It seems that since the beginning of time for us humans, we circle that dreaded drain of life and we will swim ourselves to semi-safety and then in a repeat of the past allow ourselves again to circle that drain until it looks like we will be sucked under, in the swirling water…
I wonder why we cannot stop jumping into the water and quit getting caught in the whirlpool as it tries to take us under…
The interesting thing about the world is how our technology doesn’t stop history from repeating, it just speeds up the processes that repeat continually. Instead of hundreds of years to collapse everything? Tech has allowed realtime stupidity to become predominantly fast moving in its effects…
I can attest to the fact that “Man” is never more alive than when he is at war. Is that why we always fall to war?
I will not get into the psychology and sociological aspects of such a thought, but it is true and while terrible, nothing brings the best and worst of Humankind out, like war…
Everything else we do is boring, mundane and in that triggers war, eventually…
War is part of circling the drain of life. Without war? I suspect that we would just go with the waste water and have to see what is on the other side of the drain?
Maybe war is the way we drag ourselves from the whirlpool of the cesspit?
Humans are very hung up on being better than animals and yet, we are just that, animals. Maybe that is what we have to overcome? That fact that we are animals with a higher brain function and we should be able to put two and two together and know it is four. Except, 2 + 2 = WAR…time and time again!
Don’t ask me why everything in the animal world is fighting. Two male Elk go at it for who is the toughest and gets the girl(s)? – Who leads? The rooster will kill all males born at some point. Humans play American Football to get to the Super Bowl! Two countries fight over a few kilometers of border? They attack each other like they own the land? Just like ants and one colony stumbles upon another, it is war dude!
We are just animals!
I could try to tell you that we humans are so superior? But, that would be a lie. Us humans are just smart enough to screw the world up…
We own nothing, anymore than the whale swimming in the ocean. We own nothing anymore than the ants in an anthill. The world belongs to all living creatures upon the planet earth…
We only have what we possess as an animal. The need to mate, build a nest and war. War is what we accomplish everything with…
I watch the little birds in the yard. Pair up, nest, lay eggs, feed protect babies and once babies are flying?, start over. My birdbrain that I talk about, a Wagtails, has had five little ones, now she is feeding the second batch of five more. That is ten babies this summer so far. I call that a very successful mommy bird…
Papa birdbrain? He protects. I have seen him attack Fatcat and papa is fearless. The birdbrains fight little battles everyday. Just to mate, nest and have babies…
Exactly the same as a birdbrain, all we humans have to do and embrace. Life is that simple actually…
Humans seem to ignore that our lives are naught but a battle. We live under little battles everyday. We use tools to get the upperhand over our foes. If we fail to follow the rules of being an animal? Such as mating, nesting and protecting? We will fail to survive. Then we have war to put everything in semi-order…
Humans are and should be able to embrace the circle of life. Even a whirlpool type existence. But something is missing within the human genetics and it causes a huge misbalance of mental stability…
Technology is just another tool. The same as handing a stick to each of two people and telling them to kill each other…
May the best stick win…
WtR