Achieving world peace: How To
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zeeth_kyrahThe anti-pattern for war is victory, not peace. In order to end a war and not leave people wanting more, some form of victory must be attained. It is best if the victory comes not through the destruction of others, but through a mutual understanding and willingness to share and communicate between the participants; but if one or another side maintains belligerence (literally the desire for war), then their exclusion may be warranted. This does not mean we call them "outlaw" and enact our worst upon them, but rather that we reduce our interactions and choose carefully how and what we communicate with them. Integration may be desirable, or ostracism, but we must be careful and specific about which we mean to enact. And in order to retain the sense of the war being over, we must refuse to manipulate for our own ends, but instead work openly toward the stated goal wherever possible.
Peace comes when safety is felt to be at hand, and food and shelter are secure. War disrupts security in order to obtain victory and resources. In order to have peace, we must secure victory in supplying each person and family sufficient, healthy, viable food and shelter. We must educate for an informed, thoughtful citizenry able to resist coersion and consider for both public and personal good, rather than a grasping and coercive consumery seeking the next thrill from their suppliers (whether the local junk food store or the financial pockets of everyone in their sight).
That means we will have to once again enable thoughtful consideration of religions and spiritual beliefs, regardless of personal belief. Fundamentalism is a tool of the manipulative, because it limits thought and reduces examination to those paths which are carefully pruned to support the fundamentalist regime. By teaching ways to counter fundamentalist thought, we enable honest conservative behavior, as well as the ability to think rationally even when overcome with emotion.
If citizens think more rationally, we will examine the behavior of our governments more rationally. We won't rise up; we will simply discard the things which attempt to own us. We will give them more functional limits, understanding more of the basis by which they operate. We will choose better ways which are validated by repeated success, instead of those ways which are based in myth and which are not anywhere near as successful as believed.
When we can conquer our own evils as a people through self-examination and reflective conversation, we will have the victory we seek. When we are able to give each other what we each need to live reasonably healthy lives, we will have peace.
This is how we will create world peace: By making peaceful our own homes and societies, and then teaching the ways of victory and peace as rationally understood. Accept all students who wish to learn these things. Let them travel where they will when they leave. Let us learn to build together the things we each need.
And peace will begin to reign upon Earth, till we are suffused with it, shining as with the light of the gods and angels. It will be the greatest victory of mankind.
Peace comes when safety is felt to be at hand, and food and shelter are secure. War disrupts security in order to obtain victory and resources. In order to have peace, we must secure victory in supplying each person and family sufficient, healthy, viable food and shelter. We must educate for an informed, thoughtful citizenry able to resist coersion and consider for both public and personal good, rather than a grasping and coercive consumery seeking the next thrill from their suppliers (whether the local junk food store or the financial pockets of everyone in their sight).
That means we will have to once again enable thoughtful consideration of religions and spiritual beliefs, regardless of personal belief. Fundamentalism is a tool of the manipulative, because it limits thought and reduces examination to those paths which are carefully pruned to support the fundamentalist regime. By teaching ways to counter fundamentalist thought, we enable honest conservative behavior, as well as the ability to think rationally even when overcome with emotion.
If citizens think more rationally, we will examine the behavior of our governments more rationally. We won't rise up; we will simply discard the things which attempt to own us. We will give them more functional limits, understanding more of the basis by which they operate. We will choose better ways which are validated by repeated success, instead of those ways which are based in myth and which are not anywhere near as successful as believed.
When we can conquer our own evils as a people through self-examination and reflective conversation, we will have the victory we seek. When we are able to give each other what we each need to live reasonably healthy lives, we will have peace.
This is how we will create world peace: By making peaceful our own homes and societies, and then teaching the ways of victory and peace as rationally understood. Accept all students who wish to learn these things. Let them travel where they will when they leave. Let us learn to build together the things we each need.
And peace will begin to reign upon Earth, till we are suffused with it, shining as with the light of the gods and angels. It will be the greatest victory of mankind.
