How To Peace

HOW TO PEACE

A Practical Analysis of the Obstacles to Peace

And the Steps for Making the Transition

Matilda Paxton

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(About the Title)

War is a noun and a verb, because we know what it is and we know how to do it.

Peace is still just a noun, because we think we know what it is. I believe the time has come for Peace to become a verb.

Copyright: 2012 Matilda Paxton

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In loving memory of my Aunt Matilda

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank:

My daughter Pamela, who offered warm encouragement throughout the writing and production stages of this book;

Patricia Eagle, my ninth grade English teacher at Cheshire High School (Connecticut) whose words of encouragement overrode the negative feedback in my life.

Marcia and Stacey, for their feedback and advice;

Carolyn Jukich for all her wonderful editing work;

David Anderson for his recording work;

John Lawther for helping me get jump-started;

Dr. Robert Bergmark (my Logic professor at Millsaps College) for his help on the PROPAGANDA chapter;

Juliet Begley for her friendship, her contributions of information and her caring ways;

Bill Brumlow, Delois Smith, and David Perez for their encouragement and support;

Glenda Anderson and Pam Hernden at TASC for providing me with the equipment to prepare the original manuscript, along with their enthusiasm and support;

The International Society for Philosophical Enquiry for welcoming me as a member and providing me with incentive, encouragement, and the confidence to finish this project; and

Monsignor Francis Galles for his kind support.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Prologue

Chapter 1: Understanding the Patterns & Psychology of Oppression

Patterns

The Psychology of Oppression

Chapter 2: Meet The Alternative

Filters

Chapter 3: Know Thine Enemy: The Power of The Lie

Chapter 4: Looking At Addictions

Cigarette Addiction

Power Addiction

Chapter 5: Madness, Madness, Madness

What Makes The Shift So Difficult?

The Santa Claus Lie

Time To Grow Up And Be Responsible Adults

Left Brain/ Right Brain Functioning - Liberal/ Conservative Thinking

Chapter 6: Examining The Lies: Who Benefits? Who Pays

Let’s Call It What It Is.

Patriotism In Big Business

Chapter 7: Cleaning The Yurt

Steps for Cleaning the Yurt

Considerations for Cleaning the Yurt

Step One: Congress - Federal and State

Step Two: Executive Branch- Federal, State, Local

False Premise Sires Lopsided Society

Cleaning The Yurt In The Senate

Cleaning The Yurt In The House

Cleaning The Yurt" Of Unpatriotic Big Business

Health Care Insurance

Public Utilities

What about the whole picture for the EPA?

We must Act Patriotic to Be Patriotic

Important notice about VOTER ID laws

Notice about computerized voting

Further comment on all situations like that of Preston, Minnesota

Chapter 8: An Answer To Poverty

Oh No! That's Socialism!

Chapter 9: True Power / False Power

Chapter 10: The Dilemma

Ancient Lawsuit

The Magician

Back to court

The Dilemma Of War

Chapter 11: Propaganda

Propaganda Devices

False Argument

Chapter 12: The Role Of Religion In Oppression

Seeing The Trees In The Forest

Chapter 13: How To Achieve World Dominance

Understanding How It works

Lab Experiment

Chapter 14: Societies / Governments

The Importance Of Cultural Diversity And Cultural Appreciation

Chapter 15: Ignorance: The Strongest, Most Effective Form Of Oppression

Chapter 16: What About Hirohito And Hitler? Were We Not Supposed To Fight Back?

The General Importance Of Ethnic Diversity

Chapter 17: Terrorism And The CIA

Chapter 18: In Conclusion

About the Author

Other Books

Acknowledgements

Prologue

Trying to establish Peace in our current paradigm is like trying to grow potatoes in the ocean; we can start the plants on a boat in isolated pots of nurturing soil, but when we put them out into the ocean, the environment swallows them up.

We now have the technology to spread a global understanding of how and why specific elements of our current paradigm swallow up developing clusters of Peace and Justice cells the way phagocytes engulf foreign bodies in order to maintain the status quo.

