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Is war just part of who we are

Summary

By the end, I came to the understanding that this is a simple problem that can be solved by having a proper understanding.

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
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