I was thinking about how we (USA) are always in continuous (ghost) wars and never try to negotiate for peace, to my knowledge.
How would a peaceful world look like?
One country and one languague or would a world power have to forcibly join everyone together?
Believe it or not, we’re living in the most peaceful period of human history thus far. I’d recommend the book The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker which talks about how far we’ve come. That said, I see the threat of global warming, lack of fresh water, famine, and energy scarcity becoming threats to the current status quo, though. If we don’t figure some things out as a species, we’re likely in for some turbulent times in the next hundred years.
Lack of fresh water and energy scarcity is already becoming a problem in Africa iirc.
I had the impression that those struggles have been going on for a long time. Like 30+ years.
Is the issue growing worse, or was the previous struggle sensationalized to an extent?
The world is fighting fewer wars than ever in history. That doesn’t mean there are no wars, they’re just much fewer in number compared to the past.
While world peace is obviously desirable, I think it’s important to recognize that the absence of conflict does not imply the presence of justice. World peace should not be pursued until we first achieve universal justice, because pursuing universal justice will require war.
Stopping wars while we live in an unjust international order does nothing but solidify that order and demonize opposition to it as “warmongering”. Some wars are just. The Allies could have avoided a lot of bloodshed had they invaded Germany to immediately depose Hitler, rather than allowing him to solidify his power, grow Germany’s military, and invade Poland and Czechoslovakia.
The end of war will naturally follow the end of inequality and injustice.
You do have a great point. All countries would have to cone to an agreement on fundamental laws that would govern the world.
Star Trek suggests we just need 3 successive wars (the 3rd being a nuclear world war) then meet aliens, and we’ll be OK.
Peace isn’t possible without the abolition of borders.
And sadly the powers that be rely on borders to stay in power.
