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 \Cr\ And you want to hurry them. Let them cling like puppies.to the breasts of their cultures. They will be gone soon enough.\par}
 
+\chap Drugs as Chronetic Agents
 
-DRUGS AS CHRONETIC AGENTS 
-
-
-INTRODUCTION 
-
-In previous chapters we have reported data derived from 
-participant observation of the various scenes in which young people 
-use the drugs of their choice in the special ways they have chosen. 
-For the most part, the observations were carried out with one or 
-another drug the focus of our investigation. For example, we 
-examined the heroin scene and reported on it to the exclusion of the 
-other drugs concurrently used by the heroin users. Similarly our 
-investigation of so-called "glue sniffers" was conducted and reported 
-separately. The same is true of our reports of the psychedelic scene. 
-
-
-Our reasons for doing so were partly historical, since the 
-heydays of various drugs were at different times, and partly practical, 
-i.e., one cannot discuss everything at once. But the principal reason 
-for the separateness of our studies was a theoretical one, in that each 
-drug study was conducted as an empirical test of a set of hypotheses 
-derived from a larger theoretical interest. We have for some time now 
-been engaged in the study of time processes, i.e., how time and its 
-mysteries are understood in the various disciplines, ranging from 
-astrophysics to anthropology. Our attempt has been to derive a set of 
-generalizations descriptive of time processes in ANY discipline, in 
-other words, the study of time itself, not simply the time of the 
-physicist or the psychologist. We call this study "CHRONETICS", 
-and define its scope as the study of temporal processes in their own 
-right. We seek, in short, to determine whether there are general laws 
-which all time processes obey, and if so to determine what they are. 
-
-
-The first problem we confront in such an effort is one with 
-which all investigators are confronted, no matter what their field, 
-namely, to what extent is our ordinary experience a bias which 
-
-
-
-
-blinds us. In other fields, say, geology, one may experiment with the 
-elements of one's concern, ¢.g., rocks, rivers, rain, etc. But how does 
-one experiment with time? How do we know whether the assumption is correct that time is an invariant, which "flows evenly", to use 
-a popular expression, or whether the assumption of invariance blinds 
-us. to possible variations in temporality. It is tempting to regard 
-recent evidence from physics as confirming the view that time varies 
-considerably at subnuclear levels of observation, and hence that time 
-may also vary elsewhere. But this courts the danger of going beyond 
-the limits of the data. 
-
-
-Thus we were struck very early in our investigations by the 
-almost total unanimity of our research subjects' reports that their 
-drug experiences altered their experience of time. A similar unanimity is found in pharmacological, psychological, and phenomenological reports, further confirming our subjects views. In the 
-remainder of this chapter we shall attempt to summarize our 
-previous findings concerning which drugs change the experience of 
-time in which ways, and to justify our tentative conclusion that 
-drugs are taken by those who take them (indeed, also by those who 
-prescribe them) principally for that reason, namely, to alter the rate 
-of experience. 
-
-
-In addition to this psychological effect, however, we shall 
-endeavor to show that the temporal aspects of certain social 
-processes are also involved, so that when we refer to drugs as 
-chronetic agents we are not restricting ourselves to exclusively 
-subjective or psychological parameters but explicitly to those aspects 
-of experience with which the sociologist is rightly concerned, which 
-we might call sociological architecture. 
-
-
-In this sense, notwithstanding the summary nature of this 
-paper, the investigations here reported must be regarded as preliminary, for it is a long way from demonstrating that our experience of 
-time may vary under certain conditions to establishing that there are 
-
-
-
-
-laws of time variation whose discernment the chroneticist properly 
-pursues across the ranges of many disciplines. 
-
-
-We invoke as our measuring instrument the cybernetic notion 
-that human beings. in their subjectivity as well as in their sociation 
-may be heuristically regarded as information processing systems, 
-characterized initially (and minimally) as receivers, programmers, and 
-broadcasters. That is, we perceive, think, and communicate. And of 
-course, more. Much more. How do drugs alter these processes? 
-
-
-CHRONETIC PHENOMENOLOGY 
-
-There are three classes of drugs with which we are concerned, 
-which in the street language of our subjects are called "downs", 
-"ups", and "trips", referring in the first case to narcotics, sedatives, 
-barbituates, and alcohol, i.e., CNS depressants. Trips include marijuana, LSD, mescaline, psilocybin, psilosin, etc., i.e., psychedelics, to 
-employ Osmond's term. As every neurologist knows, heroin, morphine, methadone, ez.al., have the property of constricting the pupils 
-of the eye, which the street talk calls being "pinned". Of course this 
-means that less light is entering the retinal chamber and indicates 
-that the amount of information the subject tolerates is reduced in 
-proportion to dosage. The "input" function to the higher cortical 
-centers is sharply reduced by narcotics, not only visually, but across 
-thé entire sensorium. 
-
-
-Subjects report that the heroin high is like the astronauts 
-perspective in that time changes in the environment are seen as from 
-a great height, so that the net effect is an experience in which things 
-seem to go very slowly, if at all. At high dosages, "time seems to 
-stand still", so that the euphoric experience of timelessness seems 
-paradoxically to last forever. This helps to understand why the 
-heroin experience is so cherished by those who cherish it. Even 
-though, to the outside observer it seems to last for such a "short" 
-time, to the serious heroin user, time seems to have stopped, and his 
-joy is eternal. Our subjects report it is exactly this temporary 
-eternity they seek. So do the makers of the 7,000 year old Sumerian 
-tablets which instruct the religious novice in its preparation. 
-
-
-
-
-Ups, on the other hand, have an entirely different set of 
-subjective reports associated with them. One subject described his 
-experience of "meth" (speed) as follows: 
-
-
-Hey, man, dig it, here's how it feels. . . .Do you like 
-to drive fast in your car, man. Imagine you have this racing 
-car, see, with no windshield, see, and, they say you can 
-have NYC all to yourself with all the other cars gone. So 
-you go speeding around corners at 90 and open up to 200 
-miles an hour along Park Avenue, man, whizzing, and 
-spinning around the whole city all to yourself. You can do 
-anything as you want, an' you can go as fast as you want 
-to go. Dig it man, imagine all that power just walking, 
-man, or screwing. Wow. 
+\sec Introduction
 
