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GEPRODIS

W. J. Sidis

1929 - 1930

[Mimeographed pamphlet, 42 p, presumedly unpublished, found in Helena Sidis's files, 1977.]

 "...  a  new type of organization ...

a non-profit membership corporation ...

a federation of its employees."

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

(Click/tap chapter numbers to open.)

I The Geprodis Association
II What the Plan Is Not
III General Outline of the Plan
IV Draft of Constitution for Geprodis
V Code of Group Procedure
VI Model Constitution
VII Geprodis Organisation News
VIII Proposal for Manuscript Library

 

 

             Whereas the Geprodis Organising Committee has agreed to moving the  trade  units known as Geprodis System, and operated by said Committee under the contract dated [Sunday,] December 29, 1929, to the city of Boston;

           It is therefore agreed, for the better management of said Geprodis System in and about Boston, that, beginning [Friday,] the twenty-fifth of November, nineteen hundred and thirty-two, the Geprodis Organising Committee shall be reorganised, the present Secretary of the Committee, William James Sidis, being authorised to choose the members of the reorganised committee, and, pending such choice, the said Sidis to act as the sole member of the Geprodis Organising Committee.

          The Geprodis Organising Committee will, in spite of any reorganisation, retain all rights and duties specified under the said contract of December 29, 1929. The last paragraph of the first page of said contract shall be amended by omitting the words "outside the City of New York."

          The present Organiser of the Geprodis Organising Committee hereby resigns from said Committee.

            All other contracts and agreements between the signatories to the present agreement shall remain in force, unaffected by this agreement.

William James Sidis,

  Secretary

    Geprodis Organising Committee              

Joseph  J. Resnick

  Organiser

    Geprodis Organising Committee

 

 

 

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Liberty is the essential public-trust. Justice is the essential public responsibility. Liberty is self-governance  self arrest of harm. Justice is arresting harm when threatened and restoring persons to whole when harm has already occurred. Congruence requires that Liberty and Justice be universal. Rights are the boundaries of behavior by which Liberty and Justice are measured and realized. Rights are enumerated proscriptions of behavior which are valid when derivable from the Liberty Principle  the supreme moral law. This and only this is the moral basis for establishment of a moral society and the governmental institutions within a moral society. The motto of a moral society is Liberty and Justice for All.

Orarchy was coined by Sidis to mean a government founded on the Liberty principle. Unfortunately Sidis thought experiment on drafting a Constitution was a synthesis of socialism and libertarianism. As brilliant as he was, this was written before WWI, before the reality of the flaws in socialism had been made manifest, before economic science discovered that the fatal flaw in command economies is information deprivation as well as being a violation of moral law.

Democracy is inherently flawed as a moral principle or as a basis on which to establish government.  When you must decide, and you know you don t know, it is philosophy which determines your decision.  Democracy is a tool for decision making under conditions of uncertainty but it is by nature ungoverned by a rational moral philosophy. The wishful thinking by those who have faith in democracy, is that the demos IS governed by a rational moral philosophy. History and an understanding of the current demos shows that we have not yet enculturated a rational moral philosophy. Thus at best, if a democratic method is to be employed, it should be strictly limited to decision making on issues of short term consequence.

The best system for making collective decisions is a coercion free market. To the extent fraud can also be arrested in a market it is bettered.

 

 

Reply:--

The second paragraph is the only problem here. Sidis's constitutions were written well after he had abandoned any interest in Soviet socialism (see, e.g., Eichel's Bio, Social Continuity). Also, the word "orarchy" was not coined by Sidis. It can be found in some 19th Century dictionaries and means "limited government."

I wish the writer would send me his name so that I might read more written by him. His thoughts are brilliant and I think Sidis would agree with much of what he says.―Dan Mahony