Use Your Head

Been away for a while because I'm in Cincinnati for 10 ten days. Brought my laptop along, so here's my hotel rant of the day.

Those of you responding to some of my posts pondering how we should deal with international problems other than wage war need to be more imaginative. It's pretty pathetic to be this far along in human history yet still stuck in the stone age when it comes to things like this.

Why are we so willing to use all of humankind's best to do our worst -- funnel our most inventive scientists, harness our brightest strategists, pool our largest amount of financial resources, and send our most precious human resources to make war on others? We're ready at a moment's notice to do violence for some phony cause but when someone proposes peace everyone freezes, dumbfounded and befuddled. Why's nonviolence so difficult to grasp? And why are we so quick to assume nonviolence doesn't work when it works every day all around the world and when violence probably has a far worse track record for solving problems.

You sorry sods who can't think of any way to handle world problems other than brute force and war are brain-dead. If that's as imaginative as you can get I suggest keeping your mouths shut. It's actually an insult to human intelligence to imply we can do no better than resort to using our bodies to destroy ourselves rather than our minds to uplift ourselves.

“The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.” -David Friedman