Sunday, March 25, 2007

Do you…

turn off the water while soaping or shampooing?

power down electrical equipment when not in use?

watch the portions of food to avoid to be forced to throw it away?

chose the smaller car to save fuel?

pay a higher price for goods produced ecofriendly, for fair trade?

do without glamour and glitter, without luxury and prodigality, without being bootlicked and spoiled?

Oh, yes, i hear you...

why should you? You can afford to waste water, energy, food and chemistry. You can do it – so you will do it...

you’ll visit Vegas or Dubai or Ayers Rock without considering the waste of energy and water – because you can, you have the money, you have the power...

and you have to show that you can...

why?

Can’t you feel the suffering of the Iraqi people for your fuel, the wailing of the starving children because their food is sold to you, the suicide farmers of India because your free market stole their life, the thirsty people of China because their waters are used for your industry?

Oh, yes, i hear you...

why should you? They are losers, you are the winner, you get what you deserve – and they get, what they deserve, you get the wealth and health, they get the death...

and i bet, you believe, that you will belong to the “winners” of Global Warming, too...

because for you, there will always be a place with fresh water, cozy climate, clean air, healthy food and servile slaves, even when Mother Earth collapses...

so why should you stop wasting other people’s living conditions?

Sunday, March 18, 2007

ULS

Ultra-Large-Scale Systems…

quote from the report:
Like a biological ecosystem, a ULS system comprises a dynamic community of interdependent and competing organisms (in this case, people, computing devices, and organizations) in a complex and changing environment.
...research is needed
to understand other models, such as open source, that involve Fostering Non-Competitive Social Collaboration.”

to repeat: “Non-Competitive Social Collaboration” – that, what mammals cannot do, mammals, which are dominated by alpha males, because in case that competition is your entrance to reproduction, you will never give it up – basic law of nature, called “reproductive instinct", often stronger even than the survival instinct.

quote from the report:
”Orchestration involves management and administration but at a scale well beyond that of traditional, centralized,
relatively fine-grained controls.”

beyond “traditional, centralized, relatively fine-grained controls”?

Simply means beyond the usual human structures of leaders and followers, of commanders and subordinates, of masters and slaves...

Written for the DOD...

but accepting, that only “Non-Competitive Social Collaboration” might be able to solve the conundrum of the unmanageable complex systems...

isn’t that just a joke? The final realization of competition – warriors – need their own antipodes to “do their job”. Lol.

Ok, ok – the report is focused on IT, but the problem of humankind is the same – an unmanageable complex system, only able to spread poison and destruction, but now forced by Mother Nature herself to work more efficiently together to overcome problems like Global Warming...

Poor mammals...

Reminds you of A Plot for a Science Fiction Novel, Red Moon, On the Tombstone of Humankind – too little and too late, On the Edge of History or Land of the Dead?

Q.E.D

Sunday, March 11, 2007

A Plot for a Science Fiction Novel

Sometimes i am asked how things could be changed for a better. Yes, some people listen when i talk about the Human Future and the way, evolution has designed for this species by the invention of language – the first evolutionary step between individuals – and the human programming of less dominance and violence towards more justice...

because justice is just a state of interaction – the most efficient one – and because the two great nations following the Law of the Strongest and the Dictate of Profit, USA and China, not only great global players but great global poisoners, prove easily that injust behavior is inefficient behavior...

prove that not caring about environment and people destroys both environment and people.

Ok, if you are a only a Davos Man, you cannot consider the consequences of your actions, because these consequenses are always to be borne by others, by the Chinese Slaves, so easily fired, when the cheap work take its terrible toll on them, by the victims of floods and droughts, by the jobless and the homeless..

by the “human waste” the mighty Davos Men so carelessly “produce” without thinking about what so many betrayed, desperate people may do in the end...

because if you are rich, you don’t have to eat and drink and breathe like others, you just have to pay and all is fine.

“Ahem”, say the people, who listen to me,

“that’s the Status Quo:

an overpopulated world, where the Great Moloch 'human species' is everywhere, devouring everything in its path, leaving nothing behind than desert and waste...

a Great Moloch of single individuals, destroying everything together but avoiding (or not being able?) to act and think together – each cell on its own ignoring the own future and the future of the children...

a cancer of the Earth, ruled itself by the Davos Men (the most successfull cancer cells, confusing their growth with the 'ability to survive')...

and that is where it must go:

bettering communication between individuals to reach the next level of evolution, the Next Generation, able to avoid destruction by thinking and working together for more efficiency – due to the fact that efficiency is indispensable because an overpopulated species needing food or tools and removal of waste, forced (by physics) to use just finite resources has to care not only for effectivity (for results), but also for the clever handling of all the used stuff – simply because only cycles are survivable in nature ...”

hey, Davos Men, you may not be able to understand it – but physics is not bribable. You cannot create water, air and a vibrant Gaia, offering food and medicine, with green paper...

“So”, ask the few people, who listen to me – “how could it be done? How could we prevail upon the selfish people ruled by blind greed (the successful called 'rich', the not so sucessful called 'criminals') to demand what Mother Nature programmed in our head: sometimes to sacrifice for someone else than ourselves, sometimes to care for someone else than ourselves, sometimes to consider the consequences of our actions for someone else? You know the answer”, they say to me – “'but the other one did/has it also', the answer will be. The answer of children when they get less then the other, and so they will not stop to ignore future. They will not do it if they are poor, because they are too busy to survive and they will not do it if they are rich, because they are too busy to get more than others to build the biggest banana heap...

and then?”

