For Lilian and the Indigos - Above Top Secret

WAR-N-JUNK
M.A.D. works but it’s sad. We need to be able to kill each other to maintain peace. And
again, as the graffiti says, “Fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity.”
What’s that say about humanity? What’s that say about the power bases that deem
weapons of mass destruction necessary? It says that, as a fear response, nations who can
afford it (and oftentimes can't) need to stockpile weapons. One superpower initiates an
arms race and then becomes paranoid because smaller nations want to defend themselves.
The super power basically creates its own enemies by virtue of its own status.
Among the well equipped military powers there exists a standard of living and mutual
understanding from which the notion of peace comes from. We don't want to nuke our
allies in interglobal commerce. They have a lot to lose by war which means we do.
The cold war is over but the presence of weapons alone is enough to perpetuate paranoia.
Do 3rd world countries feel we would nuke them or use lesser weapons for purely
offensive/dominator reasons? I guess so cuz they developed nukes of their own. Even
though they could never actually win the arms race or a war, the nationalistic pride factor
of "we ain't goin down without a fight!" puts them in fight or flight, generating and
contributing to the collective tension of future shock.
The truly sad fact of the nuclear age is the mere acceptance of it. Nobody seems to mind
that more than half of humanity’s labor is expended on its destruction (entropy,
mmmhmmm). If all the effort that went into war was put into helping the enemy by
defeating fear, extending trust, and offering surplus, knowledge and technology, there
would be nothing for a rogue country to bitch about or resent in the superpower and
nobody to sell old weapons to. War would have no market.
That all seems unreasonable to the superpower. They have to enforce peace with threats
of war. I enforce war with threats of peace. They create the problem to sell you the
solution. I steal their problems and become the solution to give away... I promote peace
by monopolizing its opposite. It’s a common theme in cartoons for the good guys and bad
guys to stop fighting and join together to fight some common enemy. That is precisely
what I'm doing, becoming the mutual enemy, G.I. Joe and Cobra teamed up to defeat
Serpentor. Likewise, nations will stop fighting each other to try and take me out, but
that's what I want so I will not lift a finger to stop them (see 2 Esdras).
THE FUTURE OF WARFARE - YEAH RIGHT!