Human experience is a wonderful thing, in fact, it's the only way the human form can access 'reality'. Behaviour depends largely on how well our needs are met, the environment around us. Yet what we perceive as our needs determines whether we nurture our 'self' or our 'false ego'.
It doesn't seem very common in the Western World to reflect on one's elementary needs, and the way we fulfil them. We don't need to reflect at all - most living beings very successfully master the school of life without self-aware thoughts. At least as far as we can tell.
Reflecting our own behaviour, the way we interact and connect to other and our environment, makes us human. Cultural behaviour patterns changed drastically over the centuries, yet consciousness creates also patterns of communality. Competition and cooperation describe one basic axis along which organisation happens, not mutually exclusive but in a blend of method, intention and challenge.
Exclusiveness describes best the most hazardous programming of the contemporary matrix. It's one of those words describing an 'ideal' situation which as such cannot exist in this universe. It's a part of the Aristotelian toolkit to stupefy the masses, distracting from the essential unity of all living beings.
Like Madonna in her song 'Material Girl', it's a common assumption in the general population that we live in a 'material' world. We get programmed to operate in a world of matter, manipulation 'real' things all the time. Matter, however, turns out to be a very persistent illusion, and much less solid than commonly believed.
Magic begins for a lot of people already in the realm of electronics, bits and bytes exceed comprehension. Or take at least some moments to be understood. Bits and bytes are the 'stuff' programs are made of, and the stuff programs manipulate. Data and program become indistinguishable unless they operate in their designed context.
Once the context is known, a mere 'data dump' allows to reconstruct the algorithm as well as the data. Hackers use this method to extract data from memory or to reverse engineer software. The human mind, the infallible tool exclusively exquisite in its evolutionary emanation, cannot fall prey to any hacking, or can it?
Whether minds can be hacked or not, a lot of money is made in selling specific methods to do it. NLP, Scientology or 'The Secret' taps into the desire to better control the outcome of interactions in our favour.
I ascribe much of these method's success to the fact that most human minds come pre-programmed with propaganda anyway. The global memepool is currently dominated by the most belligerent society in known history, maintaining a dystopic view of reality. The Disneyverse looks harmless on first sight, yet it sells mainly sex and violence.
The magic wands of Hollywood prepare gullible humans for a life of disguised slavery, serving a psychopathic minority that consider this planet their 'exclusive' playground. Lulled into the illusion that we as mankind are smarter than ever in history false believes enter irresistibly into the minds of the manipulated masses.
Civilisations have come and gone in known history, and most likely as well in unknown history. We covered our nudity fairly soon after our 'appearance' as species, displaying our ability to develop technology already 100,000s of years ago. We can only guess about the level of sophistication of bygone civilisations, assuming their inferiority shows pure hybris.
It seems likely that 'empires' emerged after civilisations. Cooperation yields collective advantages and creates wealth. As warfare doesn't contribute to the essential survival needs of a group, it requires a certain level of wealth to exist before it can manifest.
As humans required technology to transform from part of the food chain to the top predator the need for safety arose from the existence of highly successful predators that simply didn't respect our authority as masters of the universe. Lions, tigers, bears, even wolves and foxes just so survived the genocidal attacks of a mankind possessed by the idea of owning this planet.
If we know our environment, it provides us abundantly. The amount of mass migration following genocides, combined with environmental destruction of sparsely populated areas like rain forests means that less cultures survived in the 21st century which could share their ancient knowledge how to live on this planet.
Luckily, information cannot be destroyed unless it enters a black hole. While many lineages have been broken or distorted, it only requires the proper program to access the global consciousness. As each of us connects to the cosmic consciousness, many ways for individual access exist.
Unless many good teachers roam this planet, reprogramming yourself to venture into your own life, instead of following a carrot and stick drill on a daily basis, requires at least some work. Without doing things (thought experiments don't count) you will get stuck in your program. Customising your mind provides so much more fun than any cool desktop background.
While sharks still make the news on a yearly basis for chewing on humans, the statistical probability to fall prey to a predator are pretty low. The mosquito, combined with the Gates Foundation's greed, warrant most 'animal caused' human deaths. The fear of being hunted down transformed into the fear of being hunted down by diseases, which became our 'natural enemy'.
