VIRTUAL ATLANTIS (20)

Picture a moveable platform, situated in an ocean,
a part of that ocean's biosis, containing a
society operating on principles proper for Man's
elegant life on this earth.
Imagine a renaissance of science and philosophy, new tools for survival, new perspectives enabling richer lives.
See a commonwealth without borders, a unity only in the defense of the rational,
Imagine the mental health arising from reducing
the racism intrinsic to tribalism and religion and
nationalism,

Think of each of us embracing his/her own potential without the bias of unreasonable expectation; without the 'mind-lie' that we are part of a body-politic that defines us. No; we are more; we are each a primary existant with access to a common consciousness.

"When shall it be said in any country of the world, my poor are happy, neither ignorance or distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want, the taxes not oppressive; the rational world is my friend because I am friend of its happiness. When these things can be said, then may that country boast of its constitution and government ." - Thomas Paine

"A human being is a part of the whole, called by us, "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest -- a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security." : Albert Einstein - (1879-1955) Physicist and Professor, Nobel Prize 1921

"Western, industrialized nations operate on premises that are based on the assumption that cultural evolution has realized a proper and expeditious perception of reality and that the only improvements in our relativistic endeavors will be technological in nature.
As it is my considered belief that Western cultural evolution has never represented a rationally true course of progress for the inhabitants of a finite environment and as the supporting data for this belief is incontrovertible, I have proposed an experiment such as 'Seaheart', to explore strategies incorporating moral, technological and governmental alternatives designed to allow all peoples to aspire to freedom and peace and comfort..."
John Daugherty, Seaheart Administration, 2003