+In previous chapters we have reported data derived from participant observation of the various scenes in which young people use the drugs of their choice in the special ways they have chosen.  For the most part, the observations were carried out with one or another drug the focus of our investigation. For example, we examined the heroin scene and reported on it to the exclusion of the other drugs concurrently used by the heroin users. Similarly our investigation of so-called "glue sniffers" was conducted and reported separately. The same is true of our reports of the psychedelic scene. 
 
-Clinicians will be sensitive to the omnipotent undertones in our 
-subject's report, to the grand ideas of power and exhilaration. They 
-will not be unfamiliar with the fact that 'coming down" or 
-"crashing" from "speed" (meth) is severely depressing, often to the 
-point of persecutory ideation and feeling characteristic of the 
-paranoid experience. 
-
+Our reasons for doing so were partly historical, since the heydays of various drugs were at different times, and partly practical, i.e., one cannot discuss everything at once. But the principal reason for the separateness of our studies was a theoretical one, in that each drug study was conducted as an empirical test of a set of hypotheses derived from a larger theoretical interest. We have for some time now been engaged in the study of time processes, i.e., how time and its mysteries are understood in the various disciplines, ranging from astrophysics to anthropology. Our attempt has been to derive a set of generalizations descriptive of time processes in ANY discipline, in other words, the study of time itself, not simply the time of the physicist or the psychologist. We call this study "CHRONETICS", and define its scope as the study of temporal processes in their own right. We seek, in short, to determine whether there are general laws which all time processes obey, and if so to determine what they are. 
 
-Note, however, in our subject's report that it is the rate of his 
-experience he centrally cherishes. So much is this the case that he 
-will often use too much, then resort to barbituates to slow down, in 
-what soon becomes a cycle of speeding, slowing, then speeding again, 
-for days, sometimes for weeks at a time, with little thought of food, 
-sleep, or sociation. The fact that speed is alleged to confer long 
-periods of sexual potency bordering on Priapism is considered to far 
-outweigh the fact that it renders the serious user anorgastic. It is as-if 
-one were trying to move faster than time itself, squeezing in more 
-than mere clock time permits. 
-
-
-Speed "freaks"? are notorious broadcasters, who will talk 
-without interruption for 4 or 5 hours, at a very fast clip, usually to 
-the considerable consternation of their "straight" friends. They 
-believe they understand things superbly well and deeply for the first 
+The first problem we confront in such an effort is one with which all investigators are confronted, no matter what their field, namely, to what extent is our ordinary experience a bias which blinds us. In other fields, say, geology, one may experiment with the elements of one's concern, ¢.g., rocks, rivers, rain, etc. But how does one experiment with time? How do we know whether the assumption is correct that time is an invariant, which "flows evenly", to use a popular expression, or whether the assumption of invariance blinds us. to possible variations in temporality. It is tempting to regard recent evidence from physics as confirming the view that time varies considerably at subnuclear levels of observation, and hence that time may also vary elsewhere. But this courts the danger of going beyond the limits of the data. 
 
