#nobelprize
The attached song from Spotify is the song Paradise City from the hard rock band Guns N’ Roses.
The name of the song is the aspiration of heaven on Earth, return to Eden, and the name of the band can either be interpreted as Rome, Sparta, Plato’s Republic and Kallipolis, British Empire, Benito Mussolini’s fascism, Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich, Dick Cheney’s Iraq in 2003 or Solon’s Athens in pre-Socratic antiquity, Socrates’ nostalgia.
If Eden and Paradise per se are theology, ‘for whom?’ ‘whose paradise?’ is political economy. Technology is its mere enabler.
The road to paradise by way of Rome, Sparta, Plato’s Republic and Kallipolis, British Empire, and Dick Cheney’s Iraq in 2003 is Guns.
Put a gun to another man’s head and you get paradise for your people. This shortcut to the good life is the way of the brute using the brilliant homosapien brain for thuggery and fascism, rendering him stupid. The strongest man with the biggest gun always keeps others at bay to feed his face.
This has been the way of the world thus far.
Life is not a bed of roses and roses come with a stalk of thorns, yet they are roses for their sheer beauty, color, and fragrance. The prickliness of savoring a rose comes with the territory. Their horticulture does not require guns. It needs gardening.
With guns, empire, roses are for the few.
With gardening, which requires care and feed and tending to Earth, putting to good use the human mind, global #sustainability, the roses are for all in direct democratic self-governance, not Marxism, socialism, or communism, or monarchy, or plutocracy, or authoritarianism, or fascism, or autocracy, but by community.
#sustainability. What is it? A primer: https://lnkd.in/eJQvnCa8.
Sign this for the Summit of the Future in Manhattan, New York in September 2024:
#OurCommonFuture https://lnkd.in/eaZe52sD.
Finis Romam.