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What is world peace? What does it look like, feel like? How does the population of a peaceful planet compare to what we
have today? Is such a thing possible in a productive society? Is it, in fact, desirable?
I for one believe it is totally desirable, and that a planetary society without it is counter-productive. As for how to achieve it,
more on that later.
World peace is more than just a planet without war. It is a planet without fear of war, or violence against person in any
fashion, including physical, mental (electroshock “therapy”, forced drugging), or spiritual. We are talking about a
population unhindered1 in its invention, its production, its creation – a human race free to work together or separately, for
the betterment of an individual, a family, group or nation, all mankind, or the planet itself.
This is no small thing, but it is no convoluted, confusing knot, either. Let’s break it down into its simplicities.
Certainly, there is no violence or threat of violence of country against country, overtly or covertly. This includes invasion,
blockade, occupation, and any troops stationed outside their homeland, regardless of justification. It further excludes
espionage, kidnapping and imprisonment of individual citizens of one country by agents of another.
While we’re at it, let’s get rid of all stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, no matter where situated, and seek out and
destroy the millions of land mines and unexploded ordnance strewn across the planet.
Closer to home, take a look at a nation against its own citizens. Certainly there are horrors on this planet right now where
government officials are seeking out large numbers of their own people to torture, murder, disappear; and history, both
ancient and recent, is rife with its own examples. Genocidal2 governments must simply cease to exist, and their own
brand of “justice” meted out3 to the criminals themselves, but what about other, more subtle government suppression,
less bloody but no less heinous in the long run?
The mess many earthlings live with in their own, “peaceful” countries, is in some ways more difficult to confront, but will
bring about an end to our civilization no less certainly.
What about nations that legislate the empowerment of large corporations to massively pollute their air, water and soil;
poison the population by adding thousands of deadly chemicals to the food supply; prescribe unnecessary drugging and
“treatment” of the children of the poor and any other unwitting victims they can get their cold, clammy hands on; that help
these same organized criminal societies keep a heavy heel upon the very laborers they depend upon for production and
run smaller, more honest businesses to the ground; then further empowering4 monopolistic5 news media to sugar coat
the entire mess, roundly impugning6 the sanity and motives of any who might protest these very real crimes against
humanity.
All of this in the name of a quick buck for their masters, enforced with ready police violence “if necessary”.
I will rant, won’t I? I’ll cut the rest of it short.
World peace contains no violence of race against race, religion against religion, any ethnic group against any other ethnic
group.
I also expect no more government protection by threat, regardless of benevolent7 motive. One of my favorite examples of
this, from the state of Washington USA, is driving along a peaceful country highway and seeing a sign – blocking the
pleasant view – with a picture of a seatbelt over the caption, “Click it or ticket.” But that’s just me.
What Can We Do?
There have been times, on this very planet, when nations who professed undying hatred for one another cooperated for
the betterment of mankind. A spectacular example of one of these times is the eighteen months from the middle of 1957 to
the end of 1958. It was called the International Geophysical Year. Great strides were made in the physical sciences,
including the launching of the first artificial satellites, the discovery of the van Allen radiation belts8 in our upper
atmosphere, soundings of the ocean floor planet wide, and much more.
The International Geophysical Year (IGY) marked the beginning of the space programs of both the United States and the
Soviet Union (ultimately leading to landings on the moon), as well as development of microminiaturization9, discoveries in
human nutrition, the list is still going on.
Interestingly enough, while the IGY was intended as a scientific cooperation, the germ spread to the humanities. There
was much exchange of art and artists, music and musicians, literature. There were fast, cross-cultural friendships made
during these eighteen months that lasted decades, some continuing to this day, resulting in sometimes clandestine10
cooperation that has benefited mankind almost immeasurably.
One reason I am bringing up this example is that while over sixty nations participated, most of them (and especially the
USA and the USSR) were in it for what they could gain from others, not what they could contribute. On the other hand, for
the sake of international public relations imaging, there was a great race (again, especially between the USA and the
USSR) to demonstrate the greatest achievements, ballyhooed as gifts to mankind.
It was a wonderful example of cooperation through competition! It was a planet-wide game, and that makes it a good
example for us to follow. It is a good example for us because the very fact that this form of competitive cooperation has
been successfully done before, even among belligerents, makes it real enough, to much of the population and leadership
of Earth, to make it a relatively easy sell. All we need to begin with is a clear picture of what the whole thing will look like, a
clearly conceived ultimate goal or goals, a proposed program of how it all can be done, and a good name for it.
Within the next week or so, I will have a program outlined for your perusal.
Some of the scientific areas we can concentrate on should be, I believe, replacement of carbon burning, non-renewable
fuels for airplanes, automobiles, trucks and trains, and ocean going vessels; non-polluting electricity generation;
sustainable agriculture for every part of the globe, so that none go hungry; ridding the planetary population of the curse
of AIDS and other deadly plagues, preferably without the use of expensive drugs with devastating side effects.
While the above is being accomplished, let us not forget the humanities: worldwide literacy, massive diverse11 cultural
exchanges embracing all the arts, all races, all ethnicities12; and finally, cessation of country to country violence and
genocidal practices within individual countries. This last couple is, I believe, a public relations operative’s dream project.
This is a more than worthwhile, fun game, with plenty for everyone to do. Who can do the most? Whose will be the
greatest accomplishments? What country, individual, or group will win this cooperative competition by presenting the
greatest gift of all gifts to all our people?
Race you!
Oh, and help me come up with a name.
Robert Hawkins, 10 January 2008
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1 Unhindered: Having no obstacles or difficulties.
2 Genocidal: Murdering or attempting to murder all people in a particular group.
3 Meted out: In this case, punished harshly to match the crimes committed.
4 Empowering: Giving power or authority to a person or group.
5 Monopolistic: Having or seeking to have total control of.
6 Impugning: Loudly attempting to convince others that a person or group is untrustworthy.
7 Benevolent: Showing kindness or good will.
8 van Allen radiation belts: Rings of charged particles surrounding the earth. For more information, check your
encyclopedia.
9 Microminiaturization: The production and use of extremely small (even microscopic) parts, especially electrical.
10 Clandestine: Done secretly, without permission. In this case, done without permission of government.
11 Diverse: In this case, being very different from each other; having many sources.
12 Ethnicities: Groups having similar customs or beliefs.
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