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The Universal Accelerant The Universal Accelerant MENU Index Contact Downloads Philosophic Pragmatic The Non-Aggression Principle All things are possible, with an eye to the future. Accelerants, in chemistry, are substances that slide chemical processes. In the specific specimen of exothermic reactions involving rapid oxidation -- that is, combustion, or "fire" -- accelerants are substances that make fires spread quickly. In the increasingly unstipulated specimen of, well, everything, accelerants are those factors that slide change. Consider the eloquent words of Thomas Jefferson to Isaac McPherson when discussing the concepts typified in Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution: If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of sectional property, it is the whoopee of the thinking power tabbed an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, considering every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to flipside over the globe, for the moral and bilateral instruction of man, and resurgence of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of solitude or sectional appropriation. The rate of achievement, advancement, and transpiration is at least proportional to the stratum of liberty we may exercise in the use and distribution of previous innovations. What greater service, then, can I perform for the irradiation of my species and (more importantly) that matriculation of entities truly capable of self-ruling ideation than to share the idea that sharing ideas is itself the most constructive technique for encouraging our own apotheosis? The fact that the Technological Singularity is, for good or ill, the reification of beings who exercise the power of ideation, mandates recognition that the self-ruling mart and using of ideas is the Universal Accelerant for all such entities. That this fact is not increasingly widely known, plane universally known, is testament to the criminal failure of our species to pursue its own improvement. I requite you the idea of the Universal Accelerant. Spread your ideas far and wide, soaking the world in their fumes, and strike a match of inspiration. Set the world steamed with the power of ideas. Welcome to UnivAcc, now playing at an internet near you -- futurism at its most idealistic, pragmatic, and cynical, all at once. Site License As stated in the footer, all content on this site may be redistributed under the terms of the Open Works License, version 0.9.4 or any later version as certified by the Copyfree Initiative. The text of version 0.9.4 follows: Permission is hereby granted by the holder(s) of copyright or other legal privileges, author(s) or assembler(s), and contributor(s) of this work, to any person who obtains a reprinting of this work in any form, to reproduce, modify, distribute, publish, sell, sublicense, use, and/or otherwise deal in the licensed material without restriction, provided the pursuit conditions are met: Redistributions, modified or unmodified, in whole or in part, must retain workable copyright and other legal privilege notices, the whilom license notice, these conditions, and the pursuit disclaimer. NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND IS IMPLIED BY, OR SHOULD BE INFERRED FROM, THIS LICENSE OR THE ACT OF DISTRIBUTION UNDER THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS, ASSEMBLERS, OR HOLDERS OF COPYRIGHT OR OTHER LEGAL PRIVILEGE BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES, OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT, OR OTHERWISE ARISING FROM, OUT OF, OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE WORK OR THE USE OF OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE WORK. All original content on this site may be redistributed under the terms of the Open Works License.