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Een kleine inleiding lijkt mij belangrijk voor dit stukje. Het is volledig geschreven in het Engels omdat ik inspiratie had terwijl ik het schreef voor mijn weblog, welke volledig in het Engels is. Ook klopt de titel niet meer volledig met het verhaal, het begon als een stuk tekst over dat oorlog tegenwoordig geen oorlog meer is, maar gewoon entertainment voor de mensen hier in het westen. De enige oorlogen die wij echt kennen zijn de oorlog tegen terorrisme, en de oorlog zoals die nu in Irak wordt gevochten. En elke avond zitten wij weer voor de buis om het 8 uur journaal te kijken, en elke avond weer verzuchten wij hoe gruweldadig zo'n oorlog wel niet is.
Uiteindelijk werd het meer een stuk tekst waarin ik heb geprobeerd mijn visie op oorlog weer te geven. Ik weet niet of de juiste plaats ervoor is, maar ik denk van wel. En ik hoop dat het mensen toch wel iets aan het denken zet
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War = entertainment
War is entertainment. Of course not to the people caught in the terrible acts that happen during a war. But for people at home, far away from where the war is being fought, it is. Those people sit in their favorite chair, or on their favorite couch, eating chips, popcorn or something else as a snack. And they look at how the TV screens shows the horrors of war.
For years I have been taught that fighting is bad, that war is even worse. And I can imagine that people all over the world have taught their children that fighting is bad, and war is worse. But why are there still wars then, why are there still people who need physical force to show that they are the better person when there is no real need for it.
To find an answer for this we need first need to find an answer to why people see a need for war, a need for aggresion and force. And we need to find out why people see solutions in aggresion and force before trying to find a solution in diplomacy and mutual understanding. What is it in our humanity that makes us lash out blindly before we try to find a peaceful solution?
To me part of the answer lies in the beginning of human society, in the days when the Homo Sapiens started out to explore and claim lands for themselves. I am talking about our prehistory, about the roots of our humanity. In those days the only thing that really counted was survival. Survival of the fittest, and to stay the most fit, you had to have the most food. To get food people gathered nuts, fruits and other stuff that could be gathered. Besides the gathering we also hunted for meat. This hunting happened with weapons. First only stones and ocassional a club, eventually these developed into better clubs, spears and eventually bow and arrow.
Using these weapons, these tools to catch more meat, made the people stronger. Since they had more to eat, they became more fit, so they survived the best. From these times I think our agressiveness comes. Because to catch the most meat you needed to be the most aggresive and strong person you could be. Now, in those days living and hunting space wasn't an issue. Tribes lived far apart, and the tribes were trekking around anyway to gather as much food as possible. And to give nature time to restore itself.
After living like this for a long time, the weapons and tools of the people started slowly to become better. And the number of tribes started to grow as well. Because of this growing in became more and more inevitable that tribes would meet. And since the living space, and hunting spots where limited, meetings like this would not always work at peacefully. Survival of the fittest was still the only way these people knew. So, to become and stay the most fit you needed to make sure your claim on any hunting spot needed to be suppreme.
From these humble beginnings we eventually grew to be the people we are these days. And in fact, nothing much has changed in all these thousands of years since the first hunter gatherer tribe. The only thing that really has changed our outlook on survival has to do with how crowded the earth is these days compared to when we just started looking around. We have found ways to feed more people then they could have feeded people with just hunting and gathering. But in essence we have stayed the same all the way to here.
Now, to explain why we still have wars like in Iraq I don't have to look very far for an explanation. And I can even give an example of it which happened that long ago. I am talking about what we call the second world war, according to the history books the war itself started about 60 years ago. But part of why it started can be found even sooner, as soon as the end of what we call the first world war. And even that war has a beginning from way before the war really started.
The reason Hitler started the war was because he wanted the German people to be the greatest people, the greatest tribe, of the world. In this wanting of his he wasn't really alone. Every other person, of every other people, of every other tribe, wants their tribe to be the greatest. The only fault that Hitler actually had was that he thought that conquering the world and killing all non aryan people was the way to do it.
But, killing everyone not of your race, so that you can surplant all those people with people from your own tribe only makes enemies out of everyone else. And since one tribe against many aren't favorable odds the only thing certain was that eventually he would lose. And lose he did, because all the other people of the world didn't want to be ruled by one tribe. Deep inside they knew that they were the one tribe meant to rule all.
So, the reason that Hitler was defeated wasn't because all the other countries, races, tribes didn't want the Aryan's to rule. But because it was them that they saw as the ultimate rules of all mankind.
This brings me to the point I have been trying to make for some time now. War and aggression is given in humankind because of the inate wants to become the ultimate tribe. War is something that happens between two groups of people who both have a different view of the world, and therefore of the truth. The only reason they wage war on each other is that slight difference of perception. And they are taking the easy way out. They don't try to understand the viewpoint of the other, no they try to force their view on the other.
What they don't seem to grasp is that forcing your own will on someone else is a sure way of losing. I have seen it happening with the USA forces attacking Iraq. I am seeing it now with militant groups in Iraq trying to get the USA forces to leave. They are both acting from a different view, and they both see themselves as being absolutely right since they have their own laws behind them.
What they can't seem to understand is that both points of view aren't completely alien to each other. If the USA tried to understand what the Iraqy people think they would understand them. And if the Iraqy people tried to understand what the USA was thinking, they would understand it as well.
It isn't worth the effort to try and force your point of view on another, because working from the point of understanding takes a lot less effort. The only reason this takes seemingly more effort then waging war is because we are only now to understand the pointlessness of war. And only now are people trying to understand other people better, and to coöperate to get things done.