I don’t have an answer. I think about brains and how their knowledge depend on their individual experience (by design of active information processing), even sharpened by the “optimization” during childhood, when the brain adjusts itself according to the current environment...

i think about the basic violence in mammals, which accepts rape as “valid strategy” of reproduction because “it works”, structural violence, which uses male competition to reject most of the male individuals in favor of the Highlander principle – the Law of the Strongest as the strategy of improvement...

and then i think of brains – how they learn by experience...

so the brain of mammals always will learn, that “violence works”...

do you see it?

That is – per definitionem – asocial behavior. The future of Humankind, based on language and the “new programming” of lesser dominance and lesser violence calls for another way: the way to MORE social behavior, more group intelligence.

Is the gap too far? The gap between what is and what should be? The inheritance of the body too strong for the “young” freedom of the brain?

I guess, it is – i bet, the Next Generation will not be based on mammals. The Next Generation, the one who may reach the stars, will be successors of crows or ravens or some other intelligent birds, because they know something like “love”, since the first step to a social life is to be able to respect your mate, i guess – something a species of “Highlanders”, Sheiks and other owners of harems, may they be lions or bulls or rams, cannot offer...

so imagine the “Time After” in some thousand years, when the Great Moloch is defeated and vanished from the face of Earth, when life found a way to recycle the poison and brought back information (= regularity and steadiness) and some crows have survived – then they might found an Earth without big terrestrial enemies (as the mammals did after the fall of the dinosaurs) and come back on earth, reshaping their wings to hands to be able to use tools...

imagine that: their capable brains, currently already much more capable than the brains of the early mammals – and their more social “construction”. So they will have a chance to reach the next level after language...

but that is not the plot i thought about...

the plot i thought about, which requires a fantasy author to be written?

It is just the fairy tale which brings us from the Davos Men to the Deciders, from the asocial Chimp societies to the survivable human societies, from the Moloch to the Avatar of Gaia...

i cannot see how it could be...

can you?

Then write the story of the survival of humankind, please...

Sunday, March 04, 2007

Red Moon

Yesterday i watched the Red Moon…

i know, the Moon leaves us – and i know that the Moon is the one condition which makes the Earth unique (at least “more unique” than just a sun and a planet of the right dimensions) – so i know when the Moon leaves us, highly developed life may also leave the Earth. And of course, immediately the “rescue attempts” started: What will we do, when...???

you know, the American Way of Solution – stop a comet with the thumb of a “real Superman”, preferably an action actor like Bruce Willis or Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Yesterday i watched the Red Moon...

and i thought about the beauty of physics: the stars shone bright and the full moon seem to watch me watching the sky...

and i remembered a discussion the day before – about human future and how hard it is to convince people that we truly are on the edge of darkness...

and that actually...

no one cares. No one wants to make the first step and give up things others still have...

and because the rich people will never give up anything for anybody else than themselves (you know: "It is harder for a camel to go through a needle's eye than it is for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven.")...

it is simply unlikely that humankind will be able to do what it has to do to survive...

because to destroy, to kill, murder, rape and poison – humankind is perfectly able to “work together”...

but to build, construct, protect and care? Oh no! That’s always the job of someone else!

No, i fear, mammals burdened by the unholy marriage of violence and sex, of lust and power, are basically not able to overcome selfishness – when competence is the only motor of your actions, when the next step in the career is not just a step in life, but the assurance to be allowed to reproduce yourself, when the dictate of the genes rules the daily life...

then you don’t have the chance to act intelligently...

not as species...

or will YOU – YOU YOURSELF – be the first to beat your inner chimp?

The first to drive the smaller car? The first to live in the smaller house? The first to earn less money, just for the sake of your co-workers? The first to eat the regional food instead of the exotic fruits? The first to buy the more expensive fair trade products? The first to go on holiday in the own country just to save aviation fuel?

Oh no, don’t tell me, you do that...

because there is always your inner chimp, whispering that the little bit YOU do consume and waste doesn’t matter...

because chimps can’t count...

because chimps will never understand, that even teeny tiny little bits count in case of 6,555,000,000 (Population Mid-2006) consumers and wasters...

but chimps understand competition – and when you drive the smaller car and offer the lesser income and the unimposing den (house), the female chimps will not sell you sex, will not choose you for reproduction...

so the mammal gene will not allow you to do what has to be done – act responsibly. To “fill the earth”, to make as much offspring as possible is more important than to care for them, to watch over the children you decided to bring into this world...

you prefer to kiss them with the Judas kiss – prefer to play loving parent but not be able to sacrifice superficial negligibilities, because your neighbor doesn’t sacrifice it...

the first rule of Chimps is to care for oneself - so they try to dominate others, to have more power than others, to be able to defend themselves against the envy and greed of others and get what the others have and want...

doesn’t matter what it is, doesn’t matter what it costs...

subdue the Earth and have dominion over everything!

That’s how mammals are, you can’t change them...

and so the rich will never care for the poor – and the poor will never care for their children – and all will never ever care for the whole...

and so???

Yesterday i watched the Red Moon…

and i thought, that humankind doesn’t have to worry if and when the Moon will leave the Earth...

because the intelligent species living at that time will not be successors of mammals – my bet are birds, btw – and so they may be able to work together, use their intelligence not just for the own sake, the own profit and career, not just to steal from others to get more power or rape others to get more sex or destroy what others did only to deny them success ...

using their intelligence not to diminish but to increase knowledge, wealth and skills together, for everyone, because everyone profits from that (principle of Open Source, btw)...

and therefore they may already have invented star ships...

so i guess, the higher intelligence of the next Avatar of Gaia will protect it and its future...

because that is what intelligence is for...

to preserve and to protect....

now and in the future

Yesterday i watched the Red Moon…