Production Addendum
In these times of contention it's not my intention to make things plain
It's the aim of existence to offer resistance to the flow of time
I believe in the elixir of youth
And I believe in the absolute truth
I believe in, yes, I believe in original sin
I believe in the immaculate conception
And I believe in the resurrection
I believe in the shape of things to come
And I believe in I'm not the only one
What I believe
There is no love in this world anymore
There is no love in this world en - nee - mooore
We all miss Pete Shelley, don't we? We all should.
Two things:
1) In the Desecration of the Production Fetish, when I wrote, “Here, both necessity and work should be considered very general definitions, opposed to conveying rigorous, stringent meaning. Greater specificity, specialism, restricts political values,” I could hear the legions of academia, engineering, and scientists all tut-tutting, “No rigor. No stringency. This can be ignored." Of course if you ever dealt politically with academia or engineers, you will find them to the man and woman largely politically inept.
However, scientists have produced some great political thought, maybe something to do with Greek roots. As example and by no means exclusive, I’ll point to the 20th century physics boys – Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, and Oppenheimer, among others. All had some wonderful political thinking, especially in regards to how their physics thinking and actions had changed the world, ready or not. The professional political class, define whatever way you see fit, completely ignored their thinking, dismissing as naive.
I added, “In the 21st century, to create a functional politics, it is essential to loose the constraints of specialism with a closer consideration of the collective whole. Such meaning can only be gained in subjective relation to the other specialized parts and the whole itself.”
2) I didn’t talk about production in regards to space. As someone from a young age who gazed at the stars, I’ve been long fascinated by, in the words of Ming the Merciless, us pathetic earthlings hurling our bodies into the void. I understood it takes a lot of energy to set us hurling, not to mention the capabilities to provide life's necessities anywhere in space. Look how tiny the Arteimis (after a Greek goddess of nature) capsule was. And yay, we did again what we did over 50 years ago – USA - USA!
To be fair, we did decide to focus on the space station in regards to the human occupation of space. Instead, we sent compute further out of earth's orbit into the vastness of the solar system. Yet, how small and what a limited amount of stuff on that space station for a half-dozen occupants for months, not to mention it never leaves earth's orbit.
Spacecraft aren’t production societies. So anytime, you hear anyone talking about reaping the cornucopia of the solar system, we’re a long, long way from any of that. Here on tierre firme, when the infinitely foolish, limitless abundants advocate energy intensive strip mining this finite planet to get to space, well, we ain’t going any place if we can’t figure out how to not destroy the planet for human habitation.
Also, as someone who is unfortunately old enough to have watched the original “Star Trek's” original run and ever since always enjoyed a good Sci-Fi movie, there’s been too few, I recently discovered Sci-Fi has become 21st century Utopia. Unfortunately, its adherents don’t understand the science required for all their salvational beliefs. As with all zealots, confronted with reality, they simply ignore inconvenient facts, the interloper branded infidel.
This is a real problem, especially as our slithering Tech-Lords take full advantage of such science ignorance. What anything they themselves can tell you about any of the necessary science for their tech-nirvanas, well, not much.
Speaking of scientists with good political sense, though I think it's from her Eastern Kentucky roots, Dr. Collier does a very funny skewering of the Tech Billionaire and his physics longing. When they say they’re going to put data centers in space, what we all should be hearing loud and clear is they should be stopped from building data centers anywhere.
