Peace in our time?
Thursday, September 21st, 2006 at 2:46 PM by: BlueBlue blogs off-topically, and from a personal perspective, on Peace Day and the hope that SL will be used as a tool for positive and fundamental change.
There was a time, about a decade ago, when it seemed we were heading in the right direction towards peace. The end of the cold war meant the arms race was over which resulted in disarmament, cuts in military spending and a general scaling back of all things military. The non-proliferation treaty was indefinitely extended and we were actively looking to contain the remaining nuclear warheads and bits of enriched uranium that we knew about. There was even some tentative progress in the Middle East peace process. All was moving slowly but surely in the difficult direction towards that tie-dyed utopia called “World Peace” and the idea of a Peace Day, where everyone took a break and thought about how nice it was not to be shot at, seemed attainable.
Shortly thereafter, however, we were exporting arms at a phenomenal rate, providing what’s estimated by some sources to be weaponry for over 90% of the conflicts worldwide. Soon, we’d give up our search for uranium that could be made into bombs. Funding for international affairs would remain a tiny fraction of the budget…less than 1%…with a big chunk going towards the process of supplying those arms to our Middle East allies. Ariel and Yasser would repeatedly sideline any progress towards some kind of mutual agreement over what the map should look like and Condi would tell us, as she stepped into office, that the US doesn’t benefit from humanitarian efforts overseas. When it reached the point where tanks were parked in Meggido (the root for the word Armageddon and the supposed site for the “final battle”), I thought that things simply couldn’t look any more grim.
Boy was I wrong.
There’s no real need to go into the details of what’s happened in the last 5 years, as we’re all pretty familiar with the horrific scenes of explosions here and abroad. Things are bad. On this point there is little disagreement. Peace seems to be further away than ever with an open-ended war in full swing and thousands of troops stationed. We’re told seemingly endless tales of torture, execution, and suicide bombings, innocent civilians predominantly playing the role of victim, inciting indignant retribution in the name of justice, perpetuating the cycle. It makes Peace Day, and its associated cease fire, seem almost impossible to attain…which is exactly why Peace Day looks so important to me today. More than ever we need to encourage humanitarianism. We need to melt the guns, not sell them. We need to vote and not let 14% of the country decide. We need to re-read 1984. We need to flash the peace sign more often (I’ll pass on the tie-dye though.) It’s now that the steps we take in the right direction mean the most, even the small ones.
We need to make change happen on many levels. We need a paradigm shift in the way communication and understanding takes place between very divergent people. In looking at SL and the communities that form despite huge distances, and cultural differences, and thinking forward…thinking we’re onto something special here that facilitates and unites…I think perhaps we will see that important change in our lifetimes. Perhaps not peace itself but a shift towards it, in a fundamental way that doesn’t undermine itself or fall prey to special interests. I just hope that with SL as a piece of the future, our little blogs are part of a greater trend towards that change. A trend that encourages and empowers you to use the tools at your disposal to talk, to organize, to promote and to actually make that change happen.
In this way, I think that you and I are headed in the right direction.
/me flashes the peace sign
Happy Peace Day
xoBlue
September 21st, 2006 at 2:48 PM
Ayup.
September 21st, 2006 at 3:12 PM
A company blog just doesn’t seem to be the place for Real World political rhetoric. Is this Linden Labs official position?
September 21st, 2006 at 3:40 PM
/peace sign
September 21st, 2006 at 4:05 PM
The reason the environmental/anti-nuke movements of the 70s & early 80s made so much progress was the fact that governments were faced with massive opposition to the status quo, which threatened the legitimacy of formal authority.
Since then, mass media has been used to indoctrinate, divide, and ultimately conquer. This was easy because the mass movements were de-energized by the very feelings you express… the thought that sufficient “progress inertia” had been achieved. It was thought that the seeds of social-evolution had been planted, and all that was required was time.
