19. Viktor Schauberger and Society
The human legacy
We have been concerned in this study so far to give an overview of
Schauberger's insights into how Nature works at the subtle level.
Viktor also had strong views on where our society has gone wrong
and where we might start to make changes. First we shall seek
insights on the human level and, later, we shall mention some ongo-
ing developments and research inspired by Viktor's work.
Viktor was a natural scientist and visionary who challenged the
very worldview of a culture that considers itself to be at the apex of
human achievement. His is not a political view, nor a particularly
moral one. He was continually exasperated by the literal blindness
of those in power, their inability to see what was before their very
eyes.^1
Viktor Schauberger's observations and vision have given us the
keys to disentangling the environmental mess we have got ourselves
into. His insights were not limited to technology and how we do
things, but to all of life. If we were able to see that our education,
social organization, philosophy, religions, medicine and science
were all based on seeing only a part-world, we would have a sense
of how much more exciting and fulfilling life could be on this won-
derful planet, if we could escape from our materialistic worldview
and accept our place on Nature's interconnected plane.
But, like the crowd in Hans Andersen's tale going along with the
naked Emperor's fantasies, we are all accomplices in this tragic cha-
rade. Schauberger put it forcefully:
If humanity does not soon come to its senses, and realize
that it has been misled and misinformed by its intellectual
leaders, the prevailing laws of Nature (with poetic justice)
will reliably act to bring about a fitting end to this ineptly
contrived culture. Unfortunately, the most frightful catastro-
phes or scandalous disclosures will have to happen before
people become aware that it is their own mistakes that have
led to their undoing. These can be rectified only with great- VICTOR SCHAUBERGER AND SOCIETY