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War with Syria …?
Posted: August 31, 2013 in UncategorizedTags: defence budgets, friendship relationships, middle-east, politics, potato sacks
War with Syria …?
Excerpt from ‘FutureQuest; If War is the Answer, how Stupid is the Question?’
Unfortunately too many members and advisors of the world’s departments of defence are people trained for war, encumbered with spurious techn…o-strategic rationality (269 p. 54). They would perceive world events in terms of threat-levels toward war through their sensory processors, and not recognise any initiative opportunities for peace. Do they really want to remain forever on standby? What if they want to apply their warrior skills – just once? If a nation is serious about their defence, they will also have members and advisors qualified in the science of peace – which is quite evidently not the case. For a prototype solution; if just a tenth of a nation’s defence budget were diverted toward establishing and maintaining friendship relationships with other nations, much of the other ninety percent may eventually become unnecessary. Peace is a defence issue and is entirely achievable. But virtually no funds are allocated toward building international relationships. All defence budgets are for war.
Looking at the state of world security from this viewpoint, it seems that all nations’ defence ministers and advisors are incompetent in setting up and maintaining peace. They should therefore be fired and replaced with qualified peace-builders, or at least with potato sacks with faces on them.
We must motivate and pressure our national leaders to set up positive, peace-building strategies within our defence ministries and defence budgets. These must comprise dedicated, laterally-thinking staff and advisors who are formally qualified in the science of peace. Until we have a more representative form of democracy, we must set up democratic parties and candidates with peace and future-focused philosophies. Unfortunately our current ‘green’ parties are encumbered with far too many radical agendas to qualify for this role. Defence and war are not merely political, ideological or moral issues. They are subject to strong business pressure by financial interests behind political facades (270). The quality of our future, and whether we will actually have one, depends upon how well we get these detrimental influences under democratic control.
Albert Sedlmayer. FutureQuest (Kindle Locations 5139-5155).
BIBLIOGRAPHY EXCERPT:
269. Cohn, Carol. Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals. [ed.] Linda Rennie Forcey. Peace: Meanings, Politics, Strategies. New York: Praeger, 1989.
269. Cohn, Carol. Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals. [ed.] Linda Rennie Forcey. Peace: Meanings, Politics, Strategies. New York: Praeger, 1989.
270. MarketWatch, Inc. Trump: We Should Take Libya’s Oil. Market Watch (video interview). [Online] 19 Apr 2011. [Cited: 23 Oct 2011.] http://www.marketwatch.com/video/asset/trump-we-should-take-libya-oil/7E12BC15-38AE-465F-949A-CDB65ED6DC75#!7E12BC15-38AE-465F-949A-CDB65ED6DC75
Tidyed up headlinings on my 50m SCSY design, finished the bridge layout and added a bar to the beach club. Now some drawings and more calcs
My radio interview regd FutureQuest, with Scott Lamond, on ‘Drive’, ABC Gold Coast, FM 91.7 at 4:20pm local time
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Had to turn off ABC radio as Julia Gillard launched a futile reverse-misogyny ‘men-in-blue-ties’-rant trying to re-clutch her past lone-success straw.
I am the featured author of FutureQuest here today: http://ow.ly/kLrE3
Quote from FutureQuest:
‘Negative Role Models
‘Far too many children :acquire a negative attitude from teaching and coaching by media and computer games, and grow up adopting these obnoxious, self-indulging worldviews, eventually becoming burdens on their society. They become sociopathic egomaniacs – chronically bored, self centred and hedonistic, seeking only their own kicks, gratification and notoriety. They get involved in various antisocial behaviours like vandalism, hooliganism, hooning, graffiti, and drunken and drug induced violence. They despise police, law-abiding people and all forms of authority, and maliciously provoke and antagonise them with contempt.
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This makes them unfit for participating constructively in society, let alone building a better future. Too many of them eventually grow into adults with destructive, aimless boredom and associated negative attitudes. These apathetic, self-indulging parasites then suck the life out of society – all for lack of appropriate teaching.’
Albert Sedlmayer. FutureQuest (Kindle Locations 4643-4650).
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Quote from FutureQuest:
‘Our quest involves so many disciplines that we must avoid becoming bogged down in the depth and detail of any single component. Our focus is a Macro System design, to connect all the pertinent elements together so that we adequately encompass the breadth of the challenge. This has not been effectively done before. Each element has enough depth in itself to distract focus away from the process as a whole. The only areas where we go into any depth are where we can take effective steps immediately, and where we investigate new solutions to old problems – thinking laterally to get past obstinate barriers.’
Albert Sedlmayer. FutureQuest (Kindle Locations 520-524). http://ow.ly/jqdOq
Doing 1:FutureQuest and Talon promotion, 2:Special service vessel design proposal, 3:Scantlings calcs for my 50m catamaran superyacht
Quote from ‘FutureQuest’:
‘Everything you do is a step toward an awesome future or away from it toward extinction. In fact, everything anyone on earth does has those attributes. You can set our FutureQuest dream as a reference point for all you do – the magnetic north for your personal compass – your anchor to which your life-rope is tied. With this fixed reference point you can easily qualify everything you do, as a step toward the dream or away from it toward the nightmare of extinction. As soon as you have set this reference point your whole perspective changes. You just don’t take steps away from the dream. Your rope will only let you take steps toward your anchor.
‘This book is the rope, and the dream of an awesome future is your anchor. Our FutureQuest requires a broad mindset: We must expand our sense of identity to be world-encompassing, until we consider everything we do from a globally inclusive, us-worldview. We are all in this together.
‘As we apply and promote this whole-world perspective, increasingly more people will join in and think this way. We then identify with the iniquities in various parts of the world as events happening to us, not just to some poor, unfortunate others. Then we can generate empathy and internal motivation to do something tangible about them. Together we take only those steps that lead to a better future because otherwise we would soon extinguish mankind. From this point of view the global situation is not as hopeless as it seems. Many people already have similar ideas but there are just not enough connections to coordinate them. FutureQuest makes those connections.
‘We are laying the foundation for our great future at a far deeper level than anyone has done so far, consolidating ground that has only been touched lightly in the past. We are also extending its breadth considerably, shaking down and exposing structural weaknesses in areas considered sound up to now. We thereby challenge the elitist power structures commonly associated with such ideals.’
Albert Sedlmayer. FutureQuest (Kindle Locations 303-318).
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