits. One captures a level of prosperity and happiness that is forbidden in earth's anticivilization. One directs every area of one's life. And one prospers from everything and everybody that enters one's life. In short, one switches from a "can't win" world to a "can't lose" world. Best of all, one's newfound success is eternally protected by valid law and honest justice. Everyone wins. Even losers convert to winners in a rational civilization

Understanding the following material enables one to fulfill one's life dreams without being murdered, drained, or even harmed.

Anyone who works within the anticivilization is doomed to die. That fact applies to everyone regardless of his or her intelligence, knowledge, skills, talent, money, position, power, appearance, and contacts. From the unknown person to Albert Einstein, everyone in anticivilization inevitably dies.

The anticivilization cannot be outcompeted by working from within its boundaries. Everyone in that hoaxed civilization must die—rapidly, mercilessly. Why? All who operate within the anticivilization come under the jurisdiction of the AC System. What is the AC System? It is a life-destroying combination of criminal minds, non-objective laws, weapons, biased justice, prison systems, and cemeteries. Such a system guarantees rapid death to all.

One can, however, operate from the Civilization of the Universe and its C-of-U System. What is the C-of-U System? It is a life-advancing combination of business minds, objective laws, productive effort, valid justice, businesses, and abiding prosperity. Such a system guarantees immortal happiness to all.

This means that to capture immortal riches, one has to work from the Civilization of the Universe. From this perspective, one literally puts oneself out of harm's way—beyond the reach of professional liars, thieves, and murderers. Such people become locked in a bygone era like the Code of Hammurabi is locked in a bygone civilization.

One works from the Civilization of the Universe by operating in cyberspace. That position removes one from the dangerous AC System now killing humans on planet Earth. Once in the Civilization of the Universe, one automatically functions in the C-of-U System. And that system guarantees one's success—magnificent success. By operating within the C-of-U System, one annihilates criminal-minded people while one soars with honest power, supreme romance, and expanding happiness.

Earth's anticivilization is a criminal-based civilization. The criminal mind is a perfect match for that irrational civilization; the two go together.

Realize that very few minds bring powerfully new values into the world. Philosopher Aristotle brought the laws of logic into the world. Astronomer Aristarchus brought the heliocentric concept into the world. Scientist Galileo brought the laws of motion into the world. Albert Einstein brought the relationship between energy and matter (E=Mc²) into the world. And novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand brought the Objectivism into the world.

Aside from these and other geniuses, most people do not bring radically new values into the world. Tragically, in the anticivilization, creative geniuses are attacked and even destroyed. Everyone's life depends on the world-moving works of these creative people. Yet, they often end up ignored, ridiculed, ostracized, imprisoned, or worse. How can that happen?

Today, adults live within a life-killing anticivilization. And most will continue to do so until early in the third millennium. That all-encompassing world of dishonesty and death reaches out, grabs hold of, and strangles every adult on earth. In short, the anticivilization has killed—and is now killing—conscious beings everywhere.

Criminal-minded people naturally flourish among the anticivilization. That irrational civilization provides compatible dynamics for the criminal mind. The criminal mind rises to power and directs gun-backed agents to kill human beings and destroy earned values. Intentional murders were orchestrated by Alexander the Great, Caligula, Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Mao Tse-Tung, Fidel Castro, Saddam Hussein, Janet Reno, and Jiang Zemin.

The philosophy from which the anticivilization arose "justifies" the criminal mind's control over human beings. In the anticivilization, the criminal mind often is praised and glorified—even by its victims. That is because the criminal mind and the anticivilization are perfectly compatible; they work in perfect harmony. And no one can break this compatibility. The anticivilization by its nature requires and sanctions the criminal mind.

Good news for business minds and bad news for criminal minds: The Civilization of the Universe is perfectly compatible with the business mind. This means business minds rise to power and deliver eternal prosperity to conscious beings. Criminal minds are prosecuted through objective law and valid justice. In the Civilization of the Universe, the business mind soars while the criminal mind becomes extinct. And that rational civilization is now coming to planet Earth.

The anticivilization is the death dynamic that separates Traditional Man from Advanced Man. The irrational anticivilization brings everyone to his or her death via subjective laws enforced by political-agenda justice.

Who really cares about the anticivilization? Most people care. Why? They have their livelihoods and egos invested in that crazy world. The collapse of anticivilization would mean the collapse of every adult's fatal lifestyle.

What will happen as the Civilization of the Universe embraces planet Earth and confronts the anticivilization? Individuals across cyberspace will witness anticivilization's final stand. That stand will take the form of criminal-minded agendas designed to block the arrival of the Civilization of the Universe on planet Earth. The criminal mind will desperately try to stop everyone from flipping into an immortally sexy life. Criminal-minded leaders and their backers will rise to stop the Civilization of the Universe. They will rush in to smash the genuine power and pristine honesty radiating throughout the Cosmos.

