The Cold War. An interesting issue for an aerospace engineer. We have the means to annihilate the known world. We have people starving in some parts of the world, but we have the means to obliterate the whole planet. We have spent labor on this useless piece of machinery that has created a dilemma for us. We have had the economic problem since ancient Greece since philosophers like Aristotle and Plato were in the courts. The problem of the education of the young was also problematic. Do we teach them to share or fight? Do we need to put a name on a piece of land and register it as private or do we keep it all communal. The question of who and when the wheel and the gears and things came into this world is still of question. As Rousseau points out, language and script would have taken us millions of years to conquer, however we would have had some idea of sharing between family and conflict with neighbors. There would have been sticks and stones, but when words got into it, there was hell to pay for … and hence we have earth. The breeding ground for the young minds. The Kindergarten!
We have a heaven. We have created our own heaven. We have the technology. We have the machinery. We have the tools. We have the script. We have the language. Yet we have conflict. We have enough land. We have enough food. We have water. We have electricity. We have mastered gas. We have mastered sewerage. We can live long lives. Yet we kill each other. There is no other way to die, but of conflict. I need to quote something here, so here it is; Elysium. The movie with Matt Damon. The one where there is the perfect community living in space … without health problems … they never die! I tell you … it exists!
So now to address the problem … the lay! The uneducated monkeys! The Russians have the technology. And so do the Americans. They are both in space. They have mastered the technology to create heaven. The scientists have the technology. The peasants in power are the problem. I did the research and heard the voices of the people from the street in Israel. The Gaza and West Bank. Jews and Arabs. They all want a one state solution and they don’t care whether a Jew rules or An Arab rules. They just want peace. They just wish to live together and share the land. It is these extremist illiterate bastards who use the power given to them by the Engineers. Engineers from foreign lands. Arms all need advanced sciences to be manufactured. It takes a Russian or American conglomerate to be able. They are the ones who are causing rifts all over the globe. They hand out these weapons and sit back and wait while they either hack each other to death or blow each other up. Monkeys!
Apparently the problem is the weapons of mass destruction, not the rockets that the Palestinians and Jews are throwing at each other. I am not sure about the credibility of the reports I have received as I have never ventured out over the seas. I do not know of any other world, but that of the socialist living in a neoliberal world. I have seen poverty and I have seen conflict in this perfect world, hence a confusion about the perfect ideology. I cannot see why we have all these feelings about ideological supremacy, when in reality all economic solutions have been proven as a disaster. Some blame the corruption in bureaucracy, some blame the lazy, some blame the greedy. There are a combination of factors that interweave to send us into spiral of doom. There is the ideological problem of economy that Feber talk of and there is the ‘orthodox’ version of nuclear armageddon that Gaddis speaks of. Economic and political ideologies are important and so is our possession of nuclear weapons, but we also have to consider the age old problem of church within state, law and order within civil society and the dawn of galactic exploration.
Poland is only a small pawn and too much time should not be wasted lamenting on diplomacy of the knights, in a game where the kings and queens never enter the carnage front. Economic unrest was ripe all over the iron curtain, from Poland through Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Tibet, Vietnam to Korea. The battle was simply of economic organisation; revolutionary communal or liberal free markets. There was bound to be dissidents within each Kamp as it is virtually impossible to decide the political mindset of the population geographically. A random sample from every country in the world would show division, however due to pressures of community will not voice their economic preference, apart from the fact that would share with their family, the nuclear unit.
Bureaucracy is present in every economic ideology and bogs down the economy with corruption due to the lure of greed and sloth. Gold with Bentleys and condos. There are some luxuries in this world that are not available to the many due to simple economics; scarcity. We have demand and supply. We can supply to seven billion people, however we have conflict holding up the supply chains. Labor is being directed away from building up resources to enrich our lives and getting wasted on containing conflict. In the midst of all this conflict, goods are still being produced, however to lesser quantities and only the resourceful are able to enjoy the upper crust. As this is the case and there are many with some vision of the heavens, the lure to use deceitful means to acquire these delicacies is extremely powerful and many fall victim to these vices.
