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Categories - Copywriting - Shopping - Free Online Business Help - Telecommunications Services Articles: Self - World Peace - It's Up to Us Individually In the past 10,000 years, how many governments can you name that brought peace to their populations? How much longer do you want to wait? In order to achieve world peace, we have to change our way of thinking and stop, mistakenly, depending on our governments to work towards peace. The essence of government does not lend its self to peace, but the essence of human nature does. We are bombarded daily with news that tells us that, “The Chinese Say This”, “North Koreans Do That”, “Russians Did This”, “Venezuela Seizes This”, “U.S. Moves to Do This”, “Belgium Votes to Eliminate That”, “Pakistan Refuses to Do This”, “Palestinians Do This”, “Israelis do That”, “British Commit Troops Here”, and “U.S. Sends More Troops There”.
The truth, of course is that none of these people did any of these things. Their governments did. One can argue that populations are responsible for their governments, but when the majority of a population is against the things that it’s government does, or doesn’t live the things in question as part of their everyday lives, you have to ask how much of the responsibility they share. Unless you are related to a soldier, the idea that soldiers are off fighting somewhere becomes something that seems removed from your life.
Something happens to a human being when he or she becomes a part of a government and they begin to think in terms of how much better it would be for their country if their country had control of what another country has. They start to be compelled to attempt to get other countries to do things differently in the face of international resentment for the intrusion. They begin to think in terms of conflict and the number of deaths in their country as opposed to the number of deaths in the other country when the conflict is concluded. They think in terms of soldiers instead of human beings. They do not feel the pain that mothers, fathers, spouses, and children feel when they lose a child, daughter, parent or spouse. They don’t feel the pain as the fire from explosions and bullets burns into our bodies just before we die. They do not feel the hopelessness as our homes are flattened. More of them will die than us, they think and things will be better. They rarely see the bodies and they never feel the pain. They plot ways to create conflict about for the good of their country.
The vast majority of the people on the planet think only of working to take care of their families, sharing fun successful lives with their family and friends, and worshipping their god. They are happy that they had the money to buy a new bike, skates, or baseball glove, for their child’s birthday, or they were able to spend a little extra to celebrate their new year with their friends. If their children are clothed and their homes are warm, they feel at peace. Their quest for prosperity only involves more of the same. It doesn’t even occur to them to want the things that are in another far off land. They are just like you and me, but they, too, are terrorized by daily news bulletins that suggest that someone doesn’t want them to be able to live their peaceful, happy, lives. When they go to war, it’s because they have been led to believe that those they are fighting against wanted it or caused it.
No population wants war and no population wants to be in a war when there is one.
Soldiers do not start wars war and don’t want to be them when there is one.
We cannot wait another 10,000 years for peace. In order to stop the cycle of violence, we have to resist constant attempts to make us think of other countries in terms of what their governments do. We have cling to the reality, in the face of an onslaught of information that would have us think otherwise, that countries consist of people who only want the same things that we do. The very last thing that they want is to have their sons and daughters die in some far off land or to have bombs and rockets rain down on their homes. They would much rather share what they have and laugh with us than kill us or have us kill them.
Waiting for our governments to bring us peace is like waiting for a government to enforce a constitution that restrains it. Peace and governments are diabolically opposed to each other. If we want our government restrained, we have to enforce our constitutions and if we want peace, we have to bring it upon ourselves.
Fortunately, we now have the means at out disposal, to share this message of peace and overcome the tragedies that are forced on us by our leaders. We only have to take a few moments out of each day to contact a stranger in some far off land and ask them if they mind if we work each day to take care of our families, share a fun and fruitful life with our friends, and worship our god. Tell them that we don’t mind if they do the same. We want peace.
When we all know this and believe this, we will have peace. When our governments become drunk with power, we can just take away the keys.
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