If I
Was Jesus Or Harry Potter, We'd Have Peace In This World
13 January 2011By Jane Stillwater
Yesterday I went down to Thrift Town in San Leandro
and bought my three-year-old granddaughter Mena a used
Fisher-Price three-story parking garage and three bags
full of recycled Matchbox cars, broken Transformers,
miniature horses and a dinosaur. And when we got back
home, Mena immediately set to work creating her own
little world.
I was so impressed with the world that Mena had
created that I decided to create my own little world
too.
If you had the power of Jesus or Harry Potter to
create any world that you wanted, what kind of world
would you create? Here's what I would do:
First, I would make every man on this planet impotent.
Yes, that's I-M-P-O-T-E-N-T, you heard me right.
Sorry, guys, but not even Viagra will help you here.
"But why?" you might ask. Why? So that after ten
years' time with no children being born, human beings
might actually finally wake up and start appreciating
the true wonder of children again and stop starving
them, beating them and dropping bombs on their heads.
Second, I'd destroy every single nuclear weapon in the
world. It would be as if the Manhattan Project had
never existed. Sorry, J. Robert Oppenheimer, but no
more glory days for you. And Julius and Ethel
Rosenberg will have gotten on with their lives instead
of being electrocuted and there would have been no
Hiroshima, no Chernobyl and no DU babies born without
arms, legs and heads in Kosovo and Fallugah.
Third, I'd wave my magic wand over Wall Street and the
Pentagon. Poof. Southern Manhattan would now have a
new Central Park where that worthless stock
exchange/casino/den of thieves used to be, and
Washington DC would have a fabulous new homeless
shelter instead of its current five-sided death
machine/money pit/home of Lord Voldemort.
And the next miracle that I would ask for would be
that all interstate highways in America would suddenly
have traffic signals installed at approximately every
third mile, that all international airports --
including military airbases like Lackland and Bagram
-- would suddenly get fogged in forever, and that any
container ships and oil tankers larger than the
Mayflower would be instantly converted into floating
hospitals and houseboats (and cruise ships too
perhaps? I'm not quite THAT saintly.)
Let's go back to the good old days when it was harder
to get from place to place and you had to manufacture
your own stuff locally.
And last, I'd really get to the real heart of the
matter and magically change mankind into being more
like Christ than the Devil, more like Harry Potter
than Lord Voldemort. Guns, knives, bombs, poisons and
trans-fats don't kill people. People kill people. No
more killing! And no more mean, cruel, violent,
vicious or evil types of misbehaving out there either,
you hear? It's time to grow up and evolve, guys -- or
else Harry Potter or Jesus will make you disappear
too.
And then we'd finally have a world that would be safe
for our grandchildren to grow up in.
Now wouldn't that be nice.
"But Jane," you might say, "all this
evolved-mankind-wonderfulness stuff you're talking
about is just wistful thinking. The human race ain't
gonna ever change." Yeah well, that still can't keep
me from being an idealist and hoping.
In all of human history, there has never been a time
when mankind has been blessed with so much individual
wealth as we are today. The affluence of each average
American citizen, even in these very
economically-troubled times, would have been unequaled
even by ancient emperors, pashas and Khans.
And what have Americans become as a result of all this
mind-boggling, unheard-of excess of wealth? We've
become lying, greedy killers -- never satisfied;
always lying, cheating and killing in order to grab up
even more stuff.
One million Iraqis now lie dead in their graves
because of us -- not to mention the millions of dead
corpses that we have created in far-off places like
Chile, Vietnam, El Salvador, Afghanistan, Haiti,
Palestine, Cambodia, Africa, Korea, South America,
Wounded Knee....
The world that I want to create has just GOT to be
better than the world that we now have.
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