{"id":52545,"date":"2023-08-20T16:13:55","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T16:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wagingnonviolence.org\/metta\/?p=52545"},"modified":"2023-08-28T17:35:48","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T17:35:48","slug":"the-real-switch-better-path-than-increasingly-lethal-weaponry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wagingnonviolence.org\/metta\/2023\/08\/the-real-switch-better-path-than-increasingly-lethal-weaponry\/","title":{"rendered":"The real switch \u2014 there&#8217;s a better path than increasingly lethal weaponry"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">All troubles in the world have their roots in mental chaos resulting from ignorance of the real nature and purpose of life.\u201d<br \/>\u2014 Swami Ramdas<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When the atomic bombs exploded over Japan in 1947, Gandhi said: \u201cThere used to be the so-called laws of war which made war tolerable, but now we know the naked truth, that war knows no law, except that of might. . .\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Biden\u2019s authorization of the use of cluster munitions in Ukraine perfectly illustrates this \u201cnaked truth.\u201d We have condemned Russia for its war crimes, and then committed them ourselves.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Back when the Allies had entered the war Gandhi further predicted, equally ominously, \u201cThe Allies will win, but in the process, they will have to become more brutal than Hitler, because they have chosen the same weapons.\u201d At the time we didn\u2019t know of any other weapon, of course; and surrender to Hitler was unthinkable. But in fact, there <em>was <\/em>another weapon. Gandhi had already perfected and tested what he called the \u201cmatchless weapon\u201d of satyagraha, or nonviolent resistance; but it is only in the last 30 or so years that its application to war has become a real possibility.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t#newsletter-block_3a4eaf2164438745de87b88595e8aaca {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ECECEC;\n\t\t\t\tcolor: #000000;\n\t\t}\n\t\t#newsletter-block_3a4eaf2164438745de87b88595e8aaca #mc_embed_signup_front input#mce-EMAIL {\n\t\t\t\tborder-color:#000000 !important;\n\t\t\t\tcolor: #000000 !important;\n\t\t}\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"newsletter-block_3a4eaf2164438745de87b88595e8aaca\" class=\"newsletter px-4 pt-4 pb-2 text-center mb-4\">\n    <div class=\"newsletter-block\">\n        <h3 class=\"newsletter-block\">Sign Up for our Newsletter<\/h3>\n        <p class=\"newsletter-description\">We&#8217;ll send you a weekly email with the latest articles.<\/p>\n        <div class=\"newsletter-form-wrapper\">\n          <div id=\"mc_embed_signup_front\" class=\"py-3 w-100\">\n  <form action=\"https:\/\/wagingnonviolence.us2.list-manage.com\/subscribe\/post?u=f279f100fef8b39c61c33aef1&amp;id=615747eb15\" method=\"post\" id=\"mc-embedded-subscribe-form\" name=\"mc-embedded-subscribe-form\" class=\"validate\" target=\"_blank\" novalidate>\n    <div id=\"mc_embed_signup_scroll\">\n      <div class=\"mc-field-group input-group\">\n        <input type=\"email\" value=\"\" name=\"EMAIL\" class=\"required email form-control\" placeholder=\"Email Address\" id=\"mce-EMAIL\">\n        <div class=\"input-group-append\">\n          <input type=\"submit\" value=\"Subscribe\" name=\"subscribe\" id=\"mc-embedded-subscribe\" class=\"d-flex btn btn-sm btn-yellow\">\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <!-- real people should not fill this in and expect good things - do not remove this or risk form bot signups-->\n      <div style=\"position: absolute; left: -5000px;\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"b_f279f100fef8b39c61c33aef1_79af2f1e5e\" tabindex=\"-1\" value=\"\">\n      <\/div>\n      <div id=\"mce-responses\" class=\"clear\">\n        <div class=\"response\" id=\"mce-error-response\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n        <div class=\"response\" id=\"mce-success-response\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/form>\n<\/div>        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I will not elaborate here on unarmed civilian protection or the organizations doing it. Instead, I want to reflect on the dilemma we have created with cluster bombs and other atrocities to show that an entirely different approach \u2014 and there is one \u2014 is not a luxury but a matter of human survival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is a law, articulated by all the teachers of wisdom of humanity stating that you cannot visit violence on others without visiting it, in one or another shape, on oneself. In this connection it is interesting that just as the president has endorsed the sending of cluster bombs to Ukraine, manufacturers in this country have marketed a simple device called a \u201cswitch\u201d (euphemisms are routine in the world of violence). This device allows anyone to convert an \u201cordinary\u201d handgun into a kind of hand-held machine gun that can kill scores of people in seconds. We should let this sink in.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A special legislative session was called recently after a lone assailant fired 152 rounds inside a Nashville Christian school, killing three nine-year-old children and three adults in less than 15 minutes. Imagine what he could have done with a switch! We have sleepwalked into a yet more grievous run of mass murders, sacrificing our children for a dubious profit of the most irresponsible few.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In today\u2019s cultural climate we cannot expect the legislators to reach any effective conclusion. Cluster bombs are already illegal, for what that\u2019s worth. It is up to us. We will be trapped in this madness until enough Americans say, \u201cWe will not have this; take these things away; this is not who we are.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In fact, who are we? Clearly, the image we entertain of who we are and what we can or cannot do predetermines what measures we can take when (we dare not say \u201cif\u201d) we rise up to stop the violence, against ourselves and others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As it happens, the question of human nature within science has greatly improved within my (admittedly long) lifetime. When I was in school my biology teachers pronounced that we were \u201ca primate with flat fingernails.\u201d Inspiring. But now. scientists, perhaps a majority of them, are on record with descriptions of human nature that coincide with what those same wise teachers have been saying: We are body, mind and spirit \ud804\udc4b or, in more scientific terms, consciousness. This realization opens up endless possibilities. As bodies we are, of course, separate; as minds we can meet; as consciousness we are one.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The widespread phenomenon of moral injury is the negative side of this coin of our essential unity. Swami Ramdas, a beloved Indian saint who toured the United States on a mission of peace before his passing in 1963 said, in addition to the quote at the beginning, \u201cMan\u2019s forgetfulness of his true . . . nature is the cause of ignorance and sorrow.\u201d<em> <\/em>H.G. Wells had said 40 years earlier, \u201ccivilization is always a race between education and catastrophe,\u201d and now we can specify what kind of education will head off the catastrophe of violence we are stumbling into. It is education into the essential unity, which as many believe, is tantamount to the sanctity of life. Grasp that, and violence of any kind, domestic and international, becomes unthinkable. Nonviolence becomes the only real method available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This, then, is the real switch: Instead of finding yet another way to kill, we can find there is another way <em>than <\/em>killing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> As the U.S. arms Ukraine with cluster bombs and weapons manufacturers invent more deadly weapons, we must look for another way than killing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":52544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[35,37,95],"region":[],"series":[],"article_type":[],"class_list":["post-52545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-gandhi","tag-guns","tag-united-states"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.2 (Yoast SEO v28.2) - 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