Again, the programming puts the perception into a slanted perspective. We learned to prevent causes of diseases, at least to a certain degree. Life style remains the Holy Grail that cannot be changed for the sake of better health. We have been deluded to mistake some wants for our needs. We want a quick fix, salvation now, which often seems like a disguised death wish.
Predators exist, diseases exist, nevertheless these threats to human survival seem essentially manageable, given a deeper understanding into the nature of life. Evolution necessitates maintaining and restoring health, we're the first species to have specialists for this task.
Not only have we found methods to extend individual life spans by some amazing medical procedures, we also can heal injuries of animals we favour to survive. The life around us supports us, provides us with the energy for own metabolism, and we developed means to support life in return.
Yet as long as we get stuck with the Armageddon programming that permeates many mainstream media productions, the abundance of solution for an seemingly insurmountable amount of problems remains invisible.
While it takes quite some time to program the subconscious from outside, it can be re-programmed amazingly fast. If something within the human nature resembles a computer, it's the binary structure of our subconscious.
On autopilot, we don't have time to evaluate complex data collections, binary decisions provide immediate action. Sex and safety belong to the essential triggers to activate subconscious programming, even the suggestion usually suffices to induce either mild arousal/desire or fear or both at the same time.
As most of us spend only little time per day truly 'conscious', especially in situation where our primary buttons are pressed, our subconscious programming determines most of our behaviour. As long as it is our own, there's no need to worry. Most programs, however, were implemented non-consensual as part of the cultural inheritance of the society we grew up in.
The implemented programs need reinforcement to stay active - two weeks holiday might be enough to losen the circuits, two days of rat race usually suffice to revert any positive effect. Withdrawal certainly works to a degree, yet it's less efficient than directly addressing the subconscious programming.
Removing some or much of cultural programming sharpens the lenses of perception. Once we understand how smoke and mirrors work, we can easier experience what's really there. A beautiful fractal pattern in perpetual motion: Life in this universe.
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Monday, July 02, 2012
Friday, October 28, 2011
| This is a peaceful protest Some critics of the global occupation movement complained about using iPhones and other hi-tech gear from mega-corps during escalating phases of this shift of consciousness. Technology doesn't need corporations, capitalism or money for its creation, but dedicated and skilled people. |
Without many 'natural' enemies left, survival on this planet of plenty could be a piece of cake. Food and shelter exists still in abundance, as humans managed to accumulate many wicked skills. Yet some people decided to implant the fear of human predators in the collective spirit of their 'nations'. Without war and paranoia, and with the abundance of practical knowledge collected over millenia and its fruits, modern technology, no human being should spend more than maybe 20 hours per week toiling for the essentials.
Our desire to cooperation get exploited by extreme competition - the common goal is 'to be better' than 'the others', instead of making it better for everyone. The idea to make this world a better place for everyone gets portrayed as unachievable, yet honorable ideal. Sorry, the markets haven't sorted that out yet.
I think that the occupy movement want nothing less than to save this planet from the destructive forces of soulless systems implemented to domesticate human beings. The diversity of talents, preferences, tastes, skills, visions, expressions of human existence can not thrive in a bureaucratic nightmare designed to disguise this cruel global social experiment that lasts already for millennia.
If we learn to respect each other as equals, we can create the solutions needed to sustain a conscious species with billions of members on a planet with free solar power for the next billion years or so, combined with an exponential growth of applicable knowledge about how to do more with less.
The world game produces only winners - for entertainment reasons competitions of all kinds will flourish, albeit without nowadays prescribed celebrity status. As mankind, we got paralysed by fear, inspired by memes like homo hominem lupus est. In groups, people were always able to self-organise their needs with growing experience about their environment, and violence among each other (like statistically nowadays) was mostly an exemption.
Yet during an average day at work, we pass hundred, if not thousands other people, all of them mostly harmless. Even in our crime-drama and security-obsessed societies most of our life-time happens peacefully. I know that some people are exposed to frequent violence in their families, yet I still hope that only a minority suffer from this situation.
What will do with all the time we have available when we stopped fighting each other for profits? At the moment, many people share, teach and learn. Being hypnotised by the latest movie and its paranoid messages hidden beneath cool apparel and computer animations, while vacating a body in a work place for the majority of the 'waking' time.