Then comes the Internet .. the final nail in the coffin of popular movements. The death of “real” community, replaced by a multitude of fragmented, and completely ineffectual virtual “communities”, easily ignored by the powers that be. This has been the greatest gift that Big Brother could ever have been given.
What have we seen as a result? The resurgence of primitive religious impulse, which is in fact the only remaining “real world” community that exists. It has returned to fill the vaccum and in so doing has achieved the political power necessary to begin rolling back all the progress rational humanity has achieved.
The sad fact is, with all the endgame obstacles humanity now faces, the only thing that will put us back into the proper frame of mind, and back on the road to collective progress, is a catastrophy on the scale of a nuclear exchange. Face the facts .. 9/11 didn’t do the trick. There was a brief moment of clarity .. the rational world was briefly re-energized, but was still ineffectual in stopping the madness that followed, and continues today. No, in order to truly re-awake “the people”, massive devastation, which impacts every American is absolutely required. Something like the debt-ridden, credit-sustained, artificial US-economy, collapsing, followed by a global depression, or climate change accelerating resulting in massive crop failures, followed by incredible spikes in the price of food, leading to hording and starvation in the USA .. or, [your deity here] forbid, a city or two being destroyed by nuclear weapons.
People think the threat of nuclear exchange between nations was put to rest when the Berlin Wall came down. In fact, since then, the likelihood of it happenning has greatly increased. Add to that, the USA’s enthusiastic use of military force, directly or by proxy (ie. Israel), has led to renewed desire of smaller, less stable nations desiring the immunity from such threat that the nuclear powers have.
September 21st, 2006 at 4:38 PM
^^^^^ Agree. Not the place for it. Or for most of the recent posts, especially the one about pianos. Who cares about how one of the faceless Lindens played with pianos? How did that post help Second Life? How did that need to be an “official Linden communication?” I don’t want to get an email from Bill Gates talking about the company picnic, why would I care what games Lindens are playing?
September 21st, 2006 at 4:58 PM
^^^ In the same vein, why should anyone care about a personal opinion regarding a blog post?
Torley, I see nothing wrong with posting things like this here. Its title seems obvious to me that this is not a LL update. Most people who are not interested in anything but official update posts will just skip over it, but there will always be the sad ones who will go out of their way just to rain on something.
I welcome your posts like this. It shows that LL does not just consist of a mass of faceless corporate androids. It shows there are real humans. Please keep it up.
September 21st, 2006 at 5:00 PM
Whoopsie, commented on the wrong post - sorry, Blue.
September 21st, 2006 at 5:00 PM
I’d say that the proper place for this would be a personal blog, and not the “mouthpiece of LL” … Now of course if this is a political message that LL themselves would like to get out to all their users….
September 21st, 2006 at 5:05 PM
Hehe, no not the official company stance, although it’s fair to say that the company is not against the concept of peace. I thought it would be reasonable to reference peace day, which is essentially political in nature, but in the future perhaps I’ll avoid religion and politics where they don’t intersect directly with SL ;p
I do, however, think that Babbage’s post on making a game in SL where you fling pianos is relevant to the SL experience. Perhaps not everyone’s but certainly someone’s. However, if this kind of thing is considered unacceptable spam by most people and would prevent them from using the blog as a go-to source of useful info then it might make sense that we tighten the focus.
I guess the hurling of pianos loses something in the translation…
September 21st, 2006 at 5:30 PM
Blue, I say well done! To me if you want to talk about whatever that is your right so long as LL doesn’t seem to mind. It was your personal feeling. I can’t say though that I don’t agree with them. In fact I almost totally do. If not in fact totally. If those that want to run a muck and complain that what you said has nothing to do with SL. I have to disagree. You pointed out in fact that this is a great place to start change.
As you said. We seem to have a way to get above some of the boundries that first life places on all of those living in the world today. True that the number of folks in SL is very small compaired to the number of folks in the real world. But, it’s a start. And, I have to say a rather good start! So to you Blue, I also say GREAT JOB! And, PLEASE keep up posts like this. It may just hit the right spot of the right person someday. And, maybe just maybe things will be a little more peaceful!
