Stupid Sloganism

You DUPE.

If things were as simple as your seemingly simple minded posting, we would be able to have whatever we want by our actions. No entity can understand itself, much less control its destiny by its actions. A group of beings can only be controlled by a higher level being. We inject inherrent self-prejudice in our dealings with our own species.

You say fighting for peace is impossible. You are right! Peace will never be possible as long as there are 2 humans alive. War is fought at all levels; survival is a matter of competition, not cooperation. There can be no peace, ever. As long as people try to survive they must compete.

Or are you softheaded enough to believe in the fallacy of cooperation (ideal communism, ideal christianity and other equality/love philosophies). As flawed beings in a flawed world, we must fight to continue our existence.

Salesmen compete so they can hold their jobs and feed their families. Dogs compete so they can breed and eat. Ant colonies make war on each other for the right to what they see as limited resources.

Oh, maybe you think people are different because they have "souls" and "are made in the image of God". Well, there is a perfect example of self-prejudice. We see ourselves as superior to all the other miserable lifeforms on earth because a god made us to be special. Buddy, that is just another excuse we made up, as a race, so we could exploit other lifeforms and each other (especially non-believers in our own, specific god) in good conscience.

Forget the slogans that others make up and sound "cool". If you want to survive, you must compete. This is as true at a personal level as it is at a group level. Stop competing and die.

After all, we are here for only one reason: to reproduce.

That, my friend, is the joke of life. We're intelligent enough to make up beliefs about our existence that obscure the absolute randomness of it all.

But, then, if the above is all true, I may be wrong!

All the best, Brother! '69-'70