Humans are naturally curious, and the diversity of artefacts of arts, science and technology not only attract 'consumers', but encourage people to contribute to the richness of life. It's not like nothing needs to be done once we stopped fighting each other - the mess left behind swells our oceans and intoxicates soils and atmosphere, the struggle has left many wounded souls.
It's reassuring to see how fast creative solutions where found to support this noble rescue mission. Open source works not only for software, it works also for the economy. Open source money, open source technology (no more IP, copyrights or the like) can make even large-scale operations work out in favour of all mankind.
Our leaders pretend business as usual, while more and more people occupy this planet to rescue it. And bring their skills with them.
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Trolled by a corporate drone
In case you haven't noticed, the revolution has begun. The resistance, slowly building up momentum at least since September 2001, has entered the next stage, it's gone viral on the streets. Australia, like expected, still struggles a bit, but at least Melbourne and Sydney look like making a promising start.
The derision of drones keeps the October movement alive as talking point, and as yet, many haven't even noticed what is brooding on this planet. In New York, the systematic police brutality contributed to a steady growth, as maybe in London and Berlin. In social networks, ignorance of politics still dominates the lived idea of political correctness.
So how does the establishment try to control the situation? First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, and then you win. Ignorance worked amazingly well, it took me three weeks after Wall Street's occupation to notice it, from an entirely unexpected source.
So while the spin doctors still insist that 911 changed the world, the global occupation movement takes changing the world in their own hands, unnoticed from the corporate media. The sitzfleisch of the movement in New York made them go through the first three phases of the Gandhi quote. Youtube offers plenty of examples of police brutality, while the 'rioting protester' stereotypes doesn't emanate.
In Australia, a headline of The Age dissed a 'rowdy rally', without quoting any 'rowdyness' in the article, instead calling it a 'peaceful protest'. The occupation in City Square continues, which gives me an opportunity for a closer look.
The mainstream-media-matrix has already a well-established mirror in the blogosphere, no vox populi (as dictated by our leaders) addict needs to switch from the Herald Sun into the Well Weird Web - with the Hun as start page you're unlikely to encounter opinions that could enlighten you.
In the US, in the public perception (mass media matrix) the movement made its appearance, yet it shifted in this arena only into the laughing stage, like in most western countries.
While shaking heads and laughing usually suffices to sway a Fox audience, the blogosphere can be a tougher call. I came across 'an advisor of leaders of the world' (synchronicity - I remembered Bill Hicks while looking at this 'blog'). 'Protesting consumer style' deserves some credits, and certainly appeals to a conservative audience.
I wonder if my comment will go through the moderation.
In case you haven't noticed, the revolution has begun. The resistance, slowly building up momentum at least since September 2001, has entered the next stage, it's gone viral on the streets. Australia, like expected, still struggles a bit, but at least Melbourne and Sydney look like making a promising start.
The derision of drones keeps the October movement alive as talking point, and as yet, many haven't even noticed what is brooding on this planet. In New York, the systematic police brutality contributed to a steady growth, as maybe in London and Berlin. In social networks, ignorance of politics still dominates the lived idea of political correctness.
So how does the establishment try to control the situation? First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, and then you win. Ignorance worked amazingly well, it took me three weeks after Wall Street's occupation to notice it, from an entirely unexpected source.
So while the spin doctors still insist that 911 changed the world, the global occupation movement takes changing the world in their own hands, unnoticed from the corporate media. The sitzfleisch of the movement in New York made them go through the first three phases of the Gandhi quote. Youtube offers plenty of examples of police brutality, while the 'rioting protester' stereotypes doesn't emanate.
In Australia, a headline of The Age dissed a 'rowdy rally', without quoting any 'rowdyness' in the article, instead calling it a 'peaceful protest'. The occupation in City Square continues, which gives me an opportunity for a closer look.
The mainstream-media-matrix has already a well-established mirror in the blogosphere, no vox populi (as dictated by our leaders) addict needs to switch from the Herald Sun into the Well Weird Web - with the Hun as start page you're unlikely to encounter opinions that could enlighten you.
In the US, in the public perception (mass media matrix) the movement made its appearance, yet it shifted in this arena only into the laughing stage, like in most western countries.
