Willie Nelson

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Willie Nelson sings “Whatever Happened To Peace On Earth” from the very rare collector’s DVD “Peace” by Willie Nelson, Family and Friends.

Previously Liz wrote about this song in connection with it’s release to benefit the National Veterans Foundation. See the link in the sidebar.

This version of “Whatever Happened To Peace On Earth” supports a video.

If we can take as a premise that no system or culture based upon the unrestrained exploitation of nonrenewable resources can ever be sustainable.

This is just plain sense.

The never ending quest for new sources to replace depleted resources creates conflicts with traditional communities that do not wish to give up or sell the resources on which their communities are based.

Usually traditional communities must be destroyed before their land can be ravaged for resources such as gold, oil or hydroelectric power.

In either case, any way of life based upon the accelerating consumption of nonrenewable resources demands widespread violence.

Violence appears everywhere to perpetuate a life style that must inevitably end.

This violence has been rationalized when necessary but more often it is ignored. Silent permission is favored over any requirement to furnish an excuse. Uncounted millions of indigenous people and their traditional communities have been sacrificed upon the altars of production.

Any threat to this production, any resistance to the exploitation of resources and the destruction of traditional communities of indigenous people is met with unrelenting ruthless violence. This is called justice, the spreading of democracy and the manifest destiny of our culture.

If a halt is not put to culture, to this system of violence and exploitation, then civilization as we have come to know it will relentlessly grind on needlessly creating pain and suffering while degrading the planet until the system collapses.

Peace On Earth would halt this process.

The longer the destruction goes on the worse things will get for those living through it and those who will come after us.

We depend upon the natural world.

We depend upon the aid and good intentions of our neighbors.

We destroy the natural world and alienate our neighbors at our peril.

Perhaps those who survive the collapse will have learned their lesson and live together in peace with each other and their environment. Sooner or later, the human race will need to live in balance with the rest of the world.

Sooner would be better that later.

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