/me shows peace sign too
I too can do with out the tye dye lol
Isaac
September 21st, 2006 at 5:35 PM
I really think the posts on the blog need to be specifically relevant to SL; else it will become rather meaningless to visit here. Some entries I’ve seen here today really belong on personal blogs.
coco
September 21st, 2006 at 6:02 PM
Blue,
Let’s walk the cat back a bit on this one. The end of the Cold War meant only that…the end of *cold* war between 2 superpowers. But it mean bloody civil war in the Balkans…in Chechnya…in Tajikistan…it meant massive, genocidal wars in Rwanda…Congo…Sudan. Not to mention the battles undertaken in the name of defeating terrorism in Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon. So the death toll from those post-Cold War conflicts are far, far higher than even horrible totals like the million killed in Afghanistan by the Soviets in the 1980s — and that lets us know a few unpleasant truths about what it takes to shore up the world — mutually assured destruction by the two leading competitive social systems, socialism and capitalism. Nobel Peace Prize laureate Sakharov’s vision of convergence and peaceful co-existence of 1968 is still very much relevant, but the time table has grown far longer.
If the U.S. exports arms to 90 percent of the arms conflicts, that doesn’t mean that it *supplies* all the arms — you can’t forget about Russia and the other former Soviet republics, with the break-up of the Soviet Union, supplying arms to fuel genocide in Darfur; it was a Soviet-made bomb that killed the UN workers in Baghdad in the awful explosion of August 19, 2004; it’s these Soviet armaments arms going all over the world to conflicts in the Middle East and Latin Ameria. It’s very easy to see the U.S. as the only source of evil when you don’t look around at the other permanent members of the Security Council, busy suppressing goodly chunks of their own and neighbours’ population sometimes through mass killing.
I tend to…reach for my gun LOL…when I hear about “international peace days” — they are fluffy, ineffectual, feel-good exercises. You have to start much smaller, and much more locally. A good start might be putting the function of “no” in the voting tools right here on Second Life to democratize them and make voting a meaningful, justified exercise. A good start might be to make illegal the security orbs that function as weapons and bounce avatars all over hell’s half acre in the name of security. It’s easy to wax eloquent about the need for peace in the Middle East; and the need to get rid of Bush as a starter of world wars; it’s a lot harder to just refrain from bouncing your avatar neighbour to kingdom come, eh?
I personally think that SL is indeed a part of what will bring about world peace, through greater communication and understanding. But it cannot be the peace of the graveyard, the peace of silenced dissenters in mass graves, or the ethnically cleansed, the peace of anonymized and erased differences that in fact should remain meaningful and must be managed, not muted. It cannot be the peace of closed forums. It has to be a democratic, just peace. What the world’s hideous armed conflicts have told us is true at home as well as abroad: no justice, no peace. Work more on justice in Second Life; the peace will begin to come of its own accord; the two are inseparable.
September 21st, 2006 at 6:22 PM
I concur with those who say that making these kinds of posts on the company’s official blog probably isn’t the best idea (though it’s certainly within their right). When this blog began, I, and I’m sure many others, were given the impression that this was an official outlet for important news and announcements regarding Second Life — essentially a replacement for the Announcements forum, with the added ability of user feedback via comments. Until today, it seems to have followed that impression pretty closely.
I appreciate and respect the desire of individual Lindens to voice their opinions and share their personal experiences. I also understand their desire to give LL a more “human” appearance and not seem like a cold, unfeeling entity. Unfortunately, this particular approach just makes the company seem unprofessional, in my view. Posts like this are best left to personal blogs.
Peace,
Beatfox
September 21st, 2006 at 8:33 PM
LOL!
September 21st, 2006 at 8:52 PM
I really enjoyed reading this blog entry. However, I can see the point people have about it seeming out of place. Sort of like going to the Official Announcements forum, and finding someone from Linden Labs telling us about the great movie they saw at the staff movie day.
