a proposal by Timothy Wilken
On 11 September, 2001, the world changed for humanity. Bin Laden taught us that there is no safe ground. Some have described the attack on the World Trade Center as an act of war, others have called it a crime against humanity.
How can humanity protect itself from crime?
“No man can regard the way of war as good. It has simply been our way. No man can evaluate the eternal contest of weapons as anything but the sheerest waste and the sheerest folly. It has been simply our only means of final arbitration. Any man can suggest reasonable alternatives to the judgment of arms. But we are not creatures of reason except in our own eyes.” — Robert Ardrey
In the future, an advanced synergic organization could replace government as we know it today. This organization might perform all the positive functions of present government with none of the negative consequences. It might exist to serve humanity as community as well as humanity as individuals.
One branch of this new system of synergic governance might be called the Life Trust. It could seek as one of its primary goals to provide safety from crime for all of humanity.