Selma, 1965 — and the promise
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Jonathan Hare's father. Raised entirely inside the Seventh-day Adventist church, descended from a long line of white Adventist ministers and educators, and a student at Pacific Union College before transferring to Berkeley.
In March 1965 he drove 2,300 miles in 44 hours, folded into a two-seat Karmann Ghia with Paul Cobb, Will Battles and Fernando Canales, to photograph Dr King's third march from Selma to Montgomery — and to walk at the front of it. The photographs went unpublished for close to forty years, then aired on CNN in 2005 and were published as a book in 2015.
The page's second pillar, beside Selma, arrived in August 2026 (S-085): the faith arc. The sequence, with the family's corrections published alongside per the house rules — the claimed Adventist excommunication of the sixties over race (his proudest credential; his ex-wife's testimony, preserved beside it: Adventists don't excommunicate, they were just happy when he stopped cataloguing their hypocrisy every Sabbath); the cabin cosmology of astral projection and Chariots of the Gods, taught under a roof built transparent on purpose; and then, decades on, the return — the signs noticed on the drives home from what he called his interludes, a teaching skeleton, a black car whose plate sounded like DEATH, interpreted in time as God speaking of his spiritual death; the reconciliation of everything he had ever taught in one sentence (the burning bush was a microphone — and it was God's voice; the angels a more advanced species who are also children of God); the pastor's five words, we've agreed to disagree; and the deaconship. The man who marched at Selma and left a church over race returned to it carrying both his religions, and surrendered neither. The episodes: the roof and the reconciliation; the essay's Interlude tells it at a distance, and gives it the theorem.
Two further chapters landed in S-094. The early working years: born Massachusetts, December 1944; college at seventeen after his father's death fractured the household; and then — the chapter no one guesses from the Selma photographs or the deaconship — Probation Officer for the State of California in Visalia and Tulare County, drug convictions his specialty, badge and handcuffs on his belt, his young son helping administer the urine tests. And the Synanon chapter: he met Sandy there, and when the cult mandated that children be separated into a communal hatchery, they refused and left, around 1983–84. A man who left one community over race and another over its children: the record notes the consistency.
The two pillars of this page — Selma and the reconciliation — are the record’s oldest evidence for its central claim: that coexistence without convergence is real, human, and buildable. The theorem and the machinery are in the unification essay; the adoption path for the traditions is the Faith & Tradition Cascade.
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Hare spoke with him by video on his deathbed, at his brother Milt's house, and promised to carry on the mission — because it was the same mission, and because his father's pursuit of consilience and his own had converged on the identical problem from opposite ends.
He began a master's at Stanford in African history after Berkeley — partly, Hare notes, to defer conscription, since having left the Adventist church he could no longer claim conscientious objection. He left the program after accusing his professor of racism. Not expelled; a parting shot.
He dated Black women in his teens and married two of them after Hare's mother. Most of Hare's siblings are half Black.
And at Selma he was not behind Dr King. He was beside him, and often in front — at the very front of the march, recording it as a student photojournalist.
Hare's own summary, and it is a challenge rather than a claim: anybody want to judge my dad for what he taught me about race?
Late in life, Milton apologized to his son: he had been a much better father in his sixties than in his twenties, and he regretted disappearing for years at a time in pursuit of peace and equality for the world. Jonathan's answer was absolute — he had been a great father. He had taught his son everything the mission required by example, and had provided exactly enough poverty and exactly enough obstacles to forge the drive the mission would take. The record publishes the exchange because both halves of it are true.
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Radar, chaff, and the Stanford lab at the center of Silicon Valley
Open →son-in-law ofNuclear physicist, Titan II, ARPA — and a two-hundred-word obituary
Open →father ofConsilient Architect — the node this graph was seeded from
Open →where he sent his sonFourth and fifth grade on Ashby Avenue — four white children in a class of thirty
Open →what he taughtHuman morality has never been sufficient. That is a design finding, not a complaint.
Open →pushed out by, honored by, apologized throughA premier Adventist institution, twice over: the quiet transfer of 1964, and the 2008 apology to Martin Luther King that Milton Hare accepted from the graduation stage
Open →mentored byKnew Lenin. Was with Trotsky when he was killed.
Open →battled and belonged toA clothing-discouraged commune, and an education in what people do when nobody makes them
Open →neighbor of, on the mudflatsWhole Earth Catalog — and a neighbor on the mudflats
Open →builtTwo stories, one room deep, finished by the boys who arrived to live in it; the classroom of the inward turn
Open →taught fromChariots of the Gods, the Olmec heads, and the gorgeous audacity that a father later folded into his theology
Open →marriedHare's stepmom; Cassidy Arkin's mother; still in the house, well guarded
Open →left, over the hatcheryThe Marin commune turned dangerous cult: the rattlesnake in the attorney's mailbox, the Point Reyes Light's Pulitzer, and the hatchery mandate that broke the family loose
Open →first married toHare's mother: born Maryland 1943, the classified official's daughter in the seized mansion, chaperoned through a cinematic era; later Margaret Whitson again, now married to John Crowley
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