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LEARNERS:
On the Move from WeaponWorld to PeaceWorld
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MY BLOG: Escape from WeaponWorld
“We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.” Martin Luther King quotation. Invitation to read and translate LEARNERS.
Summary of LEARNERS: WORLD PEACE
Still working on the Summary. What a bored, stressed, aversive or overworked reader may find too much today, a dozen generations of meticulous scholars may pore over, harvesting shortfalls.
Warnings!
We are trained as children against peace. Once Learners understand that, we can unlock the doors to Peace World.
TABLE OF CONTENTS (YOU ARE HERE.)
KEYWORDS
Includes keywords to each chapter. A more fractal, quantum jumpy and fuzzy logic description of LEARNERS than these squashed Newtonian sentences.
Poems, mine and others'
I will wake again in darkness / Je veillerai tantot dans l’obscurite --- Chanson d’automne / Paul Verlaine / Autumn song --- By not loving you / En ne t’aimant point --- Ballade des pendus / François Villon / Ballad of the hanged --- The second coming / W.B. Yeats / Le second avenement --- Nobody is blocking world peace, but you / Personne ne bloque la paix au monde, sauf toi --- I have a rendezvous with death / Alan Seeger / J’ai rencart avec la mort --- L’ame du vin / Charles Baudelaire / The soul of wine --- What questions about when? / Quelles questions sur quand? --- Blue Energy Water / L’energie bleue dans l’eau --- Go Find It / Va le trouver --- Global Atlantis / L’Atlantide globale –- What Is All This For? / Pourquoi faire, tout ça? –- Come to me, Eureka / Viens-moi, Eureka –- I’m in hurry to get high/ J’ai hatte de me defoncer –- We are all the Grizzly Man / Nous sommes tous l’homme grizzly –- I cannot trust you if / Je ne te fais aucune confiance si –- An Irish Airman Foresees his Death / W.B. Yeats / Un aéronaute irlandais prévoit sa mort --- La peine que j’induis, je dois ressentir / The Pain that I Induce, I must feel --- We Win / Nous Gagnons --- Pavane pour une planète défunte / Pavane For A Dying Planet
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Links
Intro & Vocab
We need a whole new political vocabulary. Our range of topics is encyclopedic. Our first treatment of these topics will be insolently superficial, subject to mythic dismissal at every page turn.
Mein Fahrt, Quoting Hitler out of Context
Hitler understood an ideology needs a simple message everyone can understand and agree with. It needs step-by-step development. His content was wrong. Our content could be better. The mechanism remains, to use or abuse.
The Collective Superconscience
Do we share a collective superconscience? Do we pollute it with violence? Could we flood it with Peace?
Survival of the Deadliest
Darwinian selection for better military states. Leadership in weapon and peace contexts.
Can We Be Good?
Innate human evil or ultimate good? Nature, nurture and other good things.
You Choose
Pick you constellation of political metaphors: historically pure or dreamt up tomorrow. You choose.
Stop
Take a break. Contact me. This is hard.
Section I – WHY
Why are we in this mess?
Weapon Psycho-History
Are we too cooperative or too competitive? Why.
Paroxysms
Wars are not open and shut. Warfare is eternal. Those who resist it most, die fastest.
Weapon Technology
The science and craft of warfare in history and the present.
Know them by their Fruits
Sacrifice or celebration? Weapons religions promote sacrifice; peace religions, celebration. We should be celebrating learners, not sacrificing victims.
What I Think of the Rapture, Man
Jesus never used the word Rapture; that word is not in the Bible. Christ forbids Christians to pray in church and in public. See for yourself in Matthew 6-5. What are ‘Christian’ fundamentalists up to, disobeying His direct instruction, leading the faithful astray, turning the uncertain away in disgust, and thus perverting Christianity?
Cathari
What would make eternal peasants and nobles revere alike these heretics instead of their fully mature Catholic clergy?
Hypothetical Consolamentum
Attempt to rewrite the Cathari catechism lost during the first phase of the Inquisition.
Identity Politics
Identity, conflict and community. Adherents of different identity positions could become Learners. That shared designation could shield everyone from human rights abuse.
Weapon Mythology
Our constellation of political metaphors is full of weapon myths. We could fill it with peace myths.
Heaven and Hell, on Earth
A list of suggested does and don’ts (or at least not too often).
1984 Syndrome
The Syndrome: government is bad; make it slow and stupid. The cure: government is as good or bad as the nearest Mayor’s office. See to it that Mayor’s offices are good more often.
The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
His social contract lacked the consideration (legal term) that would have triggered it and made it automatic. Rousseau’s genius recognized the limits of communications obtainable in his day. That brick wall of poor communications prevented him from publishing the effect of his social contract on international relations. Using technologies he lacked, we could turn that cyclopean wall into a puff of air.
Carl Marx
The fatal oversight of Marx. Describing information politics without the weapon/peace antinomy is like discussing orbital mechanics without gravity. Economics is just another sub-branch of information flow. Information flow is infinitely renewable and exponentially profitable. It can be multiplied by millions of times when adjusted to chaotic and anarchic dialog mode instead of centralized and pro-governmental monolog mode, much less productive. An untapped abundance which Learners can liberate.
Threat Formula
Growing the threat formula: Body Count times Quantity (Time over Distance) Squared; instead of the armchair formula that accelerates thought (see below).
Combat Infantry Warrior
Let’s walk a mile in the boots of an average spear holder.
