A peaceful world is possible. To call out, regarding whatever issue on which we are working, how solutions promote a peaceful world, and how our common survival depends on building such a world. This is about far more than a peace movement, but about how all our movements can focus on furthering the goal of a peaceful world, how each can make its individual contribution to building peaceful societies. We need to rise above the conflicts of the moment, and our own disagreements, to ask the basic questions about how we arrived at this precipice, and how we can pull back.
"A peaceful world is possible"--yes, certainly. But it will be very difficult to attain to it, so long as the small but imperturbably powerful class of the very wealthy continue to control how governments, economies and societies operate, which of course involves fomenting hostilities; and so long as the varyingly hedonist, consumerist and complacent majority would prefer to lie back and let it happen, regardless of whatever disappointments and frustrations they may be sensitive to in the status quo. It will always be difficult, perhaps impossible, to dissuade such people from being what they have chosen to be.
Then there are those few with clearer vision, and good hearts: alternately heroic or quixotic, depending on how you hold them in the light. It is far from certain they will ever have the power or influence to change things for the better. So really their only option is to give witness to their vision of peace and justice, and never lose hope.
My Substack is devoted to this:
A peaceful world is possible. To call out, regarding whatever issue on which we are working, how solutions promote a peaceful world, and how our common survival depends on building such a world. This is about far more than a peace movement, but about how all our movements can focus on furthering the goal of a peaceful world, how each can make its individual contribution to building peaceful societies. We need to rise above the conflicts of the moment, and our own disagreements, to ask the basic questions about how we arrived at this precipice, and how we can pull back.
Now I've given you a high five, along with a few others who have started showing up here, who are looking to change the bigger picture!
Something is stirring in the land
Could an upswing be underway?
https://suzannetaylor.substack.com/p/something-is-stirring-in-the-land
Look up the others I mentioned for some potential of a Zoom among people thinking this way!
"A peaceful world is possible"--yes, certainly. But it will be very difficult to attain to it, so long as the small but imperturbably powerful class of the very wealthy continue to control how governments, economies and societies operate, which of course involves fomenting hostilities; and so long as the varyingly hedonist, consumerist and complacent majority would prefer to lie back and let it happen, regardless of whatever disappointments and frustrations they may be sensitive to in the status quo. It will always be difficult, perhaps impossible, to dissuade such people from being what they have chosen to be.
Then there are those few with clearer vision, and good hearts: alternately heroic or quixotic, depending on how you hold them in the light. It is far from certain they will ever have the power or influence to change things for the better. So really their only option is to give witness to their vision of peace and justice, and never lose hope.