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http://newilluminati.blog-city.com Notes from the NEXUS New Times Magazine Founder R. Ayana, who lives in a remote Australian rainforest (and is no longer involved with the magazine). Join the MAILING LIST below to receive more enlightnment (no list is kept, it won't be used for anything else) and please COMMENT at the end of any entry! You can navigate through this journal using the calendar or searchbox. Let's create a better millennium!
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"All the world's a stage we pass through." - R. Ayana
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Make Lovers Not Warriors
World Peace = No More Weapons
World Peace = No More Weapons
For centuries, the people of the world have clamoured for peace in the face of barbaric cultures and superstitious cultic systems of belief; the largest and most powerful of these primitive, anthropomorphic personality cults are still known as ‘religions'. Turmoil and strife has always been promoted by the leaders of our modern feudal systems - that masquerade as new forms of government and society, ruled by the same old faces shorn of their crowns.
Many people realised that simply killing presidents, kings and queens will not suffice in the quest for peace, satisfying as it may seem. Replacing one tyrannical control freak with another will not work and power has the tendency to corrupt; creating world peace requires unilateral disarmament. During the decades of global war and ‘cold' war that characterised the 20th Century, cold corporations - the ‘military-industrial complex' US President Eisenhower warned us of - cemented their hold on the world. Peace movements struggled in vain against the industrial colossus and its propaganda arms (the mass media). When the Soviet Union imploded and the ideological walls began to fall it finally became possible to stop wasting most of the world's resources on hideous, useless tools of murder and destruction.
During that last, precious, free decade of the second millennium there was no further excuse for any nation to keep - let alone build - nuclear bombs or and other weapons of mass destruction. It was even possible to dismantle all these weapons completely, making it possible for human societies and economies to actually create a better world - and repair the damage caused by industrial ‘civilization'.
Nothing has changed - yet. It's still possible to take the toys from the misguided boys who tell us that we need them and their evil phallic symbols. Keeping warriors and weapons is a very bad idea - they only insure us against themselves.
We Don't Need Another Cold War
Now we can disarm the planet and enter a millennium of peace. We don't need another cold war, or a hot one - but with climate change and the planetary resource pressures that we continue to create, we also create a climate that can be exploited by the cold warriors and weapons makers.
So let's disarm the world. We can start with the big weapons and work our way down to hand grenades and guns - before we work our way down to them in a less pleasant and wise manner. WE CAN DISARM THE WORLD. After all - what's the point of keeping a tool whose only purpose is to murder? International inspection teams can continue their jobs under the auspices of an international organization. A world governance of unity within diversity can rise from the implementation of disarmament itself. We could even call it the ‘United Nations' or somesuch. It would need teeth and would become the sole repository of weapons - a power that could only be entrusted to a truly democratic institution with a truly representative ‘Security Council'. It must be a body whose representatives must be elected by the people of their nations - not appointed by their governments. At last we would have a use for all those pointless Heads of State.
We'd also have to ban the manufacture of weapons, of course. We could start by banning the international sale of weapons across borders and locking up all those who would make money from death.
Let's end war now.
Or we can have globalisation - and global catastrophe - instead.
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- R.A.
I think that human nature factors in the need to supress people, to feel
superior to others, but that's just how I see it. Are we not the only
creatures who kill each other for petty issues, or kill for the thrill?
Now is as good a time as any to turn our swords into plowshares. Sign me
up!
Actually Kevin, such cruelty is a result of ignorance, not human nature.
Many animals behave thus. Humans have a choice as to whether they will or
not...
Kevin: Human nature is not to control, it is to be controlled. People
preffer to have leaders than to be leaders. What you see today is a violent
minority that uses this nature to their own gain. People are not evil by
nature, but they can easily be made evil by those who know how to use
people.
New Illuminati- Great article, I agree one hundred, thousand per
cent! It is time to make a UN that has teeth and not just a loud mouth. It
is time to make the monsters of our time know fear.
Aye, Solomon. But even better if we can all learn to love. Fear is what got
us into this mess!
Sounds like a ploy for a feudalistic one world government to enslave
mankind. What's next a one world 'new age' religion? ;) Is that Ordo ab
Chao I smell or sulfer?
So guns have made the words a safe place, eh? Just like Amerika, I suppose.
Safe there? Not likely.
If you're a smack freak you can be easily murdered with an overdose and
no-one's the wiser.
If you're a gun freak...
And PLEASE don't give me that 'I HAVE to be an asshole because the other
guy's worse' crap. Leave it in the Old Age, buster, and we can be brothers
and sisters instead of competitors and opponents.
Or do you prefer the 'good old days'?
No offense, but unfortunately your reasoning has created a catch 22. If
the world were capable of living so responsibly as to lay down all weapons,
there would be no need to lay them down because we would all be good people
that wouldn't use them anyway. I completely agree with you about weapons
being bad. But the real purpose of weapons is to put them in the hands of
good people is to protect them from bad people. This usually turns out to
be government (the same people that you would have all the weapons given to
in the form of the UN) It's not the masses that drop nuclear bombs....
it's governments. Your proposal to disarm the masses and give them all to
the government is some scary shit. The government hasn't used them wisely
in the past, what would be different? If, in this perfect world, you
proposed getting rid of weapons AND government.... we might have a chance.
Good points - but where are these 'good' people you refer to? Surely anyone
who handles an instrument of death abrogates any right to be considered
intrinsically 'good'?
Governments rule by force - even when the steel fist is encased in a velvet
glove! How right you are to illumine the nexus between government and
weaponry. As Mao said, power flows from the barrel of a gun. Is that the
sort of 'power' we want ruling over us? These so-called governments are
merely protection rackets. We can easily outlaw protection rackets in a
REAL democracy, one which doesn't view 'security' as its primary reason for
existence. We need governance for justice, without which there is no
security - but weaponmakers and warmongers try to sell us the lie that we
couldn' survive without them. In fact, we can't survive them.
We don't have to have any weapons if they're effectively outlawed - or even
if they're prohibited from being transported across national borders.
Thanks for your insightful cynicism.
Thank you for your replies. Enjoy the illuminated discourse. The 'good'
people I'm referring to are the majority of people. In response to your
assertion that; "...anyone who handles an instrument of death abrogates any
right to be considered intrinsically 'good'", I would have to dispute as
patently false. Good people handle instruments of death every day with
good intent and results. Everyone that gets behind the wheel of a car
wields the power to kill, yet it's use as such is rare and dealt with
without malice though civil and judicious force of law. I think we have a
fundamental difference in thinking concerning the consolidation of power
and in what hands weapons are most dangerous. It's my contention that the
world of today is the example of the dangers of consolidation of power.
The same people that brought us the U.N. brought us the nuclear bomb and
war. The tool used to foist these abominations on humanity was and is the
independent control of the creation of money through which the agenda of
the few has ravaged the peace loving world for selfish means. I would
like to join you in a world free from war and weaponry but I will only
consent to a rule of government of and by the people. A centralized world
government will be ruled by the same people that rule the world today, the
only difference being that once implemented there will be nowhere to flee
their dictatorial rule and there will be no possibility for dissent. An
effective prison planet where humanity is enslaved for the benefit of the
few. So it appears that we would both like a world of peace and harmony.
May we both see the day.
Thanks for intelligent discourse.
Your analysis of the inevitably pernicious nature of centralised
dictatorships is utterly cogent and accurate. We need something other than
easily corrupted 'representatives' who speak on 'our behalf' and 'know
what's best for us' from their remote vantages.
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