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World Peace achieved World Peace was achieved today, March 29, 2001, at precisely 9:21 p.m. Greenwich Mean Time. The monumental event was foreshadowed early this morning when a Taliban thug resisted the urge to crush a small statue of Buddha he had found in a remote Afghan village. Later in the day, the movement built up steam when a Hamas suicide bomber decided it would be a good day to work in the garden. After planting a few eggplant vines, he began to feel that perhaps murdering innocent children was wrong. “Maybe if we could all just get along, the world would be a better place,” he was heard telling his neighbor. Meanwhile, in Macedonia, no fighting was observed between ethnic Albanian rebels and Macedonian troops. “They might have just been going out for coffee,” one observer noted, “but I haven’t seen a lull in the fighting like this for several days.” In Somalia, rebel factions were seen visibly not fighting. Apparently a good game of cards was going, and nobody wanted to break it up. In Australia, the “Survivor” cast appeared to be “getting on famously.” Working together, they caught plenty of fish from the stream, and following a delicious meal, had an intelligent conversation about humankind’s place in the Cosmos. In India, many citizens described “nice feelings” about Pakistanis. “Today, I really have nothing bad to say about Pakistan,” one Goan observed, expressing a sentiment that seemed to be shared by many others in the crowd. “I find myself strangely ambivalent. Yesterday, I hated everything Pakistani, but today, I’m more concerned with improving my cricket game.” Finally, in Los Angeles, a member of the “Bloods” decided not to harass an eight-year-old child who was wearing “Crip” colors. Beginning at 9:21, the nations of the world entered a new peaceful era, where no violent conflicts were occurring anywhere on Earth. Historians speculate that this is the first time true World Peace had occurred since about 25,000 years ago, when peace was broken by the Cro-Magnon invasion of Neanderthal territory in the south of France. Apparently, the optimists are right – it is possible for humans to live peacefully together. When people see how nice peace is, how could conflict possibly re-emerge? Related
Story: By David Munger Copyright 2001 |