while i think that mankind is as vicious, savage, and murderous as ever. I can pray you are correct. but there is the genocide in Africa. People in this country that say capital punishment is sanctioned by the Bible -" an eye for a eye". Corporations that knowingly cause death and disease, and lie about it. I will grant that murderous events are not as well organized or named (WWII ), but they are numerous. Also, all the history I have read is replete with accounts of people stating that there will never be another WW. As a matter of fact, that is why what we now call WWI, was originally called 'the war' to end all wars.
Deane Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:50:12 -0700 > Subject: [Mind's Eye] Re: The Phenomenon ' I ' > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > "... On Aug 26, 4:59 pm, Deane Kellison <[email protected]> > wrote: ..." > > > do you really believe the " The days of brute force are subsiding even > > though it still occurs." > > Without a doubt. The 20th century was arguably the bloodiest and > deadliest century in all human history. Conservative estimates that > more than 400 million people died violently in that hundred years. > For almost half that time we lived under the threat of nuclear > annihilation. I think a massive movement for peace began sometime > after WWII and had a surge in the sixties and seventies which subsided > by the eighties. But it merely became quieter while moving on all > fronts. By 1990 the Soviet Empire dissolved and the threat of nuclear > double kill ended. We will no longer see world wars. They have been > replaced by random terrorism. That is our biggest threat and likely > will be for some time to come. There are always those disgruntled > enough to resort to violence but it will be random and not all that > successful thanks to the global spy apparatus. > > Today there are thousands of organizations and groups of people > dedicated to peace, non-violence, open communication and other such > endeavors that open lines of communication, the greatest of which is > the Internet. I believe it is a simple fact of human history that the > more communication we have the less brutal we become. > > There are educational, medical and social organizations spread around > the world to begin to heal the wounds of our past. We are well on our > way to establishing a world peace. The fact that we have a global > economy virtually guarantees that. People love one thing more than > violence, and that's wealth.
