Dematerialism
Degrowth, Decentralization, Demarchy, Delegislation, Deschooling, and Dechrematisticalism
The prevention of competition for wealth and power is a necessary and sufficient condition for Universal Sustainable Happiness. Any method whatever for achieving this is dematerialism. Any society in which it is possible for one person to compete for greater material wealth or a greater share in posterity than others is doomed.
Table of Contents
Can
Resource Dominance Be Eliminated?
The Defects
of Capitalism: My List
Social
Media, Music, and Model Railroading
Our Crisis
Our crisis has a physical component and an imaginary component. The physical component comes from limitations in the quantities of land, water, consumable energy, and the environment itself. The ecological footprint of the human race exceeds the carrying capacity of Earth. The imaginary component is instability in the monetary system caused by excessive debt and excessive monetary inequality. To ameliorate the physical crisis we must eliminate the imaginary one. I do not mean that indebtedness, poverty, and wealth are imaginary; but, rather, that we can eliminate all three with the application of our imaginations without affecting the physical universe. Stabilizing our population and reducing our ecological footprint will ultimately have a desirable effect upon the universe.
Regardless of what the people want, the owners of the country want to retain their positions of power, privilege, and wealth. Naturally, they despise the idea of government control of the economy and the means of production; however, when a crisis arises that they cannot handle, they readily accede to crisis socialism to save them. During World War II, without adopting socialism completely, they allowed rationing, wage and price control, and management of vital industries by government employees (albeit members of the traditional ruling class) even if they were paid only one dollar per year.
To respond appropriately to resource and environmental limits, we need to establish crisis socialism. However, to eliminate debt, we need to repudiate the US dollar; and, to eliminate inequality, we need to pay everyone the same even if no work can be found for them to replace the inessential work from which they were furloughed to reduce our consumption of fossil fuels and our ecological footprint. After all, the requirement that every citizen does useful work to get paid and the requirement that the pay should be commensurate with the value of the work are completely imaginary. The idea that everyone should be allowed to get as much money as he can is completely wrong.
But crisis socialism is a long way from Dematerialism. For example, most of us still think about money as the reward for contributing something useful to our community. The amount of money we acquire is the score in the game of life. Instead, we should think of money as a way to measure our consumption of scarce natural capital, which we can do once again with a rational monetary system based upon physical quantities which we now have scientific ways to measure rather than letting markets set prices. Belief in the “invisible hand” of the market is now quite generally recognized as belief in magic and, as such, no better than belief in astrology. We shall show that there is no way to justify anything but equality in consumption.
Definitions
Dematerialism
Dematerialism refers to any political economy in which, due to the structure and arrangement of the institutions, it is not possible for any member of the community to acquire more wealth or material resources than another. Resource dominance hierarchies cannot arise. In fact, the individual's share in the net production of the community is not in play. The term may be applied to the belief in or dedication to such a political economy. The principal justification for this work is that it corrects the problems with Marxism that have contributed to previous attempts to replace Capitalism, which, as we shall see, is intrinsically unsustainable.
Decentralization
Direct Aristotelian democracy is the basis for the so-called Fractal Government proposed here so as to ensure that all political power is retained by the people. Since every citizen must be a member of a community council which determines public policy, the village or neighborhood, the basic political molecule, must be small enough to3 be effective. Thus decentralization must be the ultimate goal regardless of how the present system has to be accommodated. In particular, the largest identifiable political unit should be the drainage region, i. e., the contiguous portion of the land that drains into common reservoirs without any of the neighboring areas draining into it. This is the fundamental unit of land in ecology. (Professor Jorge Gabitto, formerly the chairman of the department of chemical engineering at Prairie View University, pointed out that our maps are drawn in the most regrettable manner from the viewpoint of ecology. Rivers make convenient borders for map makers but not for ecologists.) The space between the basic molecules and the governing body of the entire ecological region is the fractal-like structure shown in Figure 2. Additional necessities for decentralization are well known.
Figure 1. Fractal
Figure 2. Fractal Political Structure
Demarchy
Demarchy is our name for a political economy in which distinguished members of the government such as political representatives are chosen by sortition, the semi-random method we normally employ in selecting jurors.
