Spirit in the Cloud – Part 3

WALL.E – Content summary

1. Man has devastated the earth by mass consumption – life is no longer possible
2. People make a luxury cruise into the universe
3. In the meantime, the company WALL.E is giving up
4. After 700 years, there is only one robot for this – WALL.E
5. WALL.E has developed over the years an awareness and human traits. He collects objects – represent our world today.
6. He finds a plant in a refrigerator – life on earth
7. An exploration space ship with the ScanBot EVE lands on Earth
8. WALL.E falls in love with EVE. Mimic and gesture are expressive means
9. EVE discovers the plant and takes it to the cruise ship
10. There lives a humanity – completely degenerate and only occupied with consumption
11. The plant is the key to returning to 255,642 days

Spirituality is usually associated with warm qualities such as love, mindfulness, empathy, and so on. Fear and power do not count. However, as far as spirituality is concerned, all behaviors and interactions with an infinitely higher power count, fear is suddenly “the” spiritual dimension. For millennia, people have been afraid of gods. But it is precisely this fear that gives them power. In particular, it is YHWH, the Jewish Creator God, who can be very irascible and firming. If the people do not obey his orders, there is collective punishment, such as building the tower of Babel, the Flood, the whore of Babylon, etc. The subsequent loving Christian God has also adopted the apocalypse. A whole lot of them are described in the Revelations of John. From an esoteric point of view, Nostradamus is still important and in 2012, the end of the Mayan calendar was an end date. In the Christian context, it is the Last Judgment, which signifies the end of the world.

End times are what this word expresses – namely, an end of human life on earth, caused by divine intervention. Technologization in the last hundred years has also enabled people to put an end to their own lives. Atomic bombs, genetic engineering, superintelligence, and much more. Could make the planet useless for biological life. Also terrestrial (pole shift), stellar (solar eruption) and interstellar (gammablitz) could be triggers. All together human life is no longer possible.

Scenarios that do not place an end to life, but describe the earth as no longer worth living, are dystopias. “Topia” from the Greek are places such as. The Utopia, which describes a place that corresponds to a dream space and is hardly accessible. Dystopia is, therefore, a place which no one desires and which is not desirable. It is common to all xtopias that they spring from the human mind and action. Today’s technological society would be an absolute utopia for a medieval man. Ongoing pollution, waste of resources, genetic engineering, and many more, make many people believe in the rise of dystopia. The world as a no longer liveable or liveable place.

The film “WALL.E – The Last Spaces Earth” shows the world as a place that was completely devastated by human consumption through excessive consumption and waste. The problem is solved by a tourist company, which offers people a cruise into the universe. “The dirt goes on their nerves, why not take a look into the universe,” is the commercial slogan. During this planned five-year journey the earth should be cleaned, just like after an event. The company “Waste Allocation Load Lifter – Earth Class” briefly WALL-E took over this task as a global monopolist and promise to have done this job in five years. The luxury ship has now been on the road for seven hundred years and the earth is still not inhabited. Since our generation has worked sustainably!!!

The tidying up was planned with an armada of small robots. A single “the last cleans the earth” still works. WALL.E, has developed an awareness over the centuries. Although he has never been in contact with people, he has accepted human behavior. So consciousness – development over the environment. He lives in a container and collects valuable items that he finds in the garbage. Once he finds a diamond ring in a plastic casket. He throws the ring away as worthless, placing the box in his collection. Objects do not have intrinsic values, but only a culture-dependent one. Thus WALL.E leads a contemplative, fulfilling and satisfied life in the dirt.

An unexpected turn (disruption) takes his life when he finds a plant on a landfill in a refrigerator – the first for seven hundred years. At the same time an exploration space ship with a BioSensor Bot is to scan the planet for “life”. The Bot EVE gets to know WALL.E. After a short while, they fall in love with the human pattern and fly back together to the AXION, the cruise ship. There:

A Utopia of a Life. No one needs to work. Only consumption, leisure and entertainment and the already 255,642 days. All possible wishes are fulfilled. The only real task is waiting for the return to earth and they have forgotten that. Over the centuries people are completely degenerate, are obese without a stable skeleton and therefore can not go anymore. Do not need them because the flying chairs belong to the body. In the film a utopia of a paradisiacal life is shown. Paradise is like the completion of a utopia, as the apocalypse is the completion of a dystopia.

Although utopian, a life on the AXIOM does not seem to be absolutely desirable, but rather repugnant – so we do not want a future. The film shows cynically two gloomy “topies” for the human future. As a result, DYSTOPIE expects us. This is what we might expect in a transhuman and fear-driven future. On the other hand,

The captain of the AXIRION gets the plant in his hand and says to her: “You have managed my little one, you have not given up. Such a long trip for a sip of water “. So he decides to return to earth. The “super-intelligent” on-board computer Otto prevents him for the time being it: “There is no survival is possible,” and there’s the statement A213 does not provide for a return. The captain said, “I do not want to survive but live.” After seven hundred years the first human decision and standing on its own feet. So they return to an earth that is still full of filth but they feel it as beautiful. Which topie is the earth?

A heterotopia is a closed real space, in which one’s own culture exists real. The term was coined by Michael Foucault and provided examples such as barracks, prisons, cinemas, etc. – or even the AXION. The earth as a whole could also be seen as a closed real space with its own rules – the cosmic view of the earth. Within our world, there are a variety of heterotopies. A spiritual expression would be the Amish. A religious community that lives on a clearly defined territory with different rules for the rest of the world. The Amishs do not use any modern techniques, in any case nothing related to Automotiv. They are the prototype of a heterotopia.

In a digital, highly networked world, the concept of heterotopia has to be redefined. It’s about the real place. This can no longer only be regarded as a real place, but must be extended by the virtual location. Such places could already be Facebook groups. Much stronger still are virtual worlds of players with their own rules and interactions. Just as FAUCOULT once described it.

In summary, there are two great spiritual polar worlds. These are the paradise and the apocalypse. Both are external, mostly caused by gods. The smaller man-made manifestations of it are utopia and dystopia. Life, however, happens in a heterotopia. We want to belong to a group, to distinguish ourselves from others and to call a country our home. Living in VirTopia could arise.