Re: Where Are You? Still On Planet Earth!
Date:
Sat, 12 Jun 1999 01:36:40 -0400
From:
George Drews
To:
Franz Lee
Hello Jutta & Franz,
I'm not sure ! I seem to be surrounded by aliens ... so the
conclusion is : I'm actually the alien !
As for my non response: I've been preparing some Togo actions here
in Düsseldorf.
Tomorrow (Saturday) I'll have the first one in the inner-city. And
on
Tuesday morning
I'll be flying to friends in Cameroon (holiday) for about 3 weeks.
About my date thing: it's because the battery of my computer is
broken, so the time always stands still while it's not running !
My response to Jutta's letter is rather short: Amen !
Jutta, you've done a brilliant job. Jutta, are you sure you're not
a
sister of Franz ?
But as always I've got a little remark : there's something that came
to
my mind when I read the passage about science and the "either-or"-
system: in physics there are different models to describe the behaviour
of very small (quantum-) matter : the wave-model and the corpuscular-model).
But none of them is really adequate enough to describe reality, that's
why there are quantum-objects that behave in one situation according to
the corpuscular-model (AND NOT according to the wave-model), in another
situation according the wave-model (AND NOT according to the corpuscular-model)
and in yet another situation according to both models. The so called "scientific"
way to describe the physical reality is, as one can see, not that appropriate
after all.
And it's not only the evaluation by human beings that does not work
too good with "either - or", but nature too. Probably the evolution
of thought implemented in us a too linear perception and conclusion.
And here's something about my biography:
-born 1966,
-study of "Techno-Mathematics" which included: Mathematics,
Informatics and Electrical Engineering.
-finishing the study-program with a Diploma degree in Mathematics
(in 1995)
- working as a software-developer from 1986 until 1996
- working since 1996 in the Civil Service (in an institute of the
Ministry of Building and Construction of NRW) as
Controller (economics)
- having a 2-year education for a non-medical practitioner
(Heilpraktiker)
- working for Amnesty International since mid-1998 mainly in the
area of looking after refugees and asylum seekers
- trying to study Economics, Politics and Philosophy since Jan. 1999
(don't have enough time to make the necessary progress)
- knowing a nice guy somewhere in South America (in the
mountains
?) who is a Professor of Philosophy,
- he's got a nice women too, but I don't know about their offspring,
if
they have any (don't worry, I gave up hunting !)
I still didn't see any response of Franz on Carl Zimmerman's writing
on "Intuitive Philosophy".
Here are some of my thoughts:
1. Carl Zimmerman is a real warrior
2. didn't quite understand the conclusion
"loosing an information-war" could lead to a "1984"-like
surveillance of society.
This scenario is from my point of view not applicable
to the
economically "poor" countries.
3. I guess every manager would agree to Carl's strategy about
"knowing yourself" and
"knowing your enemies". But I'm always questioning
myself,
whether WE (humanity) can achieve
any "positive progress" if the core of economics
is "maximum
profit", no matter what price the
others have to pay.
So from my point of view it's not only the personal-
and political
relations that should be
more peacefully, but just as well the economic ones.
Yes, I know that it's not merely the managers who
would have to
modify their value-system,
but of course our society, which includes
of course politicians.
And one thing is for sure: this has nothing to do
with democracy!
We, the bloody Europeans, call ourselves democratic,
but EUROPE
shows his dirty bottom
(den schmutzigen Hintern) to everybody who
wants a tiny part of
the wealth-cake that has been,
and still is being baked by sucking the sweet
milk out of the
coconuts of poorer countries.
My motto is : More "fair" trade and
more solidarity!
I know I used a lot of words that are V E
R Y subjective and
diffuse.
Especially "positive progress" can be interpreted
in a million
different ways.
So, Jutta and Franz, please tell me what you
would understand
under "positive progress" for humanity.
Sending lot's of "positive" greetings from Düsseldorf
George
[Comment of Franz on "positive
progress" or "positive
action" or "positive attitude",
in another context:
June 23, 1999
"It is sometimes difficult
to make "positive" suggestions, or to keep the "good spirit" high, because
this is exactly the field where current ideology brainwashes the people,
bamboozles them with false hopes, excites wishes and desires which can
never materialize, blindfolds them to "happy ends", and a "brilliant future";
when, in fact, daily they are just being discriminated, dominated and exploited
to the utmost. When they know in what they are born, and that they
will die "poor", unless a miracle occurs, then, they would be much better
off, and would live their earthly reality in another way, would enjoy it
better, more sober, and would live more creatively and productively; in
other words, fully conscious of their misery and real possible joys, void
of the artificial, virtual-real desires and pseudo-fulfilment which
the very industrial capitalist system forever offers, and which it promises
for the next millennium, and the promise will never be kept in millenniums.
Because this is true, we overstress the negative, because the system does
the rest everyday:
glorifying "positive action"."]
JUTTA'S ANSWER:
Subject:
George-Stew...
Date:
Fri. 11 Jun 1999 22:17:13 -0400
From:
Franz Lee
To:
George Drews
Franz Lee
Hello George,
... and watch out that they don't
convert you
into "George Stews" out
there in Baffour-Land, man! On
the Quantum
Physics matter: Quite a
"coincidence" that I have been
circling around
that topic again just in
the last couple of days, as it
seems our method
is almost "objectivated"
or "materialized" in the wave-particle
relation
as postulated by
Heisenberg and Born. Unfortunately
my knowledge
on the matter is only
rudimentary, if not to say deficient.
Perhaps
you can help, George. I've
been trying to find the corresponding
Physics
Theory to what Chaos
Theory represents or seems to represent
in the
mathematical realm. I
thought Quantum Theory might be
the "match",
but "der Groschen ist noch
nicht gefallen", due to
lack of understanding
and precise knowledge of
the matter. I have some rough ideas,
that is
all for now. So any
comments, observations, ideas,
Geisteblitze,
doubts, whatever you might
have, I would be pleased if you
could share
them with me and help to
update that "black hole" I have.
(Can you also
comment on the first part
of my article to Carl on Space
Colonization and
Chaos Theory, please? -
Franz sent it to you a few days
ago)
Do take care and send us some smoke
signals
from Cameroon (never mind
the "no-smoking" signs...). Franz
says, perhaps
you can paste us some
relicts (or fossils) from what
is left of Carl
Peters, the past German
arch-colonist, so we can e-mail
them to Carl
Zimmerman, the future
space-colonist, for further inspiration,
not
forgetting, what Cecil
John
Rhodes said,
sitting on the Matopo Hills, near
presentday Harare:
"So much to do, so little
done. If I could, I
would annex the planets!"
Greetings from Jutta (Franz's
sister) and Franz
(Jutta's brother).
Jutta.
P.S. You can visit our offspring
in the
Kindergarten:
http://www.oocities.org/Athens/Academy/8545
We hope you like the kids!
Their names are:
Positive
(Daughter)
Progress (Daughter)
For (Son)
Humanity (Daughter)
