Peace On Earth
This story is about a future, highly technological world, (the sort which is usually depicted as a shining utopia of peace and plenty), ruled by Science and Man's intellectual enlightenment. The problem is, no matter how much we dream of this future world, it never comes. Man is always stuck with Man's perverse nature, no matter how advanced he becomes in gadgets and communications and so on.
The story begins with the scenario of planet Earth ruled by the collective wisdom of the brightest men and women from each country. They have at their disposal a machine which can give people the desire to turn from evil behaviour to something useful and productive. It cannot change people's perverse nature, but the Grand Council of Large Brains hopes that by chanelling people's energy into some productive pursuit, they will be too busy to be perverse.
I wrote this story to illustrate how pointless it is to tamper with external things, when the real problem is the heart of Man. Change the centre and that which comes from it will be changed.
(Jesus said) "For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies," etc Matthew 15:19
"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" Jeremiah 17:9
"And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually."
Genesis 6:5
"But the Lord said to Samuel, Look not on his face, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord sees not as man sees; for man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart." 1 Samuel 16:7
In a similar way, it doesn't matter how clean or well-dressed a pig may be, it is still a pig.In the story, every attempt the Grand Council makes to "fix" the world, is ruined by human nature, and