As you may or may not be aware, our world is going through a series of convulsions at the moment. You can see them in the natural disasters happening , such as earthquakes, you can see them in the wars that keep breaking out, you can see it in the general climate of uncertainty, in which much of humanity is ready for a finer world than the one in which they currently inhabit. Peace-loving humanity finds itself afflicted by viscous and greed-driven minorities.
Some of these are the terrorists. Some of these are industrialists, eager to safeguard oil-supplies... But the victims are the peace-loving majority.
It is quite obvious that strength in numbers is more or less irrelevant in this case. A million people can march, but they cannot accomplish any direct change... As change is the province of the empowered individual. If such an individual is to resort to violence... Well by this they join the group of 'viscous minorities', whatever their moral intentions. So the only real hope here is the empowered and peace-loving individual. The Gandhi, the Jesus-like figure.
Such an individual must be willing to give up their very life for such real and meaningful change.. Look at the aforesaid Jesus, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, John F Kennedy... And more recently victims from my own Island chain... Princess Diana, Dr. Kelly the weapon's inspector and possibly also former foreign secretary Robin Cook.
The ultimate sacrifice is and always has been... to give one's own life for peace.
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