Willie Nelson

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The real conditions that confront the project of world peace at first may seem daunting. Now with the Cold War well behind us and the first experiments with global order completed, we can look at a larger picture.

We cannot help but recognize our planet as a sick body with the global crisis of peaceful democracy as a symptom of corruption and disorder. Global peace and global democracy share a common fate.

Despite the constant threat of violence and war, despite the sickness of the planet and its political systems, never before has the restlessness for peace and freedom been so widespread throughout the world.

Consider the interminable lists of grievances against the current global order, not only against poverty and starvation, not only asserting animal rights and the need for appropriate technology, and not only against political and economic inequalities and injustices,

but also against the corruption of life in its entirety.

In addition to the grievances there are countless proposals to reform the global system to make it more peaceful and democratic. All of this global ferment and all these expressions of fury and hope demonstrate a growing and indomitable desire for a democratic peaceful world.

Every sign of corruption, every act of violence and every crisis of democratic representation, on all levels of the global hierarchy, is confronted by a democratic will to peace.

Peace and love might seem out of place in a world like ours in which the global order bases and legitimizes its power in war, degrading and suspending all democratic mechanisms.

This crisis of peaceful democracy is not specific to Euro-America or any region of the world. The crisis of representation and the corruption of the forms of democracy is a planetary condition, immediately evident in all the nation-states, epidemic in the regional communities of contiguous states, and violently expressed at the global, imperial level.

The global crisis of democracy
affects every from of government in the world.

The interminable state of global war is a condition that contributes to the contemporary tendency toward the formation of a single, monarchical system of domination over the world. Movement towards global democracy equals movement towards world peace.

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