While shaking heads and laughing usually suffices to sway a Fox audience, the blogosphere can be a tougher call. I came across 'an advisor of leaders of the world' (synchronicity - I remembered Bill Hicks while looking at this 'blog'). 'Protesting consumer style' deserves some credits, and certainly appeals to a conservative audience.
I wonder if my comment will go through the moderation.
How lame. As long as corporations protect the fruits of human creativity with non-sensical concepts like Intellectual Property people can’t simply build their video-cam to make use of audio-visual global communication, yet this will change soon.
Bereft of the ideologic background of capitalism, electronic networks like the internet belong factually into the realms of common goods. The current occupation movement just counter-acts the occupation of common goods by the 1%.
After all, corporations created none of the products, but creative human beings did. Unlike the losers in the capitalist game plan, the CEOs of the dinosaur corporate world don’t need to struggle for survival. Technology and human know-how created sufficient wealth for every human being to lead a peaceful life, even deluded ‘leaders’.
It’s easy to identify the corporate parts of the protester’s outfit. Besides the tech gear, there might be much more hand-made stuff embellishing the revolutionaries than a corporate hivemind might imagine. Bought on back street markets, made at home, traded without taxes, but with mutual respect.
The 1% have lost the track. Not to use the gear they provide, sometimes exclusively, would be plain stupid. And that’s just the mindset expected from an obedient servant of the 1%.
So what you demonstrated with this picture is easy to summarize:
We will use every tool available for peaceful resistance to bring down the unjust rulers of the world. We know how to use tools for good purpose.
Friday, July 23, 2010

Humans who are alive during the 21st century, 13.7 billion years of evolution after the ‘big bang’, are extraordinarily fortunate. The shift to intentional evolution is one of the most significant evolutionary transitions that can occur on any planet on which life emerges. We have the unique opportunity to contribute to its successful completion on this planet. And if we choose to make this contribution, we will do so consciously—we will be aware that we are contributing intentionally to the successful completion of a pivotal evolutionary event on this planet.
Sunday, March 21, 2010

The message is the response you get. That's why face-to-face communication still beats any asynchronous interaction like books, articles, recorded music, artworks or blogs. The time-binding qualities of art can create the illusion of efficient message transmission - if we still enjoy Beethoven's 'Ode to joy' it seems to have some specific meaning which extends over the contemporary context of its creation. Actually, Beethoven musical interpretation of Schiller's words must have shocked authorities so much that they decided to censor the lyrics. Celebrating 'joy' is much less anarchistic than celebrating 'freedom', so that Beethoven's inspired musical masterpiece could survive for centuries.
Although it's straight forward to communicate with most bloggers (the only hurdle on this blog is some easy verification to prevent most spamming), it's a rarely used opportunity. Some bloggers don't even like feedback, or do their best to destroy random communication attempts. A lot of media recipients have been thoroughly infected by the mind virus 'political correctness', which often creates a 'can't touch this' attitude. Another brick in the wall that prevents people from interacting more with each other in the interwebs is the perceived opposition of 'real life' and 'online'.
I enjoy deliberately playing with different online personae, yet without entertaining the schizophrenic delusion that my online selfs are separate entities. This attitude prevents me from acting like a bot, and even helps me identifying humanoid bots appearing in traditional media. Check out any TV interview with Australia's Goebbels Stephen Conroy (or about 90% of all political parasites in demo-crazys) if you want to study 'real life' spam bots.
Anonymity hardly exists anymore in electronic media, most people are simply oblivious to the amount of transparency that has been implemented with networking technology. Anonymity does not really exist for all the 'illegal' street art I recycle here, fame and admiration that street artists crave for just requires a certain level of been unknown by authorities. Unless you change your spraying/art style a lot, it's easy to pick up who did what (tag names makes that easy and straight forward, writing messages as well, pieces without deliberate incorporation of a 'name' pose a bit more difficulty in identification).
Of course, I have no idea whether the message in the photo refers to this blog. In a universe where everything is connected, I like to entertain the idea that anything my attention is drawn to might contain a personalised message. People just cannot prevent being the center of their own universe, although they can deny or stay ignorant about this fact. Once you identified yourself as the creator of your own universe in the multiverse of consciousness, it comes quite natural to make it more enjoyable.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Carbon Trading Scheme

For once in the life time of this young nation, Australia wants to set an global example. Australia's responds to the Climate Change meme with a Carbon Trading Scheme, or at least tries to.
