Originally published on the CGS blog on September 10, 2013.
I don’t remember when or how, but one day it dawned on me what our world would be like if we had a democratic world federation. Ever since, when I read a newspaper or watch the news, I imagine how a democratic world federation could help global climate change, the global economy, and the suffering of war and violence.
Wouldn’t we be more secure, more open to other cultures and peoples, with better communication with other nations? I invite you to do your own visioning (and commenting). Not that there wouldn’t be challenges and difficulties. Nothing will work if we don’t work at it. But wouldn’t it be “easier to be good” as the mentor of Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin used to say? Even if we went more in that direction toward a sharing world community, wouldn’t that be a better world? Happy envisioning!!
A different way to look at our world is presented in a readable way by Deb Reich in No More Enemies. She invites us to change enemies into partners by envisioning alternatives. Trees take in carbon dioxide and emit oxygen. We can be inundated by the violence in our world and give out love which unites us.
I also suggest my article in Tikkun on Ersatz Security.
