State of Humanity 2017

by Jan Stephen James Cavanaugh, Ph.D. on 05/06/17

State of Humanity 2017

Reflections, February 9, 2017jsc

I am alarmed to report that whatever my alarm about the state of humanity in 2013 based on state of humanity in 2010, I am now even more alarmed.

In 2017 humanity is evermore preparing for war and those in the halls of power appealing to our lower angels and dark forces to win the day.

With the damning issues of Rapid Climate Change and the prospect of WWIII in our future, one would think flashing red and alarm bells on the evening news. Instead, humanity distracted asleep at the wheel. Heads down hoping to avoid what is ahead by turning back the clock.

The Doomsday Clock now set ever closer to Midnight. 

In 2017 eight people have more wealth than the bottom half of humanity and the wealthy cry for more.

This injustice cannot stand and is seeding the grounds for those who believe in war to defend their way of life. Some worry the dye is already cast.

I have hope through the world-wide web, when the time is right, billions in the streets and parks demanding the end of war. And then the global will to elect to office those who promise to obey the law against war.

Those brave enough to go to the streets and non-violently stand for the end of war and stay there till war is done: prepare for the authorities in favor of war  to persecute you … the way of Jesus.

This is true: the enemy without mirrors the enemy within! In this way President Trump is right, there are a lot of killers, and we are them as well. Until we can take responsibility for war, own the projection of our enemy,  there will be no end to war.  

To have the courage and the inner peace to be able to end war (and not recreate another war mentality under a different name) peacemakers must come to peacemaking with a heart of love. Love your enemy, the integration of the warrior and the lover, the balance of law that keeps the peace. Justice says the Lord.

I have witnessed the ebb and flow of war and peace, now in my 74 trip around the sun. I believe the end of war will happen when humanity is ready for it to happen, but as of now the when is unknown.

I was born in the middle of WWII and it looks like I am going to die in the beginning of WWIII? 

State of Humanity 2017:  Will humanity end war before war ends civilization as we know it? Do we have to go through the hell of catastrophic global war to end war forever?