Criminal Warfare
Links between crime, warfare and governance.
Paradox America
America’s weakness and ultimate strength.
Burning Libraries (AD)
One out of ten authors survives, and one of ten of his works, among best-preserved historic writings. Did you know that the Iliad and the Odyssey were actually two thirds of a trilogy? That there is another lost epic?
Burning Libraries (BCE)
More book burning into the present. Book burning is ecumenical and sickeningly omnipresent in history.
Weapon Mentality
Aren’t fascism and modern political thought too similar? Why?
Ashoka
The institution of righteousness. We have our historical precedent.
Ritual Stupidity
Failure to heed warnings until it is too late. Typical of weapon mentality.
Several Big Lies
A partial list of lies by type.
Pick Your Poison
Weapon mentality is lethal by design. It cannot help itself. That is what is does best. If you want to massacre everything, you’ve picked the right pet. Choose another one, more docile.
Section II – HOW
How do we get from WeaponWorld to PeaceWorld?
Peace Mentality, Weapon Mentality
Superficial growth with deep roots, explosive growth from shallow ones. Deep roots and fruitful growth.
Learning to Dance
The World Elephant wanders around blind, breaks its limbs and starves in the produce section of a grocery store. That’s our world. Install an elephant’s brain in the elephant and watch it dance. That dance is our lifeline to PeaceWorld.
Education as Pathology vs. the Armchair Formula
Modern education is about triage and restriction. Learner education will honor every child with a doctorate at puberty. Accelerate information flow instead of rationing it. Turn the ziggurat of education upside down, into a cornucopia of Learning.
Further Communications
The rules that regulate our communication through constellations of political metaphors. Free speech and profit centers. More dialog bandwidth, less frequency of official monolog.
The Library
Information handling in a peace technology.
Knowledge-Value
Taichi Sakaiya wrote about perceived abundance and objective value judgments that arise from it. He wrote about dearth and knowledge value judgments that arise from it. Suggested peace technology applications of knowledge-value. Balancing affluence and poverty, objective value and knowledge-value.
Laocracy
Laocracy as a direct and perpetual referendum alternative to indirect and sporadic representative democracy. A suggested architecture fir the World Agora of information politics.
Jury Duty
Jury duty for maximum justice.
Computer Yellow Pages
How to list topics of passion and their adherents.
White Noise
Some problems with large-scale governance.
Conceive Our Future
Your picture is as valid as mine. Let’s build ours together.
Travel
On the benefits of extended travel.
Ancient Abundance & Little Green Men
Laughably unscientific speculations and outlandish hypotheses for you fireworks entertainment.
Learner Science
Peace technology applications of science and superstition.
Beyond Darwin
What would a complementary replacement of Darwin’s theory of evolution look like?
Language
Amer-Ind as a universal travelers’ language supplemental to birth languages. On cultural ecology: its strangulation by corporate weapon culture and its cultivation on PeaceWorld.
Satyagraha, and Allah
On the fine art of verifaction: finding the truth on both sides of a conflict. On Islam. What if the two agreed perfectly?
Some Basic Rules
Gandhi’s ideas on Satyagraha, conflict resolution and non-violence; gratefully lifted from Mark Juergensmeyer’s book.
Ode to Truth and Non-Violence
A poem on Satyagraha and verifaction.
Costs
Do not judge the economics of peace technology by the econologic of weapon mentality.
Section III – WHAT
What should we expect once we enter PeaceWorld?
The Future
Could we turn the Earth into a larger model of Victorian England? The Earth as a squireship. Factory towns fringing Earth orbit instead of the sea. Outer space, the colonies?
Cosmic Serpent
Is the living voice of DNA the voice of the serpent of Eden, the devil? Or is it the Holy Spirit, which Jesus left us as a Comforter pending His return? DNA is very old and very wise. Our souls are saved already. Should we not tap into that titanic database to unearth answers to our worst problems? DNA has already survived all of them in other incarnations and turned them into benefits. Why not share those benefits here and now in real time?
Aliens & Cavemen
More outlandishly pre-historic speculation for your dining and dancing pleasure.
Doctors within Borders
We must have a thousand times more medics. Peace technology applications to health care.
Plus LTA, Minus Nukes
Transportation hardware alternatives. Regulating nuclear war once and for all.
Is Ecology Constitutional?
Good ecology as a constitutional right.
Planet Overwatch
Another list of keywords: urban renewal, urban forestry, tectonic remediation, covered cities, elevated walkways, solar power. Grass roots surveillance of large-scale activities.
Your Rights or Their Privileges?
The distribution of rights on PeaceWorld.
Population Control
The best form of population control is many children and old folks, as healthy and well-cared for as possible—many fewer exceptions.
World Militia
“The Constitution calls for a well-regulated militia,” … Harm Forces on Peace World.
Peace on Earth, and Goodwill
Convivencia, learning to live together. Urban design and environmental protections.
What Can I Do?
Be kind enough to translate your favorite chapter of LEARNERS into your own language; would you? A more or less fatuous list of personal suggestions. How durst I? Because my sister asked me. Make up your own!
Is It Too Late
Conclusion
Sustainable development through peace technology, activism, social commentary, futurism, prophecy, politics, political theory, ecology and peace, idealism, urban renewal, global management, global federation, world vision.
Trash Soccer
Litter control as a sidewalk sport. Garbage is for WeaponWorld slums, not PeaceWorld’s New Jerusalem. Recycling it should become a child’s game.
Bibliography
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