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We want Peace but we are Conflict! By Filipe My response to that headline is: ja right!

First, its not in our nature and secondly, it is not in our nature: Humans are competitive and territorial and highly sensitive to perceived slurs, allegations and personal beliefs. And therein lays the rub of it. How can we interact peacefully when our differences are causing havoc; even the so-called pacifists among us are not averse to the use of violence if it serves a purpose!? Whenever two or more people get-together to interact, politics enters the fray; it is something for which we as humans cannot help ourselves. We will either try to dominate the proceedings, or make jokes or play the statesman to try and elicit favour from those around us by clever manipulation of the gathering. The interactive permutations are too numerous to mention. Further to the above, we have a self-indulgent belief that because we see a certain situation to be just so, that others also see the same situation in exactly the same way as we do. The seemingly gracious pursuit of religion has also not managed to put a spoke in the destructive nature of the human psyche. In between Taoism, Hinduism, Islamism, Buddhism, 7th Day Adventism, Protestantism, Catholicism, Jehovahs Witnesses, Judaism, Hare Krishna, Atheism, Rastafarianism, Deism, Secularism, Gnosticism, and Paganism to mention a few, there are the run-away cults, the liberal sects, the conservative religious groups, TV Evangelism, and Satanism amongst others, who, like their big brothers, are all also claiming to having the key to life, the universe and everything else. Then there are the rationalised personal belief structures (that may also meld with political notions.) Beliefs such as liberalism, save-the-world, altruism, radicalism, socialism, racism, nationalism, utopianism, anarchism, feminism, pacifism, global-warming activism, vegetarianism, etc, all serve but one purpose: to give our personal existence a form of meaning and substance. And not forgetting the vast array of political view-points. Viewpoints that we will defend unto death; for seldom will we change our minds just because someone has shown-up our political belief structures to be what they are: gumph, glut and monologous noise. Take Democracy as a political ideal that was kind-of developed to try and bridge the gap between all of our belief structures and reality by employing compromise as the gateway to harmonious human relationships: a likely feature that calls for us to debate our differences, then to work out a workable win-win situation that pacifies all of our wants-and-needs. Unfortunately, human compromise does nothing for the underlying festering resentment that comes with such noble actions. The term democracy is not a simple one at that either. There is democracy with left leanings; there is democracy with right leanings, there is left democracy with positive attributes and vice versa; there is constitutional democracy; there is traditional democracy with representative ethos; there is secular democracy; there is pseudo-democracy; and so on. Of course, like all of the preceding belief structures, democracy also has its fringe and opposing creeds e.g. autocracy, monocracy, despotism, communism, etc.

Likewise for the political construct re: human rights, that in essence suffers from the same malady as the abovementioned political models i.e. seemingly just and noble on the surface but litigious and destructive and mostly self-serving deep down. And then there are the vast financial ideologies and theories that drive our lives in one way or another. Although the major financial force is capitalism, the variations to that precept are just as numerous and varied as those of religion and secular philosophies. Capitalism has also spawned various runaway financial models that in some way have been adopted by fringe political groups, monarchies, principalities and totalitarian states. What about the differing sexual proclivities, mental ailments, psycho-disorders, socio-maladies, castes, etc? Neil Gaiman said it all when he wrote: It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people. Knowledge, education, upbringing, culture, ego, acumen, new-age nymphomania, financial status, idealist perceptions, rationalized insights and empathy all contribute to the growing problem that is the human animal. And at 7 Billion of us with the growth prospects of 9 Billion souls by the year 2025 (est.), the challenges and dissention facing us will only escalate. Then again, nothing a good solar-flare could not fix in a flash! Ends 10/04/2012

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