BLUF: The Nations Decide
Peace Of Westphalia
Abraham Accords
Mission: Global Prosperity
Means: Industrialization
Execution:
Public Schools
Liberal Arts Universities
Objective:
Education Of
Skilled Industrial Labor
Blue Collar, White Collar
Mission: Global Peace
Means: Protection
Execution:
Homeschools
University Of The Professional Guilds
Objective:
Preparation Of
Skilled Warriors, Militias
All Citizens, All Professions
Teaser
The Peace of Westphalia marks an inflection point in the affairs of the nations. The nature of the inflection point is remarked as several things. I want to remark and then follow up on one of those things, one not ordinarily remarked so directly as I should like to do here.
The Peace of Westphalia was a point at which the nations said among themselves that, if every nation is prosperous, then much if not most cause for bloody bickering will not exist. If wealth is sufficiently available to the industrious in their own digs, they will be dis-incentivized from looting it from someone else’s digs. There is truth, albeit incomplete, in this insight.
The Peace of Westphalia marks the start of a global mission to accomplish global prosperity. Up and down, side-ways and backwards, that mission has remained the cynosure of the nations since those days, nearing four hundred years ago.
Industrialization emerged gradually. It was recognized as the means to accomplish the mission of securing global prosperity. It was felt, with justification, that industrialization, despite its brutalities, would bring in its train a general wealth that could pass for global prosperity.
Governments and private combinations cleared the way for industrialization, eventually of practically every human activity and especially in the wealth-creation domain. Everything imaginable that could be was subordinated to industrial technique and production, even religion (private schools, Sunday Schools, church and synagogue socials, camps), even love-making and fornication (debutante balls, dating, Greek Org pledging, sex toys, fashion, spouse and partner exchange).
And the nations succeeded. In fits and starts, but they succeeded. We have global prosperity. In fact, we have global superfluity, which is the root cause of our unexpected confusion and immodesty.
Too much is at least as painful and destabilizing to him who has it as too little is to him who has that. Prosperity is when the shoe fits, just enough.
Theme
Adam Smith and other moral philosophers, including clergy, wrote books and tracts and preached sermons describing the shortest and easiest ways to make industrialization produce global prosperity. Always, the mission was given as global prosperity. Von Clausewitz and other military philosophers, again including clergy, wrote books and preached sermons describing opportunities industrialization presented to war planners and war fighters.
Military campaigns planned and/or executed by Frederick the Great, Napoleon, Nelson, Suvorov, de Ruyter, Lee, Grant, Jackson, Sherman, Bismarck, MacArthur and others illustrate in varying clarity the facility and horror made available to nations by their success at producing global prosperity through a general industrialization of the lives of their citizens. In their own ways and times, Titus, Templars, Saladin, and the Khans also demonstrated the power of regular approaches to make success in life.
Global prosperity produced
also opportunity for global war.
World War I — incited by German industrialists — first demonstrated, at previously unimaginable cost in lives and property, the power of industrialization easily to make available all essentials of life and death, both. By 1910, global prosperity through industrialization was so emergent everywhere, or almost so, depending on the nation, that competent highwaymen — preceded by Arabs, such as al Wahhab, and followed by others in other nations around the globe — essayed to seize their and other nations’ wealth for their own. Their names and methods are known.
Industrialization, successful at producing global prosperity, also occasioned envious personalities to take others’ prosperity for their own.
Yet, industrialization did produce global prosperity, just as Smith and others said it would. The mission agreed at Westphalia was accomplished. And note, please, that despite thieves essaying to waylay the nations’ wealth for themselves, the nations killed those thieves and their exploits.
Counter-Theme
Want to accomplish global peace? Stop fighting. And be prepared in every way to kill the bastard who does not, along with the horse he or she ride up on.
In the Abraham Accords, the nations have reached a new inflection point. They have declared a new mission for themselves: global peace. This is the next great global consciousness after the Peace of Westphalia. Peace. Prosperity is in hand. Peace is next. The Abraham Accords build on the Peace of Westphalia, they do not supersede it.
To achieve success in this mission to accomplish global peace, the nations require a means as capable as industrialization was to accomplishing their previous mission of global prosperity. And the nations require a system of preparation designed to produce skilled persons to execute on the new mission and its means: protection.
The current system of education produces skilled labor, blue and white collar, for industry. Fine. But industry o’er shot itself in wealth production no less that half a century ago. Robert Theobald and other futurists observed this in the late 1950s. Although those futurists had little grasp of the historical play in action — global change of mission, from prosperity to peace — they noted correctly that something radical was was afoot, something far grander than politics and the ordinary push and pull of egos and cultures.
Nations are not looking for wealth now. They have wealth, or know how to make it. Nations are looking for protection of their wealth and their sovereignty. Nations grasp quite naturally that their sovereignty protects their wealth.
Protection is the new means for the
nations’ new mission: achieve global peace.
Development
Wealth is made by producing things, including ideas, that people need. Peace is made by preparing for war that people want. Offensive war is an element of defensive war. Aggressive war is both illegitimate morally and undesirable militarily.
The mission of global prosperity required skilled labor for state and national industrial production. The mission of global peace requires skilled warriors for state and national wealth protection. Preparation for industrialization required of young people periods of compulsory education to produce skilled labor. Preparation for wealth protection requires of young people periods of compulsory preparation to produce skilled militias.