That final stand will mark the last breath of criminal life on earth. Every objective criminal—from Arthur Shawcross to Janet Reno to Fidel Castro—will exhale a sigh of relief as the anticivilization wields its age-old tools of force to destroy the Civilization of the Universe. Then, that sigh of relief will turn into a choking gasp as criminals around the world witness an event that will outshine the Fourth of July, 1776.

Everyone, criminals and non-criminals alike, will learn that the tools of force and fraud cannot stop the Civilization of the Universe. People in all nations will realize that fraud, initiatory force, injustice, imprisonment, and death—i.e., the AC System—cannot stop honesty, business, justice, freedom, and life—i.e., the C-of-U System. Everyone will grasp that the false power of the anticivilization is no match for the genuine power of the Civilization of the Universe. The anticivilization rests upon unreal notions. The Civilization of the Universe rests upon valid ideas. As anticivilization falls, everyone will understand these facts.

What about people who resist the Civilization of the Universe? No one can resist the irresistible. Still, the immense power and unyielding honesty flowing throughout the Universe will frighten some people. They will scramble for the dishonest media, morally corrupt politicians, political-agenda justice, and prison camps. They will race to stop the unstoppable. But such efforts will prove fruitless. Everyone's bad investments will dissolve like the Wicked Witch of the West dissolved in the Wizard of Oz.

Upon losing one's bad investments in the anticivilization, one gains a secure, wide-open future based on the facts of reality. By logically integrating observed facts into thoughts and principles, each individual transmutes into an immortal tycoon wielding powers unimaginable to Traditional Man. Each such person automatically becomes a Citizen of the Universe: a man or woman of eternal prosperity, romance, and happiness. Poverty and death fade into nothingness like the ancient Gods fade into the archives of nonsense.

After anticivilization's final stand, everyone will truly be free. This complete freedom is sharply contrasted with today's partial freedom. At that point, life on planet Earth will have moved from a mortal world to a post-mortal world: the Civilization of the Universe.

Many people have heard about the promise of youth: Fun, excitement, and fulfillment. Most have experienced this during childhood. But what is the promise of life? And, how can one benefit from the promise of life?

Throughout history, man has worked to unlock the secret of immortality. In ancient times, man looked to the Gods for the secret of immortality. Later, man turned to alchemists who sought to create the elixir of life. More recently, man has searched for the secret of immortality in medicine and science. Why do men throughout the ages strive to achieve immortality? Is there a real basis for immortal life?

The Promise of Life reveals that human beings will live forever with eternal youth, prosperity, romance, and happiness. Those exposed to The Promise of Life can experience what man has been striving for across the millennia: Mental and physical immortality.

Individuals who sought to discover immortal life implicitly knew there must be something more to life. Pioneers and sages sensed the futility of being born, growing up, aging, and then dying. These people sensed there has to be a better alternative. In fact, these individuals sensed The Promise of Life. But they lacked the tools to fully understand and articulate it. Consequently, living forever has remained a dream.

Now, at this pivotal point in history, man's knowledge has reached the level where he can experience eternal prosperity, romance, happiness, and life. Man has reached the level of knowledge where poverty and death are not necessary. But before man can unleash physical immortality on planet Earth, certain conditions have to exist. The Promise of Life will not only provide these conditions; it will unleash freedom, riches, and immortality to all.

What are the implications of The Promise of Life? Crime, poverty, suffering, disease, and death will become obsolete. In their place will arise objective law, prosperity, happiness, health, and immortal life—right here on planet Earth. People will begin to live longer, richer, happier lives. And as they do, they will want to live with youthful vitality. Free-market entrepreneurs will respond with practical ways to extend life span, reverse aging, and boost everyone's quality of life. In short, the marketplace will deliver cures for poverty, aging, and death.

Some children sense that living forever is normal. And many children think aging and death is grotesque. To most young kids, death is bizarre—even frightening. By understanding The Promise, one realizes that immortality is natural and inevitable. The only way to prevent immortality from occurring during one's lifetime is through gun-backed measures to stop the development of immortality. But, The Promise of Life isolates force and renders it uncompetitive. The Promise of Life will lock criminal-minded people in a bygone era as immortality sweeps earth's fatal civilization.

Upon understanding The Promise of Life, one realizes that immortality is the natural condition for conscious beings. Sickness, poverty, and death are aberrations that will be erased from planet Earth. When one intellectually and emotionally grasps that immortality is the natural mode for conscious beings, one will possess The Promise. Those who grasp The Promise inevitably capture eternal youth, prosperity, and happiness.

From the perspective of technologically advanced civilizations, the transition from paper to the World Wide Web seems almost insignificant. But from the perspective of earth's mystically oriented civilization, such a transition is a major event.

Consider that society is structured around printed material. Today's government, legal system, public education, and media use the printed word as a primary method of conveying information. Eliminate paper and today's Establishment would grind to a halt. Such a shift would leave the anticivilization behind in a bygone space-time continuum.

