Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Peaceless in Our Time

There will never be world peace. Everyone says they want world peace. Could someone tell me please what world peace actually is? I'm sure if I asked every person in the world what they consider world peace, I'd get over 6 billion different definitions. The head of the US Armed Forces and the head of the Al-Qaida have very different ideas of what world peace looks like. Do the heads of the NAACP and the Ku Klux Klan think world peace is the same thing? Americans can't agree on anything. We can't agree on what constituted a 'good' president, or a 'good' law, or even a 'good' movie. None of us has the same idea of what a role model for children should be. We can't agree on what the government should or should not legislate. We can't agree on what a marriage is, or whom God is (or isn't). And I'm speaking now of just the USA. I know next to nothing about the world outside of my nation's borders, and in that respect I'm a pretty average American. Myself, I know what world peace would look like to me. I know what I think of our president, whomever may occupy the office, and I know what I think of Al-Qaida, the NAACP, the Ku Klux Klan, marriage, God (He's real) and movies. So it's up to me and me only to find my own world peace. I can't be responsible for anyone else's peaceful world. And that's the biggest problem with the myth of world peace: no one understands that each of us occupies our own world, and we're all responsible for our own peace.