In the pre-digital age Australia was too remote from the 'civilised' world (Europe and North America) to have a voice in international politics. The acting empire of the time nevertheless involved the Australian army happily as cannon fodder in wars all over the world, a big part of the Australian National identity consists of bemoaning this useless loss of life while fulfilling 'heroic duties'.
Advances in communication and travel made Australia more accessible and brought it a little bit more on the international radar. Nevertheless, 20 million people on a planet of 6 billion can only interest a limited amount amount of people. Among those are poor and desperate people from Asia and Africa, that even keep up to date with the latest administration changes in Canberra. Although politicos claim rock star status on national level, Mr. Howards war against asylum seekers went unnoticed in most parts of the world.
Mr. Howard lost the position of primary defender of white Australian supremacy to Kevin Rudd, who recently gained global fame as roo killer. Most people involved in the planetary debate about climate change would fail to name Rudd's position in the creation of the next stage of global monetary Ponzi scheme, sorry, Rudd's position towards climate change.
From an Australian perspective his stance toward climate seems more obvious, he wants to introduce a trading scheme to tackle the problem of global warming caused by man made co2. Hold on a second, what exactly do this well sounding abstract terms mean?
The simplified mass media presentation of the 'problem of climate change' goes along that lines: A majority of climate 'experts' interpret data about global warming in a way that suggest CO2 produced by man as 'cause' for this effect. Critics of this interpretation are called 'climate sceptics', and are often pushed into one corner with conspiracy theorists and similar loonies.
The simplified discourse, popularised by George W Bush (you're either with us, or you're a climate sceptic terrorist), helps picking a site. The polarisation follows also the diversion between Dawkinists and religious fundamentalists. 'Science' backs the side of doomsday salesmen, and in our o so rational society one cannot seriously doubt the findings of science, right?
Interestingly, 'science' also backs the other side, so both sides get busy accusing each other of 'wrong science'. Luckily for us, who will have to pay for whatever lunacy is presented as 'solution' to this 'problem', the wise maintainers of our tax money have taken sides for us. They chose the side that allows them to collect more money for their uncontrollable disposal.
I confess my interest in global affairs, I believe my existence as human being entitles me to live where ever I want you, unfortunately this complicated phase of the evolution of human society denies me this natural birth right. The pleasures of every day life, however, require resources from all the world, I think it's quite absurd that the component of the computer I'm typing this rant on might have travelled further around this globe than I have so far. We can no longer distinguish easily 'local produce' and 'globally sourced' products, most manifactured products use materials from all over the world. You need to a lot of ignorance to deny the global interconnectedness of modern life.
Australia owns one of this valuable resources for an industrialised society: coal. It does not help this part of Australia's economy much to have this market taken away by penalising the use of coal for its CO2 emissions. All of a sudden the clear dichotomy of 'right' and 'wrong' science concerning an intangible problem gets mixed up with tangible local business interests, so that discussion of the topic itself degenerate to the usual rhetorical mud slinging.
When we talk about 'global climate', we mean a phenomena happening in a layer roughly 20 km wide above the surface of this planet. Powered by the energy coming from the sun, the 510 million square kilometer surface area interact with the gaseous layer above, distributing water around the globe. Roughly 70 percent of this surface area consists of water, up to 11 km deep, and weather phenomena are obviously linked to this watery quality.
But science does not really understand how this complex interaction develops. The sheer size of the object of scientific prophecy makes long term predictions very doubtable. Mankind has a natural interest in weather phenomena, agricultural societies depend on knowledge of the chance of seasons and the most likely accompanying weather patterns. But we can not seriously claim to have sufficient data of the relevant variables collected to come up with really good model.
In the political debate the focus lays on CO2, sometimes Methan rears its smelly head in discussions as well. Calling these chemicals greenhouse gases creates convenient self fulfilling prophecies: Doomsday is neigh!
But how do we know about the 'effect' of CO2, and how do we do know how much CO2 is in our atmosphere? Remember, we're talking about the volume of our planetary atmosphere, stretching 20km up from a surface of 510 million square kilometers. Pretty big, eh? The only thing possible is sampling, but without clear understanding of the system itself we can hardly estimate what information the samples really carry.