+Thus we were struck very early in our investigations by the almost total unanimity of our research subjects' reports that their drug experiences altered their experience of time. A similar unanimity is found in pharmacological, psychological, and phenomenological reports, further confirming our subjects views. In the remainder of this chapter we shall attempt to summarize our previous findings concerning which drugs change the experience of time in which ways, and to justify our tentative conclusion that drugs are taken by those who take them (indeed, also by those who prescribe them) principally for that reason, namely, to alter the rate of experience. 
 
+In addition to this psychological effect, however, we shall endeavor to show that the temporal aspects of certain social processes are also involved, so that when we refer to drugs as chronetic agents we are not restricting ourselves to exclusively subjective or psychological parameters but explicitly to those aspects of experience with which the sociologist is rightly concerned, which we might call sociological architecture. 
 
+In this sense, notwithstanding the summary nature of this paper, the investigations here reported must be regarded as preliminary, for it is a long way from demonstrating that our experience of time may vary under certain conditions to establishing that there are laws of time variation whose discernment the chroneticist properly pursues across the ranges of many disciplines. 
 
-time and are very eager to share this new-found wisdom with anyone 
-who will listen for as long as they will listen. This seems to be due to 
-the fact that the CNS is stimulated, not at the perceptual-sensory 
-level, but at the higher cortical levels, so that sensory information is 
-processed faster. It is exactly this rapid illumination speed freaks 
-report they want. 
-
-
-'Heads' or adepts of the psychedelic experience well know that 
-trips seem to last far longer than clock time measures. Even a half a 
-marijuana cigarette will permit the smoker to feel that a three minute 
-musical selection has the temporal characteristics of a symphony and 
-the four hour high correspondingly feels like 8 or 10 hours. Acid 
-(LSD) a far more potent drug, is almost impossible to describe to 
-those who have not experienced it. Like sex, talking about it doesn't 
-quite convey the qualities of the experience. For, in additon to its 
-ability to vastly expand the range of sensory delights, LSD induces 
-the most complex chronetic patterns yet known to man, such that 
-serious users regularly report variations in the variations of the time 
-experience. Moments of eternal stillness alternate with extremely 
-rapid pulsations and rhythms: feelings of rest, velocity, acceleration, 
-and changes in acceleration are common, and reports of even more 
-subtle and complex changes in time experience are common. That 
-this experience is deliberately sought is indicated in McCluhan's 
-aphorism that the computer is the LSD of the business world (just 
-as) LSD is the computer of the counter culture. 
-
-
-What computers and acid have in common is the processing of 
-information at extremely high speeds. Computers operate in nanoseconds. No one knows how /ow LSD reduces synaptic thresholds, nor, 
-consequently, how high it increases the rate of neural firing. What is 
-well known, by heads at least, is that, in addition to its ability to 
-open wide the "doors of perception", acid is also well named, for in 
-the cybernetic analogy what seems to happen is that the amount of 
-data is increased while the programs for its conceptual management 
-are simultaneously dissolved. It feels like a fuse has blown, so that 
-too much current is flowing. (Hence, the expression "mind-blowing".) 
+We invoke as our measuring instrument the cybernetic notion that human beings. in their subjectivity as well as in their sociation may be heuristically regarded as information processing systems, characterized initially (and minimally) as receivers, programmers, and broadcasters. That is, we perceive, think, and communicate. And of course, more. Much more. How do drugs alter these processes? 
 
