World Thinker Goes Digital

By JOHN HARLOW | Editor-in-Chief

Dr. Simon J. Simonian, regarded by many as the Palisades’ leading moral philosopher, is launching a foundation and website to promote his ideas for a more civilized tomorrow.

Simonian, a world-famous physician who worked on a vaccine that helped eradicate small pox in the 1970s, is kicking against anti-globalization trends that have fuelled the rise of Donald Trump and prompted the United Kingdom to exit the European Union.

Over the last year the Le Merida resident has been lecturing at learned institutes around the world, from Oxford to Washington, promoting an unfashionably pro-globalization message.

He believes a super United Nations type of body could end both world war and starvation, as the European Community has achieved across Europe since the end of World War II.

But, he said, he realizes there is now so much “noise” mounting up against what he regards as both a moral and a common sense cause that at 84 he is for the first time taking to the net.

His first attempt to register a domain name similar to The Global Union Age was aborted as it was already occupied—by an adult dating site.

But Simonian’s advisors have already found an alternative site that will go live over the next few days, with many links to great thinkers about the advantages of planetary order.

Simonian is ready to be attacked by the right, who fear such a ‘cabal of conspirators” and the left who traditionally regard it as anti-democratic.

This is despite being at one time Ronald Reagan’s personal surgeon as well as sharing the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the group Physicians for Social Responsibility.

It all stems back, he admits, to as bone-deep fear of hatred and violence: his family was destroyed during the mass murder of 1.5 million people in modern-day Turkey in 1915.

He expresses mild disappointment that, for political expediencies, President Obama has not been able to call this what many others do—the Armenian Genocide.

Today Simonian, a Quaker, is ready to take on the wildest frontier to promote a message that could avoid similar catastrophes in the future. And brave a medium dominated by cat videos and political trolls to go on this great moral crusade.