RP: I see absolutely no reason why at some specific point in
history there should be no wars or rumors of wars anywhere
on the planet.
EY: We were imagining the conditions which might give rise
to a stable, warless world. I could imagine some Master
Oppressor forcing a warless world on us, and could not
imagine a warless world arising without supreme coercion of
some kind. It would be interesting to read your take on that.
RP: 'Something essential to the human spirit' has a nice
Homeric ring to it, but one might hope for at least one
example of what this essential something is.
The sense of a lawless frontier, free from the
peace-enforcing Master Oppressor, a place to hide from all
that peace, for one thing. Also the degree of homogeneity
and uniformity that would result from the Master Oppressor's
World Government would require the removal of those aspects
of culture that create stress and conflict--and these
stressors could be as simple as which side of the
soft-boiled egg one opens. Something would be lost if we
only were allowed to open the short end.
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