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So there I was speaking before TV cameras recording this
Future’s Summit – synopsis at
www.heartcom.org/CapHill.htm. Before me were many independent visionaries,
futurists, NASA scientists, unified field theorists, and future-curious
bureaucrats in government agencies.
Earlier that year, for four weeks in June, I attended the
World Game Studies Workshop with Buckminster Fuller at the University of
Pennsylvania. Early on, my views were well received and I was invited to give a
lecture to the group. The director of this workshop was sufficiently “moved” by
the response to my talk that he feared I would take over the agenda for the rest
of the workshop! But I had no such plans. A book was produced on our research
-- Energy, Earth and Everyone – that dealt with hydrogen conversion technologies
that would replace fossil fuels. The reason it hasn’t happened, of course,
isn’t because the know-how (science) is not available. The economics and
politics are far more "complex" (entrenched status quo of Big Oil), but I digress.
One person at the World Game
appreciated the 'whole systems' communications rEVOLUTION I was talking about and invited me to
attend the Future’s Summit in the fall and present my views there. He was an
influential member with the organizers of the Future’s Summit, so I prepared ten
papers to give to the ten agency directors that attended.
As the Future’s summit was concluding, it was this friend
who got everyone’s attention and introduced my concluding address. I spoke
behind the podium in the middle of the chamber with the Great Seal of the United
States prominently on the front of it.
My message was simple. I only spoke about 10 minutes. I explained how cable TV was wiring the
nation with satellite downlinks to cable TV stations. Congress had mandated
public access to the new CATV medium with channels required for public access on
all cable TV networks.
I explained how the Revolution could be celebrated with an
electronic upgrade of “freedom of the press” with this new “printing
press” (cable TV).
I explained how “freedom of speech” could be
upgraded with use of the new portable video cameras whereby people could
originate their own multi-media programs – with help at the public access
studios… explaining how video is more “friendly” than film -- can’t make a
mistake – just erase over errors until it “speaks for itself” the
way you want.
I explained how “freedom of assembly” could be
upgraded with replay of these locally originated programs over the public access
network on the local CATV system.
And this is where it gets interesting – the mix of all
these elements at the heart of the Spirit of Revolution that forged the
Constitution and Bill of Rights.
What I explained was the new interactive potential of
“Freedom of Speech”. Not just an individual’s creation of original
programming, but the instant evaluation of the program by everyone in the
“assembly” of people watching the program. This is what the founders
understood as “town hall meetings” because that was the only way to meet back
then. But interactive cable TV could change that. Indeed, every interactive
network in the whole world could be an “electronic town hall meeting”.
The point I simply made was the need for an
electronic upgrade of our horse-and-buggy system of representation that would
make government responsive and accountable to the purpose for which it serves
"of, by and for the people". In other words, how “We the People” --
through CATV – could celebrate the American Revolution with a Space Age upgrade
of a technologically obsolete legislative system, improving accountability to
Constitutional principles with an interactive process that provides a beacon of
freedom for the entire world that was fast becoming a “global village” in the
terms of futurist and visionary Marshall McLuhan.
There was one key problem, I explained. How do you get a
hundred or a million people responding to the same program at the same time
without creating noise? You can’t without a “real time” (instant, moment to
moment) system of response ability -- that by it’s availability
and use, encourages responsibility for the governing process. Obviously, you can’t expect people to be responsible
for their lives and their government without the means of “town-hall”
response ability consistent with the capabilities of the
global village “come-into-community” (communication) technology of the day.
48 years later
(2022), it should be a self-evident truth
that the computer/Internet revolution has brought us to
the
point where we clearly need an Operating System
for global rEVOLUTION along more enlightened lines
framing public representation for public enlightenment.
(Web 3.0 cyberEthics for culturing social
Conscience)
What I explained at this
Future's Summit is that the mass-to-mass interactive solution is a standardized framework of
evaluation criteria that reflected – and perfected -- the core Internet 'first
principles' at the heart of the U.S. Constitution. This frame of reference --
a universal interface for global mass-to-mass communications -- could provide
context and meaning for collective response during public discourse on an issue.
People could both originate and evaluate programs and then originate new
programs that highlighted the consensus of consciousness referenced by the
“evaluation criteria” of the standardized 'Universal
Interface'.
As
Bucky Fuller might say today,
this 'whole
systems' model of
planetary TeLeCommunication
is a timely 'operating
system'
for upgrading 'Spaceship Earth'.
