You have been given the gift of moving to a new planet with
   primitive intelligent life and are in a position to influence
   the future of their inhabitants by choosing and taking only one
   of each of the following: 1.A philosophers entire work 2.A
   country's entire history 3.An artists entire masterpieces 4.A
   musicians entire work 5.A writers entire literature. As always,
   support your work with reasons. ---- As Ship's Librarian, with
   limited storage space, I'll see if I can figure out one of each
   category. Philosopher: Alfred Korzybski (General Semantics)
   If he doesn't quality, I guess John Dewey.
   I want to go with Whitehead but he baffles too many ppl,
   even though I think he's probably be ideal.

   [I'm going with the primitive angle here]

   Country History: Greece. What HAVEN'T they been through?

   Masterpieces: Spain, no question.

   Musician: Phillip Glass. Just Glassworks alone will make them
   think they're doing something significant in building a society.
   Good creativity booster. Not my favorite or least favorite
   musician, but
   See: General Semantics (programming) and John Dewey (pragmatism)
   -
   it just makes sense from that angle.

   Writer: Ray Bradbury. The futurist who wasn't a futurist. Not
   that he's
   my favorite sci-fi author or least favorite, just a practical
   matter for
   a number of social, political, scientific reasons. if I had more
   time, I could come up with better answers.
   But it's a top-of-the-head and the ship is probably gonna launch
   soon
   and we don't have much time, so at least I can recreate a
   futuristic America that doesn't exist yet with a slightly better
   sense of historical continuity and some of the mind-bending
   Spanish philosophical influence embedded within its artistry.