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Economic Solution Solve Political
Issues
That political issues lend
themselves to economic resolutions is well known, even if not honoured
in practice. (MSS)
Economic Solutions
Economic solutions can resolve the problems in Ireland, Kashmir, the
Arab-Israeli conflict, terrorism, etc. etc.
Military Solution is for Previous
Centuries
A military solution
belongs not to the previous century but to the 19th century.
(MSS)
How Ireland's
Prosperity is Example of Solving World's Conflicts through Higher
Prosperity
What happened in Ireland in the last 20 years has a great lesson
for all those who are involved in conflict resolution. Of course, this
lesson is nothing new to the world, but it remains a lesson the world
has not learnt till today.
That was an experience the USA had in the 18th and 19th centuries. Even
in the 20th century, the USA has been 'demonstrating' that same lesson
to the world. Neither has the world learnt it nor is the USA aware of
it.
Twenty years ago, the per capita GDP of Ireland was far below that of
UK. Now Ireland's GDP is exceeds that of the UK. It is significant that
during the same period, violence came down, from over 400 deaths
annually to just five.
When economic opportunities open up, Man has no time or energy for
religious conflict, i.e. economics goes deeper into man's existence than
what he believes to be his religious conviction. If ethnic conflicts are
to acquire life and virulence, it should be in USA, because it is there
we find a great number of dynamic ethnic minorities, but the USA is more
free from ethnic conflicts than elsewhere.
To avail of economic opportunities, Man needs enormous effort and
corresponding energies, which spare no energy for a quarrel of any
description. The USA is a standing example for this rule. Ireland
recently passed through the same experience.
To solve military conflicts politically was a longstanding rule in
history. To solve political conflicts by economic strategies is not used
in the same measure. Nixon opened up the Chinese market to the USA and
now a war between the two countries is unthinkable.
There are higher solutions for the world's conflicts such as cultural
and spiritual, but there are no serious conflicts in the world today for
one to resort to those higher powers. All the existing conflicts can be
solved by an economic approach. Our Theory of Social Evolution declares
this.
Cultural approaches are powerful. It will be very useful if moves are
made for a World Union. Spiritual strategies will be capable of bringing
about a solid human unity once the world union is established.
Taking out twenty or thirty articles on these related topics from the
Internet, we find scholars offering an array of details about every
issue relevant.
I do not find such a view as above even receiving their consideration.
It is here that the Indian leadership can contribute.
(MSS)
Ireland's Prosperity
Can Solve Problems Like the Arab-Israeli
Conflict
Ireland was known as the sick man of Europe. All these
centuries she was poorer than the poorest European country. Her mainstay
was agriculture and the main crop was potato. The potato famine
decimated the population. There were mass migrations to Australia,
Africa and especially to America. She was poor, not as we know poverty,
but by the standards of Europe. In the sixties, her per capita income
was $10,000 while we were below $200. She was dominated and humiliated
by Britain. Britain, who was fair to many of her colonies, was markedly
unfair to Ireland. Ireland was an insoluble problem in the UK during the
16th to 20th centuries. Home Rule was a deception. In 1921, Ireland
became a Republic, but, as we lost Kashmir, they lost Ulster.
The Irish Revolutionary Army, IRA, became a hotbed of terrorism. Lord
Mountbatten fell to their explosion. They aimed to destroy the entire
British Cabinet while they were in session. Human wisdom says the
solution to a problem is inbuilt into it. If the leaders are myopic, no
solution will issue. That political issues lend themselves to economic
resolutions is well known, even if not honoured in practice. The column
opposite to the editorial in The New York Times is of value and is
syndicated to various newspapers all over the world. Recently there was
an article on Ireland.
The sick man of Europe is now richer than Britain, her age-old rival,
France and Germany, traditionally rich European nations. The writer says
it was achieved by free higher education, low taxes, and generous
invitation to foreign capital. This is not only a solution for Ireland.
The problem of Kashmir can be solved thus. In one Nehru Memorial Lecture
those ideas were spelt out a few years ago. It is also the solution to
the Arab-Israeli conflict. In fact, all the inter-state or intra-state
conflicts like LTTE can thus be solved. A military solution belongs not
to the previous century but to the 19th century. In Ireland no one
administered the solution. It happened by itself. Sri Aurobindo said in
1925 that He could accomplish EXACTLY what He wanted to accomplish in
Ireland and Turkey. He did not explain any further. I feel like
congratulating The New York Times columnist but would like to add that
the theoretical lesson of that experience should be drawn and applied
elsewhere. This view of an economic solution of political conflict is
one of the principles of the Theory of Social Evolution framed from the
yogic philosophy of Sri Aurobindo. (MSS)
Irish Prosperity
-Ireland's
advice is very simple: Make high school and college education free; make
your corporate taxes low, simple and transparent; actively seek out
global companies; open your economy to competition; speak English; keep
your fiscal house in order; and build a consensus around the whole
package with labor and management - then hang in there, because there
will be bumps in the road - and you, too, can become one of the richest
countries in Europe
-I recently spent time in Ireland, which
has quietly become the second-richest country in the E.U., first by
going through some severe belt-tightening in which everyone had to
sacrifice, then by following that with a plan to upgrade the education
of its entire work force, and a strategy to recruit and induce as many
global high-tech companies and researchers as possible to locate in
Ireland. The Irish have a plan. They are focused. They have mobilized
business, labor and government around a common agenda. They are playing
offense. (Thomas Friedman, NY
Times)