Without exaggeration, the invention of the World Wide Web will cause deeper societal changes than the invention of the printing press. And the printing press had a major impact on the world. The printing press greatly advanced freedom. Yet, the World Wide Web will free everyone permanently. De facto liberation is in everyone's future.

As the World Wide Web evolves, most people will abandon the paper paradigm—e.g., printed material in the form of books, newspapers, and letters. Why will most people eventually do this? People will abandon the paper paradigm for economic reasons. Printing information on paper and physically delivering that paper to others is inefficient compared to publishing information on the Web and bringing others to see that online material.

The favorable economics of the Web will drive almost everyone out of the paper paradigm and into the paperless paradigm. Those who do not shift to the paperless paradigm—to the Internet and World Wide Web—will be at a competitive disadvantage. Individuals and businesses that resist the Internet will drown in the rising tide of the Web. But many people and companies who switch from paper to the Web will remain competitive and thrive. Some will profit immensely.

An important point about this epochal shift is this: what works in the paper paradigm does not necessarily work in the paperless paradigm. These are two different worlds. The following chart reveals the fundamental differences between these two paradigms.

For over 2000 years, every adult has supported the hoax-driven anticivilization. Either because of force, fraud, or personal choice, billions of individuals have provided the resources that enabled the anticivilization to continue unimpeded.

Consider that nearly all philosophers have spent their lives conjuring up and defending earth's anticivilization. Also, consider that most intellectuals—politicians, theologians, professors, media personalities, journalists, entertainers, and poets—have promoted and defended the anticivilization. Finally, essentially everyone else—entrepreneurs, businesspeople, laborers, artists, and professionals—implicitly accepts or explicitly advances the anticivilization. Why? So each person can collect the illusory benefit of earth's anticivilization: getting something for nothing.

Citizens of Earth do get something for nothing. They get unearned power, wealth, love, sex, prestige, esteem, praise, welfare, protection from competitors, and other "benefits". Such a situation is like a child who can freely have whatever he can grab from a candy store. Initially, this is exciting. But after reality asserts itself, people sense something is wrong. Eventually, they realize their so-called "free gifts" are not free. Each recipient pays for these "gifts" with his or her life. In short, a person gains the hoaxed world but loses his or her life. And that loss of life comes quickly—within about eight decades.

Again, why support the anticivilization? The answer is to fulfill the secret desire for the unearned. That is the reason people support the anticivilization—from obstetricians to murderers, from entrepreneurs to politicians, from policemen to gangsters, from atheists to the Pope.

What if people had another option? What if citizens could live in a world where each person received the equivalent of his or her output? In other words, what if everyone lived in a justice-based world? The answer is that individuals, society, and the economy would flourish. Each individual would move toward eternal life—not in a mythical realm such as heaven, but on planet Earth.

With the rise of Objectivist philosophy and cyberspace, people eventually will live in a justice-based world. That rational world is the Civilization of the Universe, which is an Objectivist civilization.

A rational world could exist on planet Earth within one or two centuries. This means the parasitical-elite class could murder human beings for only 100 or 200 more years. Not too bad, since they have been killing humans for thousands of years. But what if a rational civilization could arrive on planet Earth within a decade? This would (1) save billions of lives, (2) end political prisoners' suffering, (3) end forced deprivation, and (4) terminate the grotesque spectacle of watching loved ones grow old and perish.

To condense hundreds of years down to one decade for a rational world to arrive on planet Earth, people would have to shift their support 180 degrees. People would need to withdraw their support from the anticivilization and support the development of a rational world. Why would people do this? Upon grasping the benefits of a rational world—e.g., boundless freedom, power, wealth, and romance—rational self-interest will ignite beneficial actions. As individuals shift their support away from the anticivilization and toward the Civilization of the Universe, the anticivilization will collapse into a black hole of bizarre notions.

In the forthcoming rational world—the Civilization of the Universe—a whole new set of items will be in style. Gone will be the "fashionable" items of anticivilization.

A rational world, which is an Objectivist civilization, might be available on earth soon after 2001 AD. As people become part of that rational world, they will abandon their investments in today's life-destroying world. Instead, people will invest in the Civilization of the Universe. And as they do, things that are currently in style will go out of style.

The following table reveals what will be in style and what will be out of style when a rational civilization comes down to earth.

Many items in the left column are "fashionable" and common in earth's anticivilization. However, upon arrival of the Civilization of the Universe, they will yield to items in the right column. Individuals will not abandon items in the left column because of other people's assertions. Individuals will do this to survive, prosper, and experience abiding happiness.

Human life is going through a major transformation like it did 3000 years ago. Shortly after the time of Moses and the Trojan War, two interrelated epochal events occurred. First, man switched from a hallucinating mentality to a conscious mentality. Second, man switched from a prehistoric civilization to an anticivilization.

In order for a major paradigmatic shift to occur, key elements had to be available to everyone. Once those key elements were developed and became available to all, nearly everyone entered a new world.