The best of both worlds might be to have a “Linden Labs staff chatter” blog linked off of this main blog. Maybe that isn’t feasible or maintainable, but I’d prefer that to seeing the “off topic” content going away.
September 21st, 2006 at 9:57 PM
Werner Klopek’s reply makes an important point - RL community is also very much needed and hard to come by. But when, exactly, did people stop talking to our neighbors in our RL geographic community? It wasn’t during the Internet revolution - it happened when television replaced local gossip, and malls replaced little downtowns. When universal driving covered every adult in a carapace of solitude. When renting replaced ownership, and nomadic, brain-consuming careerism became more important than settling down anywhere. When was the last time you wanted to meet your neighbors?
When Hurricane Rita came toward Houston and the southeastern part of this huge city had to evacuate, we saw the most amazing thing. Strangers went out of their way to help each other by the roadside, people opened up their homes, and the usual petty divisions of color and creed were set aside. Why can’t we be like that every day? Here is proof these good people certainly have it in them to make community.
Parallel communities formed in both SL and RL could be really interesting. There must be other memes to form around besides religion, which I agree has become the only remaining home for many. It’s not an answer that fits everyone. I’m open to ideas on what might make the spark around which people can coalesce as real villages again.
Scattered communities spread across the planet may get the idea they have a duty to watch over each other on the RL plane too. That would also be interesting. I don’t care where my best friends are, if I am Real to them.
September 21st, 2006 at 10:22 PM
“Second Life for Humanitarian Aid and Peacebuilding?”
http://ict4peace.wordpress.com/2006/08/26/second-life-for-humanitarian-aid-and-peacebuilding/
September 21st, 2006 at 10:57 PM
Greetings,
I’m a relative new comer to the world of Second Life. Coming from a developing world country, I couldn’t afford the hardware to play SL until this year, though the paucity of bandwidth still prevents me from fully enjoying life in SL.
Having said this, based on my experience in conflict transformation, peacebuilding and a real life peace process, coupled with the daily experience of trying to live a normal life in the middle of violent conflict, abductions, refugees and gross human rights violations, I am a strong and vocal supporter of technologies / platforms such as Second Life that can help engender better communication, peace and reconciliation between communities even if they can’t meet in real life.
The potential to do so using SL is obviously vitiated by the lack of broadband access, but this is by no means an impediment that will continue in the years to come, when even a country as small as mine (Sri Lanka) is planning coast to coast WiMax (wireless broadband) infrastructures. My argument is that we need to start strategising for and thinking about the potential uses of SL in peacebuilding - to support real world initiatives and the valuable work of people on the ground, when everything around them is going to hell.
SL also provides a unique and interactive entry point to 2nd and 3rd generation diaspora members - many studies of diaspora communities highlight clearly their value in fostering positive international involvement in mediating intra-state conflict. By bringing together progressive individuals from the diaspora, including youth, there is potential to create global conversations and simulations online that deeply and radically influence interactions between communities on the ground.
I know not whether the original post was reflective of Linden Lab’s commmittment to peace, but think that SL’s potential for peacebuilding and conflict transformation, though virgin territory today, from my perspective as a peacebuilder engaged in real world processes to that tries to build hope and secure futures for communities deeply traumatised and affected by conflict, shows immense potential as a platform that supports innovative, cross border interactions in support of peace, democracy and human rights.
In peace,
Sanjana Hattotuwa
http://ict4peace.wordpress.com/
September 21st, 2006 at 11:45 PM
I enjoyed reading this!
To help with those uninterested, could’nt you keep posts like this in each Linden’s blog area and off the “front page”? Keep this for news and updates.
September 22nd, 2006 at 3:34 AM
Some of the comments here go right to the heart of the issue of Virtual Reality vis-à-vis Real Life.
In fact the two become the same, because in both cases they are empowered by humans.
