Ultima Ratio: Serenity's Cast

Have you ever thought about exactly what it is we're supposed to be upholding? It's been 60 years since the last war, and all of us have been able to live our lives without being touched by war. Peace. This peace that we're supposed to be upholding, what do we actually mean by peace in this age, and in this society? The total war we fought, and the losses that we all suffered at it's hands. The Cold War, involving nuclear deterrence and proxy wars around the globe. Even today, half the world is engaged in civil war, ethnic clashes, armed conflicts. These countless wars are what made up and sustained our economic prosperity...it's bloodstained. That's the true nature of our peace. It's an unscrupulous peace based on fear of war. An unjust peace where we look away from foreign wars, in which others pay the price for our peace. I can hear them now. They say: "It may be a peace that reeks of gunpowder, but we must still uphold it." They'd much rather settle for an unjust peace than a just war. I can understand that they would loathe just wars. Proponents of just wars have mostly been just scoundrels. History is filled to the brim with people who were taken in by them, and then taken advantage of. But we also know this: The line that separates a just war from an unjust peace isn't a very clear one. Ever since hypocrites have made peace their just cause, we have lost faith in that peace. Just as war brings about peace...peace brings about war. A peace that is empty and lacks substance, will eventually be filled in by a actual state of war. Has that thought ever crossed your mind? We reap the benefits of war, but distance ourselves from it with a television screen...forgetting that we're still in the same battleground. No...we only pretend to forget. Such denial, invites great punishment in the end. I hear them again, they ask: "What punishment? Who's going to punish us? God?"
In this society, everyone is like a God. You don't have to move an inch to see images far removed, or to touch things that aren't there, and access other realities that are there. It's just that these Gods don't do anything. If the "Gods" won't do it, then the people will. Sooner or later we'll find out, that is...If we can't catch up to him in time.

(C) 2006 Sean Slater. (Arigatou Goziemashita Oshii-Sama.) All Rights Reserved, All Wrongs Justified. Patlabor 2 - SEASE Productions. (With help from Production I.G.)