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Napoleon |
(Concluded from Part 1, yesterday.)
What is it that human beings are doing that creates endless wars?
I’ve addressed the question before, but I tell myself that any new discussion, from any new angle, may prove the penny that drops.
So let me try a different cut here and say that, in my view, our values precondition us to war and our attitudes make them unavoidable.
What so many of our leaders until now have valued, in my view, has been money, sex, and power.
To see that they got them, they adopted the belief that might makes right. Our wars have been a grab for another country’s wealth or an expansion of one’s own power or territory.
It doesn’t matter that any misguided dictator, king, or emperor has fallen. Always a replacement can be found to try again. New despots never seem in short supply.
Generation after generation have come to the end of their lives realizing that wealth, sex, and power don’t bring them happiness yet we still keep striving after them.
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Hitler |
Meanwhile, now that the cabal controls the press, the mass of the population receives a slanted and laundered version of current events and history.
We’re not told the true history of why wars have been started, what activities they hide, etc. We’re herded from one mass shooting to the next downing of an airliner to stoke our fear.
In the modern day, it isn’t “terrorists” who do it. It’s our very own governments. “State terrorism” it’s coming to be known as.
As this is happening, we don’t seem to take actions that would relieve the causes of war – such as a redistribution of wealth, the valuing of cooperation, and the taking care of people, especially the disadvantaged.
Only the fact that the clock is running out on this cycle is causing us to leave this vale of tears. It isn’t our handling of events.
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