[TDF-2005-03] PRESS RELEASE - LET'S GIVE BIRTH TO MARVELOUS THINGS, BE ABLE TO SURPRISE THE WORLD POSITIVELY!
PRESS RELEASE
TECHNOLOGIES OF THE FRONTIER ON THE TERRORIST ATTACKS IN LONDON
LET'S PROMOTE LIFE, AND NOT DEATH.
LET'S GIVE BIRTH TO MARVELOUS THINGS, BE ABLE TO SURPRISE THE WORLD
POSITIVELY.
TDF expresses its pain and solidarity with the victims of the London
terrorist attacks of July 7th , to their relatives, loved ones and friends.
Our discouragement is total, in front of those who express a total contempt
and carelessness for human life, and who, in their fanaticism, don't
hesitate to extinguish or seriously injure hundreds of lives, each of whom
had dreams, projects, talents, hopes, and feelings.
In the name of their religious fanaticism, these people don't heed the most
ancient commandment, common to many religions, which says "thou shalt not
kill".
Our discouragement is great, but it doesn't paralyse us.
After many attacks including those in New York, Madrid, Turkey, Bali and now
London, for all those who believe in a future of free and pacific
development, it is all the more urgent to aim high, to use our technologies,
to concretely demonstrate another way, to get energy and a greater world,
for all Earthlings.
In the face of the risk of a spiral of terror and death, and of the tragic
inability, shown thus far by the Governments of West , to escape the narrow
logic of the use of violence against violence, we believe that our duty, as
earthling citizens, is to give our contribution, pointing out some concrete
alternatives.
In order to see the alternatives, we need to unmask some current misplaced
beliefs:
- that human science and technology have grown too prominent, while ethics
have lagged behind;
- that we are ruining our planet due to moral weakness;
- that we should make an endless war against Terrorism;
- that we would have no alternative but to compete for scarce remaining oil
resources.
All the above claims are false. Things are very different:
- Our population has reached almost 6.5 billion (our greatest wealth!) in a
closed system, and our science and technologies are the only tools that we
can use for opening the system, and to obtain a greater world for all
Earthlings.
- Earth is not sick: she's pregnant with a Baby Solar Civilization! The
proximity of the birth will provoke social disturbances, climatic and
environmental derangements and perhaps even seaquakes and other
catastrophes, but if we are able to keep aiming high and to regulate the
process, we will be awarded by a joyful event!
- To answer war with war is only one of the options available to us, and not
the best one. Our western Aristotelian (dualistic) philosophy forces us to
act with a very narrow range of behaviours: to do what our "enemy" wants or
else the exact opposite. Indeed, terrorism is not an open war, it is even
more deceitful and cowardly than a conventional war, and it is not possible
to defeat it by military means. Furthermore, the use of the military
strength provokes endless retaliations, and we cannot hope to be able to
indefinitely hold the whole planet under closed military control (even if
this was a beautiful perspective, - which it isn't!).
- We have other options, instead: to use our highest science and
technologies, to start using space solar power, space resources, and to open
up the worl. Let's relaunch global economic development, giving birth to a
true space economy. Let's promote life, and not death. Let's give birth to
marvelous things, able to surprise the world positively.
- Terrorists won't have the means to follow us on such a path, and their
young followers will begin to follow us, rather than religious fanaticism.
We believe that this message should reach the greatest possible numbers of
people, therefore we ask you to publish this and diffuse it as far as
possible.
We wish a good flight to the astronauts of the Discovery shuttle!
Aim high!
The editorial staff of Technologies of the Frontier
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