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LEARNERS:
On the Move from WeaponWorld to PeaceWorld
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“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.
Title Page
Forward
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.)
Includes keywords to each chapter. A more fractal, quantum jumpy and fuzzy logic
description of LEARNERS than these squashed Newtonian sentences.
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 --- Grimpe /
Climb --- Darkness, Darkness / Jesse
Colin Young / Noirceur, Noirceur
--- Go Find It / Va 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
--- World Peace, Jobless Washer Woman / La paix
au monde : lavandière désœuvrée --- The Force that through the Green
Fuse Drives the flower / Dylan Thomas /
La force qui à travers le fusible vert dirige la fleur --- 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 --- One Art / Elizabeth
Bishop / Un art
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?
Darwinian selection for better military states. Leadership in weapon and peace contexts.
Innate human evil or ultimate good? Nature, nurture and other good things.
Pick you constellation of political metaphors:
historically pure or dreaming about tomorrow.
You choose.
Take
a break. Contact me. This is hard.
Why are we in this mess?
Are we too cooperative or too competitive? Why?
Wars are not open and shut. Warfare is eternal. Those who resist it the most, die fastest.
The science and craft of warfare in history and the
present.
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?
What would make eternal peasants and nobles revere
alike these heretics, instead of their fully mature Catholic clergy?
Attempt to rewrite the Cathari catechism lost during
the opening phase of the Inquisition.
Identity, conflict and community. Adherents of different identity positions
could become Learners. That shared
designation could shield everyone from human rights abuse.
Our constellation of political metaphors is full of
weapon myths. We could fill it with
peace myths.
A list of suggested does and don’ts (or at least not
too often).
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 better 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.
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-government monolog mode, much less productive. An untapped abundance sits here, that
Learners can liberate.
Developing the threat formula: Body Count times (Time
over Distance) squared; instead of the armchair formula that accelerates
thought (see below).
Let’s walk a mile in the boots of an average spear
holder.
Links between crime, warfare and governance.
On the two paths that Capitalism can take and their
consequences.
America’s weakness and ultimate strength.
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?
More book burning into the present. Book burning is ecumenical and sickeningly
omnipresent in history.
Aren’t fascism and modern political thought too
similar? Why?
The institution of righteousness. We have our historical precedent.
Failure to heed warnings until it is too late. Typical of weapon mentality.
A partial list of lies by type.
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.
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.
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.
The rules that regulate our communication through
constellations of political metaphors.
Free speech and profit centers.
More dialog bandwidth, less frequency of official monolog.
Information
handling in a peace technology.
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 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 for maximum justice.
How
to list topics
of passion and their adherents.
Some problems with large-scale governance.
Your picture is as valid as mine. Let’s build ours together.
On
the benefits of extended travel.
Ancient Abundance & Little Green Men
Laughably unscientific speculations and outlandish
hypotheses for you fireworks entertainment.
Peace
technology applications of science and superstition.
What
would a complementary replacement of his theory of evolution look like?
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.
On the fine art of verifaction: finding the
truth on both sides of a conflict. On
Islam. What if the two agreed perfectly?
Gandhi’s
ideas on Satyagraha, conflict resolution and non-violence; gratefully lifted
from Mark Juergensmeyer’s book.
A
poem on Satyagraha and verifaction.
Do
not judge the economics of peace technology by the econologic of weapon
mentality.
What should we expect once we enter PeaceWorld?
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?
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?
More outlandishly pre-historic speculation for your
dining and dancing pleasure.
We
must have a thousand times more medics.
Peace technology applications to health care.
Transportation
hardware alternatives. Regulating
nuclear war once and for all.
Good
ecology as a constitutional right.
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.
The best form of population control is many children
and old folks, as healthy and well-cared for as possible—many fewer exceptions.
“The
Constitution calls for a well-regulated militia,” … Harm Forces on Peace World.
Convivencia, learning
to live together. Urban design and
environmental protections.
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!
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.
Litter control as a sidewalk sport. Garbage is for WeaponWorld slums, not
PeaceWorld’s New Jerusalem. Recycling it
should become a child’s game.
LEARNERS: On the Move from WeaponWorld to
PeaceWorld
Hey, buddy!
This could be the most important read of your
life.
Go back and pick a chapter to review.
Learner friend, it could only do you good.
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