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Comments about the 7 principles of Marie Martin-Pecheux
John EWBANK
Thursday, November 14, 2002 5:48 AM
°°° Abstract: Governance needs to be improved firstly by itself, changing
culture and attitudes and reducing coercion. Poverty, health, good nutrition,
can evolve within modified cultures. Sickness, poverty, and many other
tragedies do not respond to coercion. Transparency, concerning militarism,
becomes a myth, as militarism is the opposite of democracy. No government can
significantly prohibit poverty. Ci-terrestrialship must be voluntarily chosen
by each individual, and cannot be coerced. Promoting Ci-Terrestialiship can
educate more to recognize the extreme intertwining of national militarism
and national monetarism °°°
7 principles [Marie Martin Pecheux] meriting comments by Ewbank:
1. Governance
Governance is concerned with voluntary compliance with standards. Government
is a minor aspect of governance, and is concerned with the coercion of all
occupants of a zone as regards behavior meriting coercion. Our governmental
zone is the zone dominated by the earth’s gravitational force. Eventually
humanity might mature enough to join the pre-existing galaxial federation and
experience solidarity with the dozens of varieties of Extra-terrestrials who
have been observing humanity’s stampede toward ecocide for centuries. When we
talk about solidarity, or the experience of unity amidst diversity, we must
compassionately forgive the billions of humans who have not been as fortunate
as us regarding education for solidarity.
When rats engage in tribal warfare, only a single tribe survives. Much
evidence suggests that warfare among intelligent apes followed a similar
pattern. Luckily, male lust eventually led to capturing female slaves, and
eventually other slaves, evidencing greater intelligence that the rats
experiencing stronger solidarity. The stratified society, involving slaves and
slavemasters, stimulated greater focus on militarism, colonialism, and the
contemporary Neo-Colonialism, sometimes called the globalization of the 90s.
Increasing the percentage of the population that is sufficiently educated to
experience "unity amidst diversity" or solidarity is analogous to increasing
the number of Conscientious Objectors to War. Technology has so evolved that
militarism can thrive using 0.00001% of less of the population. Disarmament in
one zone is almost irrelevant to disarmament in another zone. Militarism
cannot be significantly affected by governance, but requires truly manageable
government and coercion of individuals.
The effectiveness of governance is partly dependent upon the proportion of the
people having faith in such governance. What is sometimes overlooked is that
any attempt at government is only slightly impacted by the proportion having
faith in such government but drastically influenced by the fraction having
skepticism. A government’s effectiveness depends predominantly upon its
restraining the talented scoundrels prepared to assume the risks of defying
and challenging the government rules. Governance requires trust. Government is
a sham unless its clout is sufficiently overwhelming to achieve its purported
objectives.
What the world most needs is better governance, better culture, better
attitudes, etc. Poverty, health, good nutrition, can evolve within modified
cultures. Sickness, poverty, and many other tragedies do not respond to
coercion. Insurance company standards have generally improved safety more than
imprisoning owners of hazards. No government can significantly prohibit
poverty. Whatever coercion is exerted by governments stimulates backlash that
can easily be worse than the evil that the coercion was intended to prohibit.
This World Parliament is one of many commendable experiments with Gentle
Usurpation, or offering some services of the type heretofore offered by
institutions treated as a part of the previous systems of governance and
government. To the extent that this project is inventive, it can be extremely
more successful than any similar previous experiment. Also this experiment
could become even more of a fiasco than some earlier similar experiments. Its
future is unknowable.
The current world parliament project cannot coerce national governments to
adopt its wishes in 2002. However, by 2092, or earlier, the efforts of this
parliament might be accepted as world law. Authorship of law has trivial
significance. Acceptance of law is of paramount importance. How truly fair our
project appears to be to others will be the critical factor, not how many
millions of dollars of advertising might be spent in wooing disciples.
This particular world parliament project can enhance its status only on a
meritocracy basis, not mass media. If this project were to invent a formula
for weighted voting that appealed to enough powerful governments and to enough
weak governments, then this parliament might eventually be recognized by
historians as an important segment of the world constitutional convention.
At the end or 2003 or 2004, most national governments are likely to be very
much the same as they were at the end of 2001. To the extent that the world’s
problems are to be blamed in part upon national governments, we need to focus
on what might be globally adopted features of a Proposal for a Supra-National
Federation. Such as Federation almost assuredly would evolve into a world
government after a few years or decades of a Dual Systems Era. We need to
acknowledging the complete futility of attempting to coerce a nation as a
nation. One of our biggest responsibilities is for brainstorming and
inventing, not to please utopian idealists, but to win the enthusiastic
endorsement of all varieties of national leaders. Such innovativeness could
assure the respect and solidarity that the world needs.
