Andrew Joseph Galambos

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Andrew Joseph Galambos (AJG) (born Ifj. Galambos József András; June 27, 1924 in Hungary – April 10, 1997 in Orange County, California) was an astrophysicist and philosopher.

He presented his theories of freedom and Volitional Science in oral lectures through his Free Enterprise Institute from 1961 to 1989 in Los Angeles, California. He developed over 117 courses for FEI's curriculum over a period of twenty-eight years.

Overview

Galambos (AJG) defined "freedom" as the societal condition that exists when every individual has full (100%) control over his own property.

Early life

Galambos was born in Hungary in 1924. His father, Joseph Galambos-Brown, had been an officer in the Austro-Hungarian army in World War I and then became a highly regarded architect. After the war, Galambos' father decided to emigrate to America to avoid his son becoming "cannon fodder" in a second world war, which he saw coming.

Despite his father's wish to keep his son out of war, Galambos volunteered to serve in the U.S. Army during WWII. After completing his undergraduate work at City College of New York, he moved to Minnesota in 1948 where he met his future wife, Suzanne Siegel, a fellow student at the University of Minnesota. They married in 1949.

Education

Galambos earned degrees in physics from City College of New York and the University of Minnesota.

Early career

Galambos moved to Los Angeles in 1952 to work for North American Aviation. Beginning in 1958, Galambos worked in the Space Technology Laboratory (STL) division of Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation, which later became TRW Space Technology Laboratories (STL). There, Galambos worked as an astrophysicist, calculating trajectories for Atlas ICBMs before the advent of high-speed digital computers.

As Galambos' ideas on freedom and proprietary government crystallized, he became disillusioned with his work at STL, which had evolved almost exclusively to focus on the development of inter-continental ballistic missiles for military purposes. Galambos did not want to work on weapons of war.

Around 1958–1959 Galambos formulated a proposal to the director of STL, George Mueller, for a project to develop rockets for space exploration, including lunar landings. Mueller turned it down. A few years later, however, Mueller took a position with NASA where he worked on the Apollo 11 human lunar landing project, the same type of project he had turned down when Galambos proposed it to him at STL.

In 1960, Galambos left the aerospace industry and joined the faculty of Whittier College to teach physics, astrophysics, and mathematics. While at Whittier, Galambos presented a popular extracurricular class entitled, "The Decline and Renaissance of Laissez-Faire Capitalism." He also taught previously at New York University, Brooklyn College, Stevens Institute of Technology of Hoboken, New Jersey, the University of Minnesota, and Carleton College of Northfield, Minnesota.

The Free Enterprise Institute

In 1961, Galambos established The Free Enterprise Institute (FEI) which was the name he used for his teaching business. His initial course was entitled Course 100, Capitalism: The Key to Survival. He eventually taught courses on intellectual property, investments and insurance, financial planning, physics, and journalism, among others.

Galambos had an important colleague in Jay Stuart Snelson (1936–2011). Snelson was the senior lecturer for FEI from 1964 to 1978, teaching both V-50 and V-201. Snelson was later fired by Galambos for breaking his contract and plagiarizing his work. "Announcement of the Termination of Jay Snelson," Andrew J. Galambos, July 25, 1979.

Courses V-50 and V-201

On March 14, 1961 Andrew J. Galambos founded the Free Enterprise Institute in Los Angeles, CA. On the twentieth of April of that year, he delivered to a paying audience the first formal lecture of the Institute. That lecture and those to follow would constitute what Galambos called Course 100: “Capitalism—The Key to Survival!” That course soon became the antecedent to Course V-50: “Capitalism—The Liberal Revolution.” Course V-50 eventually consisted of sixteen sessions plus three workshops.

In the fall of 1964, Professor Galambos introduced a twelve-session course he called F-201: The Theory of Primary Property. This was later named “V-201,” in which he taught the nature of primary property (thoughts, ideas and actions) and how freedom, which was the product of total Capitalism, could be built for the first and only time in history. Whereas course V-50 was deemed by him to be the cosmological portion of the theory, course V-201 was the technological portion.

By the year 1968 Professor Galambos determined that his V-50 lectures had reached publishable maturity. But it would still take another nine years before he would discover how they should read in printed form.

Between 1964 and 1977 Galambos honed and perfected course V-201, which he deemed to be the technological roadmap, or blueprint, revealing the “natural republic”—a free society where each individual is in 100% control of their own property. This was a concept he introduced in course V-50 but took to a much higher level in course V-201.

At the end of the academic year of 1977, Galambos announced that V-201 had received its finishing touch. That oral presentation consisted of forty-eight sessions and three workshops. Together courses V-50 and V-201 constitute a unified theory called the theory of volition.