The best observed variable in this game is temperature, and that's where most panic is hinged around. We can observe an increase in average temperatures in different areas of this planet, and swamped islands provide obvious evidence for a rise of the sea level. Yet even the increase in average temperatures depends on the timescale and areas selected, a lot of pseudo scientific arguments are build on skewed data.
The alleged stop in trend of warming lately, which didn't help to break the current drought in Victoria, might be just the use of rough science. Changing the global albedo by chemtrails reduces the amount of solar energy that heats the surface, but without knowing what really happens in the upper layers of our atmosphere deliberately experimenting with nukes and chemicals does not really look like a good idea.
Reducing the amount of toxins we release into the atmosphere, produced by cars, power plants and industry seems like a better idea. If you ever lived next to a coal power plant, or in an area with heavy industry, or in a city overcrowded by cars, you'll instinctively know that this stuff is not really good for the survival of our species. The current target of panicky hyperactivity coincides with those polluters of our more immediate environment, which still fails to convince me about the simple 'more Co2 = more warming = global chaos soon' formula.
I can identify with the alleged targets, reducing the amount of dirt produced by burning fossil fuels, globally, yet I still don't buy into the simplified fallacies promoted with it. I deny to panic if 'nothing happens to tackle the problem'. I rather panic when a trading scheme gets implemented. It looks either ignorant or stupid or brazen to me to praise a financial product as solution to an ecological problem, especially in a year that showed the detrimental effects of inventing monetary schemes. Markets were always quite mysterious 'beings', now they can even cure the climate. Hooray, long live the age of reason.
Science is just not advanced enough to give a reliable prognosis about the development of climate for 50 or 100 years. I don't dare the leap of faith to base my current and future decisions on the prophecies of these kind of 'experts', especially if they attack such a massive problem. Science investigated most of the time dead matter, exploring and understanding of living systems as a systematic part of science is much younger than the time scales spanned by their prognosis.
The idea of the planet as a living system is not intellectual property of the scientific community, they could no longer deny the public interest in the experiental reality of life. Spiritual communities around the globe have no problem considering the planet as living being, although couldn't properly recite any specific story of this type.
So to distract from the fruitless intergroup competition about the meme global warming I ask Mother Earth to inspire me to tell the 'real story' about climate change.
After its birth, given by the sun, young mother earth circled playful around her own father. Looking for expression, she spit out lava, sending her tentacles into the atmosphere around her skins. The outburst of lava, at different places, created a fiery symphony of mother earth's breath. Soon her breath moistened, and fell back on her skin, bringing the four elements together.
The play of fire and water provided pleasure for mother earth, happily humming in sight of her heavenly father. O lovely daughter, her father said, I will nurture you for the rest of my life, but you will have to learn to keep my love. I send you out with enough energy to play with, Unlike me, you cannot shine from the inside, but glow on my rays. Enjoy the ride.
Mother earth felt her skin, hardened surfaces poking out of swaying oceans, and tried to sense the connection to her source. Without heat, the pleasant bubblyness she bathed in, would cease. Bacteria were her first messengers sensing the presence of her father, using his energy to transmit the good news.
Sensing her fathers presence filled her with joy, so mother earth wanted to connect more to gift of her father. Her senses became more complex, and with it her wisdom about the wonders of life. Capturing her fathers energy requires a delicate balance, and sometimes her breath poisened the atmosphere, making the skin shiny by layers of ice.
Her endless desire for more beauty and love for her father made mother earth experimental. Her senses worked independent, creating more and more complexly interconnected balanced systems. But those sensors capable of choosing to merge with the beauty of all life can also choose to destroy the balance required for their own survival.
Mother earth likes diversity, capturing her father's rays in myriad of ways. That makes her feel warm, buzzing, cosy, vibrant, alive. Many species happily became mother earth companions, mankind seems close to make up its group mind whether to go for beauty or destruction.
Millions of years pass away fast for mother earth, having a little fever doesn't disconnect her from her father. A disconnected acting mankind destroys the balance for its own survival, and the tool will be Global Government.

For once in the life time of this young nation, Australia wants to set an global example. Australia's responds to the Climate Change meme with a Carbon Trading Scheme, or at least tries to.
