Phantastische Wissenschaft als Leitwissenschaft - und das
Internet
Unser Protagonist ist unter 30. Er bewegt sich im Zentrum der
Kommunikationsindustrie, er hat als ein Silicon Valley Tycoon Milliarden gemacht.
Jetzt ist er ausgestiegen und seit kurzem dabei, unter dem Namen 'International
Space Sciences Organization' mit hunderten von Millionen Dollar Stiftungen
usw. ins Leben zu rufen. Es geht ihm, wenn ich es recht verstehe, um folgendes:
Er will die Möglichkeit eines globalen Paradigmenwechsels (peace, ecology,
ethics) erzählen - vor dem Hintergrund einer Umwälzung unseres kosmologischen
Weltbildes, die nur mit der Kopernikanischen Wende zu vergleichen ist. Er
benutzt dabei Vorstellungen, Bilder und 'Einsichten' aus den Reservoiren der
Massenkultur (aus Star Trek, Akte X, 'Contact', Science Fiction generell).
Er hat - in seiner leichten Verrücktheit - damit begonnen, für sich selbst
die Geschichte von Religion und Wissenschaft neu zu schreiben. Seine Schriften
sind gegenwärtig vor allem deshalb bemerkenswert, weil sie einen der umfassendsten
Textkörper (u.a. ein Buch von 600 Seiten) auf dem Internet darstellen,
eigens aufwendig für diese Darstellungsform aufbereitet. Internet, TV
und Spielfilmproduktion stehen auf seinem Programm. In seiner religiösen
tour d'horizon werden Topoi wie 'Heiligkeit', 'Offenbarung', 'Lehre' mit den
modernen Mythen um 'extraterrestrials' verwoben. Seine 'phantastische Wissenschaft'
ruht auf den neuesten Erkenntnissen der Astrophysik und Kosmologie. Ernsthaft
wird das alles u.a. wegen seiner Rolle innerhalb der neuen 'Cyber-Eliten'.
So steht er beispielsweise auf der exklusiven Liste der 'Global Leaders for
Tomorrow' des World Economic Forum (Davos). (HJK)
Das US-Verteidigungsministerium hatte Firmage und andere VIPs
im Mai 1999, während des Jugoslawien-Konflikts, zu einem mehrtägigen
Besuch militärischer Einrichtungen eingeladen. Hier sein Kommentar, der seinen
Gastgebern nicht unbedingt gefallen haben dürfte (aus
'A New Millenium'):
"We have been embroiled in conflict in Europe because our international
systems of government do not presently possess the vision to implement a stable
global society of people passionate about the concept of peace within diversity.
- Humanity does not yet see the totality of its common bond. We do not understand
that each of us is the same form of animal regardless of our individual physical
traits, beliefs, or customs. We do not understand that even our commonality
in species is insignificant in comparison to our commonality with all things
in the Cosmos. We do not realize that all forms in the Cosmos are simply patterns
of energy, or patterns of "force in motion". We do not see that the only true
religion is one of which every being within the Cosmos is obviously already
a member. Instead of worshiping our diversity, we choose to eviscerate it,
convinced that "my god is better than yours", when it is obvious that God
is common to all things. We've built massive systems to irradiate each other,
infect each other, and shoot lead into each others' bodies because we've chosen
to hate our differences. We are seemingly incapable of envisioning and teaching
a common system of ethical fundamentals that can span across all faiths, sciences,
cultures and species. - Humanity as a system refuses to invest its wealth
back into its youth and its Earth. We are willing to spend a quarter trillion
dollars a year on Armed Forces prepared to tackle symptomatic crises while
not seeing that a force of such scale and sophisticated operational prowess
could be chartered anew as an organization for world education and peaceful
assistance, striking at the heart of root causes of human pain. And it could
be done with the greatest pride, as an organizational first step towards total
social experience of Space and Earth. - Does this mean that I argue in behalf
of a "pacifist" society? Of course, and as a goal, not simply a vision. Please,
tell me what other kind of world you would prefer to live in? Tell me of a
weapon system we have made which will not ultimately fall into the hands of
a terrorist? How many millions of death warrants have already been thus sealed?
For all the powers of our Armed Forces, I learned one fact for certain on
my trip across the branches of our military: they will never be able to eliminate
the increasingly potent threat of a single fearful individual (let alone nation)
equipped with any technology of mass destruction, obtained for the right price.
- Humans do not yet politically or socially understand that "truth" and "love"
are principles of conscious evolution, and violation of these principles will
bring inevitable consequence. We therefore do not preach from our bully pulpits
that peace is the ultimate power and the ultimate ideal. - Humanity continues
to institutionalize conflict and unbridled competition. Graduating beyond
the days of using chains and ropes to bind limbs, we now have made invisible
and electronic the evidence of enslavement and waste from our competitive
activity, cutting ever lower into the tree of the biosphere. We are governed
by an increasingly conscious system of economics whose genetic priorities
are unbounded by Nature. While brilliantly organizing human activity with
a certain degree of freedom, it is not a self-sufficient cyclical system.
What investors take from the Earth through our corporations is not being returned
to the Earth."
