Lord of the World

The title, Lord, is enabled with sophistry. The sophist king has no human face, but the face of a void. In Tolkien's saga, "The Lord of the Rings" the Lord is only represented. People cower in fear to him whom no one has ever seen. The corrupted who were once men rule in the name of this ghost. In modern time many a would-be rulers of the world gave the ghost, that is a void, their name, who have gained themselves thereby a prominent place in the halls of infamy, because no good was ever accomplished in a void, where society perished again and a again. Now that we face the return of the Ice Age on the near horizon, potentially in the 2050s, the time has come to create us a New World with a worldwide renaissance, a renaissance of 6,000 new cities afloat in the tropics, with new agricultures attached that enable the continued existence of humanity. An Ice Age world is a world without food. While we can build us out of this looming crisis, we are not doing it, and won't start the building process for as long as the sophistry rules that doing nothing is beautiful and is environmentally friendly. The leader on this front will have to be humanity. Drilling holes into sophistry is its most urgent task. Winning Without Victory projects the Westphalian Principle of an active peace, the win/win principle that leaves no one vanquished but uplifts the world, where the advantage of the other is the keystone for an enriched civilization. This humanist foundation is a fit platform for meeting the Ice Age challenge, the most severe challenge in the entire history of humanity. The book presented here (Book 8) is a part of a series of selected chapters from my novel, Winning Without Victory. The multi-part series is created to highlight that Active Peace, though it is achievable, is not simplistic, but has many facets, with each being profound.