A question I was asked recently really needs answer.
What would really happen if there were no more War? What
would the over two billion people do?*
At first it was LOL yea right, man we could go mine the moon,
put space station in orbit big enough to supply food for that mine on the moon.
I do know I said other things as well… Then something really hit me…
Two Billion, I did not even check the number.
Then I was asked in the same day why people say what they
say on web, very pointedly on LinkedIn.
My reply was again, “well that is easy,” and LOL somewhere
in there, and off I digressed onto how really important the web is today.
Then it hit me again, I didn’t even look at the thread
header or the title or read what the thread was about. I was not even sure if
it was on LinkedIn. It was in fact on
LinkedIn, I learned, as it was about the fear of war trying to justify a sense of action, yet the solution given was
still more war.
I had to sit most of the day reflecting on those two points
I have to say I cannot really answer all the questions proposed.
Yet I can express my ideas.
I know where I start, T.E.D. the unofficial group, Where
Technology, Education, and Design come together- unofficially- to look for
connection to minds and jobs and people of similar interest and to discuss
ideas for the betterment of humanity. The arm chair politicians, the college
professors, the businessmen, and people of tomorrow looking for the
opportunities of tomorrow.
Why, these are pubs! These little groups and threads, the
WEB is much like the pub of old. You see, human behavior has a way of
addressing things, and the Web has become a social adventure, not just a tool
for education and a library but a pub, a BAR where one can join a table and communicate
with others. In the digital age, it actually is not just the shopping malls,
the movies, the funnies, all the way to sex shops; they didn’t go away, mind
you, they just got less important at least on the web. The internet is now a
place to seek a discussion, a friend, a partner, or an employee, a job, an
event or an IDEAL.
No one person is going to lead us all, that has never worked
in history at least when it comes to social change. No one person is going to be
able to address all this WAR. No one person is going to be able solve such an
issue. Yet, this is an ideal to step up and solve what others seem unable to or
can not be solved, it’s a puzzle. Curiosity, the very core of knowledge of
humanity in each of us and the very knowledge we have inside of us, is what leads
us to attempt to figure out such things.
The beauty of the Web is the sheer number of people, the number
of visitors, the amount of attention which can be reached, and the sheer
numbers of people looking to solve these Puzzles.
We did not get out of
the Stone Age by going to war! We got out of the Stone Age by coming together
and forming communities and solving these social Puzzles. Our best minds and
innovations, our best technology all show proof of “Social Change,” each of
these prove that someone will come up with the idea, and many others will work
together to solve the issue. Our Governments each face now, as they have always
faced, innovations in communications and social engineering, to the point where
even the smallest of them, as well as the largest can see the need to solve
this puzzle.
These innovations like LinkedIn, Facebook, on and on, in the
spider web of linked communications delivered to more and more of each nation.
Look again to the questions that were asked of me. There are
at this very moment over twenty armed conflicts going on, involving over forty
nations, countless communities, millions or BILLIONS of people in total battle,
destroying human life, each claiming their reason for doing so just. A reason
so strong as to take human lives en masse, where even homes and families are LITERALLY
blown from life into hundreds of pieces must be a compelling reason indeed!
Having seen it and the results of it on many towns, in the news or first hand we
all know it is wrong.
Yet, from manufacturing to the actual use in the field of
the tools which turn families into bloodbaths, you see industry upon industry
built upon designing and selling things to better take human life. Even if you
assume the best of people, selfish greed leaves an unmistakable trail.
People of innovation used to hang out and discuss such
things at Pubs, libraries, and café’s; it is where the common man comes
together with other common people, for the sake of innovation and community
bond.
The Web has no borders, no defined area, and no one thing
stopping you from logging on. That means that on Facebook I may have friends in
India , China , Russia ,
Pakistan , England
On Google in the Search engines and blogs the openness is
repeated. The entirety of the world’s collective knowledge is at your
fingertips!
I say clearly that one voice can reach attention, that one puzzle
at a time, at least can be solved, but not by just one person. It cannot be one
Country defined by one set of borders; it can not be one community or one
group.
The Puzzle of how has been solved.
The Puzzle of whether a human life or one’s needs or desires
out-value another life has been solved. It does not! The people who read this
each in their own country, town or community right now enjoy the communication
benefits of the web, and with those benefits do we each find similarity in mind.
It is on that point that we stand today.
Could we members of nations not Unofficially inform each
other of our lives and our understandings, can we not befriend a neighbor,
connect with others of similar beliefs or similar interests or even of
completely different faiths or categorized political affiliations, from king to
commoner, communist to fascist and republican to democrat, can we all not sit
in a pub and figure this out? Drinks, of course, are not free, but discourse
is.
And we do this every day, every time we are online and every
time we post, whatever the place. Do you not think we can solve these things? Look
again at who we are!
I think we have no excuse but to try, our best innovations
are ideas built in garages and barns. Our best political ideals are founded in
communicating with one another. I will remind you here and now that it was not
the Governments that tore down the Berlin Wall during the Cold War, it was the PEOPLE.
The biggest step in our ideal of acceptance was produced by the people of the
communities who took hammers and took action. This is repeated back in history
over and over, it is the people getting together to represent an ideal who
represent the best and the worst in Humanity.
I have no idea if I have expressed a value or ideal to which
others will aspire; I have not the clarity of a crystal ball, and I can only
Hope and have Faith that the effort counts and that others will value the
ideal.
Chas
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