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John Hunter's "World Peace Game" Course Should Be Required Study Worldwide

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Written by Brendan Maloney   
Wednesday, 17 June 2015 04:33
Grade school Teacher Emeritus John Hunter created the World Peace Game 28 years ago, and in my humble opinion it really, really needs to go hyper-viral NOW. Few solutions to huge problems in our complicated modern world are so simple and sane as this one is. I see many upsides here, and no downsides. This is somewhat surprising to me, given my suspicious and cynical nature re our poorly evolved and mentally deficient/defective brains that cause us so much woe in adulthood.

But young human brains are incredibly plastic and changeable and are capable of truly astonishing feats as a simple matter of course: Up until about age 7, any kid on the planet can learn several languages at the same time. Try that in high school or college and see how it works out for you. Until recently, with less invasive techniques, surgeons often saved the lives of kids who suffered multiple epileptic seizures per day by excising about 80% of their left brains! Because young brains are chock-full of undifferentiated stem cells that can develop into any type of cell, the great majority of left-brain functions successfully migrated to the right brain after these radical excisions. Though losing sight in one eye and perhaps some motor function in their right hand, a year or so after surgery most kids were nearly normal and free of multiple seizures that would have killed them by age ten or so and made their brief lives a living hell.

Since the holistic, synthesizing, problem-solving right brain develops much earlier in human fetuses than the left, it is not expendable. This makes some neurologists wonder if the problematic "I, me, mine" self-deceiving left hemisphere is an evolutionary parasite, since we have the ONLY functionally bifurcated brain in nature. Qualifier - I speak of left brain / right right dominance and functions in general terms, knowing that the functions of the minority of left-handed folks are reversed.

Having illustrated the amazing plasticity of the YOUNG human brain, I will shut up and let the wonderful John Hunter take the stage here, my friends. Final note: Watch how young girls assert themselves here, and Goddess knows that the world needs a LOT more input from women!

8-minute trailer for the documentary "World Peace and Other 4th Grade Achievements:"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCq8V2EhYs0

World Peace Game Foundation homepage:

http://www.worldpeacegame.org/

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