» And I
dreamed I saw the bomber jet planes riding shotgun in the sky,
turning into butterflies above our nation.«
– from the song »Woodstock«
by Joni Mitchell
Peace, what a lovely word! Don’t we all want
peace? But what normally stands in the way of peace? Conflicts of interest! The
old monetary and economic systems are programmed for conflict. Cut-throat
competition, industrial disputes, hostile takeovers, asset strippers, debts,
destruction of the environment…, all this sounds very charged with conflict. We
are still living in a system hostile to life, whose most lucrative economic
branch is the war industry. There cannot be peace in such a system.
The advantages already listed show that the
Natural Economy of Life manages to steer the most different of interests in the
same direction so that conflicts of interest scarcely arise or can be easily
solved. In a monetary and economic model inspired from nature, from which even
such different groups as a flat-sharing community and an international
conglomerate benefit and in which an equalisation between poor and rich
countries is created for the good of all – in a system so friendly to life the
potential exists to live together in peace.
This peace will be permanent as it is founded
on the threefold good – the good of the individual, the good of the
community and the good of the big scheme of things. A thousand-year-old human
dream has a realistic chance of coming true.
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