2. Transparency
Transparency enhances cultural enthusiasm and some aspects of democratic
government. However, bureaucratic militarism necessarily features deception,
espionage, ruthless competition, and dozens of other evils. Any control of
militarism must be by governing individuals, and not by culture. Because there
will assuredly be military uses for civilian inventions likely to be made
during the next 800 years, it would be futile to attempt to abolish
militarism. In regulating militarism, the "need to know" standard needs to be
enforceable for permitting responsible individuals to have access to
information that could not safely be published instantly. Establishing some
arbitrary period such as more than a lifetime, such as 150 years, for the
preservation of secrets might be helpful in obtaining a pragmatic perspective
on transparency. So long as the hazard of any governmentally operated military
units are tolerated, we need to compassionately accept the impossibility of
transparency concerning militarism. Democracy and militarism are polar
opposites. The myth of democratic sponsorship of militarism had validity 500
years ago. However, for more than a century world government has been
technologically plausible, and during such century, the doctrine of democratic
militarism has been a false myth promoted by the treaty-prolongers.
3. Coherence
Coherence is a commendable aspiration. The political platforms of most
political parties, and the creeds of most churches contain inconsistencies. If
we publish documents having quite conspicuous inconsistencies, our credibility
will be less, but only slightly less. Coherence is predominantly in the eye of
the beholder.
4 Protection
Protection is a principal that is much too vague for me. No gentle usurpation
project can provide significant protection to any person. Protecting citizens
from military hellishness can only be done by adequately proficient military
groups combined with effective governing of individuals globally concerning
every aspect of possession of weapons suitable for injuring a plurality of
individuals approximately simultaneously. The world parliament could suggest
thousands of alternatives, each of which could assure a warless world if
100% of humanity had faith in them, but which would be utterly useless
because of the assurance that any peace plan will have skeptics and defiant
tyrants who must be coerced as individuals.
5. Real representativeness
I am quite satisfied with the present "real representativeness" of the
Participants. Randomness and voluntarism are the only practical criteria for
an e-mail forum. If we can invent a formula for weighted voting in a world
parliament, that would be an amazing break-through that might win the
enthusiastic endorsement of outsiders, even of governments, for incorporation
in a Proposal for World Government that could be universally adopted by all
national governments. Substantially all disputes involve different
perspectives concerning "unknowables" dependent upon faith in alternative
doctrines. Several hundred years ago, many disputes had sufficiently
geographical roots. This project should clarify the complete anachronism of
all efforts to seek geographical voting districts for delegates to a World
Parliament.
6. Flexibility and adaptability
Flexibility and adaptability involves a recognition of the inevitability of
changes with time. In previous centuries, reform-activists arrogantly sought
to shackle future generations. Substantially all of the current world problems
can be traced to such arrogance, caused by our predecessors of earlier
generations. It is also critical that there be sufficient stability of
constitutional law to protect individuals from the tyranny of the most recent
versions of political correctness. If replacement of each kind of constitution
for all sized groups, whether sports, business, religious, governance,
government, etc. is encouraged at least every century, the combination of
stability and flexibility might be attainable.
7. Ci-Terrestrialship
Ci-terrestrialship must be voluntarily chosen by each individual, and cannot
be coerced. If flows naturally from any effort to increase the number of
Conscientious Objectors to Participation in Militarism. Such increase in the
number or proportion of world citizens is substantially irrelevant to
minimizing military hostilities. As long as there are a few individuals
having the wealth to be able to purchase military weapons, there is an
assurance that such managers can locate the stooges prepared to use such
military weapons. Promoting Ci-Terrestialship can guide individuals to
distinguish between the cultural role of a nation [particularly a nation
having a common language as distinguished from the multi-language nations]
and national militarism [an anachronism for the century since there has been
the technology for governing individuals]. Promoting Ci-Terrestialship can
strengthen the passion for abolishing government-operated militarism and/or
government operated monetarism. Promoting Ci-Terrestialiship can educate more
to recognize the extreme intertwining of national militarism and national
monetarism. To the extent that glorifying world citizenship strengthens the
myth that friendliness can abolish war, then world citizenship primarily
assists the military industrial complex in their efforts to prolong the
treaty system.
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