The corporate directors of the large companies in the western world compare to the autocrats of the oligarchy in the eastern world. There are only a very few men that are actually controlling this world and that sort of power is very dangerous. In the game of chess, the bishops and knights are deployed all over the world, spread as much as possible to gain as much territorial advantage, for ease of attack and control over adversary’s moves. The bishops’ control the religious aspect and the knights enforce the law and order. The further into enemy territory you are, the more effect you have. Hence spontaneous revolutions like Cuba and other latin worlds, Arab and African worlds, Asian and Russian worlds,.. would indicate that the battle has been well planned.
The greed of these elite few that have been handed power through generations of elite. There may be grand shows that the peasant has overthrown the autocrats to dictate a world of peace and the african american muslim socialist who will bring peace, but neither have delivered on their visions of peace and prosperity. Power is held in dynasties. Every marriage is about diplomacy. Extending alliances and resources. Children are reared to rule, educated in every science and art in the known world, every philosopher and every poet, the letters and the encyclopedias. Children eat crab and sardines, sauteed with herbs and spices, drink the nectar of the berry, hear the sounds of angels, smell the aromas of sandalwood and see the beauty of this globalised world from every angle.
This life that I tell you of is one that is difficult to pass on and is held on to with dear life. As one would sleep with the sword, the nuke is a bedtime teddy; a security blanket. The addiction to access to the riches of this world is so severe that the elite few who know how to control people, using the knights and bishops to induce bellicosity, deliver the death blow themselves with all the small arms that are traded by the superpowers. For some reason, the US of A, Britain, France, Spain, Scandinavia and Russia are never in any type of turmoil from mass unrest. The rich have even managed to divert internal bellicosity with a push for national solidarity with motivational speeches regularly televised for brainwashing.
LaFeber talks of economic differences that split the known world down the middle with an iron curtain and the constant conflicts around the borders. This is the evidence of the conflict of the cold war. The conflict never got too serious to involve the big powers. It was always satellite states. Proxy wars. The big two could never get into strife. I particularly like Gaddis’s fictional account of the direction of conflict over sixty years ago. I don’t know what happened sixty years ago. I have lived a sheltered life. I was never given a credible history lesson. I am also concerned about my knowledge of our world map. My account of the atomic theory is vague, however am aware of the power of machines.
I have never seen an atomic bomb or the destructive power it is claimed to possess. I have never witnessed a pure communist society or a pure capitalist society. I know that the economic structure present in the Australian commonwealth is the best I know of. I assert that I cannot think of a better political administration. Whether it be a labor or a liberal prime minister elected, the government debate and proceed in an orderly fashion and the people in general are happy. There are the few that slip through the cracks and tread miserably down the criminal justice and psychiatric systems designed to control poverty. Otherwise good!
As for the fear of nuclear armageddon, I have never really seen it as a reason to lose sleep over. Whether or not there are missiles going off in Israel and Syria, I do not know of. I cannot even be assured by my friends that … yes in fact there is fighting going on in the middle of the chess board. I have never been to the middle of the chess board. I have never seen an army tank in my life. I have never seen an AK or a gloc. I have seen conflict on a smaller scale. Few disagreements, however all these disagreements are the ones on the media. I know of no war. I just philosophize …. just like sudoku.
What I do like to philosophize about is right and wrong. I think about our creator, as Hawking was deluded, and our purpose in life. Then I take a wander down the archaeological evidence of the histories of Judaism, Islam and Christianity. I have some knowledge of the myths of Siddhartha with the teachings of the Tao and Shiva. I have studied Freud and am well versed in the enlightenment philosophies of the renaissance as well as Maslow. With Aristotle, Copernicus, Galileo, Newton and Einstein in the bag, I am aware of …
We need law and order, not necessarily adherent to any of the ancient religious mythology like the Bible or the Koran, however we do need to ascertain some sort of binding social contract, prescribed by the great philosophers like Locke, Hobbes, Rousseau. Freud and Einstein had letters of a world federation as the ideal government to resolve all conflicts, as an international court with the military and police as enforcers and the judges and administration as Lords. Even Plato had his theory on the ideal regime, as did Machiavelli, Hobbes and Kant went as far as to publish his manifesto on world federation.
