<p>World peace has been blindly sought after by many. The movies, anime, cartoons, whatnot always have some sort of villain that attempts to bring peace through mystical methods such as ultimate brain control and illusions (Uchiha Madara from Naruto and Al Mualim from Assassins Creed are but few examples).</p>
<p>However, illusions is impractical. It robs people of free choice and it's a completely ridiculous world to live in.
The Matrix proposes an excellent method of world peace: Lock people up through computer programming and create an illusory world. Again, this is impractical and we currently lack sufficient technology to recreate such complexities. Not to mention, living in an illusion is rather...scary.</p>
<p>Pain from Naruto proposes a good plan for world peace too: He believes in creating a mass destructive weapon that is a thousand times stronger than a Hydrogen Bomb...out of fear, people would stop waging wars and fights among the countries...once people forget their fear of this weapon, someone will use it and people would realize the pain this weapon causes.
However, war is non-existent today. This proposal of world peace is unquestionably obsolete.
I can keep going on and on with the numerous methods people contrive to bring world peace. Light Yagami and his Death Note, Jedi order, Socialist actions, etc.</p>
<p>However, I've realized that peace can never be achieved as long as there is hate. Hate causes discord. To bring peace, we must eliminate hatred. How? Where there is hate, there is always love. Where there is love, there are always human beings. And human beings are the root of complications and contradictions. To eliminate hate, love must be annihilated. To eliminate love, human beings must cease to exist.
In short, to bring world peace, all human beings must die. And given the number of nuclear missiles contemporary countries possess...a launching of all of them might actually bring peace.</p>
<p>you’re not twisted, many people have thought of this idea before. But like fuzzleshnops says–theres no point in eliminating ourselves. We’re trying to coexist in peace.</p>
<p>There have been plenty of books and movies detailing those ideas: humans are flawed, and therefore must be removed to achieve true peace/mission success/continuation of other life forms/whatever.</p>
<p>^Like what books? By higher life forms? Elimination of human beings by higher life forms doesn’t ensure peace. The higher life form will simply be the next human being in the vicious cycle of life.</p>
<p>The idea is that higher life forms would be more understanding of nature and unity, and would therefore treat the world better than human beings have.</p>
<p>I can name movies, and just assumed there was literature out there as well. Recent movies include The Day the Earth Stood Still, iRobot, and The Matrix series as you said. Many movies featuring artificial intelligence or higher life forms are often formed around the theme of human incompetence and the “logical” need to eradicate their presence for the sake of a higher purpose.</p>
<p>Humans are a social creature and ideas are inevitably going to clash.</p>
<p>I would guess world peace is impossible. Some countries use brute force, others use gentle negotiations and since there will always be a barrier to what one nation needs and what another wants, there will always be conflict.</p>
<p>Well, IMHO there will be no peace until the world ends. Then, if you belive in christ, you’d say that the world will be renewed as it should have been. Whether that world will be able to go wrong is unknown at present.</p>