My WMD (7th oct 2005)
My assets are a consequence of my insecurity and invest me with power. This heightened personal comfort needs protection in a competitive world. I now belong to a multifamily, multi-tribe, multi-nation and corporate body with proportionately multiple and powerful defensive and offensive capabilities.
I cannot singly defend my lifestyle; I am dependent on co-operation with 100's if not thousands of millions of people. I am not ashamed of our weapons of mass destruction or proud of my lifestyle, but as co-operation is the root of my survival and enjoyment then I will work towards a defensive stance that is not offensive to anyone, human or other being.
I cannot find peace by denying my insecure, competitive, violent and offensive nature and less so by challenging others. Peace is a woolly jumper covering blades of steel, offensive in its deception and frightening in its dogma. Removing WMDs will not bring me peace, neither is peace my goal. However by adopting more sustainably inoffensive habits/lifestyles I may slowly drop my defensive nature and a time will come when there we be no will to invest in offensive weapons. Criticising people, who are so afraid and threatened that they to have develop newer and more powerful weapons, only adds to their fear and determination to succeed in such endeavours.
I look to myself for the solution not organisations and power based alliances. The best defence is not to be organised and not to expect an organised environment. Identity in a world of diversity is the beginning of my security not acquiescence or conflict to majority rule.