Volitional science

Volitional Science is Galambos' term for so-called "social science," however, unlike social "science", which is not a true science at all, Volitional Science is a true science derived exclusively through the use of the scientific method. It is derived through physical science, physics, and he said that Volitional Science is the third science after physics and biology. It's a science in which Capitalism is a derivative and therefore an alternative to, and complete replacement of, all political mechanisms.

In Galambos’ courses on volitional science, he showed the connection between Isaac Newton and the world of high technology we have today. He explained how Newton was fortunate to have Edmund Halley who understood Newton’s theory and prodded Newton to have his work published as Principia Mathematica. Soon after its publication, the world began to change.

Galambos lamented the tragedy of Newton’s unhappiness with his work in physics; how his work was nitpicked and thieved, which lead him to seek a happier, yet trivial, existence working at the mint for the last forty years of his life, giving up on physics and making no new discoveries or disclosures after Principia. In Course V-201, Galambos stated, “… when Newton went to the mint, this was the greatest tragedy to man in the entire history of man… and how many of you prior to meeting me would have picked Newton going to the mint as that? I can name only one thing comparable with that, and that hasn’t happened yet. But if my work doesn’t get finally in a position where it’s permanently recorded, that will be of comparable catastrophe.”

Property

Galambos defined property as a volitional being’s life and all non-procreative derivatives thereof. This includes one’s physical being (primordial property), one’s thoughts, ideas and actions (primary property), and tangible derivatives of one’s life such as money, houses, automobiles, etc. (secondary property). Sic Itur Ad Astra, V-50: Session 1, Part A, pp. 22-24.

Death

Galambos was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and died on April 10, 1997. Soon after Galambos’ death, Galambos’ Free Enterprise Institute landed in the hands of former lawyer, who Galambos appointed as trustee for the financial aspects of his company. The fiduciary obligation of the trustee was to “publish, protect, and perpetuate” the work of Andrew J. Galambos. But for more than 25 years, no books of Galambos’ have been published by FEI, and the money Galambos set aside for publication of his books by his trustee has vanished.

Fortunately, Galambos’ theory provided for competing natural estates for his account. He said in Course V-201, “The selection of a natural estate trustee is a personal responsibility of the one who makes it. However, it doesn't really make any difference, because even with the best selection, even if you say this company is really slated to be a successful one, and it's intended for the species time scale and you think it's going to make it, you could be wrong. And you don't want your natural estate wiped out now, do you? Just because you selected a poor netco [natural estate trust company]? So your will should provide that if certain minimum standards of handling your property are not fulfilled, the company automatically loses your account.” He also said in Course V-201, “In the long run, in a thousand years, it will make no difference whether you selected the trustee or not. In the long run, it will be up to competition anyhow, and the natural estates will be competitively operated, and the best ones will get the most money, on behalf of their clients who may not have known about this company and its selection.”

Because the trustee (and now, “co-trustees”) has failed to fulfill the most minimum standards of handling Galambos’ property; and by appointing four to five new “co-trustees” thereby creating a board of directors, the FEI of today has automatically forfeited the account. Regarding “co-trustees”, committees and boards of directors for his company, Galambos said, “The very name ‘committee’ nauseates me. … the day a board of directors makes a real decision in my company, it isn’t my company. Even the thought is nauseating. Have I gotten that point across?” So, because FEI is automatically no longer Galambos’ company, Galambos’ account is up for competition.

Leading the way is Spaceland Publications, a company founded by William W. Martin, the man who has the imprimatur of the professor himself, who personally appointed Martin as his Literary Executor before Galambos died. The history of Galambos’ Free Enterprise Institute is documented in detail in three books in particular, published by Spaceland Publications: Orbit!, by William Ward Martin; Andrew J. Galambos: Betrayal and Triumph! by Bill Cobb; and Andrew J. Galambos: Publish or Perish! by Bill Cobb.

Spaceland Publications has published numerous books by Andrew J. Galambos, including the 15-volume Sic Itur Ad Astra which includes Courses V-50, V-50X, V-201 and the Joe Pyne Interview; Course V-76: The Declaration of Independence, Thomas Paine and Your Freedom; STIP-2: A Lecture Series on Nothing; Galambos’ Psychology Courses PBVS-273 and 274: An Introduction to the Theory of Subvolition (Primary Psychology); and many other books by Galambos, William W. Martin and Bill Cobb now published, with many more to be published very soon. Spaceland Publications has opened the door to a new generation and invigorated a new up and coming market for these timely, timeless, and truly revolutionary ideas of Andrew J. Galambos and William W. Martin.

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