Master's Message
June 2000

From the caveman to the spaceman, human progress can be measured by the number of unreasonable people who wanted to do things differently, explore new possibilities and to adapt the world to their vision of the way things could and should be. In the recent technological past, it took 10 years for someone who was considered to have a lunatic idea to be proven not to be a lunatic. Today, it takes from eight to 10 months to be proven right. Our research laboratories are filled with unreasonable people, people who have a vision, and in spite of all the reasonable reasons not to try to do something, they do it anyway.

Here is an unreasonable idea. Today, a group of lunatics are trying to build a computer that would cost $1. That is not a misprint: $1. They have developed a concept for a circuit that could be printed on paper from a regular printer, using special electron-conducting ink. This printed document could be used as a computer, then crumpled up and thrown away when no longer needed. By the way, if these lunatics succeed, will they be lunatics or geniuses?

We strive for people to be reasonable and, if not totally reasonable, at least "reasonably unreasonable." Is there anything wrong with being unreasonable given the facts just stated? Of course not. So here is my pitch. Why not come out to lodge for our next meeting? Better yet, why not come out to lodge and help with our up-coming degree work? We have a great number of members who can help with the workings of our lodge. It is not unreasonable to give it a try get up and say, "My brothers need me!" "I am an untapped resource for my lodge!" "I can help and can do a number of things for my lodge!"

Fraternally,

John Lacki Jr.
Worshipful Master