Creating and operating a system of education that protects our prosperity must be our focus. Its product will be skilled militias ready to form up on short notice in local, state, and national domains.
Our mission is to protect our prosperity, and that by way of being prepared in every way to kill the bastard who would steal it.
Exposition A
Now, today, another effort is underway to waylay the wealth of nations for private use, and by tasking the industrial base to accomplish that mission. Its practitioners, oligarchs — Arabs, Afro-Caribs, Chinese Communists, European royals and titles, American industrialists and hedge-funders — call their notion global governance.
Theirs is an inviable expectation because it misunderstands a means — industrialization — which has accomplished and even o’er shot its mission, global prosperity, and is therefore without spiritual puissance. The nations neither need nor want global governance. No wonder, then, that these same silk-robed, platinum-decked thieves, oligarchs, want to eliminate the nations’ sovereignty. Their sovereignty protects the nation’s wealth. Of course thieves — oligarchs — are going to hate it.
In addition, the notion of global governance has not and cannot have a system of education designed to sustain it. Westphalia can be built upon. It cannot be abrogated or surpassed. The system of education now in place — and now unnecessary because it accomplished its mission — is designed to sustain Westphalia’s mission of national prosperity through industrialization of citizens’ lives. Industrialization never was and never can be meant to introduce, much less sustain, a supra-national global governance, which is an imaginary animal in any case.
Oligarchs are out of step with the times and not up to accomplishing missions they undertake on their own behalf for their personal pampering. Global peace, not global governance by way of another [4th, oligarchic] industrial revolution, is what the nations want. They will get it.
Exposition B
The nations’ mission for the industrial revolution was to produce global prosperity. Wealth was defined as industry. That mission of the nations has succeeded. Mission accomplished, actually, by some fifty years ago. Industry succeeded in producing unprecedented wealth that was spread over the generality of the entire globe after hard fights to make that happen.
When Savio cried that sometimes one has to throw one’s body on the machine to make it stop, he signaled that the industrial revolution had achieved its purpose — global prosperity — and it is time for a new mission, a humane mission, and a new means to accomplish it. He was not wrong. Mario was a prophet.
Over-accomplished, in fact, the mission of prosperity by industry was. So much so that an array of thieves, already wealthy from industrial production, schemes now, each for himself, to seize the remaining global prosperity for their private enjoyment. We observe Arabs, Afro-Caribs, Chinese Communists, European royals and titles, and American industrialists and hedge-funders engaged in that behavior.
Concupiscence is insatiable.
Our current system of education is designed to supply skilled labor, blue and white collar, to industries. The system was not designed for, and does not contemplate, a role in conditions where industry produces more product with less skilled labor. Expansion of numbers at skilled labor in such a condition produces the opposite of general wealth. It produces private wealth, because more product can be made and sold using less skilled labor, fewer humans working the production lines along with artificially elevated prices well north of cost plus reasonable profit.
Thus has the mission of global wealth been accomplished and our system of education overshot, obsoleted. Pouring education and the native assets of human personalities into the pursuit of global wealth, once global wealth has been achieved, as now, destroys nations rather than builds them, as before, when global prosperity had not yet been achieved.
An array of thieves are aware of this phenomenon and push for yet another industrial revolution — the fourth by their count — to jerk yet more wealth away from the nations and into their own unaccountable accounts.
Coda – Conclusion
The proper mission of the nations today and forwardly is to produce global peace. Peace grows from being prepared for war. Thus the proper system of preparation for the nations today trains up their citizens, all of them, as warriors for militias who can be called into service of local, state or national defense quickly on short notice.
The mission of global prosperity required
skilled labor for industrial production.
Education was the key to success.
The mission of global peace requires
skilled warriors for national protection.
Preparation is the key to success.
Encore
Systems have life-spans, windows of usability and utility. When a system displays dysfunction, is not doing as intended, the system itself is signaling that its life-span has concluded. So it is with our extant system of education.
It was designed to supply the industrial revolution with skilled labor, white and blue collar. The industrial revolution was promoted as the means to accomplish the mission inherent in the Peace of Westphalia: global prosperity. Well, it all worked. We have global prosperity and even superfluity, thanks to industry and the system of education built to do just that.
Mission, means, and execution on global prosperity are accomplished, their life-span is complete, their utility at an end, as we see in the dysfunction emanating now from those activities. Industry stands but is no longer a common mission agreed among the nations. That mission is accomplished.
The Abraham Accords signal a new mission agreed by the nations, a common mission, building on the Peace of Westphalia. The new mission is global peace. The means is to accomplish the mission is protection rather than industrialization, which remains in place as a great achievement. The objective now is skilled warriors, all citizens, of all professions, forming local, state, and national militias as needed and produced by a system of formation, not a system of education.
Wealth we have now. Everyone does. The task now is to protect wealth by being prepared to turn back any who would steal it. Do not fight, do not insist, but be prepared to win any fight that comes looking for you, any thief who comes for your wealth.
Local, state, and national militias, prepared from homeschools and universities of the professional guilds (Theology, Medicine, Military Arts, Law, Pedagogy), are the system of formation indicated by our condition in history, the nations’ common purpose of accomplishing global peace. The Abraham Accords signal a new day in global affairs: global peace made by strong nations, not global governance imposed by arrogant oligarchs.
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