A Certain Path for Eternal Peace of the World

Osamu Ichiyoshi

22, January, 2007

The origin of wars

The history shows that the war is a product of the civilization. Human beings are peaceful animals in nature. In the pre-historic ages the population was sparse, the life was so hard and unstable that people had to help each other among the families, relatives and clans. It was the society based on mutual help and direct democracy.

With the start of domestication of animals and agriculture a totally new historical stages began. The stock and crop farming needs extensive labor and the products can be stored for a long time. The war became a profitable business because it supplied the victors with slaves for more production and soldiers for more power. Thus the conquerors became rulers and the society was split into the ruling and the ruled classes. The process continued until the state was established with the kings, aristocrats, bureaucrats, scholars, priests, the commoners and the serfs. Writing systems were invented to convey the orders and reports between the rulers and the ruled and for collection of feuds and taxes.

Thus the state became the power structure and the struggle for the political power occupies dominant parts of many books on history. Even today the power struggle is the true cause of the regional or ethnic conflicts and wars. waged under the name of defense.

The power struggle in democratic countries

Through the history the commoners have gradually gained the power and the democracy has become the dominant form of governments in most advanced countries. And yet the war did not disappear. On the contrary the war was expanded from fighting among the rulers to destruction of the whole nation culminating in the awesome disasters by the atomic bombs. How could it occur among the governments of the people, by the people and for the people? The answer is; the society is still divided among groups with conflicting interests. The ruling class rules the whole nation through control of mass media. The public opinion and the social atmosphere are formed through the mass media controlled by monopoly and the power of money. Through control of the mass media the powerful can dominate the nation “democratically.” based on the principle of majority decision. The voices of the weak and the minority are neglected by the mass media under control of the powerful groups. The terrorism is the last resort of those neglected people to express their despair to the general public.

Equal public access to the mass media is essential for democracy

It has now become clear that the true democracy requires a mass media with full capacity for the general public. Anyone including the weak and the minority must be able to express their views and their voices reach everyone.

Such a universal information network is essential for the democracy.

The synchronous TDMA Direct satellite broadcasting network gives the required broadcasting network. Unlike the conventional system, the S-TDMA DSB network enables multiple transmit stations located anywhere under the satellites coverage areas to make direct access to a shared satellite and the combined signal from the satellite can be received by DSB receivers existing everywhere. A large number of the earth stations can share the satellite by pre-assigned scheduling and advanced booking. This open transmit side structure of the network will provide the general public with the close and easy access with the nationwide broadcasting network.

The above feature of the proposed network is strengthened by combining the DSB network with the Internet. The combined network realizes the Internet with full broadcasting and multicasting capability. The combined network also realizes a two way national broadcasting network accessible even from homes. The ISPs, ASPs and the DSB operators can connect the application servers of the Internet with the DSB network. Those applications include; nationwide teleconferences, data distribution, internet broadcasting, broadband internet access for remote users and so on. The teleconferences provide an effective means for national meeting to which everyone can participate from anywhere including remote islands and mountainous areas. For more details, see;

New Systems and Applications for DSB Networks.htm

The Social Benefits of S-TDMA DSB Networks.htm

Certain paths for eternal peace of the world

The above networks provide public access for the universal information exchange networks. The poor, the weak and the minority can speak out and their voice can physically reach every corner of the countries. Terrorism and regional conflicts will decrease because the minorities now have more effective means for their movement. The war can be prevented because the people will be provided with information of far broader ranges of views and facts. The powerful classes will lose their control over the mass media because the information network will have grown far beyond their control.

In a sense the world will recover the direct democracy in the primitive ages, which is a result of the world shrinkage to a village by development of the universal communications and transportations network.

The shrinkage of the world has already lessened the significance of the national boundaries. The above universal information exchanges network will ever increase direct inter-people transactions among different countries.

If the direct democracy and direct inter people relations among different countries are established, how could a war ever happen?

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