Entropy… That measure of disorder that increases as energy is dissipated into unusable forms effects many aspects of our present human condition.
It is easy to grasp the principle as it pertains directly to heat. We see the energy of a fire heat our food, but we also can see a great deal of
heat going out unused and unusable. This extra heat can be seen as increasing the disorder, as the molecules affected move more rapidly and more
disorderedly. A more difficult aspect to see is the entropy inherent in our social structure.
In Jeremy Rifkin’s seminal work Entropy, published in 1980, he does an excellent job of demonstrating that, because energy is at the base of life,
itself, entropy can ripple through society, creating disorder even as we try to clamp down and control the order of things. In fact, he paints a very
grim picture of what we can expect as we consume more and more energy, explaining that fascist tendencies are most likely to crop up in the efforts to
overcome entropy in our society. Today we see more and more signs of encroaching fascism.
The reason why energy and its entropy are tied in to our social structures is made clear by Rifkin in his work (p. 89):
… Every time we add our labor to a product or perform a service we expend energy and increase the overall entropy of the environment. Every time
we exchange money for a product or a service, the legal tender we use represents payment for previous energy that we expend. Money, after all, is
nothing more than stored energy credits.
If money is merely the accounting of the available energy, it becomes clear that should an energy source come along that has the properties of being
effectively infinite, available from anywhere, and negentropic (from “negative entropy”), the need for money dissipates. “Infinite money” has
no social application.
In fact, because of our limited available energy and the money system developed to account for it, it is clear why we have a “power” elite, as
well as poverty and exploitation. Rifkin explains (p. 57):
Energy is the basis of human culture, just as it is the basis of life. Therefore, power in every society ultimately belongs to whoever controls
the exosomatic [external] instruments that are used to transform, exchange, and discard energy. Class divisions, exploitations, privilege, and
poverty are all determined by how a society’s energy flow line is set up. Those who control the exosomatic instruments control the energy flow
line. They determine how the work in society will be divided up and how the economic rewards will be allocated among various groups and
constituencies.
Given this, it becomes clear that if such an infinite, available, negentropic source of energy were to be introduced, power over others would give way
to individual autonomous power over self but no others. This can be seen as a major shift in Consciousness on this planet.
This all sounds hypothetical, a waste of time to contemplate even, to the average individual who has been told that we are stuck with the many
entropic sources of energy we presently use (which also are sources we have to pay for). “Where is this miracle source?” they might ask.
And here is where I bring up the “Dark” Energy that is now heralded all over science shows about physics and cosmology. This energy, which has
been called “radiant energy” (Tesla), “orgone” (Wilhelm Reich), “Zero Point Energy,” and many others, is pervading space. It is within
you and within me, around all of us, and is present anywhere we go. Interestingly, though we are told of this energy (usually as “Dark” Energy),
no mainstream media (MSM) outlet has asked the most logical question: Can we extract this energy in usable form?
The reasons for this become clear when we look at the fact that those presently in power would have to give up their power over others (having already
power over themselves). From the perspective of those few, they would “lose.”
Such an energy source would represent, at least, a virtually infinite source that is available to all. Any attribution of a negentropic aspect comes
from reports from a number of sources suggesting that cold, not heat, is the defining characteristic of drawing on this source. These reports and the
surrounding research and data have surely been suppressed – at least to the extent of not reporting it and never, ever asking whether we can get
something usable from “Dark” Energy. It would be a naïve position at best to expect the present power elite to ignore and NOT suppress and
disparage any efforts to develop this source in usable form.
And so, it would appear that we have had methods of extracting usable forms of energy from the “Dark” Energy pool, called the plenum (opposite of
“vacuum,” which means “empty” – “plenum” means “full”) for at least 100 years. And we might conclude that the power elite wish to
remain in their place of power over others, else they would have released the means to extract usable energy to the public. (There is strong evidence
of suppression of many “free” energy devices, from hydrogen-from-water devices through magnetic devices, as well as the Plenum Energy methods.)
The question now becomes, what would happen if we had this energy available to all of us? The answer depends on how we, as a planetary society,
approach the matter.
Since we’re examining society, it helps to understand that it moves and emerges in fractal expressions from a relatively small seed set of
parameters. Up until now, the fractal seeds of all societies in history have included scarcity of energy (which is reflected in the scarcity of goods
and money), and thus we see emerging greed, conspiracy, poverty, power elite, wage slavery and many other ills. If we look for a seed that gives an
overarching structure for a society’s development in the advent of having such a source of energy available, and take advantage of what media we can
to raise awareness to the tipping point of the goals and precepts we define, the society that fractalizes out of that seed will be strong, healthy,
and unrestrictive – provided the seed is geared to that end.
The key things that must be addressed are:
1. A code of conduct
2. Our approach to the Earth and how we bring forth the abundance she has to give
3. How open we will be on code and programs for our machines
4. How necessary work gets done
5. How we communicate and identify the primary issues
6. What focus in life should be stressed
If we seed our society with a code of conduct, calling to the fore the three Laws – which are:
1. Do not willfully harm or kill another Being
2. Do not willfully take or damage another Being’s property
3. Do not willfully defraud another Being
this sets one parameter of the seed to ethics.
If we insist that all farming be organic – in its true sense, and not some trumped up legal definition – our food will grow ever better. If we
insist that mining is done with a conscious awareness for retaining beauty and structure, our impact will be small and repairable. If we insist that
manufacturing be done such that it is free of pollutants, our planet will remain healthy and abundant. If we are using the Plenum Energy, the energy
we use will be clean (and fracture drilling, oil pumping, coal mining, rain forest clearing and other nasty behaviors and consequences associated with
petrofuels will be eliminated). If we set this parameter of the seed with the drive to be thoughtful of our planet, our planet will thrive.
If we demand open-source in all technology, we remove fears of machines “taking over.” Code can be looked at, published on the web – and better
code will be worked out by those whose bliss it is to program things. A distrust of proprietary code (or any other hidden thing) should be promoted.
Such a setting in this parameter of the seed will bring forth the best we can create.
By creating robots to do all the necessary work no one (or not enough people) wants to, we release ourselves to do what we enjoy – we are released
from slavery, having cast it off onto our machines. This seed parameter is one only now available to humanity. Never before in our history have we
had the option to create mechanical slaves for every “dirty job.” Therefore, it, along with the addition of a negentropic energy source, will
provide a frame for unique emergence, a new societal framework, a new consciousness.
With a central website, in forum style, to address major issues – divided into local sections, regional sections and global sections, with
“votes” at a certain level elevating the problems and solutions to the next level to be voted on by a greater number – we can collectively
coordinate to solve the issues of this planet. This seed parameter will see an emergence of human unity as a race and as a planet.
(cont. ...)
[edit on 2/25/2010 by Amaterasu]