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INTRODUCTION

Building a Win-Win World: Life Beyond Global Economic Warfare is an effort to continue deconstruction of the economism/competition/conflict paradigm and construction of new platforms for action. We are all constructing new “quality-of-life” language together. The dysfunctional economism paradigm still controls the debate, however, and we must never forget it for an instant. The economists are still the “thought police,” and we are enmeshed every day in the old structures in hundreds of ways. There has been tremendous progress. It is slow-motion good news, but that is what I am out to communicate.

The war system in human societies is at least six thousand years old, but according to much new archeological and paleoanthropological ...

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