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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 insistence of the United States that all
men are born free. Intentionally or unintentionally, the current Bush
Administration is beginning 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 divine
right, intrinsic right, to their leadership and their decision making prowess.
They have glorified themselves to rule over people. Whether it was an
ancient pharaoh 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 because 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 people's 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 was 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 pacifists 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 insistence of the United States that all
men are born free. Intentionally or unintentionally, the current Bush
Administration is beginning 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 divine
right, intrinsic right, to their leadership and their decision making prowess.
They have glorified themselves to rule over people. Whether it was an
ancient pharaoh 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 because 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 people's 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 was 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 pacifists 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.