MORPHEAL'S COMMENTARY - April 13 - Economic Progress Without A World War ?, Summit of the Americas - To Avert Total Tragedy, Thailand is Only One Instance, Surveillance of Car Drivers in UK - Big Brother ?

Morpheal’s Commentary - April 13th, 2009 - Economic Progress Without A
World War ?, Summit of the Americas - To Avert Total Tragedy, Thailand
is Only One Instance, Surveillance of Car Drivers in the UK - Big
Brother ?

ECONOMIC PROGRESS WITHOUT A WORLD WAR ?

For many politicians the idea of bringing about economic progress
without a world war, is a completely foreign and peculiar notion. The
20th century was build on World War I, World War II, and the
subsequently massive but highly covert Cold War. Three world wars in
one century. That and the direct Cold War confrontations of the Korean
War and the Vietnam War, plus a number of other major skirmishes,
including Desert Storm in Iraq. A century of constant war. A century
who’s economy was nearly completely built on the facts of constant
war.

The opportunity that has been created, at the start of the 21st
century is one that calls for an economy that is radically different
from that of the 20th century. It calls for an economy of peace, and
built upon the needs of peace. This is so strange and frightening a
prospect to many politicians today that some would prefer to bring on
a major military confrontation because it is easier, more
understandable, and in keeping with the knowledge of the 20th century.
The brave new world of peace economics is something too alien, too
frightening, to contemplate in all its potential changes and effects
upon humanity and how the world economy must function in what
threatens to become a world economy built mostly upon peace.

Are economists, and politicians, those leading our nations and
governing the world economic system, up to the immense challenge of an
economy based on peace, or will it be easier for them to throw away
that opportunity and return to fighting it out, with even greater
emphasis on war, as the foundation, the very framework, of economic
life on Earth ? The opportunity is there, and it is now, to change
everything, to an economy of peace. Is leadership, and humanity as
species built on a history of continual violent conflict with itself,
ready to take on that unprecedented challenge ? Can America change
direction and lead the world to peaceful progress ?

SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS - TO AVERT TOTAL TRAGEDY:

Since the original writing of this, I felt the need to emphasize the
growing political instability that is being so openly given expression
in places such as Thailand, is also festering under the surface of
Central and South America. Very little time remains for changing that
trend, before it will boil up to the surface and wreck havoc across
that region, becoming a political wildfire with no means for its
effective control.

RE: Summit of the Americas - The Need to Avert Total Tragedy

The growing tragedy of the Americas is the unfair exploitation of
central and south America (including the Caribbean), by those North of
the Mexican border along with our ignorance and ignoring of vital
shared issues. We are approaching a radical, and potentially violent,
unprecedented split between north and south. We have, I believe,
little time left for effective change to avert total tragedy.

Much of central and south America is on the verge of environmental,
social, economic and thus political disaster, and the impact of the
increasing pace of deterioration is beginning to have effects well
beyond regional borders. Unfettered population growth, extremes of
poverty, crime becoming an accepted way of life, increasing violence,
lack of adequate infrastructure, failing institutions, destruction of
the natural environment, and every form of exploitation demand
attention, long term planning, and real solutions. It cannot continue
as it is. It must change.

We must recognize that North American media has increasingly ignored
the problems of the south, steadily increasing the north to south
divisiveness. When you increasingly ignore the truth of what is
happening south of the Mexican border, you increasingly estrange those
who live and suffer there. It was once popular to bring central and
south America to light, but not now. Now it is unpopular. That implies
a much worsened condition.

Once again, what is most lacking is not people, or other resources to
do the necessary work, but in fact piles of printed paper (money), and
the responsible use of that capital, for the betterment of the human
condition now and for the future. The list of what needs to be done
grows daily, but less and less is being accomplished. We must
recognize that the visionary dreams as to Central and South America’s
progress, that were prevalent in the 1960s, have largely failed and
been forgotten. Squalor, destitution, enforced ignorance, and
disempowerment have taken the place of those dreams as to a better and
more progressive future.

The responsible use of new capital, for rebuilding central and south
America, cannot happen in a wholly free enterprise, free market,
system, but requires intensive government involvement, and it requires
world community leadership and consensus, beginning with new
resolutions for radical change in policies and practices, arrived at
by North, Central, and South Americans, together for a common future.
Policies and practices need to be changed to enable central and south
American nations to have sufficient capital to make the radical
changes that are increasingly necessary there, and those policies and
practices must change so that responsible use of that capital is
strongly rewarded while irresponsible actions are dealt with, with
renewed vigor and effective pressure, from the world community. No
nation can stand in isolation, and no nation can be allowed to
jeopardize the future of its own people and of humanity.

We cannot claim that North America has entirely excelled at leadership
and in teaching by example on the most pressing issues. We are not a
shining example of progressive humanity, and we are not a shining
example of progress in terms of meeting human needs in our own
societies. Nevertheless, we have a responsibility of leadership and
example, that we must begin to realize and enact, in terms of our
relation to central and south America, our nearest and sometimes most
ignored neighbors.

I hope that unprecedented change will come, at the Summit of the
Americas, and that North, Central and South America will begin to
stand together, in new partnership, in formulating a "new deal" for
all of humanity.

THAILAND IS ONLY ONE INSTANCE:

The world economy is, as predicted in late 2008, taking a toll in
terms of growing political instability in many areas of the world. In
the wake of G20, too little action, too late, threatens more violent
widespread upheaval. While G20 acted in a radical and progressive
manner the slow effects will not be felt soon enough to avert
consequences. Destructive political change is the high price of
irresponsible US Republican leadership of the world economy,
jeopardizing human rights and freedoms. Thailand is but one instance
of those growing consequences which threaten to undo the entire
political framework upon which the previous US led globalization was
being built. I need not repeat my words from late in 2008, but I will
say that I told you so well in advance of what is now beginning to
happen worldwide.

SURVEILLANCE OF CAR DRIVERS IN THE UK - BIG BROTHER ?

There are many people who choose to do things, while driving, that
would shock those who are more responsible. The unfortunate thing is
the significant portion of the population who do not act responsibly
ruin the freedoms of others who do act responsibly. Necessity for
surveillance of drivers who act in totally irresponsible ways comes
from a growing trend to poorly educated and utterly irresponsible,
don't give a damn, attitudes that are increasingly taking over our
societies.

It is largely the failure of education, and again emphasizes the
necessity for “Big Brother” when education is so ineffective, and poor
in quality and results, that people need to be placed under
surveillance, because so many act completely irresponsibly with so
little, or no, real regard for their own and the public safety. In
many an instance this problem of our own education systems measurably
failing is compounded by the admission of immigrants and others into
our nations who are set loose to do do as they choose and as they
think right, with even less education and training. Immigrants lacking
sufficient education to act responsibly within our societies should be
remediated before being let loose into them, or not admitted at all.
It is time we began measuring the education and the effectiveness of
education as to immigrants coming into our nations before the influx
of ignorant savages ruins what little we have as to our own quality of
life, peace of mind, and security. The fact that many such ignorant
savages come from nations where education is lacking or poor in
quality does not excuse their admission into our nations, without
mandatory educational remediation. Citizenship is taught, not a
natural born quality of humanity. We must begin to recognize that fact
and the fact that our own educational systems are sorely lacking in
effectively teaching those virtues, while the educational systems of
many other nations in the world are even worse than our own and that
their products are a danger to our societies and to our future
progress, with the floodgates open to accept their uneducated,
untrained, irresponsible, outpourings of stray humanity.
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