World Peace Is Possible - Part 11
How to best test the world without men theory?
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In this ongoing article series we’re exploring the possibility of bringing on an era of world peace by establishing a world without men. It’s been proposed that doing this would radically reduce violence, and generate a huge peace dividend which could improve the human condition even further.
This is a very big idea. And it’s a HUGE claim.
And so this big idea, like any big idea, and like any huge claim, requires a thorough inspection, and vigorous challenge from every direction. This article will explore better and worse ways of going about that process of challenge.
Fight The Problem
The point of a reasoned dialog on subjects as important as violence should not be just to defeat any particular proposal, but to try to solve the problem of violence, and to try to move towards the goal of world peace that we’d all like achieve.
If a proposal such as is being offered in this article series is fatally flawed we certainly need to know that. But that’s not enough. If any proposal is found unacceptable, the inquiry doesn’t end there, we need to keep on going to find another better idea.
If a proposal has problems and drawbacks, which pretty much any big idea will, how can we address those weaknesses and improve upon them?
Serious challenges will be constructive, that is, in some way moving us closer towards achieving our shared goal of world peace. Constructive doesn’t mean just agreeing to be nice, or believing anything on faith. Constructive can sometimes mean tearing a bad idea to shreds. But the point of tearing a bad idea to shreds is not a personal social media victory, but clearing out the bad idea to make room for a better one. Constructive is any movement towards our goal.
Leverage The Group Mind
No single human being is going to lead us to world peace. And no single human being is going to be able to fully analyze an idea as big as a world without men. Any project as large as world peace is going to require the cooperation of very many minds.
I’m sure that I’m leaving out all kinds of things as I try to make the case for a world without men, because my life experience is limited, and there are angles that would just never occur to me. Maybe you can help me make the case more effectively?
If I had a magic wand and could be granted any wish, my wish would not be that visitors agree with my articles. My wish would be that they write their own articles about world peace.
The Substack network (host for this blog) is filled to overflowing with intelligent thinkers and writers. I would absolutely love to see hundreds of Substack writers taking world peace seriously and writing their own articles on the subject.
If that sounds appealing to you and you’re wondering where to get started, please feel entirely free to write your own article, or article series, challenging the world without men concept. You can reference this blog, or not, whatever works best for your article.
Taking It Seriously
The best challenges will come from those who have somehow found their way to a state of mind that takes the goal of world peace at least somewhat seriously.
The least productive challenges will typically come from those whose only real interest is in using a discussion, any discussion, to pump a little more air in to their ego. Hey, I’ve been there and done that myself, more times than I care to admit.
But maybe some little girl in Ukraine being bombed out of her home in the middle of winter by ruthless violent men is a bit more important than our little egos, eh? Well, that’s what I’m trying to remind myself of more often.
One way to take world peace seriously, and be seen taking it seriously, is to write about world peace seriously. One way to be serious is to write a lot.
Substack blogging accounts are free. After 30 years in the web publishing biz I can confidently report that this platform provides a great interface for writers. I like the Substack service better than the blogging platform of my own that I spent years coding to my own personal taste. These guys are good at what they do.Point being, the best challenges to any idea will come from those willing to do a lot of thinking on the subject, those willing to share their thinking publicly, and those willing to engage the challenges of others.
And so round and round and round we all can go on our way to world peace. And while such engagement can be tiring sometimes, it sure beats being blown to bits in a nuclear war, doesn’t it?
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“… try to move towards the goal of world peace *that we’d all like achieve*.”
I wish that were true, but it’s demonstrably not.