If every Learner on
WeaponWorld
Cast off misgivings
and worked to the same plan,
We could put together
PeaceWorld in a single generation.
FIRST THINGS FIRST,
WORLD PEACE FIRST!
INTRO & VOCAB TABLE OF CONTENTS
“We are now faced
with the fact that tomorrow is today. We
are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and
history, there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of
time. Life often leaves us standing
bare, naked and dejected with a lost opportunity. The ‘tide in the affairs of men’ does not
remain at the flood; it ebbs. We may cry
out desperately for time to pause in her passage, but time is deaf to every
plea and rushes on. Over the bleached
bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic
words ‘Too late.’ There is an invisible
book of life that faithfully records our vigilance or our neglect. ‘The moving finger writes, and having writ moves
on…’ We still have a choice today:
nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation. This may well be mankind’s last chance to
choose between chaos and community.”
Martin Luther King, Where Do We Go
from Here: Chaos or Community, 1st ed., 1967, “The World House”, http://ww.forusa.org/nonviolence/MLK_WorldHouse.html
I did not write
this text, nor did you seek it, to stoke the WeaponWorld Jive Drive, distract
you from your Learner responsibilities or reassure you that weapons elites
should make every vital decision without your say-so. That has never been sane policy. Learners would include everyone’s decision naturally.
I ask that you
find your favorite chapter of Learners, translate it into your mother tongue,
publish it on the Internet and tell
me about it. That is the task you’ve
prepared for all your life.
The secret to World Peace resides in the world’s elites and proletariats acting together as Learners, rather than their discord fostered by warmongers on both sides.
In pursuit of
why, how, and what to expect of Peaceworld,
LEARNERS: On the Move from WeaponWorld to PeaceWorld
mark mulligan