"What will men do in the future?"

William Stoertz

April 5, 1999

Moscow, Russia

A model of the he-man is presented by Rambo as played

by Sylvester Stallone. We needed that get-tough image as

we revived from the downs of the Vietnam era. That image is

quite popular in many places around the world - including

Chechnya, Serbia, Africa... - actually, everywhere! An

interesting example is Chechnya, Dagestan, and Ingushetia,

Moslem provinces of Russia. Men watch violent movies but

absolutely have nothing to do with the "dirty" movies or the

sex scenes of the films they watch. Violence is okay but

sex is taboo.

One way of understanding what is going on in a lot of

places around the world is that the ideal image of a man is

somehow tough, masculine, mean, ready with a powerful

gun, etc. That message is more powerful than the morality

message.

So, in small countries that are blocked in, with a

foundering economy, pent-up frustrations, etc., what is a

man going to do? Recently we see cases like Rwanda,

Chechnya, and Serbia, where something happens and the

men find something war-like to do, and they can feel their

value.

The actions of NATO are going to show that that is

unacceptable. We may not have solutions to what people

can do with their energy, their time, their weapons -- but

killing is not one of the alternatives.

We are not really solving the problem but just drawing

the limits on what is acceptable and what is not.

Who will solve that problem? That's what our Family

Federation for World Peace, Women's Federation for

World Peace, and Youth Federation for World Peace are

proposing (trying, working hard!) to do.

In the future ideal world of peace, prosperity, and unity,

there must be active, challenging, exciting things for a man

to do besides blowing away others.

We have to get into the business of peace. A society

in peace should be more happy, prosperous, and interesting.

Peace should be more profitable than war. Peace should be

better business than war. But presently it is not.

Men can climb mountains, fly planes, fly rockets, go

hunting, do farming as a hobby, pursue science, love their

families, love their neighbors (in a clean, nice, constructive

way) and many other things.

We need to make the business of peace, the life of the

future ideal world, more attractive, more exciting, more

interesting, and more popular.

This issue will come up immediately at the end of the

Yugoslavian war. Because we now have it in our hands to

enforce peace around the world, and stop the bullies, tyrants,

etc. -- the lifelong desire of good people since the beginning

of history. But we better have a solution!

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