Over the weekend I got into some of my parent’s old cassette tapes and pulled a few that I remember listening to a LOT. No, they weren’t books on tape, Kitaro/Tenku, Hearts of Space or even Simon & Garfunkel. Their titles are: I Can Make Peace, Please Freeze, and Celebrate Shalom. Basically peacemonger propaganda tapes. I made Josh listen to some of them on our drive home. The kids liked the song Celebrate Shalom, but weren’t as excited about the more folksy sounding songs that followed. Josh said that it was difficult to try to listen to the words and catch the meanings while he was driving, but the music spurred a rather long discussion about war and politics and beliefs and stuff that I usually try NOT to comment on. It’s not that I don’t have opinions, but…I find it difficult to express myself well enough which frustrates me and I don’t have much to back myself up with. I guess I’m a closet peacemonger.
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That's the artificial horizon. It's better than the actual horizon.
by So I Married An Axe Murderer
“Peacemongering” has never been easy, but the only alternative is future tragedy. Ignorance and fear are always easy, and both are essential ingredients of war. Hate requires less effort than love. Sadly, old animosities fuel future conflict, so merely surviving isn’t the same thing as a fresh start, even though so-called winners usually think so. Active peacemaking is worth the effort because it’s the only way to end cycles of revenge. Americans might be wearying of the warlike attitudes we’ve indulged lately, but that’s not the same as becoming peacemakers. Still, all who’ve lived through a season of war get new chances to become better peacemakers, and it’s that time in the USA again.