+\sec Chronetic Phenomenology
 
+There are three classes of drugs with which we are concerned, which in the street language of our subjects are called "downs", "ups", and "trips", referring in the first case to narcotics, sedatives, barbituates, and alcohol, i.e., CNS depressants. Trips include marijuana, LSD, mescaline, psilocybin, psilosin, etc., i.e., psychedelics, to employ Osmond's term. As every neurologist knows, heroin, morphine, methadone, \e{et. al.}, have the property of constricting the pupils of the eye, which the street talk calls being "pinned". Of course this means that less light is entering the retinal chamber and indicates that the amount of information the subject tolerates is reduced in proportion to dosage. The "input" function to the higher cortical centers is sharply reduced by narcotics, not only visually, but across thé entire sensorium. 
 
+Subjects report that the heroin high is like the astronauts perspective in that time changes in the environment are seen as from a great height, so that the net effect is an experience in which things seem to go very slowly, if at all. At high dosages, "time seems to stand still", so that the euphoric experience of timelessness seems paradoxically to last forever. This helps to understand why the heroin experience is so cherished by those who cherish it. Even though, to the outside observer it seems to last for such a "short" time, to the serious heroin user, time seems to have stopped, and his joy is eternal. Our subjects report it is exactly this temporary eternity they seek. So do the makers of the 7,000 year old Sumerian tablets which instruct the religious novice in its preparation. 
 
-It is exactly this experience of sensory overload, de-programming, and re-programming, that heads seck. Whether the insights and 
-experiences had with this powerful substance are "valid" or 
-"illusory" is a question for more research than present federal laws 
-currently permit. Suffice it to note that the extremely rapid 
-chronetic changes LSD includes are cherished by those who favor 
-LSD, as well as the feeling that a 12 hour experience of this sort is 
-regularly compared to a week or a month of continuous ecstasy. In 
-this context, one is not surprised to find recent opinion in 
-theological literature holding that the sacred mushroom (amanita 
-muscaria) was the agent inducing the mystical experiences that led 
-directly to the formulation of the major world religions. 
-
-
-CHRONETIC SOCIOLOGY 
-
-If we focus now upon the population who favor the drugs 
-discussed above, not simply upon the subjective experiences of their 
-individual members, a chronetic pattern of another sort emerges. 
-Brevity prevents an extended discussion of the "measuring instrument" we employ as a sociological tool. Suffice it to say that the rate 
-of social change is increasingly adopted as a criterion in the social 
-sciences, in our era of rapid social change. If we ask "what is the 
-relation between our three classes of drugs and the rates of social 
-change experienced by differing classes in America," a clear pattern 
-becomes visible. 
-
-
-Thus, until very recently, narcotics use was principally the 
-predilection of the lower class, whose rate of change was widely 
-acknowledged to be the slowest in the fastest emerging society in the 
-world. This experience, which we have elsewhere termed "anachronistic', is severely "painful" to those who experience it, since it is not 
-only an experience of extreme alienation, but of increasing alienation, whose rate of increase is increasing. Under such circumstances, 
-heroin might be said to be the medication of choice, since it is par 
-excellance the pain killer. It is a situation in which one might turn 
-around Marx's classic phrase that religion is the opiate of the people. 
-
-
+Ups, on the other hand, have an entirely different set of subjective reports associated with them. One subject described his experience of "meth" (speed) as follows: 
 
+\Q{Hey, man, dig it, here's how it feels... Do you like to drive fast in your car, man. Imagine you have this racing car, see, with no windshield, see, and, they say you can have NYC all to yourself with all the other cars gone. So you go speeding around corners at 90 and open up to 200 miles an hour along Park Avenue, man, whizzing, and spinning around the whole city all to yourself. You can do anything as you want, an' you can go as fast as you want to go. Dig it man, imagine all that power just \e{walking,} man, or \e{screwing.} Wow.}
 
-Unfortunately, as the rate of alienation increases in the middle class, 
-we find an increase in the incidence of narcotics there as well. This is 
-becoming more widely known every day. 
-
-
-The upper lower and the lower middle classes are not, as a 
-group, experiencing a rate of social change identical to the lowest 
-class. In fact, it seems that we have an explanation for the popularity 
-of "ups" in this population when we note that their wish to "catch 
-up" with the bourgeoisie who are "moving up" faster than they is 
-temporarily granted by a class of drugs whose property is to confer 
-the illusion of acceleration. Note also that the illusions of "progress" 
-and "getting ahead" are beliefs entertained by this group far more 
-actively than the lowest class, who despair, or the upper middle class, 
-who pride themselves on "having arrived". The "violence" often 
-attributed to the "coarse, gruff, working culture" is not untouched 
-by speed's illusion of omnipotence, nor by its stimulation and 
-feelings of social persecution. They "go" together, as it were. 
+Clinicians will be sensitive to the omnipotent undertones in our subject's report, to the grand ideas of power and exhilaration. They will not be unfamiliar with the fact that "coming down" or "crashing" from "speed" (meth) is severely depressing, often to the point of persecutory ideation and feeling characteristic of the paranoid experience. 
 
