It’s Time to Talk about War
About ten years ago, I happened across a report that stated the world was the most peaceful it had ever been. As a lifelong pacifist, I was overjoyed to see that humans were on a trajectory to choose peace and collaboration.
Then, the pandemic arrived. A global lockdown, in which everyone had no choice but to face the inevitable: our mortality. Throughout recorded human history, after any pandemic, there has always been a dark age followed later by a golden renaissance — can we please skip ahead to that part? We are witnessing unprocessed fear erupting in violent clashes across our planet; everyone looking for someone to blame.
What are humans fighting about?
- Territory disputes (who deserves to live on what land)
- Resources (who has control over water, energy, valuable minerals and elements)
- Religious ideologies (whose dogma is the ‘truth’ and whose god(s) are the most powerful)
- Political/economic ideologies (capitalism, socialism, communism)
- Belief in supremacy (my group is superior and yours is subhuman or shouldn’t exist at all).
According to Wikipedia, over 200,000 people have been killed in the conflict in Myanmar, in the Ukraine-Russia conflict over 220,000 people were killed and in Sudan over 13,000…
