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Learn How to Wage Peace, Humanity!

Peter McClard
5 min readOct 14, 2023

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Time is ticking. Opportunity for redemption is narrowing. The human species is a monumental moral failure. EVERY single other species, the other inhabitants of Earth, long ago worked out a bargain to live in balance and according to Natural Law. Only one continues to menace not just themselves but the other inhabitants and Nature itself. Of course, Nature can’t be bullied. Nature will ALWAYS win because Nature has something humanity doesn’t—all the time in the world and infinite patience.

We are so lucky to be here. Against all odds we crawled out of the primordial muck on a world that was just so perfect for life to thrive. Yet here we are zealously beheading babies in Israel, razing agrarian villages and cities in Ukraine and an endless trail of conquest, pillaging, murder and mayhem plaguing us throughout history. What a disgusting way to live.

We spend massive portions of our resources and wealth creating, deploying and maintaining vast weapons systems and industrial militaries that are sort of self-perpetuating through an endless cycle of violence begetting violence, hatred begetting hatred. Of course, we always call it Defense. The Department of Defense. Every country has one. Far too often defense becomes offense and the cycle repeats. Add into this the gigantic profit motives of selling weapons and provisioning armies and you find a dark web of…

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Peter McClard
Peter McClard

Written by Peter McClard

As a creative type, entrepreneur and philosopher, I write on many topics and try to offer solutions to, or useful insights into common problems.

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