A state of war, is perpetual. War can perhaps be ultimately traced to the natural human tendency to compete and thereafter, a strong urge to win - eliminate the other to gain control, to emerge victorious to be able to win accolades and more , to become what the society has come to regard as the Hero. Power to those who fight for it. Power to those who kill for it.
Competition is engrained in our every atom of existence, taught to us at every crossroads where the sense of self goes astray and so we've come to view it as one of our many 'natural' instincts. We have come to accept it as a way of life. You ask people what they live for and they don't hesitate in accepting that their life's biggest achievements probably revolve around achieving more than most they know.
War, however, can be seen to have no advantages to the majority of the population that inhabit countries across the globe. There is loss of life, there is wastage or resources, the repercussions are hazardous and in spite of all this, the result is never definite.
However, in all its ugliness, ruthlessness, apparent irrationalness war is a healthy essential for development and progress. Most importantly and sufficiently paradoxically, war in a lot of ways is a means to progress and development. because what war essentially does is contest the existing power. It challenges the norm, it destabilises the prevalent dynamics of power. The lives taken, the resources exploited, the money eshausted - these are all instruments that we, as a race, must employ for the benefit of the larger populus, in order to safeguard the .
War is bad for what it does to its soldiers, but it would be outright hypocrisy to not attribute the safety with which we sleep at night to the the entire exercise of war. The positivity of war is certainly difficult to foregrounded as war is occurring, because the loss of human lives, the destruction to the settlements are difficult to ignore and the sudden advocacy of a notion supporting such a deed seems disgustingly utilitarian and the immediate human response would be to refute this school of thought as a whole.
However, if One reallly puts their mind to it, it is easy to see that this is wha the Human Race has been soing over the years. WE condemn war, because of all its grotesque consequences on face value , but have we been able to eliminate it? Have we has any alternate solution? Why does Peace remain an idyllic term? Why is it that NOT ONE person , all through the ages, through the modern times , not a single person of extraordinary intellectual strength, extreme political awareness, absolute social awareness has been able to provide a feasible solution to this armed, organised fighting?
Because we need to fight to figure out who wins. Our means may be flawed, but this is our best bet.
War answers a lot of questions. ANd most importantly, war is the manifestation of the friction that exists between us humans. The friction whose existence we can not deny. The friction leads to creation - creation of new ideas , new ideals and the parallel retardation of old ones.
Competition is engrained in our every atom of existence, taught to us at every crossroads where the sense of self goes astray and so we've come to view it as one of our many 'natural' instincts. We have come to accept it as a way of life. You ask people what they live for and they don't hesitate in accepting that their life's biggest achievements probably revolve around achieving more than most they know.
War, however, can be seen to have no advantages to the majority of the population that inhabit countries across the globe. There is loss of life, there is wastage or resources, the repercussions are hazardous and in spite of all this, the result is never definite.
However, in all its ugliness, ruthlessness, apparent irrationalness war is a healthy essential for development and progress. Most importantly and sufficiently paradoxically, war in a lot of ways is a means to progress and development. because what war essentially does is contest the existing power. It challenges the norm, it destabilises the prevalent dynamics of power. The lives taken, the resources exploited, the money eshausted - these are all instruments that we, as a race, must employ for the benefit of the larger populus, in order to safeguard the .
War is bad for what it does to its soldiers, but it would be outright hypocrisy to not attribute the safety with which we sleep at night to the the entire exercise of war. The positivity of war is certainly difficult to foregrounded as war is occurring, because the loss of human lives, the destruction to the settlements are difficult to ignore and the sudden advocacy of a notion supporting such a deed seems disgustingly utilitarian and the immediate human response would be to refute this school of thought as a whole.
However, if One reallly puts their mind to it, it is easy to see that this is wha the Human Race has been soing over the years. WE condemn war, because of all its grotesque consequences on face value , but have we been able to eliminate it? Have we has any alternate solution? Why does Peace remain an idyllic term? Why is it that NOT ONE person , all through the ages, through the modern times , not a single person of extraordinary intellectual strength, extreme political awareness, absolute social awareness has been able to provide a feasible solution to this armed, organised fighting?
Because we need to fight to figure out who wins. Our means may be flawed, but this is our best bet.
War answers a lot of questions. ANd most importantly, war is the manifestation of the friction that exists between us humans. The friction whose existence we can not deny. The friction leads to creation - creation of new ideas , new ideals and the parallel retardation of old ones.
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