PEACE THROUGH SOCIAL EMPOWERMENT Part 6. CONCLUSION
return to top pageThis work of building and creating grass roots power is not some sentimental, easy-option call to return to a golden age that never was; it is a challenge to respond in practical down-to-earth terms to events, which permit no other approach if we are to survive.
It may not be as spectacular or as romantic as giant national campaigns run by imposingly charismatic leaders, but each small empowered community can be a building block to construct a new democratic global polity which can yet make the world safe for future generations.
Such an approach will not only give our protest actions the teeth they need, it will give coherence and inspiration to millions around the world who at present are bewildered and frustrated and who feel in consequence powerless to act.
At last they will see clearly that in addition to protesting against intolerable policies they are struggling for something which can bring light to a world in darkness.
It seems to me, only in this way can we do justice to all the suffering, which power-out-of-control is unceasingly inflicting on the world; only in this way can we affirm the dignity and the nobility of human life and its potentiality for greatness.
I am not seeking here to give a blueprint, rather am I urging you to create your own blueprint for your own empowered community with your neighbours whilst there is yet time.
My business here is to erect a signpost, and it you want a direction for it I would say:
PARISH POWER! KEEP IT SMALL!
KEEP IT LOCAL!
KEEP IT!return to top page