The Big Issue if you like can be perhaps at right angles in a virtual community because the needs and desires of such a community are different from a real community.
But the two blend together…..who am I to judge what is real and what is not for somebody else.
For example…..for the last 5 years I have been a member of another online community. This community is very very focused in its needs and desires as we debate one Big Issue….that is potential stock market movements and the economy and the ability for us to trade on those collective opinions and profit from them (long or short)
I think Linden may be right in sparking this debate because The Big Issue if you like are humans and how they interact in a virtual community
Just my own views of course
September 22nd, 2006 at 4:15 AM
[...] Finally, a note on Second Life and peacebuilding, continuing what I wrote here. A blog post today on the Official Linden Blog has generated a lot of debate on how Linden Labs should (or should not) overtly support and address peace. My own submission to the forum highlighted the need to look at SL’s potential in the future as a rich, interactive platform that could bring together groups to exchange ideas even when they cannot (or cannot be seen to) meet in real life. [...]
September 22nd, 2006 at 6:07 AM
I have worked in many places with people from all over the globe. One place I recall in particular was amazing for it’s diversity in people and nationalities represented. I remeber the solid thought that “Everyone gets along so well here.” (Most folks spoke Engish as a second language.)(This was in the US)
After working there for some time I realized that it was not just that the people I worked with were awesome- the leadership was fantastic. The leadership of the company promoted teamwork and democracy, where everyone had a say and everyone felt they were a part. It also spotlighted diversity - and we had the chance to learn about other’s cultures.
After this experience, I look at things differently. It does not seem (to me) that people (we individuals) are so very different and have great issues with Peace… many times it seems it is the leadership that does.
This may be overly simplistic, but for my days here in this virtual world and in the real world, I believe in Peace. Peace among people. (And I pay close attention to leadership and who I vote for.)
Peace.
September 22nd, 2006 at 6:51 AM
Did you know that I am teaching a seminar on peace in SL? We do have a solution to war, genocide and mass murder, and it works. So far it has caused a sharp deline in global violence and war in the last ten years. I find it amazing that as oriented toward peace as you are, that you are unaware of this and the seminar. It is called the democratic seminar and is a weekly event of the democratic peace group.
aka Rudy Ruml
Professor Emeritus
September 22nd, 2006 at 7:43 AM
It seems reasonable to conclude that the Linden reflections on peace are here because the sponsors of sl do want to encourage a peace movement and/or the utilization of sl for constructive things like encouraging peace and justice. I gathered from comments made by participants at the peace dance/rally sponsored last night that some “Linden folks” showed up and made that point there as well. I agree with those who have commented about the value of using sl to create constructive dialogue, thinking, interaction, problem-solving around issues of peace and justice. I’m sure it is in Linden’s interest to make sure that the the greatest possible constructive uses of its product are promoted. However, in listening to the comments of those who were actively participating in the peace event yesterday, I would urge Linden to choose wisely in whose peace initiatives they promote, if they intend to play an official role in the movement. The tone and tenor of much of the conversation yesterday had a negative edge to it. It was naive, simplistic, divisive, and largely anti-American, anti-Bush. Attaining peace is complex. It is about tolerance, understanding, and justice. It requires patience and wisdom, not reactionary and bitter commentary demonizing one or another of the world’s peoples or entities. And it’s not just a cool thing to dance around and do and talk about. I am committed to peace and justice, and think places like sl could play a positive role in some kind of peace initiative. I will not be attending any more events like the one that occurred last night, though. And I hope LL will be cautious in its messages and support, if indeed you were attempting to play a role in shaping the discourse. Sponsoring open dialogue like the kind you posted in this blog is a good first step.
September 22nd, 2006 at 8:30 AM
Moving this thread to Off-Topic.
- Liberty Tesla, self-appointed blog resmod
September 22nd, 2006 at 9:20 AM
I would support personal reflections like this one as a way to bring more individual personality and flavor to the “official” SL blog.
On a personal note, as a peace and human rights activist, I agree with much of the sentiments expressed.
