"So, the burning question still remains, Stan. How did you get them to agree to peace?"
Stan had chosen the main dining area of the community church as the interview site. He takes a bite of a hotdog, swallows, then wipes his mouth with a napkin, "Oh, it was nothing. You just have to be at the right place at the right time. They've perhaps been the most misunderstood people of all time. They are truly a loving people ---all of them. Everyone wanted the peace ---they just had to be guided into it."
The camera quickly pans the cozy atmosphere of the dining area before posing the next question, "So, what would you say is next on your agenda, Stan ---having now accomplished world peace?"
Stan takes a large bite and speaks with his mouth full, "World hunger."
Everyone at the table laughs, as well as the media ---who've already planned their next comments, "Well, I guess they say that peace begins at home. So perhaps the same could be said for curing hunger. But seriously, do you have a plan in place for curing world hunger?"
Stan wipes his mouth and swallows, "I don't, but my friend Shannon here has been working on one."
Stan turns to Shannon, "Would you like to share with them what you told me yesterday?"
Shannon is rather surprised and unprepared to say anything, but the camera is now upon her. She tries to hide her embarrassment. Stan saves her, "Well, Shannon and I were discussing how some of the developments of capitalism do not always serve us best. We've always viewed a competitive market to be a healthy one, but at times our striving to be competitive on so many varied levels, actually does not maximize our productivity. Sometimes, even in our individual lives, we can become quite non-productive by focusing on too many things at once."
Stan takes a smaller bite of hotdog, "So, Shannon brought it to my attention that if we'd focus on just a half dozen struggling third-world countries ---to help them out, by allowing them to focus on producing just one thing ---then they could achieve more maximum productivity. Her suggestion was that we take those half dozen countries and have them focus exclusively on the production of bread. Then they could distribute the bread throughout the world and there would be no more hunger."
The media supplies the question that perhaps all of the viewing audience would be asking, "But wouldn't the burden of distribution be difficult and far exceed even the cost of production? Who would handle the distribution?"
Stan smiles, "You know, that is the same question I asked Shannon. And she said that would be taken care of by donations."
Shannon, with her wonderful classic laugh, can not contain herself.
Stan joins in on the laughter, "I was, at first, taken by the concept. But it's the only way to go. Such a charitable thing would obviously have to be taken care of by donations."
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