Re: US space policy
Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 3:22 am
Dear FM No Static At All ,
I know there is a particular mind-set at play around current technological implementations, that mind-set meshes with the expansion of "corporate" powers and even reaches into the governmental policy arenas . It is not a particularly benign attitude, partly because the pecuniary interest is not generally so , but also because of the very constrained and constraining nature of the technological and information paradigm.
Like you I am very concerned with the "fascist" undercurrents and with the continuing disenfranchisement of civil society within corporate/governmental process which is not connected much for the enabling and positioning of self determination, freedom and opportunity , and which does not put anything worthwhile into the hands of the masses .
But unlike you I do not see the implementation of a forward looking space policy as being a function that will primarily benefit corporate activities . I do feel that it is very possible that one type of space policy format could be created that would contain only support structures for government interests , for military interests, and for for corporate interests , but for no other .
However that is not the type or style of a better space policy treaty as represented by "International Space Systems Treaty ISST " which is targeted to achieve several clear and alternative conditions. One of the reasons why ISST is important is because it will block any attempt to either militarize space or to obtain a one sided international governmental/corporate space treaty charter that does not include a civil society basis and developmental attributes.
ISST seeks civil society representation and participation through e-government process and through protected treaty level data-based facilities. ISST seeks an equalization of space utilities and space systems , governmental funding and civil society interests into the several and primary space based attributes and usages, for security, for commerce, for scientific research and space exploration, for near earth observation and.the environment and probably what is most important of all for civil society utilizations within cultural outreach, medias, e-government and educational agendas. ISST seeks the security, enhancement and growth of both civil societies and the individual through well designated, authorized and properly protected data-based informational attributes. Another purpose of ISST is to establish as you suggest "a global commonality within which respect and care for the fragile environment can flourish".
A new paradigm can surely be obtained on a personal level as you have stated , indeed many feel that is the most important and only possible way to create real change . For me I feel there are some other approaches, more mundane ones, but of genuine value. One of these approaches into a global paradigm shift can presently be attempted by an enlightened "international space policy", which if properly designed and properly implemented will certainly be able to reduce and eliminate warfares , conflicts and proliferation and achieve many other good effects for a wide spectrum of civil society and public policy conditions.
I would agree with you that all are entitled to life and to love and that all cultures have equal value and equal right to exist , but I know that this is not a proper reality. Some situations are bad ones, some cultures are also bad and destructive , and because of those differences people will always attempt to right those wrongs and to release people from suffering in those ways .
Everything is not equal, some part of everything is better that the other part of everything . That perspective is not a logical one and of course it is not philosophically or scientifically correct or even PC. Yet even if "everything" can't actually be divided, there will always be personal choice.
A free will society exists when general prosperity and adequate state provisions permits and encourages those conducive and ontologically secure conditions within which an individual can undertake a personal journey for self-sufficiency accord to conscience , belief and inclination.
I believe that ISST offers a new paradigm to all of humanity , I have described the treaty platform as being door to the "Information Age " because I believe in the tremendous potential of communications, data and computational methadologies for universal problem- solving contingencies . ISST seeks to harness this important potential in service of mankind everywhere.
I agree the difference for a paradigm shift in this way has to be bigger than self . For ISST it must include the best of what science can undertake, the kindest and best of what humanism and philosophy can bring and the interest and participation of people across the US and following on from that, from peoples across the world.
I am not much of an example, just an individual , maybe even a "maverick " which seems to be a fashionable term just now, but I have a few small skills , a few incomplete insights and some good motivation . I am prepared to light the fuse now, and that is what I am trying to do, busy writing papers for space conferences , going to hearings at NASA and so on . Still like a rocketship, there are only two routes actually available.
If this doesn't work out ie; if ISST topic does not get into Congress and Senate within the next few months , say by February, then I intend to finish up my book on the subject and let fate take it's course, having done everything I could for intervention, and made what intellectual contributions that were possible from my side. I have gone grey already, Marjorie Zamora has fared far worse than me , I fear this enterprise has killed her perhaps, but she knew that might happen and even so she was prepared to accept responsibility.
I wept when I started this journey in 2004, because I realized that people have nothing, so little that they had to find me ( whom am totally unqualified ) to do this task . I have nothing much either , but even that little was vast in comparison to the total destitution of a bankrupted human society . Yes if things go badly, they/we might all be extinct in a few generations.
"Ultra violet radiation and toxic pollution will eventually sterilize the unborn generations, but it will deform them first. Only the mega-rich will hang onto to the edges as we go down, nurturing the test tube progeny inside the catacombs of the nitrogen frozen space mausoleums ".
I wept when I understood, because I love this world, even if I am not here after I am dead. I still want to see it flourish and to support and sustain human life.
I know this is not a proper attitude, I should be probably be pleased because it is ending , as it is just a lot of awful suffering anyway, but I still desire the human condition again and again, infinitely for ever.
It occurred to me that if the end ( extinction ) was coming soon anyway and it was inevitable , then what was the justification for ISST? Then I decided that it was a good way for people to demonstrate at the end of human time, what they always wanted to understand , and what they always sought , so they they finally did come to love each other and that made them happier as they went forwards into the great destruction.
But we will always struggle for survival , so perhaps ISST will give us the advanced tools needed we will need for that , and then the inevitable cataclysm will be diverted and will not happen.
Well it might just not happen anyway , what do I know , but making some policy structures to identify and contain an unknown quantity or quality seems like a good idea just now .
Just when you think you have a handle on a problem it turns round and hits you in the face.
