Book one of four of Andrew J. Galambos' course V-50 and book one of fifteen for the entire set of SIC ITUR AD ASTRA (This is the Way to the Stars).This first volume of V-50, subtitled V-50: The Problem, consists of sessions one through eight of V-50, in which Professor Galambos introduces: the purpose and scope of the course and the crisis facing mankind the requirement for absolute standards of rightness in both physics and the new science of volition absolute vs. relative rightness reasons why the success in physics has never been applied to volition the scientific method and its application to volitional science why all societies in history have failed and why they cannot survive without additional knowledge the nature and durability of a rational and moral society the integration of the physical sciences and how freedom is a direct derivative of this integration the free market as the true democracy the true meaning of monopoly and its popular misconception what the American Revolution really was and was not the disconnect between the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution the false alternative of majority rule the only way out of the current mess we face hundreds of other topics both important and urgent to the survival of our species