<the "Darwin Made Me Do It Society.">
We are steadily, inexorably, moving toward a world where everyone has WMD. And I don't mean like anthrax in the mail, that's a small-scale terror weapon, nothing "mass" about it. And by "everyone", I don't just mean every single one of the 200+ nation-states. I mean every NGO, every interest group, every disgruntled minority, the local PTA if they want it, the neighbors down the street, everyone.
Your grandchildren will live in that world. And they will either be committed pacifists, or you won't have any surviving grandchildren. Those are the only two possible futures. Your grandchildren will be pacifists, committed to peaceful interactions in all personal, group, national and international settings. They will not do this out of idealism, or because they are angels, or live in a community of angels. They will eventually abandon their selfish short-term Realistic Social Darwinism, and come to see that thinking (and the actions that flow from it) as barbarism, much like today we see the Inquisition or the Crusades. They will Change Everything, because those who don't, will die.
You have to become a Ghandi, when each of the 6-10 billion of us have access to nuclear weapons, the way Americans have access to handguns today. The other choice is to be tossed on the ash-heap of history. |
