Many good people do admirable work spreading vital information from their nests on internet platforms. These investigators, information spreaders, truth tellers and grass-root philosophers perform a vital service. But we are at war and no single vital service can achieve victory.
We are at war. WAR.
The Palestinians being slaughtered are members of our family. The Ukraines being killed, damaged and displaced on the battlefield between the Americans and the Russians are members of our family. We are Homo sapiens, a single species 99.7% genetically identical. 99.7% differs insignificantly from the percentage of difference between siblings. Our family, our species, is at war, an international, viciously uncivilised, civil war. The extermination of our species, our family, is one of the possible outcomes.
”You can’t shoot down a drone with a keyboard.” Dartwill Aquila
War is the ultimate conflict encompassing politics, economy, culture, logistics, information and more. War involves all aspects of society, and the present ”ultimate conflict” affects all the components of the global village. A single soldier, for example, must be recruited, housed, clothed, fed, supplied, and trained. This fighter must then be assigned, transported, deployed, and lodged in a prepared position to be commanded into engagement. Actual fighting time, if any, amounts to a small percentage of the soldier’s time. And that’s just a single person in one aspect of the total conflict. Yes, it’s the most violent and deadly aspect of the war—the military dimension—but still only one component of an enormous and complicated enterprise.
Today’s war can be seen as the continuation of history’s most common trend, a pattern of fluctuating violence and destruction inherent in the rise and fall of empires. Our family has been suffering and dying under this trend for at least 10 000 years. Fuelled and driven by one basic cause, evil love.
Love is the word we use to describe the primary force of life, the force of attraction and unity.
”Atoms attract each other and unite into molecules, which attract and unite with each other to eventually form cells, which attract and unite with each other to form organisms, which eventually evolve to form humans, living monuments of united cells, magnificent ”cellebrities”. (From the previous post Sympathy for Devil’s Victims-3)
The rise and fall of empires illustrates the love of things; whether property, possessions or money, as opposed to the love of people. Things or People? That’s the question. We are ruled by those locked into a money-oriented way of life. People, the subjects of life, the truth of life, are delegated to a subordinate position.
”The love of money is the root of all evil.” (1 Timothy 6:10) Note that it is the ”love” of money and not money itself that is ”evil love”. Variations of this quote can be found in almost all cultures.
The war today, the ”international, viciously uncivilised, civil war” can be described as a war between the evil lovers, those who love inanimate objects more than people; more than life, and those who love people and life above anything else.
It’s a long and difficult war we have before us. Our survival as a species is at risk. But there are many more people lovers than there are possession lovers. And only one side has life on their side.