That said, since this is a SL blog, it would make more sense to link these reflections to actual current and potential peace and conflict resolution applications of virtual world technology. You don’t have to look far, from the “serious games” summit to Better World Island to the translation tools being developed now.
September 22nd, 2006 at 9:45 AM
To me it would make sense to split the blog into “Official, dry communications: eg, patch releases, grid status messages, company policy/PR announcements, etc” and “Posts by Lindens about cool stuff: eg, whatever doesn’t fit into the first category” with separate RSS and web views for each part. That way people who are just using the RSS of the Blog to check up on “important” things can do so without being “spammed” but everyone else, who might be interested in reading the thoughts and opinions of the people who work at LL, can read those. Just a thought.
September 22nd, 2006 at 10:00 AM
With a nod to Liberty and Smuk, I’ll change the front-page message of this blog entry.
And, in case you missed it, here is an article on a Peace Day event in SL where Philip delivers the official LL Proclamation…
http://www.secondlifeinsider.com/2006/09/21/its-peace-day/
September 22nd, 2006 at 10:52 AM
[...] Posted by Baba on September 22nd, 2006 Blue Linden wrote a little post for Peace Day on the official second life blog. All was well with the world until the idiots showed up. The comments are littered with stuffy little posts whining about the propriety of posing such things on the official blog… OH NOES What are we to do? STFU [...]
September 22nd, 2006 at 11:12 AM
Right on Blue!
xo
Peace + Love
Yours
September 22nd, 2006 at 1:49 PM
You know, it is hard to keep discourse at a civil level - yes, even discourse where people are not all agreeing - when words like “whining,” “stuffy,” and “idiots” start getting tossed around.
coco
September 22nd, 2006 at 7:33 PM
This post reminded me of this picture:
http://flickr.com/photos/pathfinderlinden/221784305/
/me flashes the peace sign back
-Alpha
September 23rd, 2006 at 5:47 AM
Dear xoBlue,
I think that Peace could be modeled ala SE; It is because all (or, at least, most) of us want Peace, but on on our own terms, that wars and violent conflicts happen.
The way to prevent violence from happening in real life is to reconcile our differences in a model.
I have a few things to say about it at my website: modelearth.org .
Thank you, Hearthstone.
September 24th, 2006 at 5:57 AM
Blue,
well said!
Eric
September 25th, 2006 at 5:18 AM
Answering to: “A company blog just doesn’t seem to be the place for Real World political rhetoric.”
But it is. A company is expected to talk of the selling points of its products. As a user, I am not at all interested in the videogame aspects of SL. What made and still makes me buy their product is its ability to create truly global and transnational communities. Even with today´s primitive VR technology (wrt Stephenson and what will come in a few years), SL already shows potential to unite people all over the world via a sense of “being there together” with others. This will improve fast with more realistic rendering, voice, more advanced features for business applications, etc. When hundreds of millions of people from everywhere will routinely meet others from other regions and cultures every day for business and play, a part of our territorial instincts and hate of the “stranger” will melt like a snowflake in the sun. This will have a *huge* political impact and contribute to making the world a better place. In Blue’s words:
“In looking at SL and the communities that form despite huge distances, and cultural differences, and thinking forward…thinking we’re onto something special here that facilitates and unites…I think perhaps we will see that important change in our lifetimes. Perhaps not peace itself but a shift towards it, in a fundamental way that doesn’t undermine itself or fall prey to special interests. I just hope that with SL as a piece of the future, our little blogs are part of a greater trend towards that change”.
February 16th, 2007 at 3:59 AM
luogo fine, sapete..
April 4th, 2007 at 9:07 AM
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SL group Peace Train is still in the beginning stages of planning “SL PeaceFest 08″. We are looking for peaceloving folks who are interested in helping. If you would like to help, please contact Either KK Dallagio or Tonks Akina in world, and join the group “Peace Train”.
Peace and love to everyone!
KK