war state - TOWARDS LIFE-KNOWLEDGE

This monograph provides a comprehensive decoding of the modern “War State” through the dual lenses of Life-Value Onto-Axiology (LVOA) and Peace Research. By synthesizing the economic and moral philosophy of John McMurtry with the psychological and sociological frameworks of Johan Galtung, the authors identify a systemic “life-blindness” driving global conflict. The work unmasks the subconscious scripts of Chosenness, Manicheism, and Armageddon that legitimize the destruction of the “Life-Ground” — the essential social and ecological requirements for human survival. Ultimately, the manifesto proposes a shift from a “Money-Sequence” economy to a “Life-Coherent” system anchored in the Civil Commons and Planetary Solvency.

This white paper presents a structural analysis of recurring global crises — war, ecological degradation, financial instability, and social fragmentation — as predictable outputs of a coherent background value system. Drawing on Johan Galtung’s framework of direct, structural, and cultural violence, and John McMurtry’s analysis of the ruling self-maximizing growth code, the paper integrates conflict archetypes, economic rationality, and institutional incentive structures into a unified explanatory model.

The central claim is that modern systemic instability is not accidental or episodic, but generated by a layered architecture in which cultural narratives legitimize institutional designs that reward extraction, escalation, and externalization of life costs. Crisis events reinforce rather than destabilize this architecture through feedback loops of moral framing and security expansion.

The paper concludes by proposing a viability-centered alternative: redefining rationality as the preservation and regeneration of life-support systems. Security is reframed as resilience; growth is subordinated to ecological and social constraints; institutional incentives are realigned with intrinsic life-value functions. The objective is not accusation but structural clarity, and not collapse but redesign.