Thoughts About Why We Don't Stop Warring

Here are some thoughts which occur to me as I speculate about why certain problems persist, with particular emphasis on military conflicts, tribal killings, gang killings and just plain mean killings all over the planet.



Human beings are incapable of learning from history and are condemned to repeat it. There are at least reasons for this. One is that we don't live long enough want to and another is that we are not capable of it.

Homo Sapien, Sapien, our species, evolved from other species, over millions of years during which our ancestors survived or were killed by other species, the predator and the prey "balance" of Nature. None of us gets out of this life alive, but if we survive long enough to procreate, our species is better equipped to survive, though we as individuals will not and cannot survive.

Human beings in positions of power, however they got to those positions ( honest democratic elections, rigged "democratic elections, fiat, coups, primo geniture) and regardless of the title they hold(President, King, Dear Leader, Prime Minister) and regardless of the claims and promises they made to those over whom they would exercise power, are all Charlatons, or they didn't know what was really going on until they came to positions of nominal power, but found that they are beholden to another power, the power of Money.

Why did Obama , as president, increase the budget for the Pentagon? Why did he order his own surge in Afghanistan? Why did he tell us that his plan to get out of Iraq is pretty much in line with the agreement between the US and Iraq under the Bush administration?

You and I could go on citing examples of stuff that doesn't really add up morally, and seems to stink the more one pays attention.

The troubling conclusion is that old saw, "If you don't understand something, follow the money".

Human beings, like our ancestors in Nature, actually, even if we don't like to admit it, have inherited, via the process of Nature(our hoped for label to assign a benign connotation to the reality that the survival of the fittest is a law of Nature that cannot be repealed.

Personally, I'm embarrassed to be known as one of my species, admitting that I can be as nasty and aggressive as any.

Leanderthal, Lighthouse Keeper