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Jan 2003


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Got World Peace yet?
 by Mark Mulligan

Got World Peace yet? Why not, what’s stopping us? For the first time in history, we have the means, motive and opportunity to set everyone down in the Global Village Town Hall and agree that everyone wants Peace for their children. EVERYONE SANE WOULD SIGN UP FOR THAT! We could smother every crazy minority against that.

This is the first time in history we could all come together and sign up for the same Constitution, the same rights, the same elected Mayor’s Office, professional Police Force, and fair and impartial Judiciary to run the World City. Up ‘til now, we’ve settled for living in Mogadishu on a Bad Day. 180 street gangs of nation-state technicals making sure nothing ever worked out right without lots of spilt blood, induced poverty and other macho wastage.

Tell you the truth; I don’t care if I live on Embassy Row of Mogadishu on a Bad Day. The USA, the richest and most powerful, with baddest technicals and the most conniving elders in the World City. I’m greedy. I’m impatient. I want it all. I’m sick of Mogadishu on a Bad Day. I want PeaceWorld. I want to be RICH! I don’t want to hear about starving children being napalmed in cheap bunkers. I want them to thrive, and me to thrive. What do YOU really want, in your heart of hearts? What would you say if I told you: “The sky is the limit.”?

Honest to God, every cubic yard of dirt and every cubic meter of water contains all the energy in the Universe. We just have to be smart enough to reach down into it, take what we need without burning our fingertips or the world. Otherwise, we’re just stupid beggars dying of thirst and hunger in a desert, even though untold wealth lies buried just below our feet.

We are standing, you and I, at the center of a giant, super-deluxe pizza that stretches out to infinity. It contains EVERYTHING THAT ANYONE COULD EVER POSSIBLY DESIRE. Unfortunately, we wear blinkers that only let us see down a 1 degree slice of this pizza. That slice has been gone over with the sword by legions, seared with napalm, blasted beyond recognition. It’s full of crying starving children cowering in bunkers, waiting the Boogey Man to come kill their parents and recruit them into their shock troops and whores – and us fat moral cowards who should know better.

The rest of this infinite pizza, we can’t see. It’s utopia, fantasy, “unrealistic”. We wear cultural blinkers that make invisible to us everything but the WeaponWorld slice of this pie.

But those blinkers can be POLARIZED. They can be made TRANSPARENT, so that everyone could see PeaceWorld simultaneously: the bountiful harvest that is our due. We’ve paid our dues these last three thousand years. It’s time to party. Everyone could be rich, free, safe, peaceful and righteous -- including us. Just you see.

If you’ve at all followed what I’ve stated above, please check out www.peaceworld.freeservers.com. It’s all there for you to argue against, perfect and replace with something better. Quit stoking the Jive Drive and Get to Work, I beg of you.