Humans in Conflict
Much of my life has been spent wondering about humans and how they can believe and do some of the things they do. Our species seems to be at least partially blind and easily led. We allow others to pour some awful ideas into our heads. What is it about us or about the message we are given to digest that makes us suspend our common sense for the moment to take it all in?
I think some of our problems started with the invention of the term, “conspiracy theory,” by the CIA back in the ’60s. Since then anyone saying anything that goes against the mainstream media reporting gets labeled a conspiracy theorist and is just as easily dismissed. This is despite the fact that it is well known that the media is owned by only six corporations that are controlled by a handful of rich people. But the theories add up, one after another, and after a bit of time, some are declared to be true but none of this seems to sink into American’s consciousness. The fact that we were lied to a few months or years ago doesn’t seem to taint the information we are receiving in the present one bit even though it is coming from the same source and we know that source is prone to distributing false information.
Maybe it has something to do with the competition of life itself. Everything that lives has to eat and most of what is eaten is other life. The competition is to eat without being eaten. I think any idea as to what we as humans eat is irrelevant, though some people seem to be waiting for that time when our food is formulated instead of grown thinking that this might be some turning point in human evolution. I once met a man named Raven who had taken a vow of silence and did not want to kill anything to keep himself alive so he also swore off of meat and plants. No, he wasn’t an airatarian! That’s a subject for another discussion. But he did eat only seeds. He seemed oblivious to the fact that those seeds were also alive. His take was that not eating living beings made him more peaceful and a better human being. He could be right. It could be that the overall direction of life to eat other life to live has something to do with the problems between people today.
According to some recent finds that have been dated, this conflict might have been going on for some time. Even though we like to believe we are the first and only, a hammer has been found that has a wooden handle that is petrified. That means the hammer is a couple of million years old. They have also found human footprints from several hundred thousand to several millions of years ago. Some of these are, of course, contested, but it seems that civilization has risen several times and fallen just as many times. It isn’t looking good for this time either.
It is quite clear that if we are to survive as a species, we must have some tolerance and respect for differences in humanity, something our species surely doesn’t have these days, but a distinct necessity if we want to survive.