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Peace was originally created by a community living together headed by a
leader. The leadership was voluntarily given to one by many or exacted by
one over the many.
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That leader backed by those members overcame other tribes.
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Tribes so united ultimately became a nation where the leader became
king.
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The king extended his reign by conquest to build an empire.
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All empires led to civilising uncivilized tribes or nations.
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In the 19th and 20th centuries, empires were the
sources of abiding Peace.
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The organisation of this Peace is the nation, ready to become an army
at short notice.
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It is voluntary enlistment which when it fails becomes conscription.
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The nation acquires a culture of fighting to ensure Peace within. It is
an organisation made possible by a leader to whom the population offers
obedience. The king is the leader by the consent of the people.
This organisation
ensures law and order and a prosperous life.
That is a
productive organisation which, to acquire law and order peace agrees to
fight at a call given by the leader to extend that peace and prosperity to
other less prosperous nations.
What spreads is
prosperity through peace imposed by a strong nation over weak nations.
We can say the
basis is spreading prosperity through military conquest.
The organisation
of production is subordinated to the organisation of Peace. It is not
self-existent peace for prosperity.
After WWII,
empires came to an end, wars came to an end and the European Union sets an
example of Prosperity having self-existing dynamism.
Robert Cooper is
its advocate.
The lure of
Prosperity attracted 25 nations to the EU.
What the army did
in the 19th century, economic prosperity does now.
This is true,
after a fashion, in the phenomenon of globalisation.
Suppose wars are
fully abolished and Peace established, the externally imposed army discipline
will have shifted inside as self-discipline to ensure smooth trade between
nations.
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Taking a look at the organisation for over a period of a hundred
years from 1900 to 2000, we see the following:
Peace was ensured
by the army.
Trade was
smoothly carried out by peaceful conditions.
Army-imposed
civilian discipline was the organisation of any nation.
It may have been
ones own organisation and army or the army of the conqueror.
The army was
itself supported by a productive civilian organisation.
The organisation
of production supported life in the nation, the standing army, and the export
trade by the metropolitan nation.
The army, its
power, was at the peak, though under civilian control.
In the earlier
centuries the army was the ruler; it was not under any control.
Now wars are
over; but interests of trade are greater and stronger.
The productive
organisation that supported the local life, the standing army and the export
trade finds the army superfluous but suffers it.
The economic
productive organisation has developed self-existent power of place.
The army is at
least replaced by the police.
The centre of
authority was ONE the army which is now distributed to every productive
unit in the nation.
The army
represented war; production represents Peace.
The culture of
fighting and wars is giving place to the culture of Peace.
Its key is
production.
We can extend
that organisation of production to organisation of education whose trained
members help produce.
So, from
education to communication, sports, transport, art and to every walk of life,
that ORGANISATION of peace can be extended as the political power is being
distributed in democracy.
We can call it
economic democracy or culture of democracy.
The monarchy of
army is being replaced by the democracy of Prosperity.
Instead of ONE
leader, every member is his own leader.
The external
organisation of force is replaced by the internal organisation of values.
Hence it is the
culture of peace.