World Order, Moral Disorder: An Enlightening Essay about Human Contradictions

By Boris Spasov

This essay entitled World Order Moral Disorder is essentially about contradictions inherent in human nature.

War and peace are discussed together with good and evil and we arrive at the question “is non war the same as peace?” An analysis of these two words underlines conflicting predilections within us: how can man go to war, i.e. break the peace, when whilst he is at war he is searching desperately for peace?
Can one know good if one has never known evil? These two opposing concepts feed off one another and we are led to ask ourselves if a certain amount of evil is not sometimes indispensable. This duality within us has extended to include the whole planet, hence the title “World Order” which generates the appendage “Moral disorder”. To address this issue the author makes use of a reading grid based upon human relations: trust, mistrust, defiance and violence and illustrates themes relating to the economy, sociology and politics.

Far from taking a pessimistic tone, this essay helps in our search for answers which will permit us to move towards a reorganised world order which takes into account the planetary issues with which we are faced today.

EXCERPT

Man continues to plan his future by repeating the errors of the past, following his thousand-year habit of considering peace as simply an interval between wars. Today, peace is dependent on the balance of power imposed by allegedly deterrent weapons, weapons supposedly held in respect and fear by potential enemies.

Do we not sometimes have the impression that history, our history, resembles a huge wheel turning faster and faster, but moving on the spot rather than advancing?

Maybe we’re too blind or too selfish, to envisage a blueprint for peace; we have thought more of and worked more for material progress, rather than spiritual and philosophical progress. But how can we separate mind from matter, how can we devise a dialogue for peace, when we have as a starting point the necessities of life to which we as humans are subject?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

The “humanist” Boris Alexandre SPASOV, formerly Deputy Director of Radio Caribbean International, graduate of the Centre d’études diplomatiques et stratégiques in Paris and the author of several books including World Order- Moral Disorder & Humanity... What a Story! is above all a man of the people, a passionate and candid eyewitness far from the safe, comfortable couch ideologies and politically correct attitudes of our time.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Arcalis
• Release date: Apr 21, 2017
• ISBN: 9782956049418

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Can non-war be the same as peace?

War and Peace are opposites in the human world, in the same way that the terms good and evil are part of our everyday language.

These words have their own specific meanings, but only take on their true meaning in their mutual relationship, their dualism.

In other words, they are mutually illuminating, mirrored reflections of each other, echos of each other, since we can often observe that evoking one usually calls the other to mind.

When we talk of peace, or even simply consider the concept of peace, then images of war automatically come to mind.

On the other hand, we find that the rewards of peace are most clearly articulated by the men and women who have actually been involved in a war. Has it not been said the best war is the one you don’t have to fight?

Note that a systematic consideration of ideas and concepts will often bring to mind actual events.

In fact, war and peace are mutually intertwined within individual beings, just as good and evil. He who is not acquainted with evil cannot know good, just as he who has never known war cannot know peace. In describing good as peace, the existence of evil becomes a condition for the full enjoyment of