World Peace Is Possible - Part 1

Imagine 90%+ of the violence in the world gone. Imagine trillions of dollars of new money available for life affirming projects. Imagine world peace.

This video is part of a video series on world peace. All the videos in this series are available from the Table Of Contents page.

The next video in this video series can be found by clicking here.

1) Imagine 90%+ of the violence in the world gone.

2) Imagine trillions of dollars of new money available for life affirming projects.

3) Imagine world peace.

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For the purposes of this video series, world peace is defined as a radical reduction in human violence at every level of society.

Such a radical reduction of violence around the world is typically thought of as a vague impossible fantasy. The commonly held notion that world peace is impossible is an understandable assumption given that violence has always been a pervasive reality of the human experience as long as anyone can remember.

But is it true?

Is It True That World Peace Is Impossible?

Difficult, yes. But impossible? Those who are serious about peace should at least be asking this question.

Is world peace possible?

This video won’t attempt to understand human violence in some deep fundamental manner. Let’s save that kind of philosophy for another day. Instead, this post will focus on a direct practical question.

QUESTION:  Who is it that’s committing all the violence all around the world every day at every level of society? 

ANSWER:  What’s remarkable is how incredibly simple and obvious the answer to this question is. A clear eyed objective observation reveals one very simple fact about human violence.  Almost all of the violence humanity experiences is committed by men. Male humans.

This is not just a fact for our modern times, but rather a consistent pattern that goes back many thousands of years in every time and place.

The Problem Of Male Violence

Of course, the first obvious problem presented by male violence is that individual innocent men, women and children (animals too) all over the world are being subjected to unjust unspeakable horrors, and we find this to be unacceptable.

Sadly, there is an even bigger problem arising from male violence. The marriage between violent men and an accelerating knowledge explosion is unsustainable. As evidence, right now, today, a single violent man named Vladimir Putin has the power to destroy our entire civilization within minutes. And, the knowledge explosion will be continually handing such violent men ever more power. There’s no credible reason to believe that our culture can survive further empowering violent men forever.

Thinking Outside The Box

Because of the vast scale of human suffering caused by male violence, and the fact that civilization itself is at stake, we should at least consider solutions beyond what we’re used to, what’s been done before, what’s comfortable and familiar, what the experts suggest, and what we would like the solution to be. If we’re serious, we should be trying to think outside of the box of conventional ideas.

Here’s why…

If “realistic”, commonly accepted, normal, status quo, “reasonable” ideas could solve the problem of male violence, after thousands of years they likely already would have. What we see instead is that in all of human history, no religion, philosophy, ideology or political structure, or system of law has succeeded in keeping the peaceful men while removing the violent men.

What we’re doing isn’t working. Do we care enough about innocent victims and protecting the miracle of modern civilization to try something new?

A Vision Of World Peace

In a world without men, 90%+ of the violence we see in our news feeds and on TV would vanish. In a world without men, vast suffering would be lifted from the backs of many millions of innocent people all over the world. A world without men wouldn't be a perfect utopia. It would however be a radical improvement upon our current violence soaked situation.

In a world without men, many trillions of dollars now needed to manage and recover from all the carnage being generated by violent men could be reinvested in life affirming projects like education and health care.

Just think of the vast sums we currently spend on armies, weapons, jails, prisons, criminal courts, victim services, and rebuilding broken lives and demolished nations. In a world without men most of these expenses would become unnecessary, and we could spend most of this money on building peace and prosperity, instead of on responding to violence.

• If most violence was ended, and…

• Vast new resources became available for constructive purposes…

• We would arrive at a revolutionary new era in human history that might reasonably be called world peace.

No One Is Stopping Us

World peace is not impossible as is so often assumed. Very challenging for sure, but not impossible. There is no law of physics preventing world peace. Only we are preventing world peace.

And this is good news, because it means we have agency, and can have hope. The bad news is, if we don’t achieve world peace, we are to blame for that failure.

This video series hopes to introduce the idea of a world without men for your consideration. This is obviously a very big topic with a great many angles which require further exploration. Additional videos in this series will make a good faith attempt to at least start that process.

The next video in this video series can be found by clicking here. All the videos are available on the Table of Contents page.