Uh-huh. Soooo...... The socio-religious, cultural, metaphysical, and erudite elite have brought us to, yet another frontier..., another chance in life..., another hope…. a third world war. Somehow, it seems that all our exultations and delights obtained through red meat, sports, education, movies, music..., the progress of industrialization..., the internet, sex (hmm…), and yes.... even religion, leaves us with the exclusive superhumans of the world craning to get a shot at each other..., and send, each one of us.... either to heaven or hell, as the case may be..., after bringing about world wide annihilation. I mean to say... this is what progress in pure sciences like physics, chemistry, etc... and the applied sciences like technology... in the form of computers, communication, genetics..., the wonderful relationships we have with each other.... and hey even astrology and..., (kisses) the gold rush, has led us to embrace or at least come face to face with.
The question arises… WHY ? Are we all so eager to die? What is troubling us so much? Fear, pain, humiliation, overwork … what is making us so ballistic towards each other. Why does the word PEACE..., based on mutual tolerance, seem so difficult to come to terms with? Why are things the way they seem to be?
The situation is as follows… Soviet Russia had disintegrated to an acknowledged extent, three decades ago. Those land masses which were part of the USSR, yet which refused to obey Soviet command..., got their own government. Although the cold war officially ended there and then, the impetus for rivalry between Russia and, the rest of Europe and the United States combined, continued. Many of the newly formed nations became sympathetic to the rest of, Europe and the U.S..... Quite a few joined the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation), and rapidly the U.S and their affiliates, commenced deploying troops in these nations....., and threatened the Russian borders. Tired of such formations..., the Russians decided to station their own forces, at the Ukrainian-Russian border. I mean..., if you are banging on my door mighty impolitely, I just might greet you with some conceit of my own. That is human nature, that is ethics. I mean if you are stealthily positioning yourself, with your friends, just outside my door.... with guns and knives…, bracing yourself against the wall, crouching for cover, keeping food and water handy…, it just could be, that you have some malefic purposes at heart. Which intelligent owner of a property would be so fool hardy as to not feel threatened? So obviously, the Russian senate felt threatened. Now the U.S. is saying that Russia is planning to attack Ukraine right now..., and if it does, it hopes that thirty NATO nations including the U.S. should reply, very powerfully, to the Russian threat.
So where does that bring us? Again…, the end result of the cold war..., a third world war. All the good work that had been done, which gave peaceful living a chance, is again being threatened. Soviet Russia was oppressive somewhat, according to many a thoughtful mind. Its ex leaders Michael Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin acknowledged the need for a less oppressive government, and on their own, they set the ball rolling, to make Russia a nation ruled more modestly, or compassionately. However..., international paranoia has led to this lack of understanding as to where we stand…..
So where do we stand?
After the second world war the world reduced its pusillanimous impetus and decided to make love not war. However, another situation developed (The Cold War)... whereby, the hostility was not directly engaged in, but was something that was stealthily being nurtured, in unforeseen ways. The day that war broke lose, the world would be unable to head for cover, and every man woman and child would be threatened, irrespective of ideological differences. That gave rise to the hippie movement, because the people understood that their leaders were so crazy (despite their shangrilas, huge cars, home theatre etc) that they were only oh so keen to blow each other to pieces. Compromise, cooperation and care were far less important than COMPETITION.
While competition is healthy for progress, it should obviously not doom one’s future…. In as much as, if I don’t get to try again and again and again, because the time axis halts for me..., then why should I aspire to that form of 'competitive' behavior? Of course fortune favors the brave..., but not the mad and the stupid.
The author recommends the readers attention towards the following weblink…
https://www.cairn.info/revue-politique-etrangere-2009-5-page-107.htm
Here one will be able to see, how the nuclear arms build up, occupation of territories, deployment of warheads and troops along the borders..., again and again, threw the world into a crisis..., and how treaty after treaty helped to resolve the situation. Generally it is thought that Russia was the aggressor throughout the Cold War…., yet this web page seems to put additional information on the table, that seems to suggest that it was highly unlikely..., that it was, that one sided after all. You will get to see, that.... after the perestroika, or the collapse of the USSR, the West again and again marginalized the intentions of peaceful living with the hope of gaining an ever increasing geopolitical advantage.
Do we have anything to feel happy about since WW II?
Obviously…. We have voice command consoles instead of switches and dials. Every single branch of science has made progress…, in fact everything progressed, if it survived….. even the rights to male homosexuality. I talked about voice command consoles, actually we have voice command cars, washing machines, microwaves... then... semi automatic aeroplanes etc. . The whole human genome has been mapped. We have prevention and cures for AIDS, Cancer and so on. We have lab grown meat…, even vegan meat.
