The Virtual Free University*

Half a century ago, computer intelligence, relative to animal and human capabilities, rated between a tapeworm and an earwig — but an interesting comparison was made:

"Tapeworms and computers have some interesting points in common. In the first place both are relatively immobile — the tapeworm just sits there attached to the intestine, while the computer just sits [in] its air-conditioned room. Both are fed by things that are not tapeworms or computers, and can therefore be classified as parasitic." — Hatch (1979), ISBN: 0-671-42184-0, p.195

Advertisers report that AI now has increased in IQ to human capacity — but the question remains: has it become a more effective tool, or a more efficient parasite?

For the media addict this question is critical, in order to discern whether media is life-enhancing or dis-ease inducing. It is suggested that personal media usage be tabulated and categorized in terms of priorities, just as time management or spending tables are used for planning. How much life energy and time is being consumed by junk media — meds, plug-in drugs, anti-nutrients? What are you getting for your investment? Health or dis-ease?

The greatest violence against women and children, on a par with rape and sexual abuse, is the irresponsible procreation encouraged via mass media and obsolete laws in large parts of the planet today. This is brought about through disinformation on the availability of free and natural herbal birth control. We do not have an energy crisis or a climate change crisis; we have a population crisis. And yet no attempt to discuss the taboo subject of global population reduction and the way it can be achieved through the sophisticated education of women and children has been made.

The Virtual Free University's experimental e-journal Media Free Times pioneered in 1972 the conceptualization for remote learning via "multimedia periodicals", now known as "web pages"; it has since developed de-design prototypes for IT systems, data management, analytic functions and information architecture, which achieve the prioritization of education in procreative and nutritional hygiene, for human ecological recovery.

These were created in anticipation of the development of mobile app technologies. Thanks to the rapid global spread of smart phones, even in the poorest countries on earth, there was promise that education via mobile app technology could enable the global community to begin to reverse population growth by disseminating and restoring the knowledge required to practice herbal birth control. Thus our educational system could prevent children from having children.

However these channels are now already cluttered with the same advertising of pharmaceutical, junk food and petrochemical agendas of the mainstream media that has been blocking alternatives. Perhaps the only remaining option is the restoration of the ancestral procreative wisdom via the oral traditions of the indigenous peoples — Han, Lithuanian, Ojibway, to mention a few — that are now far below minus ZPG.

We are already in the beginning stages of an irreversible ecological apocalypse. To facilitate this change we will need new directions in the governance of our foreign policies and interfaith dialogue to arrive at a universal praxis on the issues of Maternal Health and Natural Knowledge.

Note: −ZPG is not applicable to indigenous peoples that have already been reduced to well below minus Zero Population Growth.

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