The Second Superpower Rears its Beautiful Head
"There is an emerging second superpower, but it is not a nation.
Instead, it is a new form of international player,
constituted by the “will of the people”
in a global social movement.
The beautiful but deeply agitated face of this second superpower
is the worldwide peace campaign, but the body of the movement
is made up of millions of people concerned with a broad agenda
that includes social development, environmentalism, health,
and human rights.
This movement has a surprisingly agile and muscular body
of citizen activists who identify their interests
with world society as a whole
—and who recognize that at a fundamental level we are all one."
via caterina, who has "been thinking a lot lately
about war being not between nations,
but between those who want war
and those who don't."