Is war just part of who we are

Can infinite resources solve war?

In a way of thinking:

• War movies are entertaining (related idea: sex sells)
• Without war there will be no war movies
• Hence there will be war

So without war, we may invent artificial scarcity to create war.

If that is the case

• We love it when good triumphs over bad
• So we will create bad from good, just so we can defeat it
• The capitalists love to create this illusion to sell and profit
• Then the capitalist becomes the sustainer of the world
• They do it so they can profit selfishly while misleading others
• Is ego the reason for our existence?

• All because we are driven to feed our egoistic desires?

• Peace is achieved when there are no vices

• But without vices, will existence be meaningless?

The critical question

• It was said by Andrew Collier that

"to look at people in capitalist society and conclude that human nature is egoism, is like looking at people in a factory where pollution is destroying their lungs and saying that it is human nature to cough."

• However, my question is whether we love the pollution
• That is, given enough peace, will we get tired of it and choose war?

A more meaningful way of thinking

• Maybe it's just the nature of life, a desire to break equilibrium.
• As Erwin Schrodinger put it:

Living things avoid decay into disorder and equilibrium

• Maybe humans just always need to be changing
• The easiest change that can be made in a world with physics is a destructive change
• When things are bad, they strive to reach the equilibrium
• When things are good, they strive to change the equilibrium
• But since it is to satisfy life, they choose not to destroy themselves
• In which case they choose to destroy others

If we understand how others are part of our own existence, we will able to exit this behaviour

A helpful analogy

I found a helpful analogy to understand Schrodinger's quote from "Life, Explored" by Archit Bhardwaj | Predict | Medium:

Let’s pretend that your download folder is the universe; It started orderly and got more chaotic over time. By investing energy, you can clean it up — this is what living things do.

• So life is like cleaning up after the activities we do.
• So we have until the end of a day to set things right for the day
• If we do more than what we can set right for the day, it will become a backlog

In other words, "a stitch in time saves nine".

• Huge mistakes by other people will be a problem we need to solve together
• But we can do it if we understand them to be part of our own selves