In the pre-digital age Australia was too remote from the 'civilised' world (Europe and North America) to have a voice in international politics. The acting empire of the time nevertheless involved the Australian army happily as cannon fodder in wars all over the world, a big part of the Australian National identity consists of bemoaning this useless loss of life while fulfilling 'heroic duties'.
Advances in communication and travel made Australia more accessible and brought it a little bit more on the international radar. Nevertheless, 20 million people on a planet of 6 billion can only interest a limited amount amount of people. Among those are poor and desperate people from Asia and Africa, that even keep up to date with the latest administration changes in Canberra. Although politicos claim rock star status on national level, Mr. Howards war against asylum seekers went unnoticed in most parts of the world.
Mr. Howard lost the position of primary defender of white Australian supremacy to Kevin Rudd, who recently gained global fame as roo killer. Most people involved in the planetary debate about climate change would fail to name Rudd's position in the creation of the next stage of global monetary Ponzi scheme, sorry, Rudd's position towards climate change.
From an Australian perspective his stance toward climate seems more obvious, he wants to introduce a trading scheme to tackle the problem of global warming caused by man made co2. Hold on a second, what exactly do this well sounding abstract terms mean?
The simplified mass media presentation of the 'problem of climate change' goes along that lines: A majority of climate 'experts' interpret data about global warming in a way that suggest CO2 produced by man as 'cause' for this effect. Critics of this interpretation are called 'climate sceptics', and are often pushed into one corner with conspiracy theorists and similar loonies.
The simplified discourse, popularised by George W Bush (you're either with us, or you're a climate sceptic terrorist), helps picking a site. The polarisation follows also the diversion between Dawkinists and religious fundamentalists. 'Science' backs the side of doomsday salesmen, and in our o so rational society one cannot seriously doubt the findings of science, right?
Interestingly, 'science' also backs the other side, so both sides get busy accusing each other of 'wrong science'. Luckily for us, who will have to pay for whatever lunacy is presented as 'solution' to this 'problem', the wise maintainers of our tax money have taken sides for us. They chose the side that allows them to collect more money for their uncontrollable disposal.
I confess my interest in global affairs, I believe my existence as human being entitles me to live where ever I want you, unfortunately this complicated phase of the evolution of human society denies me this natural birth right. The pleasures of every day life, however, require resources from all the world, I think it's quite absurd that the component of the computer I'm typing this rant on might have travelled further around this globe than I have so far. We can no longer distinguish easily 'local produce' and 'globally sourced' products, most manifactured products use materials from all over the world. You need to a lot of ignorance to deny the global interconnectedness of modern life.
Australia owns one of this valuable resources for an industrialised society: coal. It does not help this part of Australia's economy much to have this market taken away by penalising the use of coal for its CO2 emissions. All of a sudden the clear dichotomy of 'right' and 'wrong' science concerning an intangible problem gets mixed up with tangible local business interests, so that discussion of the topic itself degenerate to the usual rhetorical mud slinging.
When we talk about 'global climate', we mean a phenomena happening in a layer roughly 20 km wide above the surface of this planet. Powered by the energy coming from the sun, the 510 million square kilometer surface area interact with the gaseous layer above, distributing water around the globe. Roughly 70 percent of this surface area consists of water, up to 11 km deep, and weather phenomena are obviously linked to this watery quality.
But science does not really understand how this complex interaction develops. The sheer size of the object of scientific prophecy makes long term predictions very doubtable. Mankind has a natural interest in weather phenomena, agricultural societies depend on knowledge of the chance of seasons and the most likely accompanying weather patterns. But we can not seriously claim to have sufficient data of the relevant variables collected to come up with really good model.
In the political debate the focus lays on CO2, sometimes Methan rears its smelly head in discussions as well. Calling these chemicals greenhouse gases creates convenient self fulfilling prophecies: Doomsday is neigh!
But how do we know about the 'effect' of CO2, and how do we do know how much CO2 is in our atmosphere? Remember, we're talking about the volume of our planetary atmosphere, stretching 20km up from a surface of 510 million square kilometers. Pretty big, eh? The only thing possible is sampling, but without clear understanding of the system itself we can hardly estimate what information the samples really carry.
