In Luckism® reverence for natural luck leads to modesty and harmonious conduct across the full range of human behavior. It gives practical and spiritual guidance to everything, from what we eat and drink to our scientific goals, from our tools and toys to our social relationships, from our entertainments to our economic decisions. The life guidance of LUCKISM® comes from always asking a simple question. How does a situation or proposed action affect our relationship to natural luck? Here are a few simple examples involving Water, Outer Space and Closeness.

THOU SHALT NOT DRINK SODA!

Water is loaded with natural luck, namely, unknown and unknowable aspects of its life-supporting form and function. https://www.technology.org/2022/07/16/simply-complex/ It is the perfect substance with which to demonstrate the application of LUCKISM® to life. We can measure the health and quality of our lives, physical and spiritual, by our connection to water. The closer we come to a direct relationship with water the better. This means obtaining water as close to its natural source as possible, and always trying to avoid polluting and misusing water by our actions. Among other things this means avoiding obtaining water packaged in plastic containers, transported from distant places, particularly when it is “desecrated” by transformation into flavored, carbonated soda. Yes, soda is considered a bad thing for fundamental spiritual reasons. Simple as this sounds, this approach shows the attitude which LUCKISM® cultivates with respect to all the necessities of life and all the interactions in life. And it is all done with the idea of achieving proximity to the operation of natural luck.

DON’T GET SPACED OUT!

The glamorization of “intensive care” in the dead zone of space is one of the main achievements of space programs.

LUCKISM® is opposed is to space travel and colonization. In space humans and other living things are completely cut off from natural luck - an extreme example of what LUCKISM® sees as the wrong place to be. How is it possible that this is promoted as the right direction for humanity? When life is totally supported by artificial means it is closer to death than life. Perhaps this condition can be justified if one is temporarily exploring regions that can be considered part of Earth, the upper atmosphere or the the depths of the oceans. But as a sustained living condition in lifeless places, particularly with the goal of establishing human colonies on other planets, it is wrong in all respects because it breaks all connection with natural luck.

Move this hospital bed into space and you have the equivalent of someone on a mission to colonize Mars.

GET CLOSER TO REALITY!

LUCKISM® believes that, in all matters related to normal human activity the most desirable position is to be as close as possible to the natural objective or event because that is where the power of luck is most manifest. Stated differently, obtaining what is needed in life as naturally and directly as possible - as close to their source as one can get - is a matter of heightening the sense of harmonious existence and the meaningful connection to reality, the equivalent of living close to the gods or sacred places of traditional religions. This also applies to the essential life-enhancing satisfaction of the need to seek relationship with other living things, ranging from family to friends, acquaintances, accidentals, animals and plants.

With respect to communication LUCKISM® gives primacy to direct, face-to-face conversation. If electronic communication is used there is a preference for voice or voice plus video because they retain vestiges of direct physical reality.

In general, reducing the use of intermediaries in life, be they mechanical or human, will undoubtedly increase the time spent on practicing proximity, restoring a balance to life. This will lead to a healthy reduction of the time spent in indirect activity. In other words, more time will be spent engaged with natural luck than trying to maximize efficiency and control activity. 

Harper's Magazine, September 1996:

> From an interview with Kurt Vonnegut in the November 1995 issue of Inc. Technology. Vonnegut was asked to discuss his feelings about living in an increasingly computerized world.

>> I work at home, and if I wanted to, I could have a computer right by my bed, and I'd never have to leave it. But I use a typewriter, and afterward I mark up the pages with a pencil. Then I call up this woman named Carol out in Woodstock and say, “Are you still doing typing?” Sure she is, and her husband is trying to track bluebirds out there and not having much luck, and so we chitchat back and forth, and I say, “Okay, I'll send you the pages.” Then I go down the steps and my wife calls, “Where are you going?” “Well,” I say, “I'm going to buy an envelope.” And she says, “You're not a poor man. Why don't you buy a thousand envelopes? They'll deliver them, and you can put them in the closet.” And I say, “Hush.” So I go to this newsstand across the street where they sell magazines and lottery tickets and stationery. I have to get in line because there are people buying candy and all that sort of thing, and I talk to them. The woman behind the counter has a jewel between her eyes, and when it's my turn, I ask her if there have been any big winners lately. I get my envelope and seal it up and go to the postal convenience center down the block at the corner of Forty-seventh Street and Second Avenue, where I'm secretly in love with the woman behind the counter. I keep absolutely poker-faced; I never let her know how I feel about her. One time I had my pocket picked in there and got to meet a cop and tell him about it. Anyway, I address the envelope to Carol in Woodstock. I stamp the envelope and mail it in a mailbox in front of the post office, and I go home. And I've had a hell of a good time. I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you any different.