Here's a topic I'd like to see you explore, though I understand it may be beyond the scope of your interests.
I'd like to see public discussion shift some focus away from the day to day details of this war, or any war, and towards more attention to a larger picture. The war in Ukraine, tension over Taiwan, and pretty much every other conflict zone on the planet are really symptoms of an underlying disease.
Violent men.
I realize that focusing on the real source of all these conflicts, violent men, will be considered too ambitious by most readers and commentators. That's a very reasonable and understandable position, but...
If we don't deal with the real cause of all these conflicts, isn't it pretty close to certain that sooner or later one of these conflicts will spin out of control in to nuclear exchanges? How credible is it that we can keep the nuclear arsenals and they will never be used? To me, not credible at all.
So, one can argue for nuclear disarmament. Great, let's do that. But what would even this big of a success really accomplish? Wouldn't violent men then simply turn their attention to other means of projecting power, and isn't the knowledge explosion going to provide them with ever more powerful tools for doing that?
I know the world is nowhere near ready for this discussion. But without it, it seems to me that we are just distracting ourselves with details while we await the coming catastrophe.
Here's a topic I'd like to see you explore, though I understand it may be beyond the scope of your interests.
I'd like to see public discussion shift some focus away from the day to day details of this war, or any war, and towards more attention to a larger picture. The war in Ukraine, tension over Taiwan, and pretty much every other conflict zone on the planet are really symptoms of an underlying disease.
Violent men.
I realize that focusing on the real source of all these conflicts, violent men, will be considered too ambitious by most readers and commentators. That's a very reasonable and understandable position, but...
If we don't deal with the real cause of all these conflicts, isn't it pretty close to certain that sooner or later one of these conflicts will spin out of control in to nuclear exchanges? How credible is it that we can keep the nuclear arsenals and they will never be used? To me, not credible at all.
So, one can argue for nuclear disarmament. Great, let's do that. But what would even this big of a success really accomplish? Wouldn't violent men then simply turn their attention to other means of projecting power, and isn't the knowledge explosion going to provide them with ever more powerful tools for doing that?
I know the world is nowhere near ready for this discussion. But without it, it seems to me that we are just distracting ourselves with details while we await the coming catastrophe.
Violent men.
How do we get rid of them??