The Emotional Life of Nations is on the table when we choose to observe the quality of our shared emotions and group-fantasies that occur in lawful stages which determine the sequence of political events.

Collective Securities and the difference between WAR and PEACE? What If economic, political and military misjudgments continue to compromise civic empowerment, how must we as Australian's position ourselves... as civilians?

Lloyd deMauses book "The Emotional Life of Nations", discussing the historical extent of War and Human Misery is another way to gaze at political behaviour revealing an untold story of how "literally billions of innocent, helpless children have been routinely killed, bound, battered, mutilated, raped and tortured and then as adults have inflicted upon others the nightmares they themselves experienced', through world of reproductive cultural-abuse making.

Find his perface: http://www.psychohistory.com/htm/eln00_preface.html

and a book review by Robert Godwin - http://www.primal-page.com/godwin2.htm

If this is Peace than 'Peace is a helluva letdown' go to "Chapter 1----The Assassination of Leaders" in the Emotional Life of Nations. Contents to the book found on - http://www.geocities.com/kidhistory/childhod/chindex.htm

Can we relie today on any of our world leaders of any forum to redirect our history away from threats of War and Social Violence?

What will it take to rid our chaotic selves toward a relative or unified stage of human modernity?

If we are an archaeological road map of various personality types that have emerged through history then it is mindful to state that human progress is a function of the evolving space where one gets to view history in the making from many different aperspectives, simultaneously... if we try.

I wish the APEC forum well and hope all the effort made by civilains to accomadate its opportunity for visiting leaders to communicate constructively pays-off.

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It is rather scary, but maybe this Putinised revolt is so much needed, to help bring in a bi-polar global power balance, rather than the Bush-Cheney style unipolarism we are getting fed up with right now.

BB -WA.

Putin has been working out :) they showed some 'shirtless' images of the various world leaders... Putin is clearly in the best shape of all those portrayed.

be afraid.....very afraid... *CHOP, KICK, PUNCH*

Thank you for this article. I have no way of assessing whether it is profound or rubbish, but it does alert me to the multiplicity of powerful forces at play. I suspect no statesman will be smart enough to predict the future of political alignnments and power blocs 20-30 years hence. All the worlds greats will place their bets, and one or two will chance upon the way the dice fall - and be hailed as great statespersons.
This uncertainty does not absolve anyone from taking ethical positions. However the dice may fall, we need to think in "world" terms as well as more narrow national interest.

Fencepost.

Well Fencepost ,if the rest of the left finally had your insight into the complexity of the social/economic/environmental relationships of this planet,perhaps they would seek less simplistic solutions to the world's woes.

Neither George Bush or Saddham are evil people.We all just perform within the constraints of our knowledge/ethics and cultural heritage.Saddam was the best ally the US ever had since he kept a balance of power that supplied the rest of the world energy at competitive prices.Saddham just reflected the culture that bred him.

People protesting against APEC hate the idea of economic growth.

**Once upon a time there were some smart cattle and the leader of the Bullherd, whom for whimsy I shall call John Bullard, set up a meet for all the big Bullards on the planet. They called it APEC and vowed never to tell any of the cows that it meant Abattoir Per Execution by Consumerisation. That was their secret-plan for it meant they would always be in POWER and yet worshipped by all the aspirational, democowcies, cows. Cows would eat, breed and invest in real estate till they became fat, content APEC devotees.

Of course when they were fat and the herd was full and plenty, the Bullards knew there would be no fighting for the cows would be sent to the APEC Abatoirs. Their fat real estate and share portfolios would be available to be sold by Banker repossessors at clear profit to the next boatload of skilled cow immigrants, who in turn would be fattened on APEC futuristic Consumerist farms.They called this a "Market Correction" but in reality it was just plain old "Farming".

Then one day some smart SOB ( son of a Bull) said that John Bullard was wrong. That APEC failed to understand that there were already too many aspiring, content cows. There was not enough Energy, water or environmental sustainability and that soon, with crude oil vanishing, the cows would cowmence killing each other for the right to occupy the space they stood on.

John Bullard was furious as the APEC secret was nearly in the open. He flew into a red-faces rage and castigated the SOB thus: "People who protest against APEC hate the idea of economic growth."

So now all the cows felt safe and content again and as interest rates got higher and fuel prices drifted higher they all said.:

" Mooooo, our leader John Bullard will save us by making the economy grow so we can get fatter and fatter and fatter. Animals saying that 'APEC is Farming Cows' should be shot out of Moooorris Iemma's new water cannon"