+Note, however, in our subject's report that it is the \e{rate} of his experience he centrally cherishes. So much is this the case that he will often use too much, then resort to barbituates to slow down, in what soon becomes a cycle of speeding, slowing, then speeding again, for days, sometimes for weeks at a time, with little thought of food, sleep, or sociation. The fact that speed is alleged to confer long periods of sexual potency bordering on Priapism is considered to far outweigh the fact that it renders the serious user anorgastic. It is as-if one were trying to move faster than time itself, squeezing in more than mere clock time permits. 
 
-The most rapid rate of change in our society is experienced by 
-those who, like the computer, must process vast amounts of 
-information in a very little time, i.e., the most highly educated, those 
-whose participation in the cybernetic revolution of our times is 
-deepest. Typically, the children of upper middle class parents are 
-those most barraged with novelty in our society, since they 
-paradoxically have the leisure time in which to suffer from 
-information overload. The Berkeley rebels were born the year mass 
-TV was born, and study after study reveals they spent more time in 
-front of their TV sets than they did before parents and teachers 
-combined. Not to mention books, magazines and films. Or the threat 
-of nuclear holocaust. Or planetwide pollution. Confronted with the 
-massive responsibilities to "solve" these massive crises, knowing that 
-species Man will not long survive unless be quickly devises ways and 
-means to turn away from a chemical which confers the ability to 
-process huge amounts of information in a very short time. For theirs 
-is the first generation for whom the experience of accelerating social 
-change is the norm, and they know they have no choice but to thrive 
-on it. Imagine their dismay when they are simultaneously com
-
+Speed "freaks" are notorious broadcasters, who will talk without interruption for 4 or 5 hours, at a very fast clip, usually to the considerable consternation of their "straight" friends. They believe they understand things superbly well and deeply for the first time and are very eager to share this new-found wisdom with anyone who will listen for as long as they will listen. This seems to be due to the fact that the CNS is stimulated, not at the perceptual-sensory level, but at the higher cortical levels, so that sensory information is processed faster. It is exactly this rapid illumination speed freaks report they want. 
 
+"Heads" or adepts of the psychedelic experience well know that trips seem to last far longer than clock time measures. Even a half a marijuana cigarette will permit the smoker to feel that a three minute musical selection has the temporal characteristics of a symphony and the four hour high correspondingly feels like 8 or 10 hours. Acid (LSD) a far more potent drug, is almost impossible to describe to those who have not experienced it. Like sex, talking about it doesn't quite convey the qualities of the experience. For, in additon to its ability to vastly expand the range of sensory delights, LSD induces the most complex chronetic patterns yet known to man, such that serious users regularly report variations in the variations of the time experience. Moments of eternal stillness alternate with extremely rapid pulsations and rhythms: feelings of rest, velocity, acceleration, and changes in acceleration are common, and reports of even more subtle and complex changes in time experience are common. That this experience is deliberately sought is indicated in McCluhan's aphorism that the computer is the LSD of the business world (just as) LSD is the computer of the counter culture. 
 
-manded to thrive on change and do nothing to bring it about. Their 
-patience with the slow moving institutions which thus double bind 
-them is therefore somewhat astonishing. 
+What computers and acid have in common is the processing of information at extremely high speeds. Computers operate in nanoseconds. No one knows how \e{low} LSD reduces synaptic thresholds, nor, consequently, how \e{high} it increases the rate of neural firing. What is well known, by heads at least, is that, in addition to its ability to open wide the "doors of perception", acid is also well named, for in the cybernetic analogy what seems to happen is that the \e{amount} of \e{data} is increased while the \e{programs} for its conceptual management are simultaneously dissolved. It feels like a fuse has blown, so that too much current is flowing. (Hence, the expression "mind-blowing".) 
 