We must realize that since it was we ourselves, as Humanity, who created our own current oppression/lie-based paradigm, it stands to reason that we, again as Humanity, armed with new understanding are perfectly capable of creating a Peace/Honesty-based paradigm with which we can replace it.

Chapter 1: Understanding the Patterns & Psychology of Oppression

About 25 years ago I had a conversation with my uncle about War and Peace. He had recently retired from an Air Force career, having capped it off with some service at the Pentagon.

I asked him, If I can figure out a way to make Peace happen, would you work as hard at that as you did at war?

He answered, Sure…but you never will, because human nature will not allow it.

I knew this was a widely believed concept, but there was something in me that would not allow me to share it. My gut told me there was a flaw at the very base of that concept covered up by a human history of functioning within a self-perpetuating survival system. I was determined to find that flaw, the common knowledge of which would unlock humanity’s entrapment within our illusory societal pattern. The challenge was to isolate the essential component of war-based human behavior patterns.

I am convinced that a thorough understanding, on a global scale, of the details and falseness of the foundation of the present system, will enable humanity to free itself from the bonds of oppression.

Throughout the years of marriage, motherhood, college, teaching, working, etc., I continued to observe, study, examine, and contemplate this subject. The more information I collected the more clearly I could see the behavior patterns that have perpetuated the system.

This book was originally published during the G.W. Bush Administration. I have left these references in this edition, because the patterns are still pertinent, and some of the influences of the people who made things happen then, as well as some of the people themselves are still around and still making the same things happen. The examples they set were so blatant they serve to help us see the more subtle forms of their behaviors.

Patterns

Once I understood the essential characteristic of patterns, that they repeat themselves within themselves (not outside themselves; not beside themselves; but within themselves) I realized that the exact same patterns are manifested at all levels of humanity: Governmental, Societal, Familial, and Individual. It became obvious to me that the pattern at the highest level determines the pattern for all the others. Therefore in our oppression-based system the hierarchical power pattern places Government at the highest level where it determines a pattern of oppression and constraint by each level over the level just below it.

On the other hand, in a Peace system it is the healthy honesty-based human needs of the Individual that determine the functioning of the other levels. Within such a system a hierarchy of some having power over others would be impossible. In a Peace system, family, society, and government serve the individuals by encouraging and nurturing growth and development. The highest level of functioning in such a system is at the same time that of each individual and that of all the individuals involved.

I will give you an example that makes this a little less ethereal.

To start, consider this: The word govern has two main definitions; to rule, and to manage. There is a big difference between the two.

Let us look at the United States of America for one part of the example. If it were a true democracy, the citizens selected for government positions would take their turns at performing management tasks necessary to the support of their society. They would function in a manner similar to the support staff of a law, medical, or business firm, whose job it is to keep the working environment clear of obstacles so the true purpose of the firm can be realized. In a true democracy our government would maintain the economic and political environments that would allow our society to function most constructively for the benefit of each and every citizen. The imbalance we are experiencing in the US version of democracy is due to the reversal of roles between Government and Society (Individuals collectively), as well as a government, which is supposed to be a system of management but is instead a system in which those in the highest positions rule the rest of us. This leaves us extremely vulnerable to tyrants who would gain powerful positions for the purpose of undermining our systems.

To demonstrate the absurdity of this I ask you to imagine the breakdown of function and benefit in a professional or business firm if the original purpose of the company was suddenly demoted to give top priority to making its support staff more powerful than the support staffs of other firms. The support staff positions would become very powerful, the company would be undermined, and it would collapse upon itself as a result. What a ridiculous way to do business.

Going one step further, the only way the support staff of such a company could remain in power would be to steal another company to rule. Then after they destroy that company, they would have to steal another. If this pattern is allowed to continue, the original primary purposes of those companies would be wiped out, and their products and services would be either eliminated or of extremely low quality due to the requirements of the ruling support staffs.

