Monday, February 11, 2002

Beyond War

Timothy Wilken, MD

We are Time-binders and the mark of human power is everywhere. When knowledge is incorporated into matter-energy, it becomes a tool. As Galambos explained:

“Humans develop evermore powerful knowledge and therefore evermore powerful tools. When tools are used to harm other humans they are called weapons. Since human knowledge can grow without limit then tools themselves can be made without limit. And limitless tools can will produce limitless weapons.” --Andrew J. Galambos 

And, limitless weapons (progress) combined with leveraged adversity (warfare) must by all definitions and understanding of science produce human extinction.

The evolution of the weapon is linked to the evolution of Time-binding. Humans create knowledge, when knowledge is embedded in matter-energy is becomes a tool. When tools are used to hurt others they become weapons. For most of our human history, our tools have been simple.

For most of our human history our weapons have been equally as simple. With the explosion of Time-binding released by Institutional Neutrality, our tools have become evermore powerful, and so have our weapons.

Infinite Weapons

In the 1983 movie WARGAMES, NORAD’s computer — Joshua makes a discovery after playing out all possible outcomes for Global Thermonuclear War. His conclusion, “A strange game, the only winning move is not to play.”

Let us assume for the sake of this discussion that magically all nuclear weapons were suddenly nonexistent on planet Earth. Let us further assume that through some agent of sanity the very concept of nuclear weapons is so repugnant to humans as to make their re- creation unthinkable. Would we then be safe?

As my brother wrote yesterday, he discovered on the battleground of Viet Nam that there was no safe ground. Even with the best weapons the United States could make and never an empty Ammo bag, there was no safe ground.

Would we be safe without nuclear weapons? Again, I must answer, no we would not be safe. We humans can produce weapons without limit. Weapons of infinite destructive capacity. If these weapons are produced, sooner or later, such weapons will be used and sooner or later such use will destroy humankind.

Progress + warfare = human extinction.

The solution to war does not require more powerful weapons. It requires the elimination of weapons.

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