World peace.

There is only one way to achieve peace, and that is through freedom. The symbolism of the ring of power dropping into Mount Doom and dissolving. All authoritarian power structures, all tyranny and lordship, erased. The end of patriarchalism. This isn't going to happen without a fight. The powers that be aren't just going to stop destroying the earth and ruining the lives of its inhabitants as long as it benefits them greatly to do so. We have to rise up and make it happen.

I've been thinking...if you were to ask any Mormon if they were for or against world peace, what do you think they'd say? Probably FOR. But that's because there are two ways of achieving peace, and one is an illusion. The way that Mormons want to achieve it is through everyone on the planet becoming Mormon. Hence, the intense missionary effort and the baptizing of dead people. Total, universal conformity in mind and action. A Nazi's wet dream.

The other way is through the opposite philosophies, the philosophies of freedom, which are the philosophies of Jesus and the founding fathers of the United States. More freedom = more peace. Not control. The difference is the difference between believing that people are basically evil or basically good. If you believe that people are basically evil, then you believe that people need to be changed from what they are into something better. If you believe people are good, then you don't have to really govern them. It's the governing that actually causes the problems.

The idea that one state or religion could take over the whole world is the overall permeating fantasy of Mormonism, and it is a useless one. If we as Mormons really want to change the world for the better and have world peace, we not to stop going around telling people what to do and just help people. Instead of building a 3 billion dollar mall and other stupid things that Jesus Christ would truly facepalm at, let's go to third world countries and help create self-sustaining infrastructures for millions of people who are dying. There are holocausts in this world that are happening because of poverty and we're doing nothing about it. Ugh. It hurts me to much to write these words because I feel like they're so true but so few people will ever actually see them. I just have to try to make a change through my films.