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Your Idea: A Weapon that creates Peace
Let's face it; War is a business.
How, then, do we create a product of war, that doesn't hurt, maim, or kill, but rather does the opposite and heals, prevents, and stops conflict that a corporate company can patent and therefore make money from, keeping not only innocent people from being harmed, but also feeds the corporate companies' bottom line of keeping investors happy?!?
The idea is simple in effect, and promotes peace whilst still increasing worth.
I just have little idea on what the war product could be, so I'm crowd-sourcing from you, fellow TEDsters, to help build the perfect weapon: A weapon of peace.
Should it be just one weapon of peace, or, just as there are many weapons of war, perhaps there should be multiple weapons of peace that can each be patented by the companies listed here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_modern_armament_manufacturers and allow such companies to make money from peace?
as always, I'm awaiting your thoughts.....
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Gail . 50+
He knew that our economy (and now thanks to the US, the global economy) is a war-based economy. Without war, the economy will collapse. In fact, as any student of the economy will agree, this is true. Any informed student of western history will also agree.
We are now in a position that if we end or even greatly reduce military spending, our economy WILL (verifiably) collapse, which is the part you don't often hear about as the fiscal cliff (in the USA) is discussed. That's why the focus on social programs is front and center in pro-defense-spending circles (FOX news).
How did we get to a war-based economy? The Federal Reserve system that supports private, for-profit, national banks that find war most profitable. But this mind-set goes back to the earliest years of USA history. It was a concern of our founding fathers, who wrote into the constitution that no military appropriation (borrowing) shall be for more than two years.
If you were to look at all of the USA social ills, each could be traced back to our fiscal paradigm. That paradigm included the need for a lot of poor people to act as (tacit) slave labor for the wealthiest, who were granted divine rights by virtue of being born into a certain class.
Even our education system exists to support the war effort (military industrial complex) as the US Dept of Ed mission statement assures us. This leaves us indoctrinated slaves who call slavery, "freedom".
So what is the great weapon to produce peace? Education. Dare to step out of the delusion and educate self with the broadest base of education possible. Then we will not be duped by malicious characters who do not tell us the truth about how the world works, and who assure us how important war is to our well-being and security.
Jason Fleming
Bob Stiglitz
griffin tucker 10+