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There is a way for future generations to live in peace if they can be taught to embrace a philosophy of life in which people do not interfere in the beliefs and activities of moral human beings.
A guide to global peace
Tribe explores a philosophy of life that might allow human beings to live in peace.
Tribe proposes that humans are social, moral animals and that we thrive and prosper when we embrace the social quality that distinguishes us from other primates and makes us human — our capacity to share.
John, pictured in 2014, the author of Tribe.
Williams can track his life in step with the wars that have been fought in his lifetime. He has never known a world without war. He was born three days after the Nation of Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and brought the United States of America into World War Two. He was a prepubescent toddler when his country became the only nation ever to have detonated a nuclear bomb on other human beings — twice. He was in the public school system when his country entered the Korean War. He was entering adulthood when his country went to war in Southeast Asia, and he spent the next two decades serving as an unwitting combatant in the most massive standing military force known to man — fortunately serving in relatively safe specialties. He cannot forget the immortal words of Pogo who said, “We has seen the enemy, and they is us!”
