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Thread #48038   Message #721470
Posted By: CarolC
02-Jun-02 - 03:45 AM
Thread Name: Anti-Conscription Movement
Subject: RE: Anti-Conscription Movement
Until we formulate a true vision for a world at peace, and create a process for implementing it, taking into consideration and thoughtfully compromising different views and needs...until we begin that process, hoping that good thoughts will somehow make peace materialize is like hoping the lottery will make you rich. Sometimes, you need to actually DO something to achieve your goals.

What it looks like to me, rather than people (us) shaping the future in the kind of proactive way that you seem to be describing, using a fullly formed "vision" of what that future is going to look like and then imposing that vision on reality, is that there is a somewhat more organic process that is already underway.

What it looks like to me is that humanity (the world) has experienced a paradigmatic shift as a result of advances in technology, and that this paradigmatic shift requires us to adapt. It looks like this adaptation is happening in increments.

To the extent that "vision" enters into the equation, it looks to me like it is the vision of many, many people, all creatively coming up with new ways to do things, new approaches and solutions to problems, that will create a cumulative effect, and will produce the necessary changes in our way of thinking and looking at the question of how we live together in the world as partners rather than as competitors.

Clearly, we still have a long way to go with this, but it looks to me like we're making some progress.