The best observed variable in this game is temperature, and that's where most panic is hinged around. We can observe an increase in average temperatures in different areas of this planet, and swamped islands provide obvious evidence for a rise of the sea level. Yet even the increase in average temperatures depends on the timescale and areas selected, a lot of pseudo scientific arguments are build on skewed data.
The alleged stop in trend of warming lately, which didn't help to break the current drought in Victoria, might be just the use of rough science. Changing the global albedo by chemtrails reduces the amount of solar energy that heats the surface, but without knowing what really happens in the upper layers of our atmosphere deliberately experimenting with nukes and chemicals does not really look like a good idea.
Reducing the amount of toxins we release into the atmosphere, produced by cars, power plants and industry seems like a better idea. If you ever lived next to a coal power plant, or in an area with heavy industry, or in a city overcrowded by cars, you'll instinctively know that this stuff is not really good for the survival of our species. The current target of panicky hyperactivity coincides with those polluters of our more immediate environment, which still fails to convince me about the simple 'more Co2 = more warming = global chaos soon' formula.
I can identify with the alleged targets, reducing the amount of dirt produced by burning fossil fuels, globally, yet I still don't buy into the simplified fallacies promoted with it. I deny to panic if 'nothing happens to tackle the problem'. I rather panic when a trading scheme gets implemented. It looks either ignorant or stupid or brazen to me to praise a financial product as solution to an ecological problem, especially in a year that showed the detrimental effects of inventing monetary schemes. Markets were always quite mysterious 'beings', now they can even cure the climate. Hooray, long live the age of reason.
Science is just not advanced enough to give a reliable prognosis about the development of climate for 50 or 100 years. I don't dare the leap of faith to base my current and future decisions on the prophecies of these kind of 'experts', especially if they attack such a massive problem. Science investigated most of the time dead matter, exploring and understanding of living systems as a systematic part of science is much younger than the time scales spanned by their prognosis.
The idea of the planet as a living system is not intellectual property of the scientific community, they could no longer deny the public interest in the experiental reality of life. Spiritual communities around the globe have no problem considering the planet as living being, although couldn't properly recite any specific story of this type.
So to distract from the fruitless intergroup competition about the meme global warming I ask Mother Earth to inspire me to tell the 'real story' about climate change.
After its birth, given by the sun, young mother earth circled playful around her own father. Looking for expression, she spit out lava, sending her tentacles into the atmosphere around her skins. The outburst of lava, at different places, created a fiery symphony of mother earth's breath. Soon her breath moistened, and fell back on her skin, bringing the four elements together.
The play of fire and water provided pleasure for mother earth, happily humming in sight of her heavenly father. O lovely daughter, her father said, I will nurture you for the rest of my life, but you will have to learn to keep my love. I send you out with enough energy to play with, Unlike me, you cannot shine from the inside, but glow on my rays. Enjoy the ride.
Mother earth felt her skin, hardened surfaces poking out of swaying oceans, and tried to sense the connection to her source. Without heat, the pleasant bubblyness she bathed in, would cease. Bacteria were her first messengers sensing the presence of her father, using his energy to transmit the good news.
Sensing her fathers presence filled her with joy, so mother earth wanted to connect more to gift of her father. Her senses became more complex, and with it her wisdom about the wonders of life. Capturing her fathers energy requires a delicate balance, and sometimes her breath poisened the atmosphere, making the skin shiny by layers of ice.
Her endless desire for more beauty and love for her father made mother earth experimental. Her senses worked independent, creating more and more complexly interconnected balanced systems. But those sensors capable of choosing to merge with the beauty of all life can also choose to destroy the balance required for their own survival.
Mother earth likes diversity, capturing her father's rays in myriad of ways. That makes her feel warm, buzzing, cosy, vibrant, alive. Many species happily became mother earth companions, mankind seems close to make up its group mind whether to go for beauty or destruction.
Millions of years pass away fast for mother earth, having a little fever doesn't disconnect her from her father. A disconnected acting mankind destroys the balance for its own survival, and the tool will be Global Government.
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Saturday, March 21, 2009
I declare hereby unauthorized that something went wrong when transcribing the sanskrit word 'om' into latin letters. OWNG, which coincidentally also means 'One World No Government', is the correct way of meditating about it. I have spoken. Time for some video entertainment from 1983.
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