The Peace Movement Needs a Better Strategy

[Craig]

* I'm not sure where this post will lodge at "Peace Visioning", but
it's meant to support and continue the discussion started by Peter
Bergel (and respond to his June 2nd OPW postal mailout), plus
addressing (somewhat) John Bostrom's contributions.

* As to scoring the most significant dent in our nation's aggressive,
corporate-military international posture --or: redirecting it into
benign cultural imperialism, like Mortenson's schools program in
Pakistan^; compelling the MSM to admit that 9/11 was a false flag
operation --is IT. The evidence is now so damning (see:

> www.ae911truth.org

--that pushing the MSM to the tipping point is practically a turn-key
operation --if left-progressives and their "gatekeepers" could take
their fingers out of their ears long enough to grok what really
happened.

Amazingly, my posting will be the first mention of "911" on this
discussion site. 911: the seminal event which defined and is still
being heavily used to justify the excesses of our 21st Century era --
and only a few progressives will touch it.

(^ I can't believe his undertaking is independent of our State
Department.)

* However: outing "911" won't bring us peace (I'm sorry to say).

Peace requires a contagious spiritual revolution. While that comes
from my spiritual humanist point of view, I readily concede: once the
chaff is sorted from the grain, the several major spiritual traditions
can (and should) be inclusively challenged to lead us out of this
sordid era in our culture and history.

Done right (yes! --this is do-able), and admitting that any sweeping
movement is 90% fashion (but out of which, society can turn on a
dime), it will become a profound social embarrassment to be in any way
associated with our nation's current foreign policies and conduct.

* However: a fashionable love of spirituality won't bring us lasting
peace --unless:

~ Socially motivated by this spirituality, we re-examine our
fundamental assumptions about how people should govern themselves.
What we've been doing leads us to where we are at.

~ Might it be possible to (at long last) seriously question such
gnotions as "growth is good"?

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If the earth must lose that great portion of its pleasantness which it
owes to things that the unlimited increase of wealth and population
would extirpate from it, for the mere purpose of enabling it to
support a larger, but not a better or a happier population, I
sincerely hope, for the sake of posterity, that they will be content
to be stationary, long before necessity compel them to it. --JS Mill,
1848 --per:

> http://www.efm.bris.ac.uk/het/mill/book4/bk4ch06
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~ Do you _really_ think that the average person is informed enough to
vote responsibly? If we managed to do something radical, like return
to an all-paper/documented voting process --in which the vast
ignorance of American society gets truly and fully expressed, would
things get better or worse? (For the sake of jobs, the people of
Louisiana appear to support yet more drilling in the Gulf.)

A spiritual revolution, prevailing benign motivation, honesty, felt
bonds with and trust in leadership, --could go around factors of
ignorance, greed/insecurity, provincialisms, and governmental
habituation to regressive policies.

This can only happen because it already dwells among us, waiting for
it to be time, and for us to get out of the way.

Tell me how.