Peace, Social Security, And Children
Throughout the last century, the world underwent 30 years of war, two big world wars, and never learned a lesson from one or the either.
After the second big war, documents and declarations were issued on human rights. They were unbelievably right, true, and way-showing. Unfortunately, however, they were not taken into consideration, or were disregarded. Those who looked at the future, and hoped for a better, much better one, unfortunately remained in the minority.
I was very influenced by the Philadelphia Declaration of 1944. It said:
Wherever, in this world, there is poverty, and hunger, those places are a very dangerous place for people who live there in welfare.
When Beveridge proposed a very modern social security system, he was very accurate in establishing the facts (five giants).
- Want
- Idleness
- Disease
- Ignorance
- Squalor
The world is changing, time is going by. They are globalizing, but,what are we doing? We have our children to live for. We have to live for them, because we brought them to this world. Our mothers are ours. They bred us. Don’t leave us.
I believe I am repeating myself.
Forgive me.
Money flows, people don’t. Poor people are not allowed to go where rich people live.
People, persons, should go everywhere they want.
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The problem is this. Some people, or persons, or occupational groups, are trying to do something, by these ways:
They don’t want the poor people to go to richer regions, but they want the money they gain from poorer regions to come back to richer regions.
They don’t want little literates, to come back to their homes, because the only thing they can do is to sleep or cook for their husbands.
If “qualified and well-trained persons” can be considered as “capital goods”, they are allowed to go to relatively-prosperous regions.
What else is done?
- Poverty is contained.
- Brain-drain is encouraged.
- Organization and solidarity, of the weaker, are disencouraged, or disallowed.
- Social security is inadequate.
- Regional disputes are encouraged, to the extent of local warfare.
Health should not be considered, solely, as a state of physical and mental well-being, but, also as the sole guidance to social well-being. For a simple reason.
We are social-beings, and we have to live together.
So, then, what is “social health”?
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Peace can be realized, only by accepting and valuing people, as persons, i.e. individuals.
How much, to what extent, do we value the individual? The model given below, will give an idea and insight into our appreciation of the individual.
Graphic-The Model for Attributed Value of Human
A social security system, which allows and enables the individual to live, and live in health, is the safeguard of peace. People who live in safety cannot be forced to fight, or make war.
In localities where there is no social security, where social peace is disrupted, and where the above-mentioned rights are either obliterated or disallowed, children are increasingly seen in risky, hazardous, and deathlyf regions.
- Separated or disrupted families.
- Hungry, illiterate and unhealthy children.
- The worst forms of child-labour.
- Child gangs.
- Child soldiers.
As children run or stay away from school, when planning and playing together has become a social luxury, society is left without peace and a bright future.
We should closely observe and identify those persons who disrupt our social peace, and force us to fight each other. They are persons, or rather opportunists, who exploit our weaknesses.
The only thing to defend us against the “power of money” are the NGO’s.
Unfortunately, however, they do not come together, they do not cooperate, or they insist on misunderstanding each other.
Children should be taught, from the very youngest age, to cooperate, and organize. They should learn that all problems can be solved, not alone, but thinking and working together. Not as an individual, but as a whole.