The world is cruel, the world is filled to brimming with suffering and terror oft beyond the wildest nightmares of even the most deranged, and we are the only ones who can combat this sorrowful truth. No one else, not cats or dogs or whales or seagulls and most especially not god, we are the only ones coming to save anyone or anything. If someone starves and we knew, it is therefore our collective fault, homelessness, starvation, needless suffering and disease; the blood be upon our heads. We, not god, stand by and watch with callus indifference as untold millions suffer and die from completely treatable and solvable problems. We are our saviors, we are our destroyers, we are the angels and demons we fear. No one is coming to save us, we must save each other.
Thereby I would place a great importance upon a new concept of 'invasion' within our newly forming world society. I propose, haughtily, that we 'invade' the strongholds of poverty and sorrow and declare peace. We must employ and educate the populace of those nations, teach/help them how to form a business, teach/help them how to build the infrastructure, teach/help them order their social structure and build friendships/alliances with those growing/developing countries. We must, in doing these things, employ those learning masses, yes the nation 'invading' must employ the populace until their broken/fractured economy is strong enough to support itself; this is part of the cost of peace. It should thereby be in the purview of the government structure to supplement and provide these services in an attempt to increase and maintain peace, for itself and the world, and there by increase prosperity across borders and bring the greater society together. This should be a government endeavor, paid and supplemented by the people.
What I am thereby imploring is the creation of a 'peace industrial complex' as it were. We must develop, as we now are capable, a new form of combat/world unity. I know that my basic structure seems a bit fractured, however, I merely am putting forth the concept of the very idea; I leave it up to smarter minds to develop and bring to fruition these very difficult concepts, as I am certainly not within the position of power to do so.
These goals are not 'lofty' rather they are but the logical extension our exhaustion of the 'old ways' of human conflict and barbarous behavior. We have reached the end road in the art of war, war now has the capacity to destroy everything; literally. Our power is beyond the capacity of our planet, at this stage of our development it is not only imperative that we move away from such behaviors, it is the only logical next step. We have out grown this phase of our cultural evolution.
One must remember the great philosopher Stan Lee's quote "With great power comes great responsibility" we now know that it is not the powerless or the weak who are 'responsible' for the way the world is, rather it is the powerful who hold the blame for all systemic social problems; if problems exist, it is because the elite do not choose to address them. This is the greatest reason why god, if god exists, is responsible for all the suffering on the earth; if he is all powerful and all good, than he has no excuse for the evil seen upon this world, barring of course we change the definitions of 'good' or 'power' to suit an inactive god.
I must stress that we can and should migrate away from our current status quo of behavior. The reality is that we, as a world, need to unite and begin to take seriously the very real problems that currently, and most certainly in the future, face our planet. We are the only ones who will save us. If anything I feel confident that, should we recognize and act, we are more than capable of doing what many say is impossible. I do believe we can do the difficult, we've done it before, and it is not the dreamers who try that are the problem, it is the doubters who just sit back and shake their heads saying "this is impractical, it will never work, why not try for less?" for though the dreamer may fail and cry at night over his loss that day, the doubter cries for nothing, for he has nothing to work for and therefore worth building or losing.
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