Fortunately, our slave, science, has come to the rescue. The technology is here. The Russians and the Americans have between them succeeded in building the infrastructure and machinery required to conduct such a revolution. The big feat of crunching the numbers for the electronic management of individual demand and collective supply chains to deliver to seven billion is over. We have the problem of monitoring the demand over with the magic of paypal, a secure form of identity and a means of creating a profile and designing a supply chain for ease of availability.
The end to the cold war comes today with the promise that there is an eternal heaven for everyone. The messiah has come and gone. Who cares. We deliver a message of peace and a pragmatic means to deliver a sustainable peace. We need ‘a goal’, an expectancy that we can deliver through compromise and peaceful negotiations. We need to create employment. People are idle and too much nothing to do leads to less of the luxuries that go around the karmic circle. We need everyone to work. Everyone must contribute. We explain to people that there are planets out there with land and riches for everyone. We can all have a piece of the pie!
Whether it be an ideological battle or an arms race, the question of law and order to be handed down by divinity or by the civil servant has to addressed. We need a certain amount of assurance that our neighbor will not invade our privacy or ‘trespass’. We need this with our close neighbors within daily contact and also from inter-state relations. There has to be a social contract that outlines the terms of trade. One of the main concerns is security, as prescribed by Maslow. Hence an agreement where we ensure the security of every individual on this little planet with the adherence to some basic laws restricting any imposition on the liberties of another individual. When the breach occurs, the global security division can assess whether and how much resources to deploy. The matter will be heard by the Judges and there will be punishment and reward distributed accordingly.
There needs to be tolerance of societies creating their own fences to isolate themselves and maintain their culture. This wish of tribal and economically backward societies to refrain from participating in this type of social contract ought to be respected with the highest regard and sincerity. As we globalize and homogenize the majority of our globe, it would be appreciated by future generations if they could get in a plane and go visit different times and cultures. As there are several islands available for use, those with extreme political, religious, or any other indifference ought to be welcomed to gather their people and head off to their chosen destination to do as please. As long as they lose their right to nuclear weapons and all other arsenal deemed dangerous to the larger community.
I tried to explain to you the causes of international relations for the last seventy years. I repeat to you that I have no confidence in the history and geography lessons that I have received via print and telecasts, whether it be an esteemed journal or a dubious blog, I do not know much about war. I have never witnessed a war, however am left to philosophize on the pathology of conflict within social relations. We have to address the fact that we are breeding too much. We cannot manage our seven billion and yet we fornicate. We have no means of supporting children, yet the wish to have large families. Now we have to find more loot to divvy up into more portions. With seven billion, you need an ideology, unfortunately. We need an economic solution.
We need to provide seven billion people with about two billion toilets. Sewerage piping and supply of clean water are basic essentials. Before we even hand out an economic ideology, we need to ascertain facts. If there are seven billion people in the world, not many want their lady to squat behind the bush and do her business. We would like our pretty lady with a nice meal and some warmth, maybe even shelter. A light in the night and some wifi wouldn’t be asking too much either. I could rationalize that the provision of an apple imac as an essential tool for the education of the child by paraphrasing Aristotles’ virtue ethics, but will actually recommend it as a counter terrorism milestone.
The pie I talk of is heaven. We are all going to put aside our differences and work together to build our heaven. A simple question for a poll : where do you see yourself retiring? What do you wish to be doing and where do you think you will be living? We can build it! If one wish to live by the mountain, he can get a mountain. If one wish a farm with nobody around, but cows and lamb, then be it, that’s what he gets. If one wish a life in skyscrapers with malls and McDonalds, that exists too. Simply ascertain the demands of our seven billion. Stop fighting for some time and we can design territories suitable for living in space!
If the monkey can talk, communicate that the power of the heavens can deliver the goods they desire, if they know what it they wish. There is not much in this world that cannot be made and delivered. Whether it be a good or a service. It can be done. There just needs to be that will for cooperation. We need a communal goal that we can reach by cooperation via the free market mechanism already in place. Our goal is the colonization of the unknown heavens. We have the means to create living conditions in space and mine the planets’ dry. We need workers. We have a lot of work to do. We have a lot of plans for development in space, however have the problem that the conflict on earth is preventing the masses from receiving their basic human rights. There needs to be peace on earth before I can go to heaven. Please help me … I want to sit next to Almighty!
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