Today, at the changing of the millenniums, mankind is undergoing another epochal shift. That shift consists of (1) replacing the traditional mind and body with the perfect mind and body, along with (2) replacing the anticivilization with the Civilization of the Universe.

Like the epochal shift that occurred 3000 years ago, today's shift requires key elements. After 3000 years of unbearable suffering, those key elements are finally available to everyone.

Once the new-world elements are available to all, nothing can stop the new paradigm from overtaking the old one. Since most people have invested in the old paradigm, almost everyone fears losing that paradigm. Fear of loss can trigger anxiety; fear of the unknown can trigger resistance. But one becomes more productive and relaxed when understanding that as new-world elements become available, the new paradigm cannot be stopped. Today, those new-world elements are available to everyone.

What are these new-world elements? And, what were the elements that enabled human life to evolve into the traditional mind 3000 years ago? The following chart reveals the key elements that led to epochal transformations both yesterday and today.

Other items are necessary for man to shift from the anticivilization to the Civilization of the Universe. For instance, free markets are necessary for this paradigm shift. But, such items come quickly as people begin implementing the key elements.

Fearing the loss of one's anticivilization investments is common. Fearing the unknown is also common. Perhaps the best way to quell these fears is to simply accept what is. Then one can make plans to profit from the approaching Civilization of the Universe.

Almost everyone desires success and prosperity. But everyone who captures success and prosperity in the anticivilization is doomed to die. To succeed in the anticivilization, one must invest in it. However, all such investments are deadly.

In reality, the only way one can gain abiding success and prosperity is to operate in a rational civilization—the Civilization of the Universe. Unfortunately, that rational civilization does not yet exist on planet Earth. However, that rational civilization will rise upon the collapse of anticivilization. What is the best way to collapse the anticivilization? Simply let it collapse under the weight of its own internal corruption.

Abiding success and prosperity—along with increasing longevity—will be available to everyone upon the collapse of anticivilization. One simply needs to let the anticivilization collapse. Letting the anticivilization collapse means not supporting it and not injecting values into it. Anyone who delivers values into the anticivilization perpetuates it. And that perpetuation harms everybody.

Those who intentionally invest in and perpetuate the anticivilization do not want it to end. Such people would rather die than give up their lifelong interests in the anticivilization. But those who have little invested in the hoaxed world would gladly abandon the anticivilization to capture limitless success, prosperity, and romance.

Consider a terminally ill patient. Say, for example, that a person has six months to live due to malignant cancer. If that person is experiencing continuous, unbearable pain, one could properly say that prolonging the patient's life is unnecessary, even cruel. On the other hand, giving the patient a lethal injection to end his life would benefit him.

That analogy can be applied to today's malignant civilization. Prolonging it by feeding it values and money harms everyone. All human beings inevitably lose their life in the anticivilization. But, upon realizing the anticivilization kills everyone, one grasps the profound value of collapsing it. That fatal civilization can be starved. People can end it by not feeding it values and money. Then it has no choice but to collapse.

When a person recognizes the anticivilization using his or her own effort, the person can mentally isolate that insane world. Then the person can stop supporting it. As more people do this to survive and prosper, the anticivilization will crumble. The fall of anticivilization will be met with the rise of the Civilization of the Universe.

Limitless opportunities exist for everyone. People can get rich by bringing the Civilization of the Universe down to planet Earth. By being among the first to build this rational civilization on planet Earth, one will discover wide-open opportunities.

Letting the anticivilization collapse is profoundly moral. Supporting the anticivilization is profoundly immoral. Why? Because achieving youthful immortality for everybody is today's supremely moral act. But in the anticivilization, immortality is impossible. The anticivilization exists by destroying human life. Fortunately, upon eliminating the anticivilization and bringing the Civilization of the Universe down to earth, everybody becomes an immortal titan.

An anticivilization is based on conjured-up notions. The Civilization of the Universe is based on objective reality. The anticivilization thrives by delivering death to conscious beings. The Civilization of the Universe thrives by delivering immortal life to conscious beings. In the former world, everyone dies. In the latter world, everyone lives forever.

Widespread poverty is unknown in the Civilization of the Universe. Widespread riches are unknown in the anticivilization. What can one do if one wants to live with eternal riches? One can outcompete the anticivilization.

Outcompete the anticivilization? How can an individual outcompete an entire civilization? Even great souls such as Socrates, Jesus, and Galileo could not outcompete earth's irrational civilization. Anticivilization agents destroyed them. How can anyone else move beyond the anticivilization?

The key is to dump the 3000-year-old traditional mind and develop the brand-new perfect mind. With the traditional mind, one is hopelessly trapped in the anticivilization—always outflanked by well-hidden criminals. Masterful criminals outmaneuver all traditional minds. This keeps everyone in bondage to earthbound rulers. And those rulers bring everyone into narrower dimensions of conscious life until each person dies unfulfilled, never realizing his or her potential for wide-open money, power, and romantic sex.

