When I was growing up, the world was mostly at war.
For most humans in most times, this has been the case. The world was mostly at war, always.
We had a few years of global peace and the opportunity to do something with it. We didn’t.
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I saw a woman on television with a pained look on her face saying, “Do you think we’ll ever manage to stop this and make the world a better place?”
The answer is no.
It is obviously no. You can’t undo millennia of evolution in a couple of generations with some chat. We are who we are. We make war.
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The same answer applies to virtually every political issue today.
This is why tradition exists and “progress” is always stillborn. Tradition is a set of techniques for human living, accounting for who we are.
Progress is a set of techniques for some other species that some humans like better, but that doesn’t actually exist, to live.
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Everybody seems to love either Israel or Palestine and to hate the other.
Nobody is saying what ought to be obvious: these are two societies representing the worst of our natures, and they don’t just deserve each other, they mutually sustain each other and in fact are in a kind of love with each other.
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We have a smiliar thing structurally going on with political bases in the US. The majority of Americans hate these people but for the moment we continue to serve them in restaurants and not throw rocks at them on the street.
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A man on the news talking about the Gaza events and the music festival that was overrun said, “These people were just here painting pictures, they were just expressing themselves.”
“Expressing themselves.” That phrase is on the national news in war coverage.
People are stupid and our values are asinine.
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Life is shorter than you think it is, no matter how short you think it is, especially if you’re human.