I am not saying that the original primary purpose of government was management as opposed to rule, although it may have been at the beginning, but according to the preamble of the United States Constitution, the stated/intended primary purpose of its government was to manage and not to rule. So how did we go from such good intensions to the oppressive mess we have now, where the president is allowed to behave like a king who believes our military is there to do his personal bidding?

It is time to examine and truly understand the psychology of oppression.

The Psychology of Oppression

Victims of oppression may or may not realize that they are oppressed, or that they can do any thing to remedy their situations. Those who do not see the oppression for what it is are least likely to seek remedies outside the realm in which they are accustomed to functioning. I know of no society on this planet that does not function according to a lie-based oppression paradigm. My goal is to clarify these systems so that everyone can see them for what they truly are and subsequently choose to function within an honesty-based Peace paradigm. It is far from impossible for the world to accomplish this task. Once the logic of it becomes apparent, doing it correctly will be the only thing that makes any sense.

There have been people working for a better world since history began. Why are all those efforts seemingly in vain? Why, with all that work, do we not yet have peace? It is because we have not changed the paradigm in which we function. We have not changed it because humanity hasn’t examined the nature of its own environment. That is the missing necessary step in achieving Peace.

Therefore, the main task of the reader/Peacer is to examine the patterns in the examples given here so as to identify them in other situations. When these patterns are identified, we must expose them overtly, and refuse to validate the activities involved. You could be witnessing a family situation, or you could be watching congress at work or a White House Press Conference. When the patterns show up, recognize, expose, and invalidate the activity overtly.

I am going to use a level of the pattern that most adults find easy enough to see clearly, so long as it does not involve them personally.

Thanks to mass media, Battered Wife Syndrome has become a familiar part of our common knowledge store. We witness case after case and we shake our heads in exasperation when yet another wife won’t leave her abuser. She insists that she loves him, he loves her, and if she can just get it right everything will be lovely. She doesn’t really hear us when we tell her it is not her fault that he feels entitled to display his anger all over her. When we tell her that someone who loves you does not intentionally and repeatedly inflict emotional and physical harm on you, she makes excuses for his behavior and tells us how sorry he says he is after each beating. She pleads his case by telling us how much he says he needs to be sure she’ll never leave him; as if that is a good thing.

Our frustrations grow with every attempt to make her see that he doesn’t really love her; he only enjoys the power he has over her. She continues to reject our offer of helping her leave, even when she can admit that he is capable of killing her in one of his rages. She insists it is her duty to stay and that despite everything they love each other. Why do all our arguments have no effect?

Of course they have no effect; they haven’t addressed the real issues. Why does she really stay?

1. Her functioning is ruled by her feelings.

Physiologically, when we are ruled by our feelings, our thinking gets shut down. (I am not talking about healthy left brain/right brain cooperation here.) The right brain will tell and believe lies. The left brain cannot; because lies do not make sense, and the left brain is where logic lives. Her abusive husband believes the lie that he is entitled to abuse her, because he is ruled by his feelings of fear and rage. He chose her because it was easy for him to get her to care more about him than about herself. She was attracted to his vulnerability, the source of which is his fear of not being able to survive. She believes that her sensitivity to his needs obligates her to take care of him.

His manipulation of her starts with his pushing her into her feelings until she believes any lie he tells her, no matter how absurd it is. He maintains his control over her by keeping her in her feelings. He does this by keeping her constantly occupied with the details of the environment he has established. He gives her hoops to jump through, and obstacle walls to climb over. Some of the tasks are doable and result in reward or perhaps just relief from punishment. Some of the tasks are impossible to accomplish, even when they are done perfectly, and eventually result in greater and greater consequences as she takes on more and more responsibility for what she sees as her failures.

2. She stays because she believes and functions on the lie that she depends solely upon him for her survival.

He has established this lie by separating her from friends, family, and rewarding activities; and he has replaced them with his oppression reality in which he is the lord and master and her success as a wife and as a human being can come only from the impossible task of pleasing him.

3. She stays because she believes she has no safe place to go. She believes this because she lives in a society that not only supports oppression, but also actually encourages it.

How can I say such a thing? We are talking about an abused wife who lives in the United