Professional mystics and criminals implement the above strategy by using the AC System, which is a system of undivided dishonesty. Mystics and criminals produce few if any objective values for other people. Therefore, to survive, they must control and drain genuine producers: entrepreneurs, businesspeople, laborers, and other productive people. The AC System gives the non-producer tremendous false power to control, usurp, and destroy the producers with impunity. Individuals cannot compete with, much less outcompete, those who wield the AC System.

However, by developing the perfect mind, which is a mystic-free principled mind, one can totally outcompete all traditional minds for prosperity, power, and romantic love. A person really can have it all. By developing the perfect mind and wielding the C-of-U System, which is a system of undivided honesty, a person becomes all-powerful.

By wielding the C-of-U System, two things happen. First, one leaves all traditional minds behind. The traditional mind—which consists of the specialized mind, mystical mind, and criminal mind—gets left behind in a fading world. Second, one becomes incredibly rich through unhindered value production. With the perfect mind, one becomes invulnerable to the dishonesties inherent in anticivilization. With that unbeatable power, a person soars past everyone limited by the traditional mind.

The giants of power and wealth—such as Rockefeller, Carnegie, Ford, Kroc, and Trump—never explicitly identified the perfect mind and the C-of-U System. Therefore, they could never use these omnipotent tools to capture limitless prosperity and life. The degree each of those giants removed irrationality from their lives was the degree they prospered. But limitless prosperity and immortal life require a mystic-free, totally honest environment. Such an environment cannot exist in the anticivilization.

The perfect mind and the C-of-U System are now available to everyone—from youth through adults. By harnessing these invincible tools, one can move out of the anticivilization and break into the Civilization of the Universe. By doing so, one will leave the anticivilization behind to capture beyond-belief wealth and happiness.

Today, people knowingly or unknowingly live in an anticivilization. The fuel that runs an anticivilization is human beings. This means every man and women keeps the anticivilization going through the inevitable loss of his or her own life.

Many people figure that death is natural. They look at animals and plants and witness nature's birth/death cycle. They conclude that human beings should also fall into this cycle. And when they look back throughout history, they see that all human beings have died. Their verdict is: human beings are born to die.

Yet, fully conceptual thinking reveals a radically different picture. By logically integrating observed data into concepts, thoughts, and principles, one realizes that man—and only man—can override nature to preclude death. Only man has a volitional, conceptual consciousness that can outcompete nature, including nature's birth/death dynamics.

Man needed thousands of years of knowledge development—which led to crucial breakthroughs in science, technology, and medicine—to override nature and extend human life. This increase in human longevity, from three decades at the time of Christ to eight decades today, comes from man's ability to eradicate plagues and prevent/cure many afflictions.

Overriding nature to live forever requires that human beings eliminate all causes of death—especially heart disease and cancer. Immortality also requires that human beings eliminate the root cause of aging and death. That root cause allows entropy to overtake living cells, which manifests the grotesque effects of aging: poor eyesight, gray hair, wrinkled skin, frail bones, and mental impairment.

What is that root cause? What is nature's device that triggers aging and death? The root cause of aging and death is a gene that programs somatic cells to succumb to entropy and perish. That gene is dubbed the "Immortality Gene". And it probably can be mutated so human cells carry on the processes of life forever—free of entropy death.

Young people in early adulthood can receive an immortality treatment, perhaps in the form of an anti-senescence pill, and never have to experience the hideous effects of aging. They will reach physical maturity and retain youthful vigor for centuries, millennium, or forever. But those who receive an immortality treatment that have already aged can reverse their deteriorating condition. How? Perhaps through a hormone treatment program, such as human growth hormone or HGH for short. Quite possibly, a singular treatment can be developed that mutates the "Immortality Gene" and administers HGH all in one anti-senescence pill, which can be called the immortality pill. This truly would be the elixir of life—eternal life in both mind and body.

However, the biggest obstacle has to be removed before human beings can live forever. That obstacle is the people-destroying anticivilization. The anticivilization exists by killing people—all people. Everybody who lives in the anti-life world must die. Hence, immortality in the anticivilization is a contradiction. It cannot and will not happen. Yet, this reveals the key to living forever with youthful happiness: abolish the anticivilization. By terminating the anticivilization, the Civilization of the Universe will overtake planet Earth to spread immortal riches and romantic love around the globe.

Anyone who thinks in principles that are logically anchored to reality can see the gross injustice of the following scenario:

People are concerned about what is happening in the world today. News reports resound about stories of tragedy and death. Loved ones get sick and die without warning. Products quickly become obsolete. Businesses shut down. Jobs disappear.

All a person has to do is tune into the news to glimpse the avalanche of problems, destruction, and death. What is going on? Why all the turmoil in the world today?

Professional intellectuals say we are experiencing a restructuring of society like the shift people experienced 250 years ago. Experts point out that about 250 years ago mankind shifted from an agricultural economy to an industrial economy. That transformation radically altered daily life: machines replaced hand tools, which boosted productivity and ushered in unprecedented prosperity. The experts assert that today we are shifting from an industrial economy to an information economy. Thus, information will replace machines to become the center of economic activity. Such a shift will reverberate around the world and impact most citizens, businesses, and societal institutions.