In short, only now are we understanding that we can become a better people by helping other people instead of denying them that which you have.
Uiteindelijk werd het meer een stuk tekst waarin ik heb geprobeerd mijn visie op oorlog weer te geven. Ik weet niet of de juiste plaats ervoor is, maar ik denk van wel. En ik hoop dat het mensen toch wel iets aan het denken zet
.War = entertainment
War is entertainment. Of course not to the people caught in the terrible acts that happen during a war. But for people at home, far away from where the war is being fought, it is. Those people sit in their favorite chair, or on their favorite couch, eating chips, popcorn or something else as a snack. And they look at how the TV screens shows the horrors of war.
For years I have been taught that fighting is bad, that war is even worse. And I can imagine that people all over the world have taught their children that fighting is bad, and war is worse. But why are there still wars then, why are there still people who need physical force to show that they are the better person when there is no real need for it.
To find an answer for this we need first need to find an answer to why people see a need for war, a need for aggresion and force. And we need to find out why people see solutions in aggresion and force before trying to find a solution in diplomacy and mutual understanding. What is it in our humanity that makes us lash out blindly before we try to find a peaceful solution?
To me part of the answer lies in the beginning of human society, in the days when the Homo Sapiens started out to explore and claim lands for themselves. I am talking about our prehistory, about the roots of our humanity. In those days the only thing that really counted was survival. Survival of the fittest, and to stay the most fit, you had to have the most food. To get food people gathered nuts, fruits and other stuff that could be gathered. Besides the gathering we also hunted for meat. This hunting happened with weapons. First only stones and ocassional a club, eventually these developed into better clubs, spears and eventually bow and arrow.
Using these weapons, these tools to catch more meat, made the people stronger. Since they had more to eat, they became more fit, so they survived the best. From these times I think our agressiveness comes. Because to catch the most meat you needed to be the most aggresive and strong person you could be. Now, in those days living and hunting space wasn't an issue. Tribes lived far apart, and the tribes were trekking around anyway to gather as much food as possible. And to give nature time to restore itself.
After living like this for a long time, the weapons and tools of the people started slowly to become better. And the number of tribes started to grow as well. Because of this growing in became more and more inevitable that tribes would meet. And since the living space, and hunting spots where limited, meetings like this would not always work at peacefully. Survival of the fittest was still the only way these people knew. So, to become and stay the most fit you needed to make sure your claim on any hunting spot needed to be suppreme.
From these humble beginnings we eventually grew to be the people we are these days. And in fact, nothing much has changed in all these thousands of years since the first hunter gatherer tribe. The only thing that really has changed our outlook on survival has to do with how crowded the earth is these days compared to when we just started looking around. We have found ways to feed more people then they could have feeded people with just hunting and gathering. But in essence we have stayed the same all the way to here.
Now, to explain why we still have wars like in Iraq I don't have to look very far for an explanation. And I can even give an example of it which happened that long ago. I am talking about what we call the second world war, according to the history books the war itself started about 60 years ago. But part of why it started can be found even sooner, as soon as the end of what we call the first world war. And even that war has a beginning from way before the war really started.
The reason Hitler started the war was because he wanted the German people to be the greatest people, the greatest tribe, of the world. In this wanting of his he wasn't really alone. Every other person, of every other people, of every other tribe, wants their tribe to be the greatest. The only fault that Hitler actually had was that he thought that conquering the world and killing all non aryan people was the way to do it.
But, killing everyone not of your race, so that you can surplant all those people with people from your own tribe only makes enemies out of everyone else. And since one tribe against many aren't favorable odds the only thing certain was that eventually he would lose. And lose he did, because all the other people of the world didn't want to be ruled by one tribe. Deep inside they knew that they were the one tribe meant to rule all.
So, the reason that Hitler was defeated wasn't because all the other countries, races, tribes didn't want the Aryan's to rule. But because it was them that they saw as the ultimate rules of all mankind.
This brings me to the point I have been trying to make for some time now. War and aggression is given in humankind because of the inate wants to become the ultimate tribe. War is something that happens between two groups of people who both have a different view of the world, and therefore of the truth. The only reason they wage war on each other is that slight difference of perception. And they are taking the easy way out. They don't try to understand the viewpoint of the other, no they try to force their view on the other.
What they don't seem to grasp is that forcing your own will on someone else is a sure way of losing. I have seen it happening with the USA forces attacking Iraq. I am seeing it now with militant groups in Iraq trying to get the USA forces to leave. They are both acting from a different view, and they both see themselves as being absolutely right since they have their own laws behind them.
What they can't seem to understand is that both points of view aren't completely alien to each other. If the USA tried to understand what the Iraqy people think they would understand them. And if the Iraqy people tried to understand what the USA was thinking, they would understand it as well.
It isn't worth the effort to try and force your point of view on another, because working from the point of understanding takes a lot less effort. The only reason this takes seemingly more effort then waging war is because we are only now to understand the pointlessness of war. And only now are people trying to understand other people better, and to coöperate to get things done.
In short, only now are we understanding that we can become a better people by helping other people instead of denying them that which you have.
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Net als dat ik voortaan oplet als ik iets ctrl+c, ctrl+v naar m'n sig 
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Oftewel, de economie klimt op, iedereen denk, he het gaat beter/ ik hou meer geld over, en stemmen repulikeins en de zaak keldert weer als een baksteen :strip_icc():strip_exif()/u/85344/tweak3.jpg?f=community)