Delegislation
Our vast systems of law are ridiculous. Laws should be replaced by a few simple moral axioms from which right action can be derived easily. We should embrace rational morals that anyone can follow as opposed to religious superstitions and sexual and pharmacological prudery that no person of spirit can live by. Dissent should be tolerated and even those who do not accept our rational morality should be accorded the dignity of sovereign heads of state.
Our system of morals should be derived from a complete, self-consistent, mutually independent set of first principles that can be explained to a six-year-old and upon which most educated people can agree. If, in addition, those who dissent – even after we have employed our most compelling logical testimony – can be accommodated without coercion and without inconvenience to themselves or us, we shall have done very well indeed. – On the Preservation of Species
Laws and morals should be congruent. Behavior that the community finds immoral, can be legal only in an incomplete legal system; whereas, a legal system that prohibits moral acts is tyrannous. Both laws and morals are obtained for the convenience of the community, provided the requirements of sustainability are met. There are certain aesthetic and other intuitive principles that we hope will come into play. I shall attempt to justify my otherwise arbitrary choices in the section on axiomatic morality below.
Degrowth
Population Degrowth
It makes sense to enter into the record at this point Professor Al Bartlett's famous talk, which explains how man's ignorance of the exponential function has affected our present population crisis: https://eroei.net/bartlettexp.mp4
As Prof. Bartlett puts it:
Can you think of any problem in any area of human endeavor on any scale, from microscopic to global, whose long-term solution is in any demonstrable way aided, assisted, or advanced by further increases in population, locally, nationally, or globally? - A.A. Bartlett, January 8, 1996
I can think of no better tribute to Al Bartlett than to emulate his challenge: Can you think of any social problem on any scale that is not exacerbated by the institution of private profit? In particular, I claim that population increase is worsened by the institution of private profit. The problem of over-population will not be solved except by Die-Off in a society that permits private profit.
If I may be permitted to widen the meaning of the term
private profit to include (i) the increase of the proportion in the population
of ones race, religion, politics, culture, or point of view and (ii) the
increase in ones own or ones employer's, relative's, colleague's, or ally's
accumulation or share of material wealth, then my challenge to the world is to
name a single problem of humanity that is not exacerbated by private
profit. It is the term "material" in "material
wealth" that supplies the term "material" in the word
"dematerialism".
Here are .wmv and .mp4 versions of Albert Bartlett's famous talk on the
exponential function as it applies to population:
http://eroei.net/bartlettexp.mp4
http://eroei.net/bartlettexp.wmv
It takes about 10 kilocalories of primary energy to supply one kilocalorie in our diets. Just now, we have enough conventional and fracked oil to support an agriculture sector that can support a large over-population; however, there are compelling reasons to abandon fossil fuel chief among which are the alarmingly high probability of catastrophic climate change and the absolute certainty that the supply of fossil fuel is finite and eventually will cost more energy to harvest than it will return. Perhaps it is not too soon to state a fundamental principle of social planning and forecasting, namely, that any event in the future of society that should be expected soon because of the nature of the exponential function should be treated as though it will occur tomorrow.
Economic Degrowth
I tried very hard to prove that capitalism requires economic growth and ended up with nothing better than a reasonable plausibility argument. David Delaney, however, provided a completely satisfying explanation in “The Economic Growth Trap” which became the first step in the physical argument for Dematerialism.
“The Economic Growth Trap” by (the late) David Delaney. Today (01.23.06) I read “What to do in a failing civilization” by David M. Delaney. It contained the best explanation of why American-style capitalism requires growth I have ever seen. With the kind permission of the author, it is reprinted below. David posted the full paper and his other essays at http://geocities.com/davidmdelaney/.
David Delaney died a few years back; and, I no longer know where to find his excellent work. Someone should do whatever it takes to find this storehouse of well-considered thought.
The Economic Growth Trap
Economic growth requires increasing the amount of high quality energy and materials degraded by the economy each year. Economic growth on a finite planet will eventually stop. If it does not exhaust the resources needed for its continuation, it will stop earlier for some other reason. Allowing resource depletion and biosphere degradation to terminate economic growth will produce catastrophe. Unfortunately, our dependence on economic growth makes it extremely unlikely that we will give it up voluntarily before the catastrophe. Our dependence has at least four aspects: A) in the need to deal with adverse consequences of labor-reducing innovations, B) in commercial bank money, C) in the need to maintain tolerance of inequality, and D) in financial markets.
