1. Love and Power. This is the story of the dream that rose up in the 1990s that computers could create a new kind of stable world. They would bring about a new kind global capitalism free of all risk and without the boom and bust of the past. They would also abolish political power and create a new kind of democracy through the Internet where millions of individuals would be connected as nodes in cybernetic systems - without hierarchy.

2. The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts. This is the story of how our modern scientific idea of nature, the self-regulating ecosystem, is actually a machine fantasy. It has little to do with the real complexity of nature. It is based on cybernetic ideas that were projected on to nature in the 1950s by ambitious scientists. A static machine theory of order that sees humans, and everything else on the planet, as components - cogs - in a system.

3. The Monkey in the Machine and the Machine in the Monkey. This episode looks at why we humans find this machine vision so beguiling. The film argues it is because all political dreams of changing the world for the better seem to have failed - so we have retreated into machine-fantasies that say we have no control over our actions because they excuse our failure.

ZKM Event

Quotes from the Documentary

“What some people were begining to see was that the computer systems and the global networks they had created hadn’t distributed power. They had just shifted it and, if anything, had concentrated it in new forms. And some of the computer utopians from Silicon Valley were also beginning to realise that the World Wide Web was not a new kind of democracy, but was something far more complicated where power was exercised over the individual in new and surprising ways.”

“The orginal promise of the Californian ideology was that the computers would liberate us from all the old forms of political control and we would become Randian heroes in control of our own destiny. Instead, today we feel the opposite, that we are helpless components in a global system, a system that is controlled by a rigid logic that we are powerless to challenge or to change.”

“The failure of the commune movement and the fate of the revolutions show the limitations of the self organising model. It cannot deal with the central dynamic forces of human society – politics and power. The hippies took up the idea of a networked society because they were disillusioned with politics. They believed that this alternative way of organising the world was good because it was based on the underlying order of nature. But this was a fantasy. In reality, what they adopted was an idea taken from the cold and logical world of the machines. Now in our age, we are all disillusioned with politics and this machine organising principle has risen up to become the ideology of our age. But what we are discovering is that, if we see ourselves as components in a system, that it is very difficult to change the world. It is a very good way of organising things, even rebellions, but it offers no ideas about what comes next. And just like in the communes, it leaves us helpless in the face of those already in power in the world.”

Auricle.Org

Sir Arthur Tansley’s ecosystem concept

Ecosystem ecology has played a central role in our understanding of the natural world, and the importance of plants as the organisms that define the amount and flow of energy entering the ecosystem demonstrates the fundamental role of plant science in our understanding of how ecosystems function.

ISSUU

What is an Ecosystem?

“There is high risk for pushing the Earth’s life supporting systems
beyond irreversible trigger-points by 2050,”

The Limits to Growth. The Club of rome 1972

Gloomy 1970s predictions about Earth’s fate still hold true

Four decades ago, the Club of Rome predicted looming economic collapse in its iconic report The Limits to Growth. An update of the analysis sees much the same picture.

On the eve of one of the twentieth century’s most notable economic shocks — the 1973 oil crisis — an influential group of researchers released a now-iconic report entitled The Limits to Growth.

The work, which received wide attention and proved controversial, painted a bleak picture of humanity’s future. Left unchecked, it said, economic and population growth would deplete the planet’s resources and cause economic collapse around 2070.

More than four decades later, the report’s main conclusions are still valid, according to a group of independent researchers who have updated the work using more-sophisticated analytical tools. Like the 1972 report, the latest work was commissioned by the Club of Rome, a group of liberal scientists, economists and industrialists that was founded in 1968.

Nature Club of Rome homepage

steemit blog post by JOCKEY

Introducing The Green Elite; your Global Management Teams precursers

Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands - [now deceased]

"...in 1954 initiated the annual Bilderberg Conference, a meeting of influential bankers, economists, and politicians. In 1961 he helped establish the World Wildlife Fund and served as its first president." Britannica

Prince Bernhard was a driving force behind the creation of WWF in 1961, and served as the organization's first International President from 1961 to 1976 - Panda.Org

HRH Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh, was former President of WWF from 1981-1996

The WWF represents the birth of the Green Movement, and was started by eugenicists who's goals are to reduce the world's population.

note; Klaus Schwab WEF / UN is also a prominent Bilderberger...

note the green - climate change - sustainable development aims of the global reset

Prince Philips son, Prince Charles has announced his support of a Great Global Reset in appearances at the WEF.

He is also the incumbant president of the WWF