+It is exactly this experience of sensory overload, de-programming, and re-programming, that heads seek. Whether the insights and experiences had with this powerful substance are "valid" or "illusory" is a question for more research than present federal laws currently permit. Suffice it to note that the extremely rapid chronetic changes LSD includes are cherished by those who favor LSD, as well as the feeling that a 12 hour experience of this sort is regularly compared to a week or a month of continuous ecstasy. In this context, one is not surprised to find recent opinion in theological literature holding that the sacred mushroom (\e{amanita muscaria}) was the agent inducing the mystical experiences that led directly to the formulation of the major world religions. 
 
-Let us hope it doesn't wear too thin. For they are, literally, our 
-future. It is for them that we must attempt to discern the laws of 
-time and change, for without knowledge of these laws, we seem, as a 
-species, about to perish. With such laws, hopefully, the next 
+\sec Chronetic Sociology
 
+If we focus now upon the \e{population} who favor the drugs discussed above, not simply upon the subjective experiences of their individual members, a chronetic pattern of another sort emerges.  Brevity prevents an extended discussion of the "measuring instrument" we employ as a sociological tool. Suffice it to say that \e{the rate of social change} is increasingly adopted as a criterion in the social sciences, in our era of rapid social change. If we ask "what is the relation between our three classes of drugs and the rates of social change experienced by differing classes in America," a clear pattern becomes visible. 
 
-generation might have a chance to become chronetic agents of an 
-entirely new kind. 
+Thus, until very recently, narcotics use was principally the predilection of the lower class, whose rate of change was widely acknowledged to be the slowest in the fastest emerging society in the world. This experience, which we have elsewhere termed "anachronistic', is severely "painful" to those who experience it, since it is not only an experience of extreme alienation, but of \e{increasing} alienation, whose \e{rate} of increase is increasing. Under such circumstances, heroin might be said to be the medication of choice, since it is \e{par excellance} the pain killer. It is a situation in which one might turn around Marx's classic phrase that religion is the opiate of the people.  Unfortunately, as the \e{rate} of alienation increases in the middle class, we find an increase in the incidence of narcotics there as well. This is becoming more widely known every day. 
 
+The upper lower and the lower middle classes are not, as a group, experiencing a rate of social change identical to the lowest class. In fact, it seems that we have an explanation for the popularity of "ups" in this population when we note that their wish to "catch up" with the bourgeoisie who are "moving up" faster than they is temporarily granted by a class of drugs whose property is to confer the illusion of acceleration. Note also that the illusions of "progress" and "getting ahead" are beliefs entertained by this group far more actively than the lowest class, who despair, or the upper middle class, who pride themselves on "having arrived". The "violence" often attributed to the "coarse, gruff, working culture" is not untouched by speed's illusion of omnipotence, nor by its stimulation and feelings of social persecution. They "go" together, as it were. 
 
+The most rapid rate of change in our society is experienced by those who, like the computer, must process vast amounts of information in a very little time, i.e., the most highly educated, those whose participation in the cybernetic revolution of our times is deepest. Typically, the children of upper middle class parents are those most barraged with novelty in our society, since they paradoxically have the leisure time in which to suffer from information overload. The Berkeley rebels were born the year mass TV was born, and study after study reveals they spent more time in front of their TV sets than they did before parents and teachers \e{combined.} Not to mention books, magazines and films. Or the threat of nuclear holocaust. Or planetwide pollution. Confronted with the massive responsibilities to "solve" these massive crises, knowing that species Man will not long survive unless be quickly devises ways and means to turn away from a chemical which confers the ability to process huge amounts of information in a very short time. For theirs is the first generation for whom the experience of accelerating social change is the \e{norm,} and they know they have no choice but to thrive on it. Imagine their dismay when they are simultaneously commanded to thrive on change and do nothing to bring it about. Their patience with the slow moving institutions which thus double bind them is therefore somewhat astonishing. 
 
+Let us hope it doesn't wear too thin. For they are, literally, our future. It is for them that we must attempt to discern the laws of time and change, for without knowledge of these laws, we seem, as a species, about to perish. With such laws, hopefully, the next generation might have a chance to become chronetic agents of an entirely new kind. 
 
-FREQUENCY AND FORM 
+\chap Frequency and Form
 
 
 What I am doing with my life is building a set of generalizations