A) The first dependence on economic growth is in the need to avoid the adverse consequences of innovations that reduce the need for labor.1 By definition, each labor-reducing innovation either increases the amount of a good produced or throws some people out of work. Firms that create or exploit a labor-reducing innovation create new jobs internally by driving other firms out of business. The new jobs implementing the innovation offset the loss of jobs caused by the innovation, but the innovating firms don’t necessarily hire all of the job losers, because the innovation reduced the total amount of labor needed to produce the original amount of the good. In order to re-employ all job losers, the economy must grow to produce more of the good with all of the original workers, or produce more of some other good with the cheaper labor (the job losers) now available. In either case the economy grows. Much of what we consider progress is due to labor-reducing innovations. In order to live without economic growth, we would have to give up this kind of progress, or introduce arrangements to allow workers who become unproductive to retain their relative wealth and self-respect, or relegate most people to a repressed underclass. There is a powerful incentive to avoid these contingencies by encouraging economic growth.
B) The second dependence on economic growth is in the creation of money by the act of borrowing at interest from commercial banks. Much of the money in each loan by a commercial bank is created by the loan itself. The bank collects a fee—the interest—for providing the service of creating the money. Other ways of creating money have been explored in theory and practice. Successful local currencies have been based on some of these alternatives, (see Douthwaite, Short Circuit, page 61) but all national money is now created by interest-bearing loans from commercial banks. This way of creating money contributes instability to an economy based on it. In order to keep the money supply from contracting when a loan and its interest are paid, a larger total of new loans must be created, increasing the money supply. (This is not transparently obvious. For a more detailed explanation, see Douthwaite, The Ecology of Money, page 24.) When the economy grows to match the increasing money supply, the value of money is relatively stable, and commercial-bank-created money is benign. If the rate of economic growth does not match the rate of growth of the money supply, the money supply becomes unstable. Given the use of money created by interest-bearing loans from commercial banks, an economy can minimize the resulting instabilities of the money supply by sustaining moderate growth. Monetary instability would put significant hazards in the way of deliberate attempts to contract our economy unless the creation of money was radically reformed.
C) The third dependence on economic growth is in the political and geopolitical need for tolerance of inequality. Differences of wealth are at least as great within the developed countries as they are between developed and developing countries. Think of the ratio of the average income of American CEOs to the average salary of workers in their companies. Domestically and internationally, the tolerance of the poor and middle classes for the existence of wealthier classes and countries depends on a belief in economic growth. The poor struggle, while seeing that others are wealthy and still others are grotesquely wealthy. The poor are told a story: if they keep to their work and to their diversions, and tolerate the rich, they will be better off in the future than they are today. They believe this story, or at least don’t revolt against it, because it is supported by propaganda and shared myths, and has been true for many. When economic growth disappears forever, the poor, like everyone else, will recognize that they will be progressively worse off, with no future relief possible. The peaceful tolerance by the poor and the middles for the rich will disappear. A peaceful end of economic growth would require redistribution of wealth, with consequent political and geopolitical contention. Desire to avoid the contention makes it unlikely that deliberate elimination of economic growth will be attempted before economic growth is ended by nature. The intolerance of differences of wealth that will then appear will itself not be tolerated by the rich, causing additional domestic and international conflict just at the advent of other adverse changes. At that time, if not before, tyrannical repression of the poor will greatly tempt the rich.
D) The fourth dependence on economic growth is in the financial markets—the mechanism of capitalization of public corporations. Public corporations, the main actors in industrial economies, depend on financial markets not only for capital for innovation, but for discipline, valuation, motivation, and a major part of their rationale for existence. Owners of capital—investors—give the use of it over to public corporations by buying equity or debt in financial markets. They do so only because they expect that they will, on average, and over the long term, receive back more than they gave up. That expectation disappears when most investors understand there will be no economic growth. Most of the apparent wealth of the world consists of equity and debt bought and sold in financial markets. Any realistic possibility of the end of growth would fill investors with something like terror. Political initiatives to bring an end to growth will be opposed by investors with every means at their command. The controversial nature of proposals that would reduce or eliminate economic growth will likely prevent the proposals from reaching even the status of political contention. When the onset of sustained economic contraction is generally perceived, investors will withdraw from financial markets. The resulting failure of the markets will make many necessary developments impossible to finance and will produce confusion and stasis in public corporations just when we need them to adapt to new circumstances.
