What is Volitional Science?

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What is Volitional Science? 

The following is from a brochure entitled, “What is V-50?”, originally prepared by Evan R. Soulé, Jr., Contractor, The Free Enterprise Institute and The Liberal Institute of Natural Science and Technology.

The true liberal says that you own your own life
and all of  your life’s non-procreative derivatives.

One who favors coercion by force or fraud says that the political state owns your life and your life’s derivatives.

What do you say?

The political state tells you what you can read, what movies you can watch, what drugs you can take, what businesses you can operate and how, what you can build on your property, when you can build on your property, how you can build on your property, what you can own, what you can buy, what you can sell, what records you must keep.

The political state tells you that you cannot bet on a football team or in a private lottery.  It tells you and your doctor what treatments you can have or cannot have.  It tells you by race and by sex who you must hire or who you must not hire, who can be promoted or who can or cannot be fired.

The political state owns the waterways — they are polluted.  The political state regulates the utilities — rates are skyrocketing.  The political state provides schools — children cannot read.  The political state runs the court system — it is overloaded.  The political state is supposed to protect you from violence — crime is increasing.  And the political state operates the Post Office — enough said.

The political state can seize your private bank records, your private medical records, your private financial records. 
But their records about you are confidential.

The political state tells you how you can advertise, where you can advertise, and what you can advertise. 
But none of these laws apply to the political state.

Political laws only forbid or compel: they tell you what you cannot do or they tell you what you must do. 
They restrict you, but not the politicians.

Wouldn’t it be “nice” to be able to vote yourself a pay raise at someone else’s expense?

Isn’t it time for a change?

Volitional Science shows you what, how, and when.

Volitional science is the innovation of Andrew J. Galambos, physicist and founder of The Free Enterprise Institute (FEI) in Los Angeles in 1961.  Volitional science represents the application of the techniques and epistemology of physics to the social domain. 

Andrew J. Galambos was born in Hungary and earned degrees in physics from the College of the City of New York and the University of Minnesota.  He taught physics, astronomy, and astrophysics at six different colleges and universities in various parts of the country before he founded FEI.

Beginning in 1961, Galambos’ unique and powerful ideas were presented by him in person in Los Angeles and on audiotape in selected cities throughout the United States, as well as in London, England and Sydney, Australia. 

The principles disclosed by Dr. Galambos are derived from physics.  Since our social technology lags behind our physical technology, the result is that we are still using the same social techniques we used 10,000 years ago — except that instead of throwing stones at one another, we can now hurl hydrogen bombs.  Dr. Galambos has innovated a new social science technology that he calls volitional science.  The “V” in his course designations represents volition.

Volitional science is non-political, non-religious, and is neither a mass movement, nor a political or intellectual crusade.  Volitional science does present an unusual analysis of the nature of the problems confronting us, and discloses a permanent, durable, non-coercive and practical solution, as well as how to achieve the solution by profitable, individual action.  In essence, the volitional science lectures are built upon man’s greatest achievement: the discovery in the physical sciences of universal laws of nature.  It is upon these fully established principles of nature that the entire structure of volitional science stands.  The guarantee of Andrew Galambos and his companies is that you will find these unique lectures worthwhile.

A few of the topics in V-50 (Sic Itur Ad Astra, Volume One):

1. Can morality be defined with precision such that all observers can agree on the morality of a given act?
2. Why has the human species mistreated and often killed its most important benefactors?
3. How do you know you are right?  On any subject — at any time?
4. How do you define FREEDOM, PROPERTY, SOCIALISM, CAPITALISM (in a non-economic sense), COMMUNISM, COERCION, CRIME, GOVERNMENT, LIBERALISM, CONSERVATISM, PROFIT, DEMOCRACY, SCIENCE, TRUTH, BUREAUCRACY, OWNERSHIP, VOLITION, IMPORTANCE, IMPOSSIBLE, and LUCK? — these are defined.
5. How can the scientific method be applied to free will?
6. Are there absolutes?  Is everything relative?  What is the distinction between subjective and objective knowledge?
7. Why have all attempts at civilization resulted in a rise and fall?
8. How can one overcome the difficulties imposed by RECESSION, DEPRESSION, INFLATION, WAR, BUREAUCRACY, and CRIME?
9. Is it possible to create a durable civilization without coercion? If so, then how?
10. What is the common basis of the destruction of all societies?
11. What is the reciprocal connection between science and freedom?
12. What is the purpose of The Liberal Institute of Natural Science and Technology, The Free Enterprise Institute, The Universal Scientific Publications Company, and indeed all of Andrew J. Galambos’ companies?

© Copyright, 1961+,  Andrew J. Galambos, et. al. 
© Copyright, 1999+, The Andrew J. and Suzanne J. Galambos Natural Estate Trust