Lisa, I was posting a tongue-in-cheek look at the simple truth behind your New World Order and Brave New World. [Bad PR aside.] Up front, at one place I laid my bs too heavy about the legitimate pride in our country, and I regret that.
I'm not even sure it is very New an idea that if you are not partners with someone, person or country, you will fight as enemies, eventually to a mutual phyrric victory.
We don't defend ourselves from those we disagree with in Europe, because we share both mutual respect and livelihood. The world will follow into the new order when we need all the world, and they need us: when we stop seeing the differences first [or only.] I may be myopic, but the two times in history when inter-nation new order was first demonstrated was by U.S. I would point to Wilson's 19 (?) point plan for post WW I, and FDR siding with the fading monarchical empires and communists against the new, technological, but still agressive powers. The UN may be important, or it may wither. The process is not one of institutions. Is this new order not just the simple progression of seeing another as an enemy to servile, to allied, to partner, to closer interdependence?
The media is only a stage; peopled by strutting fools; same as us all. The danger is the audience mistaking it for real. As an industry, their power is small; as a function their power is derivative: it is only one conduit for the exchange of money and power between industry and government. Any rip tide only disturbs the surface.
There is no human plan for these motions, but the plan still unfolds. We can only hasten or retard it, not change the course. Dissention is futile and without force. Fear? Of course, who does not despair as their focus darts and shifts between the worlds. But that is the deception.
The military has a purpose, that may one day disappear. Until then we need to protect ourselves from the old world order.
My issues with Star Wars are that it will be breathtakingly expensive, take too long, and be incomplete for time inestimable. This is my judgement call based on limited knowledge: it is cost-ineffective. And second, that there is good use for these defense dollars, specifically, help make powerful friends out of powerless no-accounts, and persuade enemies into co-existent nations.
The cold war is over, but not easily won. What progress occurred in the rest of the world during that time? Marshall, Japan, rare spot and bootstrap = Nothing. Now during peace, we arm for the next war. The next war could be prevented by good work.
Pompous? Probably. But sometimes even the choir needs a sermon. [damn, pompous again.]
Still, I like reading you, Lisa.
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