[end of Economic Growth Trap]
We may assume that, after all reasonably anticipated energy
conservation technology has been developed and installed, economic growth must
be accompanied by growth in energy consumption, which must result in the rapid
onset of Peak Oil in the sense of Hubbert and, subsequently - if permitted,
exponential growth in the number of nuclear installations. We must assume that,
without fusion, some sort of breeder reactor will replace fission. Even if we
neglect global warming and the China Syndrome, we must give up NIMBY, since
continued economic growth will place nuclear plants in our backyards.
It may take only a few minutes to read the hyperlinked material; but, it took
weeks to write it after reading the University of Chicago's and MIT's reports
on the future of nuclear. See The Nuclear Option https://dematerialism.net/NuxlearOption.html
from “On
the Conservation-within-Capitalism Scenario”:
In other words, suppose we can visualize a world in which economic growth is tolerated into the indefinite future. After every reasonable conservation measure has been taken by a non-increasing population, every new quantum of economic growth will result in a corresponding increase in our total consumption of emergy – not by a constant factor regardless of other considerations, but by some factor, φ, greater than 1.0. (Actually, φ > 1 + ϵ, where ϵ is a constant greater than zero; i. e., φ is not constant, but ϵ is.) Thus, continued economic growth must be met with a corresponding greater capacity to produce energy. Given the limitations on fossil fuel production, we must choose an energy production technology capable of sustaining perpetual growth. This is impossible as amply demonstrated in the case of nuclear energy, which might be the best choice for the attempt. See “The Nuclear Option”, taken from “On the Conservation-within-Capitalism Scenario”, where the finite size of the Earth is the limitation. Although we know of no exception to this rule, we would still like to have a mathematical proof.
When I embarked upon this
project, it seemed obvious that we would have to abandon fossil fuels in favor
of renewable energy, provided renewable energy technologies with EroEI* (“ER
over EI star”) no less than 1.0 could be found or developed. One had the
scientific consensus regarding Anthropogenic Global Warming, which had no more
than a 49% (for the sake of argument) chance of being wrong, if we neglect
predictions as to just when certain temperature signposts would be reached. We
may assume that such signposts that the theory predicts will be reached
eventually should be treated as though they required immediate action, just as
we assume every gun is loaded. In addition, we had the finite supply of oil,
the consumption of which was increasing exponentially, which according to
similar reasoning, should be viewed as essentially unavailable.
One wonders, then, if the maximum possible energy production from renewable
energy equals or exceeds the total energy budget for the entire nation.
Incidentally, I found it necessary to validate the technique whereby the energy
cost of a high-dollar project well-distributed over the sectors of the economy
was found by multiplying the E/GDP ratio by the gross cash investment for the
project under consideration. This assumption was corroborated by the analysis
of “Energy in a Mark-II-Economy”. Finally, “Energy in a Natural Economy” uses
Bureau of Economic Analysis data to determine how much useful work will need to
be performed per unit of time after we power down to the Earth as a Garden.
Finally, the paper “On the Conservation-within-Capitalism Scenario”
indicates that renewable energy technology is inadequate to support
American-style Capitalism. However, examples of sustainable political economies
are given.
Dechrematisticalism
What is to be done with that section of the possessors of specific talents whose talent is for moneymaking? History and daily experience teach us that if the world does not devise some plan of ruling them, they will rule the world. Now it is not desirable that they should rule the world; for the secret of moneymaking is to care for nothing else and to work at nothing else; and as the world’s welfare depends on operations by which no individual can make money, whilst its ruin ... is enormously profitable to moneymakers, the supremacy of the moneymaker is the destruction of the State. A society which depends on the incentive of private profit is doomed.– George Bernard Shaw, The Millionairess.