Things like the iPhone, Facebook, bitcoin, electric vehicles, solar energy, are quite commonplace. People have better food, and education, and health, and incomes also.
Dealing now more, with the humane energy.... We do have a world which is more tender-hearted than before. Vegan or vegetarian diets are becoming more popular. Animal rights activists are more confident. Environmentalists are credited with doing a lot of benefit. Human rights are more widely endorsed. As you would expect..., spirituality and/or religion, takes a lot of credit, for guiding the human heart along with the head. There is so much literature on the nature of the human mind and the body, and how they interact. There are alternative cures to problems in the mind-body complex (accompanying western medicine), such as Ayurveda, Chinese medicine, Yoga, Homeopathy, Aromatherapy, Naturopathy etc. The cures of alternative medicines are no longer quaint claims but empirically validated facts. Ideas about God, the soul, heaven etc. are far more elaborately and sensibly presented.
We are able to have better sex. Better sports. Better houses. Better clothes, watches, cars, trains, rockets. Many more books have been written and the list of subjects have also expanded. Darwin did not lose…, the fittest have survived..., and gone on to help the weaker sections of society. Thus life is better in many many many ways.
Yet we are on the brink of another world war… hey …. the biggest war yet…. Despite the hope that underground bunkers give to the fortunate, why have people become so unhappy with life, that they cannot endure the other person. Is it the good fighting against evil, or is it just basic rivalry, or both?
It can be argued that the good people, are those who believe in an almighty God..., and Soviet Russia had been guilty of being guided by a philosophy which was intolerant towards religion. Yet they preserved (along with the people’s republic of China) many of the ethics of religion such as a control over prostitution, homosexuality and narcotics........, whereas the liberal economies allowed these SINs to flourish. The parish would not reprimand you for your sin, but the police could pick you up for a crime.
One reason, that the author distinctly feels, is the reason for escalation of tension of this kind, is the constant sense of injury or humiliation owing to the fact that Russia has the biggest expanse of land in the whole civilized world. Thus the sense of prestige, that goes with ruling such a land mass, or.... of the people who are so well united under one flag..., is somehow becoming unendurable. However we forget that in a class of students, someone has to come first, and someone second, and someone third and so on. Can all nations have equal amount of possession over land? Is all land of the same nature? Will I rule over glaciers or deserts while you rule over springs? If that is not likely to be the case in the near future, then why should we pull down a nation’s geographical privilege, only to lessen our internal discomfiture... over something quite trivial.
Please visit….
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/a23306/nuclear-bombs-powerful-today
The above link mentions that by 1961 there was a bomb developed which was over three thousand times more powerful than the ‘little boy’ of Hiroshima.
Also try
… to know more about the Hydrogen bomb which had been tested way back in 1954…
...DO WE KNOW WHAT’S BEEN COOKING SINCE THEN????
Is it not possible that the same courage, determination, resignation and hope, that we are helping each other with…, with the desire to expel the enemy..., or die in the process…, can we not use all this and more, to arrive at a practical answer, to any concern, which will avoid the occurrence of a third world war, a war which could wipe out the entire human race (except for they who would be hiding in bunkers) ? Some may think they are Slavs and cannot possibly make friends with Anglo Saxons, who again feel that Celts are unendurable and so on. But can we not ascertain our domains of existence, and work aggressively..., yet intelligently and progressively also? Is it that difficult a word... ‘COEXISTENCE’. What if the world becomes full of homosexuals… well God did nuke Sodom and Gomorrah… of course in His own style. There are still, plenty of normal people protected by their faith and a concerned government. By the will of providence we all have, or can have, enough to keep us happy all our lives…. But we have to be willing to live and let others live. We have a lot to gain if we just be less ‘FIGHTY’.
Treaty after treaty has been signed in the past, to let the world live for a few years more. Can we please try something similar? If we we have our feet on the ground and our heads on our shoulders, we might be able to work out a plan that benefits one and all, in astounding ways. Someone out there said that if we heal others, we heal ourselves. If we feel weakened due to pain that needs some healing, one can take a massage, or one can go to the spa, or do some praying, or meditation, or breathing, or play some games, or sing, or even dance. Maybe one can take a holiday and do everything. If we work everything out, then needless violence may never be necessary. Redemption should never be heedless and the world could always be blessed with another chance.
