Life passes from one person to another in more means than just sex and
All truth matches experience. If beings could perceive the Universe
differently, they would have different experiences and different notions
about truth and how it operates. It is not that our views would be inadequate
or even wrong, just not applicable. This does not mean our views are perfect
either, even in our limited contexts. There are countless things we purposely
leave out of our thinking and reasonings to build up what we wish to do.
We can see further, but only when
People look without seeing what seeing is. People think without knowing
what thinking is. Without an outside perspective upon perspective, people
are as programmed as birds migration, fish to where they must spawn, whales
to where they hope to go to die.
People are controlled most directly and without their knowledge by what
ideas they are exposed to, by how they are presented to them as to their
"correct" interpretations for them, and what they ought to aspire to do
or to become. Nations have been given control over all these, free to brainwash
all within their borders as they see fit, and hypocritically criticize
others for doing the same. Most people, especially poorer and less educated
but not solely, eat up propaganda and love it while at the same time are
brainwashed enough to think they have no taste for it or it does not exist.
Tell me who to hate this week, give me a clue what's right to think so
I can find and bash anyone who says differently.
Countries or people of ethnic or religious groups who hate those of
another, and if they admit it to themselves, would not mind waking up tomorrow
to find all of their enemies had magically disappeared or dead, must be
made to realize such feelings (hatred) are worse than any human beings
could ever be. By believing those feelings in the other group, are stronger
or more common than in people in your group towards them can be thought
to justify such feelings or even acting upon them, they will find they
are breeding that which they tell themselves what they despise. No matter
which side wins, that feeling of hate will always control them until everyone
else is dead or they understand it and come to grips with its power to
eat away at themselves, and each other is merely an excuse to let it keep
doing so.
Peace is hope and hope is the child of life. War is despair and despair
is borne of hopelessness. Despair serves no master and knows no chains.
It consumes all before it is satisfied. Hope is all that can defeat it.
Killing hope, whether yours or someone else's, is inevitably the same thing.
Self-destruction.
The most ideal forms of government are not defined by what they are
at any given point but by their willingness to completely rethink themselves
and, if necessary change accordingly, even to something else entirely but
keeping and advancing the means to communicate on new changes and preserve
that adaptability. Like everything else, its value is in the search, not
the actuality. All forms of government will always be flawed, incomplete,
unfair to many, and ultimately are provisional upon sets of circumstances
always in flux. To keep all variables to change itself, or even most, under
control or accounted for to preserve any present form, it ultimately is
totalitarian, however benevolent its face may seem. If change and adaptation
of structures are necessary, the ability to rethink things, even everything,
is like a release valve for discontent which leads to extremism and even
ultimately to terrorism. As long as the means to achieve autonomy are structural
and real and realizable within ones lifetime, and one has faith in that
chance for positive change being more likely than what can be achieved
through violence, peaceful change will always more often be preferred eventually
when passions have time to cool.
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