Chrematistics
Here is a case in which we can do no better than to quote the Wikipedia, which is permissible under the applicable rules:
“Aristotle established a difference between economics and chrematistics that would be foundational in medieval thought. For Aristotle, the accumulation of money itself is an unnatural activity that dehumanizes those who practice it. Trade Exchanges, money for goods, and usury create money from money, but do not produce useful goods. Hence, Aristotle, like Plato, condemns these actions from the standpoint of their philosophical ethics. [snip]”
Thus, activities that are performed to obtain a greater share of the net proceeds of the economy for the worker or his employer but produce nothing that we need to live and enjoy life can be distinguished from genuine economic activity by the term “chrematistics”. Inasmuch as this constitutes a huge overhead on the economy that we can no longer afford as we approach Peak Oil, we take the liberty of referring to the elimination of chrematistics as dechrematisticalism, partly for the pleasure of coining a beautiful large word but mostly because it will postpone the extinction of the human race for an astronomical period of time. This analysis was verified in “Energy in a Natural Economy”. Notice that I had a good notion of the split between economics, in the sense of Aristotle, and chrematistics, even though I did not know the word. Notice, as well, that the sort of people who would own the world, as in the game of monopoly, which likewise is played in a world that cannot grow, would be stripped of their peculiar power; and, the introduction of a new monetary system (acually a system of rationing consumption) would prevent the sort of inequalities that precede violent revolutions.
Can Resource Dominance Be Eliminated?
It will, of course, be said that such a scheme as is set forth here is quite impractical, and goes against human nature. This is perfectly true. It is impractical, and it goes against human nature. This is why it is worth carrying out, and that is why one proposes it. For what is a practical scheme? A practical scheme is either a scheme that is already in existence, or a scheme that could be carried out under existing conditions. But it is exactly the existing conditions that one objects to; and any scheme that could accept these conditions is wrong and foolish. The conditions will be done away with, and human nature will change. The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. — Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
Let us set aside, for a moment, the possibility of a benevolent deity the existence of whom would assure any reasonable person that resource dominance has no permanent place in human nature (theism); or, what amounts to the same thing, that the true nature of Man is inherently noble (humanism), so that resource dominance is merely an example of a temporary corrupting influence that will soon be corrected. We are left with little more than the choice between Transcendental Idealism represented by the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics and Transcendental Realism represented by the global-hidden-variables interpretation of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen gedankenexperiment as actualized by the experiments of Alain Aspect and his co-workers. In case of theism, humanism, or Transcendental Idealism, resource dominance can be eliminated from human behavior by eliminating the corrupting influence, namely, materialism, or by the timely intervention of good fortune.
In the case of Transcendental Realism, we may retain hope for Dematerialism in all but the last of the following cases:
1. Resource dominance is not an intrinsic characteristic of human nature.
2. Resource dominance is an intrinsic characteristic of human nature; however, it can be subverted by re-directing it toward more realistic ways to achieve reproductive advantage (i) by manifesting excellence in all of our activities so as to earn the admiration of members of both genders or (ii) by manifesting greater sex appeal than other candidates for the affections of members of the opposite sex. This redirection can be achieved by education, indoctrination, legislation, or any combination of these.
3. Our knowledge of human nature is insufficient to make a judgment either way.
4. Finally, it is possible that resource dominance is an intrinsic characteristic of human nature that cannot be subverted – even by law backed by certain and severe punishment, in which case Dematerialism is impossible.
For this important subject, which, perhaps, is the sine-qua-non of the trip to dematerialism for the majority of people, I shall have to rely principally on the work of others, as I have done practically nothing myself except to add five points to John Gatto's famous list and to say what must be said in the argument for the legalization of drugs.
Why K–12 Education Does More Harm than Good
Graduate education in engineering and science
Character Education, Anti-Drug Propaganda, and Religion
The Scapegoating of Drugs and Mass Hysteria
John Gatto’s Seven-Lesson School Teacher
The Role of Materialism in the Mis-education of Youth
The Trip to Dematerialism
The Defects of Capitalism: My List
17) Nearly everyone worries about money. The majority of marital disputes are about money.
24) Nations seeking new markets adopt imperialistic foreign policies that lead to terrorism and war. Actually, foreign trade has become war.
34) Materialism makes possible the bidding up of junk to the status of art.
Dematerialism Satisfies Moral Requirements and Is Sustainable
Sustainability
ERoEI*, Energy Returned over Energy Invested, is the Measure of Sustainability.
Sine Qua Non
Solve population problem. Population de-growth is most important.
Economic de-growth is necessary too as follows:
Close stock markets, which will have become zero-sum games at best.
Ban fractional reserve banking.
