Sunday, December 22, 2002

"WEAPONS OF PEACE"
The Peace Movement-Environmental Complex


President Eisenhour warned of the Military-Industrial Complex, but it seems we have failed to heed his call. The M-I Complex is now about the only ones making any money right now, and it is hand over fist, law after rewritten law.

Where once, we were bridging the world with information and democracy, we are now bombing the shit out them, and threatening even worse. Walls, not bridges.

But there is another complex. The Peace/Environment Complex. In a word...Stewardship. And to be a good steward, you need good tools, good weapons, if you will. Weapons of Peace.

"Peace will not take hold until it is made profitable.", says at least one Peace Activist. And this is most probably true, even though peace is reward enough.

One of the things that should be discussed among good stewards is just such tools. How do we develop them? Market them? Distribute them? How best to use the proceeds?

Thinking, thinking...