What is the future of mankind?
5000 Years of human recorded history has shown war, hate, death, mayhem and
destruction led by a few who believed they had God (from the beginning of history to
about 1600) or Science (from about 1600 to about 1980) or Thought (from 1980 to
today) itself was on their side. All at the expense of the people they ruled. Some of those
regimes still exist. It took some bloody revolutions over 100 years, starting with Cromwell
in England, then the United States, and then France to start a slow but steady progress
to freedom and prosperity for all. England and France faltered in their step from time to
time. The United States has stayed on course towards greater freedom and prosperity
for all mankind, achieving what no one ever thought possible. That steady progress is
accelerating.
It was WWII which pushed the rights of all men forward, at the insistence of the United
States. It will probably take WWIII to truly bring peace on earth. Pushed along by the
insistance of the United States that all men are born free. Intentionally or unintentionally,
the current Bush Administration is begining to articulate and define a policy of active
intervention in failed states with the express purpose of removing despots and liberating
people; taking them into the modern and civil world.
We are in the midst of WWIII right now, the adversaries are two: Freedom vs. Statists.
You either think that Individuals should own, control and develop the means of their own
survival or you think the state should own, control and develop the means of survival.
Individuals are better equipped at handling their own survival than they are at surviving
while the state doles it out to those it thinks are most deserving of survival. The main
problem with the state is that it is always lead by individuals. Those individuals who believe
in some sort of devine right, intrinsic right, to their leadership and their decision making
prowess. They have glorified themselves to rule over people. Whether it was an ancient
pharoah or communist party president, or great leader the same idea process must
occur. Somehow this person, with the support of most of those around him, believes
that he is entitled to rule becuase of some greater force of history. Some power. Ah,
sure, they'll claim the Christian God, or Allah, or the Science of Socialism, or even just for
the glory of recapturing the peoples historical land and place in the world. Some claim the
right of divine rule in the name of the people. It's all the same idea, no matter what the
name is.
The problem is that there are more statists than there are voices of freedom. And the
forces of freedom have to fight statists at home and abroad. The United States has few
allies in this current Iraq war. Not even the most liberal of Europeans are wholly on our
side; they remain wedded to their statist beliefs. It is only the American military stationed
in Europe and Japan which kept these countries from going to war with each other as
soon as they could. Over the past 60 years we have worked to bring them peace and
understanding. We have not been 100% successful, but it has been a remarkable
transformation from a continent at near constant war to a continent that is for peace
and prosperity.
It is the American taxpayer who was willing to pay the costs of this near occupation so
that we can have peace. It is we who continue to pay the price. We have come to
accept that it is better for us to pay for the military that changed Europe because we
couldn't let them have armies again or they'd go back to slaughtering each other. We
turned Europe into a bunch of passivists and spoiled brats. It took us 60 years, but we
brought Russia, and Eastern Europe along with us. And we're trying with so many other
countries.
But there can be no doubt that the future of mankind is in fact world wide peace and
harmony and prosperity and freedom. It might take another 1000 years. But it will come
about.
5000 Years of human recorded history has shown war, hate, death, mayhem and
destruction led by a few who believed they had God (from the beginning of history to
about 1600) or Science (from about 1600 to about 1980) or Thought (from 1980 to
today) itself was on their side. All at the expense of the people they ruled. Some of those
regimes still exist. It took some bloody revolutions over 100 years, starting with Cromwell
in England, then the United States, and then France to start a slow but steady progress
to freedom and prosperity for all. England and France faltered in their step from time to
time. The United States has stayed on course towards greater freedom and prosperity
for all mankind, achieving what no one ever thought possible. That steady progress is
accelerating.
It was WWII which pushed the rights of all men forward, at the insistence of the United
States. It will probably take WWIII to truly bring peace on earth. Pushed along by the
insistance of the United States that all men are born free. Intentionally or unintentionally,
the current Bush Administration is begining to articulate and define a policy of active
intervention in failed states with the express purpose of removing despots and liberating
people; taking them into the modern and civil world.
We are in the midst of WWIII right now, the adversaries are two: Freedom vs. Statists.
You either think that Individuals should own, control and develop the means of their own
survival or you think the state should own, control and develop the means of survival.
Individuals are better equipped at handling their own survival than they are at surviving
while the state doles it out to those it thinks are most deserving of survival. The main
problem with the state is that it is always lead by individuals. Those individuals who believe
in some sort of devine right, intrinsic right, to their leadership and their decision making
prowess. They have glorified themselves to rule over people. Whether it was an ancient
pharoah or communist party president, or great leader the same idea process must
occur. Somehow this person, with the support of most of those around him, believes
that he is entitled to rule becuase of some greater force of history. Some power. Ah,
sure, they'll claim the Christian God, or Allah, or the Science of Socialism, or even just for
the glory of recapturing the peoples historical land and place in the world. Some claim the
right of divine rule in the name of the people. It's all the same idea, no matter what the
name is.
The problem is that there are more statists than there are voices of freedom. And the
forces of freedom have to fight statists at home and abroad. The United States has few
allies in this current Iraq war. Not even the most liberal of Europeans are wholly on our
side; they remain wedded to their statist beliefs. It is only the American military stationed
in Europe and Japan which kept these countries from going to war with each other as
soon as they could. Over the past 60 years we have worked to bring them peace and
understanding. We have not been 100% successful, but it has been a remarkable
transformation from a continent at near constant war to a continent that is for peace
and prosperity.
It is the American taxpayer who was willing to pay the costs of this near occupation so
that we can have peace. It is we who continue to pay the price. We have come to
accept that it is better for us to pay for the military that changed Europe because we
couldn't let them have armies again or they'd go back to slaughtering each other. We
turned Europe into a bunch of passivists and spoiled brats. It took us 60 years, but we
brought Russia, and Eastern Europe along with us. And we're trying with so many other
countries.
But there can be no doubt that the future of mankind is in fact world wide peace and
harmony and prosperity and freedom. It might take another 1000 years. But it will come
about.
| The Future of Mankind |
| Jim Hlavac |
| Poltics Re-explained |
