Looking at this photo, you see the minds of men and women. Unfortunately, across human history, battles and conquests – and losses, have defined the formation of nations. From when the British went across the world invading peaceful communities, colonizing them, to what we’re experiencing in Ukraine, the biggest failure of “history” is documenting human tragedies as triumphs.
Yes, we write of kingdoms, caliphates, empires, etc without making it clear that 100% of them came through wickedness and pains on humans. Sure, we never feel that way because we just read them on the pages of books, decades the theaters of wars have closed their gates.
Just see how everything is unfolding with families messed up. Why do people go to wars? Why has it become hard to find peaceful solutions to these problems? Ukraine is reshaping the consciousness of the world because it is the first major social media war in Europe. But war is a constant in our world: Yemen seems forgotten. Tigray (Ethiopia) seems forgotten. You can add more.
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The greatest failure of humanity is that we are yet to discover how to live peacefully!
(photo: anti-tank missiles)
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Comment 1: A common trait we share with many other creatures, violence.
The human ego is incomprehensible, and often times irrational in its operations.
Regardless. It’s complicated if you ask me. For instance it’s difficult to say if the Renaissance would have come if the Roman Empire did not fall to the Babarians leading to the dark ages. May be we will still be living in the bronze Age . If Alexander had not looked east in his conquest maybe Greek philosophy and science may not have spread to the rest of the world as much as it did with his wars. We know western civilization has got it’s roots buried in time changing events and wars .
Who knows it could be a necessary part of our progression or evolution towards modernity which is always somewhere in the horizon.
Comment 2: War and Peace are two-sided coin….I spent major part of my adult life in combat and truthfully, I have wrestled with the idea of peace and war and the same question ruminates in my mind daily can you achieve one without the other? Often times what we consider peaceful is sometimes an illusion because of imbed war and conflicts in the midst. The appearance of peace doesn’t mean absence of war. From the creation of man (Depending on the faith one subscribes to) till date, advancement of human is enhanced with war.
Comment 3: Human equality is an illusion, it doesn’t have basis in reality. Both treating equals as unequals and treating unequals as equals are injustice, but in our framings, we do not recognise this reality, thereby bringing disequilibrium to natural order of things.
Again, the concept of equity is an aberration, it neither recognises superiority nor inferiority, but sort of ‘level’ everyone up, a distortion to natural order of things.
To entertain the idea of peaceful coexistence of all peoples, justice is a prerequisite, unfortunately, the concept of justice is also distorted, because humans corrupted it, just to satisfy special interests.
Those who work harder and are stronger will naturally possess more resources, but when you do not allow them to possess that, they feel threatened, with that – the natural order of things has been distorted.
Only few rights are natural, but throughout human evolution, we have expanded what come under the basket of rights, partly because we felt that some people were at a disadvantage, and by doing so, we also distort the natural order of things.
All humans are not equal, because privileges vary, some were endowed with various excellence of body and soul, yet we claim that we are all equal…
Someone response to Comment 3: Interesting viewpoint [ ]. I was having similar conversation with a close friend this weekend on illusion of equity and equality in humanity and how we have been disingenuous to ourselves on some of the concepts we have believe in overtime. I always enjoy your open mindedness and deep thoughts on these life constructs. But holding that notion, how will you accept as a man that you are not equal to another man? But we have to believe that we are all equal,,, if not, oppression will not seized.
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