TWO PATHS:—Endless War v. Nonviolence…a soundpoem…

No war without lies; no peace without truth. TWO PATHS "It is no longer the choice between violence and non-violence in this world; it's non-violence or non-existence." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. One of the most persistent and pernicious illusions of control and our present ignorance of the divisive nature of thought generally, is the ancient idea that we can come to peace by way of war. It is this thought that conflict is inescapable and unavoidable that leads us to incessantly prepare for it. Yet, preparing for war is not like preparing for fire, or for a hurricane, or for the already devastating effects of pollution and climate breakdown. No. Preparing for war is by now, in the 21st century and the age of hypersonic nuclear weapons guided by a thoroughly indifferent and dehumanized artificial intelligence, the primary cause of war. There are evidently only two alternative paths: One follows the drumbeat of essentially lost, arguably psychopathic leaders, marching us straight off the cliff of non-existence; The other is the path of nonviolence. Nowhere do these two paths cross; Nowhere do these two paths meet. The great and historic challenge, but also opportunity before us, both individually and collectively, is the demonstration in all possible directions—one at a time and all at once—of the urgent necessity of this truth. IMAGE: TWO PATHS:—Lost in OHIO COUNTRY