Before we can seriously start a movement for international peace we had better work out how peace in our home country can be improved. Today with the existing free-market capitalist systems, we have a strong tendency to polarise the communities between the rich and poor societies and it is getting worse. Soon there will be slaves and masters, just as in past failed civilizations.
Of course as Georgists we blame it on landownership, but the subject is deeper than that. It is associated with a power struggle and also a greed for having much wealth because of the fear of losing everything when one is not in a greater situation of control. There is a loss of trust in our neighbors and even in our friends.
The only way that I can see to overcome these damaging trends is for us to better understand how society really works and therefore to be less fearful of being hit by it. We can achieve this by the study of macroeconomics of our social system, and that is why I wrote my book about making this topic a true science, to replace the pseudo-science of it being commonly taught today. This may seem to be a long and slow way to achieve peace, but to carry on as were are now doing including the selfish use of fossil fuels for energy generation, will help to divide the world into those countries who can afford to live in temperate conditions and the rest who are suffering from the climate, without clean water, suffer starvation, disease and are so frustrated that their only belief is having to fight civil wars in an attempt to get what they imagine would be a better government.
Thanks for your comment. Yes we do need a true economics, which we can get by going back to the future with classical economics of Land, Labor and Capital.
I know you live in Israel. You just said "we had better work out how peace in our home ountry can be improved." Here are my previous substack articles on Israel / Palestine:
Genocide is when a bunch of murderous terrorists (which specifically applies to Nazis), choose to try to eliminate a people who represent something they claim to be bad or wrong.
The IDF have always claimed and shown in numerical formally seen data, that when fighting a war the proportion of civilians killed compared to the enemy, is always relatively small (about equal), compared to the proportions in Viet-Nam and in Afghanistan of about 4 civilians to one enemy soldier.
The war in Gaza is not one of genocide (although Hamas has mistakenly also claimed that that is what THEY are trying to do). The IDF fights without the aim of elimination of any type of civilian and wishes for peace, but it must defend our nation too.
As long as you keep believing this false propaganda and fail to see that the civilian losses in Gaza are partly due to how Hamas uses them as human shields, after notice is given by the IDF of what place will next be hit, but which Hamas stops the civilians there from leaving in time, we will have little to agree about here.
I am surprised and slightly shocked too, that a person of your intelligence can believe such ridiculous rubbish that this enemy likes to use for stirring up more trouble!
Before we can seriously start a movement for international peace we had better work out how peace in our home country can be improved. Today with the existing free-market capitalist systems, we have a strong tendency to polarise the communities between the rich and poor societies and it is getting worse. Soon there will be slaves and masters, just as in past failed civilizations.
Of course as Georgists we blame it on landownership, but the subject is deeper than that. It is associated with a power struggle and also a greed for having much wealth because of the fear of losing everything when one is not in a greater situation of control. There is a loss of trust in our neighbors and even in our friends.
The only way that I can see to overcome these damaging trends is for us to better understand how society really works and therefore to be less fearful of being hit by it. We can achieve this by the study of macroeconomics of our social system, and that is why I wrote my book about making this topic a true science, to replace the pseudo-science of it being commonly taught today. This may seem to be a long and slow way to achieve peace, but to carry on as were are now doing including the selfish use of fossil fuels for energy generation, will help to divide the world into those countries who can afford to live in temperate conditions and the rest who are suffering from the climate, without clean water, suffer starvation, disease and are so frustrated that their only belief is having to fight civil wars in an attempt to get what they imagine would be a better government.
Thanks for your comment. Yes we do need a true economics, which we can get by going back to the future with classical economics of Land, Labor and Capital.
I know you live in Israel. You just said "we had better work out how peace in our home ountry can be improved." Here are my previous substack articles on Israel / Palestine:
https://alannahartzok.substack.com/p/zionism-and-land
https://alannahartzok.substack.com/p/palestine-israel-cutting-the-gordian
Looking forward to your views on how to end the genocide of the Palestinians.
Genocide is when a bunch of murderous terrorists (which specifically applies to Nazis), choose to try to eliminate a people who represent something they claim to be bad or wrong.
The IDF have always claimed and shown in numerical formally seen data, that when fighting a war the proportion of civilians killed compared to the enemy, is always relatively small (about equal), compared to the proportions in Viet-Nam and in Afghanistan of about 4 civilians to one enemy soldier.
The war in Gaza is not one of genocide (although Hamas has mistakenly also claimed that that is what THEY are trying to do). The IDF fights without the aim of elimination of any type of civilian and wishes for peace, but it must defend our nation too.
As long as you keep believing this false propaganda and fail to see that the civilian losses in Gaza are partly due to how Hamas uses them as human shields, after notice is given by the IDF of what place will next be hit, but which Hamas stops the civilians there from leaving in time, we will have little to agree about here.
I am surprised and slightly shocked too, that a person of your intelligence can believe such ridiculous rubbish that this enemy likes to use for stirring up more trouble!