But beneath the economic shift that is changing the way human beings work and live is a more fundamental transformation. That transformation has been 3000 years in the making.

Man is experiencing the development of a new civilization on earth. A super civilization based on rationality, honesty, business, and justice is beginning to unfold across planet Earth. This new civilization is poised to replace today's corrupt civilization that is based on irrationality, dishonesty, crime, and injustice.

Today's mortal civilization, which is an anticivilization, arose about 3000 years ago. That civilization controls, drains, and suffocates everyone. No one escapes the reach of anticivilization—not Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, Galileo, Newton, Einstein, or Gates. The anticivilization is uncompromising in its stranglehold on human life.

Fortunately, the new-world philosophy called Objectivism combined with the new-world communications medium called cyberspace will vanish the anticivilization. In its place will arise a rational civilization—the Civilization of the Universe.

The Civilization of the Universe is an immortal civilization. In that civilization, everyone captures limitless riches, abiding happiness, fulfilling relationships, and immortal life. And, this civilization is real; the anticivilization is unreal. Why? Because the anticivilization requires endless illusions, hoaxes, and con jobs—backed by guns and prisons—to exist. The Civilization of the Universe, by contrast, arises from objective reality. It only requires the legal prohibition of initiatory force and fraud. In the anticivilization, limitless prosperity and immortality are impossible. In the Civilization of the Universe, nearly everyone captures limitless prosperity and immortality.

Today, society is shifting. And this is the biggest paradigm shift man has ever known. Moreover, no one can stop it. The crucial decision each person has to make is to remain immobilized by fear or prepare to prosper forever.

What is the AC System? It is a system of undivided dishonesty. What are its components? It consists of criminal minds, subjective laws, initiatory force, partial justice, prisons, and cemeteries.

What is the C-of-U System? It is a system of undivided honesty. This system consists of business minds, objective laws, businesses, valid justice, supreme protection, and prosperous living.

The AC System is advanced and harnessed by criminal-minded people. Anyone who uses this system can gain immense unearned power, wealth, prestige, influence, and sex. This is the power system of earth's anticivilization.

The C-of-U System is advanced and harnessed by business-minded people. Anyone who uses this system can gain limitless earned power, wealth, prestige, influence, and sex. This is the power system of the Civilization of the Universe.

The following chart compares these two power systems.

Leaders of the anticivilization use the AC System to rule Citizens of Earth. People who are most skilled at using dishonesty and hypocrisy quickly rise to the top of society and become everyone's leader. In such a position, leaders steal and murder with impunity. They are able to usurp and destroy their way to unearned livelihoods replete with money, values, and sex—whatever they want.

But now, with the rise of Objectivism and cyberspace, the AC System will vanish from planet Earth. In its place will arise the pristine C-of-U System. Today, individuals everywhere can embrace this system to advance beyond all harmful people as they collect limitless power and prosperity.

From high above Mount Olympus and far beyond earth's solar system, eclipsing Moses' Old Testament and Jesus' New Testament comes the universal, non-religious Ultimate Testament. That testament is the Promise of Life.

The Promise of Life guarantees the end of death and taxes. In the hoaxed anticivilization, the only thing certain is death and taxes. But in fact, death and taxes are anomalies of conscious life. Grand illusions backed by force are needed to perpetuate death and taxes.

Many people who pay taxes and move toward death realize the profound irrationality underlying these anomalies. In reality, healthy, prosperous conscious beings do not need to be taxed or brought to death. However, in the conjured-up anticivilization they must. That civilization could not exist without death and taxes. Yet, in a rational world—the Civilization of the Universe—conscious beings do not need taxes or death. They live by competitively producing values for self and other people. That value production meets all their needs, ranging from survival to protection to health to happiness. Expropriating and killing people are unknown in the Civilization of the Universe.

The Ultimate Testament comprises the certainty that arises from applying logic in both the anticivilization and the Civilization of the Universe. If one applies logic only in the anticivilization, one will go mad or worse. That madness arises upon realizing that everyone on planet Earth is trapped in a dead-end civilization.

Within the narrow confines of the anticivilization, facts are twisted and distorted beyond their contextual meaning. The worst becomes the best. The best becomes the worst. Values and morality are inverted. This leaves every man and women entangled in an upside-down world. Essentially all that is required to rise to the top of that world is the ability to deceive, expropriate, and demolish like Pope Pius XII or Woodrow Wilson or Adolf Hitler.

By applying logic to both the anticivilization and the Civilization of the Universe, one will gain radically new perspectives on conscious life. Suddenly, many things that are promulgated as good in the anticivilization are seen as unattractive, boring, or harmful. One glimpses beyond that black-hole world; one glimpses into new horizons of expanding power, wealth, romance, and fulfillment. One sees a world without initiatory force and fraud—a world without life-draining institutions epitomized by the ATF, DEA, EPA, FCC, FDA, FTC, INS, IRS, OSHA, and SEC.

