Home Rule Globally [HRG] spreads the secular message that humans can do away with the occasion for military hostilities. Such minimizing of military hostilities can be distinguished from doctrines aspiring for absolute abolition of military hostilities. After military hostilities have erupted, the desirability of avoiding the status of being militarily defeated is an issue quite distinguishable from seeking to do away with the occasion for such hostilities.
Many historians have ignored the efforts of Roswika Schwimmer during WWI and by John and Marjorie Ewbank during WWII, for a reconciling federation to terminate stalemated prolonged militarism. Seeking federalization during military hostilities is analogous to what some environmentalists call panarchy, or a shift to sustainability after the system is traumatized. HRG seeks panarchic federalism and/or decentralist federalism.
HRG suggests that federalization might come relatively suddenly without wise preparation for its traumatic transformations. A supplemental federation constitutionally restricted to a normal budget that was half of what the treaty system previously spent during a year a decade ago on supra-national governance might attain sustainability. Possibly the “external clout” [as distinguished from “internal autonomy”] of all member nations might be adequately “de-fanged”. Acceptable risks might be involved in stressing prevention of oligopolies and promoting fair competition among the non-governmental entities providing, within two globally regulated independent networks, the monetary services and the military services, needed for sustainability. HRG stresses the goal of federalization and the importance of adequately preparing for its traumatic transformations. Only “illustrative example” status is assigned to any proposals, even its own.
Federalist groups urging prompt adoption of a “blueprint” recruit zealots enthusiastically committed to such political plank. HRG seeks the support of all who are sufficiently open-minded to appreciate that a voluntarily ratified federalization might be imperfect but still be pragmatically acceptable.
HRG promotes “top-down decentralism” and encourages scores of other entities having small responsible boards to promote top down decentralization. What results are obtained is affected by the methods used. Giant bureaucracies are not the optimum tools for minimizing the tyranny of giant bureaucracies. Teamwork coordination among small entities having boards of “servant leaders” has already turned the world upside down through the teachings of the Robert Greenleaf Center. HRG seeks to inject adequate altruism, servant leadership, meritocracy, and top-down decentralism into the launching of a Supra National Federation soon enough for prolonging sustainability of civilization. |