Another
question: Nationalist, militarist?
Additional
question: Which indoctrinated ideology is compatible with the
principles of emancipation and democracy, with the logic of humanity
and non-violence?
Insistence:
Which nationalism is getting on without deceitfully constructed hate
figures, without callous racism? Which army does not lead any human
intelligence ad absurdum by blind obedience?
Inexorability:
Which delusion of being chosen by any “God” is getting on without
slavery, torture and murder?
Conclusion:
The
history of the world, up to the very present day, is, because of
immaturity and the lack of education and because of manifold
indoctrination, a document of mankind in the error of violence.
Humanity
and emancipated human rights are out of government because of
totalitarian ideologies and religions.
By
far, most people of mankind live in intellectual distress and,
arising from this, in physical suffering.
Accordingly
to this, the philosophical enlightenment, as a possible alternative,
appears modest and powerless, and apart from this doesn't have any
official and social recognition in any state of the globe, let alone
a ruling position. There are only few regions on Earth where
enlightened opinions can be expressed without danger for heart and
soul of the enlightened authors!
Facing
rapid technological achievements mankind has to give answer very
frankly: Continuing as before, with open eyes right into the abyss or
perhaps better, reflection on new orientation?
For
the latter option only enlightenment is coming into question, maybe
similar to the Cosmonomic Manifesto.
But
first we have to clear up fundamentally a misunderstanding:
“Religious freedom” as, for example, guaranteed by UN Human
Rights, cannot mean “arbitrary religious despotism” within the
state publicity. Religion exclusively has to be limited to the
private sphere, considering the private sphere of others. Consistent
religious neutrality or rather independence of state from religion
appears as a mandatory reorientation for a peaceful human
togetherness. This applies likewise to ideologies similar to religion
and to pervasive esoteric pseudo-sciences.
The
mental reorientation never can succeed by warlike aggressiveness. For
example, a Cosmonomic social system does not need any arsenal of
offensive weapons, because of the self-understanding, any aggressive
war maintains forbidden. But pacifism doesn't intend to watch an
aggressor's disgraceful work of destruction and remain uninvolved,
instead it means actually to be prepared for superior defense. This
explicitly includes proactive, consistently honest politics of
deescalation and further more, a most modern arms technology that
doesn't have anything in common with foolish and traditional
militarism but could as well serve as a general and common civil
protection. In future, for instance, there is no need of nuclear
rockets, of submarines and tanks to paralyze the complete energy
supply and infrastructure of an aggressor and to blight his attack.
Any
liberal value society is obliged to resist inner as well as outer
destruction, if it will not, from the start, open the door for its
own extermination: It has to defend itself undeniably, but it doesn't
need to be able to attack or even conquer. Pacifism still doesn't
represent patient defenselessness but intellectual superiority and
material preventive measures for a preferably unbeatable
self-determination, in other words, defense and nothing else.
European
Perspective?
Before
speaking of a European perspective Europe first has to define itself
to identify with itself.
The
European Union, as a blown up and flighty loose alliance, can exist
rather badly so far only because there is much more devastating
hullabaloo on the big international stage as mankind is remaining
mentally in the primitive middle ages, despite scientific and
technological innovations.
The
small European single states don't have the lowest prospect of a
cultural and economical success against the mass populations of China
and India or against the power centers of the USA and Russia.
The
European alliance of the EU, consisting of partly small-minded
nationalistic and unworldly strangers and of some slightly more
potential medium-power states which are spoiling their possibilities
by historical retrogression, has to recognize at last that there is
only one way to bring security, wealth, self-confidence and
international competitiveness to the people of this continent: The
consistent founding of a new European state as “The United States
of Europe” with a liberal, democratic and federal constitution.
There
is no lost of culture and identity of the member states by federalism
but definitely the contrary: Bundling the rich heritage and the power
of all facets while knowing about peace among each other and trusting
in the international force to the outside world.
From
the diversity within such a state open mindedness is derived ,
cosmopolitan self-consciousness is justified as well under the
awareness of being part of the whole globe. This participation
encourages to preserve and develop cultural and scientific acquis
and, for the benefit of the total globe, not to misplay them in a
provincial manner but to assert them internationally and work with
them forward-looking against any attempts of destruction in favor of
peace, non-violence and the fulfillment of the Human Rights.
Daydreams?
Maybe
– for just a sleepy and religious and ideologically constrained
society with egoistic demands.
As
a cosmopolitan, as pacifist and German European I do see this
different, that is to say: We have the consistent option of becoming
more humane in the name of humanity.