Prevent pollution. Prevent waste, including waste of talent and beauty. Prevent wage slavery.
Establish true renewable energy technology.
Devise methods to achieve the aforementioned.
Sustainability Checklist
Axiomatic Morals
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. – Shakespearce's Hamlet
Nietzsche came to this sentiment rather late in the day and Mary Baker Eddy gave it second place on her Frontispiece in Science and Health; but, the authorities are not needed, as one can verify the truth of it with a little reflection.
Money
We Need a New Monetary System: The complete essay as far as I got
Additional Web Space
On the Conservation-within-Capitalism Scenario [Preliminary Version 1.2]
Energy Returned over Energy Invested
ERoEI* as a Measure of Feasibility
David Delaney's paper "The Economic Growth Trap"
The Demise of Business as Usual
We Need a New Monetary System: The complete essay as far as I got
Other material sent to Researchgate that I should keep my eye on.
Essays prior to 2006
My Book
On the Preservation of Species (full 600-page book in one file)
On the Preservation of Species (table of contents hyperlinked to individual chapter files)
Social Problems and Solutions (many important ideas from the book – 56 pages)
Useful Concepts from On the Preservation of Species
Essays on Energy
Emergy (from Chapter 2 of On the Preservation of Species)
On Emergy (from “Energy in a Mark II Economy”)
Availability Balance on Earth Redux
Emergy and Population in a Natural Economy
Thermodynamics, Availability, and Emergy
On the Conservation-within-Capitalism Scenario
The Demise of Business as Usual
EROI* as a Measure of Feasibility
EROEI as a Measure of Feasibility
Energy in a Natural Economy (8by9w)
A Report on My Recent Investigations of Solar Energy Harvested by Photosynthesis in a Controlled Environment
The Feasibility of a 600 Kilowatt Windpower Installation
Letter to John Kaminsky concerning Peak Abiotic Oil
Essays on Psychology
Psychology as a Tool of Political Repression
Essays on Dematerialism
Communism and Some Idle Thoughts on the Excesses of Capitalism
Computing Crude Birth Rates from Total Fertility Rate
On Designing a Community Currency
Talk to be given at Schreiner College on Washington ’s Birthday
On “Entrepreneurship and Social Progress” by Lew Rockwell
Is There a Conflict between Property Rights and the Moral Requirement to Protect Endangered Species?
On Socialism, Utopian and Scientific by Frederick Engels
On William Buckley’s ‘Agenda for the Nineties’
American Myths and Higher Education
Some Unintended Effects of Computers
A Brief Outline of the Harm Done by Improper Religions
On the Separation of Church and State and the Case Against Christianity and Other Improper Religions
On the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights
How to Find the Day of the Week in Any Year
Expected Value of a Texas State Lottery Ticket
This essay belongs to an earlier period when the number of numbers from which to choose 6 was 50. However, it illustrates the essential dishonesty of the Great State of Texas rather nicely. Amusingly, when they added three more numbers, thus reducing the probability of winning drastically, they advertised “Now, with three more numbers to choose from”, as though three more numbers for the same price made it more of a bargain, which some users probably thought to be the case. On the other hand, a large number of players have been choosing 1-2-3-4-5-6 because they think no one else with whom they would have to share their prize will choose it. They know that this sequence is just as likely to come up as any other sequence, which shows that some players may be more numerate than we had previously guessed.
Essays on Drug Legalization
Letter to Time Magazine in A Concise Introduction to Logic - Page 12 - Google Books
The Case for Drug Legalization and Decontrol in the United States
Fallacies and Unstated Assumptions in Prevention and Treatment
A Review of the 1990 Drug Policy Foundation Conference
A Seven-Point Post-Prohibition Policy
Can the State Teach that Drugs are Wrong and Harmful?
Despite Recent Flurry of Anti-Drug Propaganda, Drug Prohibition is Indefensible
Two Crucial Issues in the Argument for Drug Legalization
Social Media, Music, and Model Railroading
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Energy and Population Hyperlinks
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About the Author
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A number of people who take a special interest in Chet Baker have asked me to tell the story of the short period in which the deservedly famous musicians Chet Baker and Philly Joe Jones lived with me in my distinguished apartment on East Twenty-First Street. I am putting this together bit by bit in https://www.dematerialism.net/mystory.html