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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Dear Plamen and Colleagues,</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Thanks for the further reflection. I
think we should re-read Ortega y Gasset's "The Revolt of the
Masses". He was reacting to the enormous changes of communication
and ways of life in his time (late 20s early 30s) and the
unbearable pressure of the "masses" in the intellectual life of
his time. My particular contention is that in every successful
industrial revolution (the ones that are able to duplicate the
material wealth of society) the cultural capital passed to the new
generation is literally halved. As Borges put, our memory limits
are everywhere, and we always are caught into a big "thought
collective" that forces us to concentrate in a series of new foci
that partially (or totally) obliterate the previous ones. Then,
culture is not accumulative, but selective. And nowadays we are in
the hands of those very, very few, new monopolists that control
the means of communication and particularly the new social
networks--including the new wave of authoritarian regimes in more
countries. For several reasons, the new generations look more
ignorant, more susceptible of media-manipulation, and more
e-activists.</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Maybe I (we) do not like that because I
(we) belong to a different "caravan" --as Ortega was saying, each
generation lives into its own separate "caravan"... and
occasionally crosses with the others. <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Best regards</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">--Pedro<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">El 23/02/2021 a las 23:14, Dr. Plamen
L. Simeonov escribió:<br>
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Pedro. </div>
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style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#073763">Indeed the
key question for me right now - after sharing these earlier
thoughts - is to which extent science and our free will to
explore the riddles of the universe are "influenced" and
"moderated", yes - even "censured" and "re-directed", by some
external interested forces in modern days, much more than, say
100 years ago, by religious groups and movements? In other
words, I question the current state of "initial and boundary
conditions" for developing a free thought and will in human
beings from the current active generation (20-40 years old) as
being reshaped, or even recreated - without considering myself
as being a QAnon or another conspiracy group fan - under the
direction of some external forces - not necessarily aliens -
that we currently ignore. We should not forget that a great
deal of the active memory of our human society died out
untimely with unfinished jobs to transfer their knowledge to
the next generations, because of SARS-nCOV-2. What do you
think about this? What is coming next? </div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 2:21
PM Pedro C. Marijuan <<a
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moz-do-not-send="true">pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es</a>>
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<p>Dear All,</p>
Below a couple of late messages from Plamen exchanged
offline (due to the list limitation). <br>
In my view, the relationship of technology with utopianism
appears quite frequently, and it is not unsound, but science
needs to be far more careful. <br>
From utopia to dystopia there are so very few steps...
<p>--Pedro<br>
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<td>Re: [covid-19-therapy] Fwd: [Fis]
Abstract--Electronic Symbiosis—Lessons from
Bacteria</td>
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<td>Dr. Plamen L. Simeonov <a
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<td>Howard Bloom <a href="mailto:howlbloom@aol.com"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><howlbloom@aol.com></a>,
Pedro C. Marijuan <a
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style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">Thank
you, Otto. I was in the mood to write this short
appeal today. When I joined the telco and
media industry away from the self-pity academia in the
mid 1990ies, I felt inspired by the fall of the Berlin
Wall and the hope that the dreams of John Lennon and
Martin Luther King are about to become reality next. I
was not motivated by some weird opportunity to chase
"likes" by sharing narcissistic experiences with
sensation greedy fellows around the world in the
social media as this became normal today. I told
myself that the next step for humanity is to end all
wars and go into deep space. The only problem I
realized at that time was the lack of communication,
which made us feel so damned alone in the universe.
That's why I fully embraced the development of the
internet and all related technologies that would help
us to go out in the wild cosmos and civilize it one
day. I never thought that the same kind of technology
will be used to fabricate fake news, selfish social
networks, depressive movies and oppressive news that
serve corporations to create fears and inflate their
profits. Just watch who was the winner of the COVID-19
pandemic according to the stock exchange numbers in
2020. What a waste of mind energy! It is time to
change something, away from these deep psychosocial
crises we experience today. </div>
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<div class="gmail_default"
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GMT+1, Dr. Plamen L. Simeonov <<a
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<div style="color:rgb(7,55,99)">I have
seen the movie. Despite all these dark
and apocalyptic visions of the future
which became popular in the past 40
years, I recall another earlier era of
sci-fi which was also challenging but
more positively motivated by the spirit
of adventure and the eagerness to
explore the riddles of the universe.
Its driver was the Apollo space program
and the gentlemen's competition in space
between the Russians and the Americans
which has motivated millions of people
around the world including myself
despite the Cold War. At that time the
world was at the edge of
self-destruction (1983, the Pershing II
program in West Germany) and there was
still more hope than now with COVID-19
and the US elections, which are about to
become a permanent topic. </div>
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<div style="color:rgb(7,55,99)">Yesterday,
with the launch of the new NASA
Perseverance rover on Mars and the
transmission of the images from the red
planet I was able to feel again a bit of
this positive spirit of hope and
excitement in some of my peers who were
not distracted by the everyday news
about gruesome political wars that
media overexpose to the public and
charges the minds with negative energy
and expectations. Where is the science
in the news? I do hope that a new era of
curiosity and adventure is opening now.
Maybe this is the beam of light -
Perseverance - that Howard meant in his
former post at FIS about the exciting
new worlds and paradises that wait to be
explored by us, human beings. Because
this is our destiny, as Carl Sagan
earlier and Michio Kaku recently said.
We need thousands and millions of
scientists, teachers and professors like
them to push this planet in a different
direction. Politicians and ((a)social)
media are not the heroes of our time. Go
to the NASA page and see what amazing
technology we have to change the world
for the good. We should be able to
address this quality of man. May Howard
Bloom's prophecy become true. What we
think is becoming reality. Changing the
way of thinking is essential for the
survival of an intelligent species.</div>
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<div style="color:rgb(7,55,99)">Have a
nice day. </div>
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<div style="color:rgb(7,55,99)">Best!</div>
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<div style="color:rgb(7,55,99)">I put this
email in this forum, because Pedro is
limiting the number of contributions to
FIS, which is OK.</div>
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