All war is symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
All war is symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
JOHN STEINBECK
Given man’s presumed intelligence as a specie, would it not be most logical to assume that there might always be an intelligent discourse that would preclude the necessity for violence?
William Shakespeare said, “We but teach bloody institutions, which being taught, return to plague the inventor.”
We have all of the prerequisites necessary to evolve into a peaceful culture, yet the overwhelming and seemingly insatiable desire to acquire, hoard assets and vital life elements continues century after century to maintain man’s position as the most dangerous creature on Earth.
Numerous saviors have emerged, with messages of peace, and an overall perspective of a brotherhood of Man, and yet, regardless of the continuous messages from disparate resources and cultures, man continues to proliferate our most violent tendencies, and seemingly and willingly relegate other segments of humanity to a perceived lower class status, (which mistakenly justifies the plundering of their resources in favor of the more aggressive of the two opposing cultures).
Even more surprising, the continuous exposure to messages from presumed peaceful messiahs has managed to only further detach large segments of humanity from other large segments of humanity, predicated primarily upon their respective disparate belief systems. Yet their creation, and their overall meaning, purpose, and value, for having walked planet earth, would appear to be a constant.
The continuous dichotomy of perspectives is presumably one of the largest reasons for continuous bloodshed between segments of humanity. The unwillingness to consider the alternate perspectives that are expressed by others continuously breeds contention, and as a direct result…violence, cruelty and death.
Humanity has a much higher purpose for our brief appearance on this vast three-dimensional playground that we called earth.
Underneath many of the violent and antagonistic behaviors lies a subculture of humanity that embraces each other through filters of mutual respect, admiration and curiosity… all of which are the prerequisites and building blocks for a more evolved human culture to ultimately rise and prevail.
It is only through the continuous education of each subsequent generation that we are fully capable of one day finally realizing humanity’s higher purpose and ultimately facilitate the coming together as one.
Happy Tuesday!
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