I would love to give peace a chance if I didn’t think most people would have to die to achieve any semblance of it.
For all of our toys, technology and triumphs we are still animals. Humans have a strange need to separate themselves from each other in ways other animals don’t. Perhaps the very fact we relate to each other in far more dimensions of thought than animals typically need to, means it is impossible for us to ever achieve true peace.
I honestly have given up on seeing any kind of peaceful world. I don’t think it will ever happen.
Some of us have a fierce drive to be individuals, but still feel lonely. I actually try to find ways to feel unique, while still trying to find ways to fit in.
While people like me that are actually fine with long periods of being alone are exceptions, most humans are still very much pack animals. Humans form into cliques. They find a leader, and follow that leader to whatever end they might lead them to.
All fads, political and religious affiliations, high school through formal wear groups, sports team or fighter-skater, whoever you route for, it’s all just ways we form ourselves into packs.
So what does it really mean?
We all have some need to feel unique. Yet most seek whatever ways to fit into at least one clique as we can, the need to belong to a pack. There is a need to find common ground with others, yet only to an extent, since once a person finds their pack, they tend to start focusing on ways others are different from that pack.
Where does this strange two-faced social hydra in our heads leave us?
I honestly don’t know.
Is peace possible?
I don’t know that either, but I will continue to hope for peace. Probably with a hand on a weapon and an eye on everyone, because as peaceful as I would like to be, I don’t trust anyone else to be anymore so than I.
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