The Promise of Life will eventually free every human being on earth. Rational human beings everywhere will step out of the fatal anticivilization and step into the immortal Civilization of the Universe. They will eliminate death and taxes from their life to capture tax-free immortality on planet Earth.

Cyberspace is now converging with philosophy, religion, politics, and power. That convergence will deliver the Ultimate Testament to everyone in the world.

What is the Ultimate Testament? It is The Promise of Life, which guarantees the end of death and taxes. The implications of the Ultimate Testament are eternal riches for every human being on earth. Upon exposure to The Promise, individuals will transform planet Earth into their own personal Garden of Eden.

To be sure, this testament is non-religious. In fact, it is not even philosophical. Any adult, regardless of his or her background, can understand and apply the Ultimate Testament for endless benefits. That application will eventually end usurpation, crime, murder, and death.

From where does the Ultimate Testament come? And why was it not available at an earlier time in history? The reasons why this testament was not available at an earlier time are (1) its foundational knowledge had not been developed and (2) cyberspace had not been invented. Today, the Ultimate Testament's foundational knowledge is available; so is cyberspace.

The origin of the Ultimate Testament can be seen in the following table.

What is the value of identifying anticivilization items and Civilization of the Universe items? That value arises as Citizens of Earth contrast these items. They can, on their own, differentiate the entire anticivilization from the Civilization of the Universe. This lets them dump the anticivilization and move into the Civilization of the Universe, albeit incrementally. Additionally, people can experience superb emotional values through the Civilization of the Universe items listed below.

What are anticivilization items and Civilization of the Universe items? And, how can one know what items belong to which civilization? The answer to these questions comes from answering the following question: Does an item arise from objective reality and deliver genuine values to conscious beings? If so, it probably is a Civilization of the Universe entity. If, however, an item arises from irrationality or requires force or deception for people to accept it, then it is an anticivilization entity.

The following table contrasts Civilization of the Universe entities with anticivilization entities. By intellectually understanding and emotionally experiencing this contrast, Citizens of Earth can make the jump from the moribund anticivilization to the eternal Civilization of the Universe. Note: some of the following anticivilization items offer values to conscious beings. But these items are limited in scope and are beneficial only in the context of an anticivilization. Thus, they probably will vanish as the Civilization of the Universe unfolds on planet Earth.

The 3000-year-old anticivilization is disintegrating. That mystical world is the pre-cyberspace world. And it is riddled with initiatory force, fraud, and coercion. The cyberspace world, which is the precursor to the Civilization of the Universe, has arrived on planet Earth. That marks the end of using force and fraud to gain values.

As the anticivilization approaches its final days, some people are learning about a better alternative. That alternative is the wide-open cyberspace civilization—a civilization free of force-backed sacrifice.

As individuals grasp the futility of living in the anticivilization, they will look for something better. They will seek out, as some people are now doing, a way to capture ever growing prosperity and happiness. Human beings are by nature value-seeking organisms. As such, they naturally gravitate toward values and away from disvalues. That is to say, human beings naturally move toward riches, health, happiness, and life, and move away from poverty, sickness, misery, and death.

In the anticivilization, criminal-minded people—epitomized by high-profile politicians, theologians, bureaucrats, lawyers, professors, media commentators, and fake business executives—drive citizens away from values and toward disvalues. For instance, criminal-minded leaders craft societies that prevent most citizens from capturing limitless prosperity and happiness. Specious laws and bogus regulations block citizens from unleashing their full potential to produce values for other people and prosper as a result. Many of those politically blocked citizens resign to a life of poverty and unhappiness, which results from not producing maximum values for self and other people. Ultimately, citizens move from restrictions to poverty to misery to sickness to death.

Fortunately, the rise of cyberspace allows citizens to bypass anticivilization dynamics. Since force and fraud are not competitive in cyberspace, people are free to actualize their full potential to produce and prosper. What is the result? Citizens of Earth eventually transpose into Citizens of the Universe. Today, that transformation is beginning to occur.

The Internet is rising in popularity around the world. Every year millions of people migrate from the pre-cyberspace world into cyberspace. That trend will only speed up as individuals discover wide-open opportunities for limitless wealth and happiness via cyberspace business dynamics. In such a competitive, unregulated milieu, any person—regardless of background—can make their dreams come true. How? By exploiting one's most profitable business actions in cyberspace, one will evolve into a healthy titan of power, money, and love.

At various transition points in the pre-cyberspace world, certain people were able to profit from newly emerging trends. For instance, John D. Rockefeller cashed in on the newly emerging industrialization of America. And Bill Gates cashed in on the emergence of the computer/information age. However, cyberspace will leave the pre-cyberspace opportunities in the dust. Essentially everyone—not just a few people—can capture unlimited wealth, power, romance, and happiness via cyberspace businesses.

