“The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.”
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Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.
My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.
War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.
The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.