I explained how that evaluation criteria would have to be
truly “universal” in the language of consciousness itself -- an exquisite
metaphor for archetypal maps of consciousness that have provided cultural DNA
throughout recorded history. To the extent it frames a prevailing
awareness of
the laws and language of consciousness -- the quintessential foundation of
self-governance -- it would involve and evolve our individual and collective
'Conscience' -- with a capital 'C'
-- in the way which would distinguish a natural rEVOLUTION in higher
consciousness. And in the process would raise the standard of
'cyberEthics' (heartware) for truly spiritual
government of, by and for ALL people as U.S. Founders aspired to.
"Conscience
is the most sacred of all property"
~ James Madison, Chief Architect of the Constitution
In summary, I explained how the new cable TV technology for
informed choice could use microcomputers for public feedback with digital phone
numbers inputted on 'real time' basis, providing an upgraded information processing system for
response ability and accountability that fulfilled the pure intent of the
Constitution. I called this electronic upgrade of our
five core freedoms a process
of “information’s ecology” that would “recycle” general knowledge
in the way that empowers specific wisdom for self-correcting, self-governing
'self elevation' of a salvation nature.
The pure
intention is to represent the highest ideals of
freedom and opportunity, consensus and innovation,
for our up-wising and uprising at the heart of global
rEVOLUTION.
My final point was that the Bicentennial would ideally
celebrate the American Revolution through application of the first principles of the
Constitution that make responsible representative government work. I explained how the
installed and operational interactive CATV technology provided a “vehicle”
(common carrier) for the final
ingredient for mass-to-mass communications as has never before been possible for
humanity.
Consider how the
2020s' computer/Internet revolution
is now poised for such a rEVOLUTION of, by and for
social Conscience in our global social networks.
I concluded with the emphasis:
"This would be the
best way to celebrate the Spirit of the American Revolution,
finishing – globally – what U.S. Founders began...
a mass-to-mass interactive process for
integrating
our core freedoms in the Bill of Rights through the golden rule/law language at
the heart of Constitutional virtue, principles and processes which empower
authentic "whole systems'
freedom."
When I was finished speaking I offered the 10 papers for
the 10 agencies. There was dead silence. No one moved for an uncomfortable
time. I
didn’t realize I “nailed it”. What I then witnessed, as the Future's
Summit suddenly adjourned,
was that the 10 agency heads who came forward for my paper on this process would not look me in the eye
as I gave it to them. No
one wanted to talk to me.
And then a junior-college vice
president from New York City came up to me and said,
"You know, the problem with this is…”
– pausing as his eyes got wider and began speaking
quickly – “this would eliminate bureaucracy... and you're not going to
hear from these agencies of the federal government."
In retrospect, this was a
rather surreal experience,
comparable to the 1939
Jimmy Steward movie,
'Mr. Smith Goes To Washington'.
I didn’t realize that government had become a
'growth
industry'. You would have thought that a definitive way to restore restraint
and accountability for government growth would be welcome. But I was "too
innocent" of the way things worked, inadvertently threatening corrupting
influences that wanted neither public accountability nor public response ability
as would make government accountable to the purpose it has vowed to serve.
It was simple enough. So simple that everyone knew it
would work. That's even more true today with current Internet capabilities.
It never occurred to me that our
'public government' had
already been
privatized by corporate interests. I didn’t
know that government had already become a protection racket for Big Oil, Big
Pharma, Big Banks, Big Media and big business collusion with big government in
general. I now know that these "service-to-self" (corporate interests) had their
own special interest in growth and profit which betrayed the pure intention of
service to others.
This is the same core obstacle
to realization of
the capability of our
instant-everywhere and
interactive freedom and opportunity today.
I was indeed naïve. But it still doesn’t occur to a lot of people
that government growth and power is out of control. Many can’t see the solution
because they don’t see the problem -- or feel too overwhelmed with the scope of
the problem -- or just want to believe that government represents our best
interests. But if the system is corrupt, how do you work within the system
to make it accountable to the purpose for which it was created?
Back then I was talking about the capability of interactive
CATV. Now that interactive capability is on the Internet. The “head end” of
the CATV system – and your public access studio – is your desk-top or lap-top
computer. Desk-top video, blogs and pod-casts are
reinventing 'town hall meetings' on tens of thousands of
social network communities,
newsgroups, Facebook, Linkedin, etc. But still there is no “universal interface” that
involves and evolves our individual and collective Conscience in the process.