Historically, epochal transformations in human life have required many decades or centuries to occur. Today, human beings are experiencing a rapid, epochal transformation that will affect everyone. That transformation is the computer/information age. And the Internet is the catalyst that will usher in this new paradigm.

The transformation of human life from an agrarian economy to an industrial economy required many decades—from the mid-1700s to the mid-1800s. This transformation radically altered the Western World's way of life, including its money, businesses, governments, and relationships. Yet, such a long, drawn-out transformation gave people time to make the transformation from an agrarian mindset to an industrial mindset.

Today, human life is shifting from an industrial economy to an information economy. This shift will not require several decades or centuries. Such a shift can be complete early in the 21^st century. People who break into the information economy early can prosper greatly. But most that avoid this shift will fall behind.

Certain aspects of the information economy—e.g., computers, software, and the World Wide Web—will speed up this transformation. World populations will move at an increasing rate into the information economy until it absorbs the entire world.

The essence of this shift consists of moving away from physical objects and moving toward information and knowledge. In other words, the new economy will shift away from mechanical products and toward information products and services. Much economic activity will shift from physical labor to mental labor. More and more, people will apply information to labor-intensive tasks in order to make those tasks more efficient and profitable. This will free individuals from menial tasks and enable them to perform highly profitable mind work.

This is now beginning to occur. The information sector of the economy is growing at a faster rate than the industrial sector. And before the 1990s, most people never heard of the Internet. But soon, the number of people that will be on the Internet will surpass one billion. This significant trend cannot be ignored or stopped.

A major key to success in the information age is knowledge. Information and knowledge will surpass machines as the center of economic activity. As this happens, people will suddenly find themselves in an intense drive for knowledge. Such a drive could never have occurred in previous economic eras. Most people would not have profited very much from a cascade of knowledge. But now their survival depends on it. Today, no one can survive and thrive while remaining ignorant.

The route to generating limitless knowledge is honest principled thinking. By learning how to think conceptually—in principles that are attached to facts—each person can generate knowledge without limits. That unlimited knowledge is the raw material with which people can assemble empires of power and wealth. Knowledge and information benefits everyone by delivering better medicine, business procedures, investment decisions, scientific breakthroughs, and more.

Only conceptual conscious beings can create civilization; lower animals cannot. Man uses conceptual thinking to develop civilization. Mystic-plagued man developed an irrational anticivilization. But today, mystic-free man is developing a rational civilization on planet Earth: the Civilization of the Universe.

Amazingly, out of the billions of citizens on earth, only a few people design civilization. These people are the system-building philosophers. They are the architects of civilization. Those few architects design and create the blueprint for civilization. Other people construct the civilization according to that blueprint. Then everyone—present and future—lives in it.

The following table reveals the architects of civilization. The first group contains the architects of anticivilization. The second group contains the architects of the Civilization of the Universe.

The Book of Ecclesiastes in the Old Testament of the Holy Bible reveals the dead-end nature of earth's anticivilization. The preacher/philosopher in Ecclesiastes exposes the contradictions, injustices, and futility of life in the anticivilization. He sums up the nature of that closed world by saying, "There is nothing new under the sun."

Today, with the first glimmerings of the Civilization of the Universe emanating from cyberspace, a whole new dynamic becomes apparent. In fact, there is something new under the sun.

By stepping out of the criminal-driven anticivilization, one suddenly sees far beyond that narrow-scope world. One sees past the futile view of life as presented in the Book of Ecclesiastes. That new-world view comes from the Civilization of the Universe perspective: a view where individual businesses drive out the bad and drive in the good.

What is new under the sun? The Objectivism/Libertarian/Neo-Tech/Zonpower axis reveals the new: a rational civilization is coming to planet Earth. And from this new civilization flows endless knowledge, power, purpose, achievement, prosperity, health, well-being, romance, happiness, and youthful life. Consider that in the anticivilization everyone dies by strangulation. Dishonesty and initiatory force strangle everyone, which leaves citizens defeated, drained, and then dead. In reality, death is a perversion of conscious life.

But now consider that in the Civilization of the Universe, dishonesty and initiatory force cannot survive; these tools are uncompetitive. In the forthcoming rational world, people do not die. They forever advance in knowledge, power, prosperity, love, and happiness. In the prolific Civilization of the Universe, new things constantly evolve. Why? Because irrationality and force are not factors. New goods/services arise through free-market dynamics. In the Civilization of the Universe, the marketplace evolves most new products, services, technologies, and ideas. Without dishonesty and force, new items arise continuously to bring boundless prosperity to all.

From the anticivilization context, there is nothing new under the sun; life is a futile endeavor. But from the Civilization of the Universe context, the new arises from every angle; life is an exciting adventure. The key to limitless success in the future is (1) undivided honesty, (2) cyberspace businesses, and (3) advanced technologies. As these three dynamics converge in one's life, one will find oneself on a wild ride to superb wealth, health, romance, and happiness.

For the first time in history, people will move beyond the anticivilization. They will le