Love Amalie
Amalie
I know there is a particular mind-set at play around current technological implementations, that mind-set meshes with the expansion of "corporate" powers and even reaches into the governmental policy arenas . It is not a particularly benign attitude, partly because the pecuniary interest is not generally so , but also because of the very constrained and constraining nature of the technological and information paradigm.
Like you I am very concerned with the "fascist" undercurrents and with the continuing disenfranchisement of civil society within corporate/governmental process which is not connected much for the enabling and positioning of self determination, freedom and opportunity , and which does not put anything worthwhile into the hands of the masses .
But unlike you I do not see the implementation of a forward looking space policy as being a function that will primarily benefit corporate activities . I do feel that it is very possible that one type of space policy format could be created that would contain only support structures for government interests , for military interests, and for for corporate interests , but for no other .
However that is not the type or style of a better space policy treaty as represented by "International Space Systems Treaty ISST " which is targeted to achieve several clear and alternative conditions. One of the reasons why ISST is important is because it will block any attempt to either militarize space or to obtain a one sided international governmental/corporate space treaty charter that does not include a civil society basis and developmental attributes.
ISST seeks civil society representation and participation through e-government process and through protected treaty level data-based facilities. ISST seeks an equalization of space utilities and space systems , governmental funding and civil society interests into the several and primary space based attributes and usages, for security, for commerce, for scientific research and space exploration, for near earth observation and.the environment and probably what is most important of all for civil society utilizations within cultural outreach, medias, e-government and educational agendas. ISST seeks the security, enhancement and growth of both civil societies and the individual through well designated, authorized and properly protected data-based informational attributes. Another purpose of ISST is to establish as you suggest "a global commonality within which respect and care for the fragile environment can flourish".
A new paradigm can surely be obtained on a personal level as you have stated , indeed many feel that is the most important and only possible way to create real change . For me I feel there are some other approaches, more mundane ones, but of genuine value. One of these approaches into a global paradigm shift can presently be attempted by an enlightened "international space policy", which if properly designed and properly implemented will certainly be able to reduce and eliminate warfares , conflicts and proliferation and achieve many other good effects for a wide spectrum of civil society and public policy conditions.
I would agree with you that all are entitled to life and to love and that all cultures have equal value and equal right to exist , but I know that this is not a proper reality. Some situations are bad ones, some cultures are also bad and destructive , and because of those differences people will always attempt to right those wrongs and to release people from suffering in those ways .
Everything is not equal, some part of everything is better that the other part of everything . That perspective is not a logical one and of course it is not philosophically or scientifically correct or even PC. Yet even if "everything" can't actually be divided, there will always be personal choice.
A free will society exists when general prosperity and adequate state provisions permits and encourages those conducive and ontologically secure conditions within which an individual can undertake a personal journey for self-sufficiency accord to conscience , belief and inclination.
I believe that ISST offers a new paradigm to all of humanity , I have described the treaty platform as being door to the "Information Age " because I believe in the tremendous potential of communications, data and computational methadologies for universal problem- solving contingencies . ISST seeks to harness this important potential in service of mankind everywhere.
I agree the difference for a paradigm shift in this way has to be bigger than self . For ISST it must include the best of what science can undertake, the kindest and best of what humanism and philosophy can bring and the interest and participation of people across the US and following on from that, from peoples across the world.
I am not much of an example, just an individual , maybe even a "maverick " which seems to be a fashionable term just now, but I have a few small skills , a few incomplete insights and some good motivation . I am prepared to light the fuse now, and that is what I am trying to do, busy writing papers for space conferences , going to hearings at NASA and so on . Still like a rocketship, there are only two routes actually available.
If this doesn't work out ie; if ISST topic does not get into Congress and Senate within the next few months , say by February, then I intend to finish up my book on the subject and let fate take it's course, having done everything I could for intervention, and made what intellectual contributions that were possible from my side. I have gone grey already, Marjorie Zamora has fared far worse than me , I fear this enterprise has killed her perhaps, but she knew that might happen and even so she was prepared to accept responsibility.
I wept when I started this journey in 2004, because I realized that people have nothing, so little that they had to find me ( whom am totally unqualified ) to do this task . I have nothing much either , but even that little was vast in comparison to the total destitution of a bankrupted human society . Yes if things go badly, they/we might all be extinct in a few generations.
"Ultra violet radiation and toxic pollution will eventually sterilize the unborn generations, but it will deform them first. Only the mega-rich will hang onto to the edges as we go down, nurturing the test tube progeny inside the catacombs of the nitrogen frozen space mausoleums ".
I wept when I understood, because I love this world, even if I am not here after I am dead. I still want to see it flourish and to support and sustain human life.
I know this is not a proper attitude, I should be probably be pleased because it is ending , as it is just a lot of awful suffering anyway, but I still desire the human condition again and again, infinitely for ever.
It occurred to me that if the end ( extinction ) was coming soon anyway and it was inevitable , then what was the justification for ISST? Then I decided that it was a good way for people to demonstrate at the end of human time, what they always wanted to understand , and what they always sought , so they they finally did come to love each other and that made them happier as they went forwards into the great destruction.
But we will always struggle for survival , so perhaps ISST will give us the advanced tools needed we will need for that , and then the inevitable cataclysm will be diverted and will not happen.
Well it might just not happen anyway , what do I know , but making some policy structures to identify and contain an unknown quantity or quality seems like a good idea just now .
Just when you think you have a handle on a problem it turns round and hits you in the face.
Love Amalie
Amalie