World Peace

This was on the front page of The Independent last Thursday.

Francis Fukuyama is this dude who said that since America had emerged as the winner during the Cold War, it should use its powerful position via economic, military and foreign policy means to stay on top forever.He's an American citizen despite having a Japanese name. I'm sure the neocons meant well. If these efforts were successful, they wouldhave been able to maintain (relative) peace on earth forever and more importantly, peace on American terms.

Thinking that your country or any organisation can achieve something like that is clearly very wishful thinking and very arrogant indeed. What gives you the right to dictate to us how a peaceful world should work. Your white man's burden may lead to you violating local cultural norms in the repressed regimes which you try to help.

Secondly, I don't think the world can ever be able to reach a state of utopia in which it ceases to struggle with war and poverty. I think that life on earth is in essence an evolutionary process (note that by this I do not mean a Darwinian-I-am-a-descendant-of-an-ape-process).

If its people do not struggle to survive amongst one another's existence then I suspect that things would feel very complacent and sterile. I'm not war-mongering, I just think that a conflict free world will be one in which its people do not grow and improve.

Peace Out! (Selma Blair in Cruel Intentions-style)