All of our core freedoms COULD be upgraded but are not, simply because monopoly
forces in giant corporations have a vested interest in owning and controlling
our government, core institutions and -- in their view -- the physical and human
resources of the planet.
But think about this,
the urgent need for a
new 'World Game'; new 'Common Sense';
Global rEVOLUTION!
What
would a
systemic update (upgrade) of our core Constitutional
freedoms look like? How else, but with the
currency of Conscience,
will we define and refine the Next Economy? Would you agree that the
teeming masses worldwide are yearning to breathe free with their pure intention
for focused attention on our evolutionary ascension? So what are we
waiting for when we could achieve that now?
It is still the divine destiny of
America to innovate an
optimal model for Conscious Evolution
with
simple
Internet applications via heartware
cyberEthics.
Consider how our system
of electing representatives could now be
centered and connected with a new “Net reality" – the capability of
mass-to-mass TeLeComm as will involve and
evolve
'information's ecology' whereby wisdom is
'recycled' to define, refine, combine and 'shine' enlightened social
Conscience in our ubiquitous social networks.
New heartware standards for cyberEthics will
create wholly new industries with vast potential for integrating the gifts,
talents and resources of humanity for the sacred purpose that social
Conscience
has always served.
All social problems
are basically communication problems - how to come into unity for REAL
community. True servant leaders will join ranks quickly when they see
HOW the best and brightest communicators among us can raise social
conscience in our ubiquitous social networks... culturing 'Net worth'
with enlightened Net reality.
That's not rocket science. It's
a golden age blueprint;
an
operating system for our global village.
Now that's a revolutionary concept...
empowering conscientious common
sense whereby truth of what's best for all would rule with a heart. Indeed, it was
Thomas Paine's COMMON SENSE that sparked the American Revolution. And
heaven knows it would be an upgraded version of COMMON SENSE that would lead to
leadership based on virtue and talent that "speaks for itself"
with the idea of democratic freedoms truly represented over the global Internet.
"We have
it in our power to begin the world over again."
~ Thomas Paine, Common Sense
Today – 44 years since my
surreal experience speaking truth to power -- I
would add that the future of civilization may well depend on the resurrection of
a virtue-centric process at the heart of informed choice, representative
government and holistic healing of ALL our social, political and economic
institutions. I’ve had a lot of time to think about it.
The heart of the matter
– the Spirit that matters
is pure intention
for evolutionary ascension...
to make it so! The way follows the will.
With that pure intention we
will focus attention on the COMMON SENSE vision for a global COMMONWEALTH based
on abundant Conscience... a self-fulfilling
prophecy as a natural function of the self-governing, self-correcting,
self-elevation process which will make it so.
The
'synergy' from integration of our
five core
Constitutional freedoms
- a term coined by Buckminster Fuller -
creates a
'holy' (systemic) whole
which is greater than
the sum of
our five core Internet freedoms.
The obvious benefit will be a
systemic (whole system) rEVOLUTION in higher
Conscience of, by and for what is truly best for all. This rEVOLUTION
will naturally check and balance collective momentums of "DUH"
(Dense Unconscious &
Heartless)... and that's a good thing!
The masterkey to this
process - an 'Operating System' for
our
global village -
is the universal interface for mediating
mass-to-mass TeLeComm
as will involve and evolve our
individual and collective
Conscience, and in the process
will also define, refine, “combine” (synergize) and shine
our Co-Creation with the Spirit
that matters through all of
our
gifts & talents serving the purpose of enlightenment;
More 'Light
as Conscience'
to fulfill the rEVOLUTION.
If the dominant global superpowers doesn’t do it, who will?
If it doesn’t begin with “US” – in the “United States” – where will it begin?
If not us, who?
In short, if the United States doesn’t get
its Revolutionary act together, we’re toast. We didn’t celebrate our
Revolutionary heritage with much more than token 4th of July fireworks during the
Bicentennial. Perhaps it wasn’t time.
But if not now, when?
Freedom of
Conscience is the divine right expressed at the
heart of the Bill of Rights through “Freedom of Religion”. If there’s
not freedom for conscientious common sense, we don’t have any freedom at all.
Without this higher Conscience of moral virtue being represented with the
response ability that encourages responsibility for good
government, look what happens with the abuse of power at the top!
Why is “freedom of religion”
the capstone for all the others? If we don’t represent true spirituality
at the heart of all our other freedoms, we become slave to a politically correct
“BS” (Belief System) which is morally wrong. Without virtue at the heart
of it, values become corrupt. The system becomes broken. People fear the
government. Just look at the global warring over resources now, and the
state of the economy.
Something
major has to change, and mark my words,
we're about to see the end of the world
as we have known it.
If we do what we’ve always done, we’ll get what we’ve
always got. When will we stop denying the core freedoms of speech,
assembly, religion and press FOR THE WHOLE WORLD that we once claimed was our
divine right? If we don’t affirm those rights between our ears and through our
network communities, how will anyone anywhere in the world trust our words of
“freedom and liberty for all”?
As I explained, our SYSTEM of self-government is based on
response ability through good information. Without well-informed choice – with
virtue-centric interactive processes that culture Truth and Love – government
and media powers will keep informed choice FROM the people rather than “of, by
and for the people”. Propaganda replaces principle. Might overpowers right.
Subversion of the golden rule becomes,
“He who has the gold -- black gold
and moneyed power – makes the rules.”
You can’t expect people to be responsible for their lives
or their government without response ability that is consistent with the
communication capabilities of the day. Today, that capability is interactive
but the status quo 'control matrix' is not – it’s one way programming -- their way. They
rewrite history and reframe every issue to force their agenda. It is an agenda
for furthering self-serving corporate interests at the expense of all public
servants who have pure intention for the highest and best service-to-others.
I’m not young and innocent any more. I don’t learn fast
but I learn well. I still believe in the core principles of the Constitution,
but I’m realistic about the collusion of federal government with giant
corporations in an incestuous relationship of self-serving protection rackets.
I've learned that even back in 1974 there was a revolving door of directors
between US regulatory agencies and the corporations they were supposed to be
regulating. Back then, I didn’t know that the fix was in, as many insiders from that time –
like Dr. Scott Peck, author of A World Waiting To Be Born -- have exposed so
well since then.
But I’ve been diligent in finding the answers. Within
months after my experience on Capitol Hill, I discovered Jeremy Rifkin’s
Peoples Bicentennial Commission, which explained how corporate tyranny was the
new “King George”.
That movement obviously didn’t get much press in the
corporate media because it stood for the U.S. Founders principles of checks and
balances that giant corporations have increasingly usurped, rewriting laws that
give corporations the same rights as individuals, but without public
accountability to match that usurpation of power. This corporate tyranny has corrupted the Justice branch of
government as well as the Executive branch. They have bought-off the
Legislative branch.
Just look how blatant is the
corporate collusion with
government today. Not just with Big Oil and Big Pharma or reelection campaigns
financed by corporate media moguls. Not just Rumsfeld and Aspartame or Cheney
and Halliburton. The major TV media are in bed with military-industrial
contractors and the Big Pharma dominated medical-industrial complex. Embedded reporters spin the news, government ad agencies create
fake news, and Pentagon departments fabricate intelligence… all to “make a
killing” on war and disease with no accountability to the public’s interest for ending the
war. It’s out of control.
People have always said I was ahead of my time. I always
thought I was right on time. But perhaps there was a larger cycle that we all
had to be “on time” for.
How long will it take for the American people to
resurrect our horse-and-buggy representation systems with an electronic Space Age upgrade for the Family
of Man in our new global village? Will enough good people wise up and rise
up with a vision of virtue and valor for the victory of the rEVOLUTION?
Are you ready for
the Evolution Revolution?
There are good reasons why
there is nothing more valuable than an idea which has found its time.
Necessity is indeed the mother of invention. Global resources are limited,
and imminent Earth changes
will limit them further. The beginning of a new world of Unity Conscience
is truly the end of the world as we have known it. We are ALL CONNECTED
as never before in history.
The potential for our global village today is
no
less profound than the potential in the
New World of America that
U.S. Founders
were pioneering. It's a global issue now.
We’re ALL together in this connection as ONE community of
many community networks. Enlightened Netizens aspire to being freely informed
and upward-mobile with pure intent for the highest and best use of the
CONSTITUTION of first principles for freedom and justice for all.
"It is at all times necessary,
and more particularly so during the progress of a revolution
and until right ideas confirm
themselves by habit,
that we frequently refresh our
patriotism by reference to
First Principles".
- by Thomas Paine who
sparked the American Revolution with
COMMON SENSE,
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