Why isn't human society a peaceful one?
I agree, many are seized of this issue. But, all are looking at this, either totally from a material viewpoint, where we end up instituting various measures linked to the essentials of living, or fully from a spiritual angle, where we add to the imponderables of life. Naturally, each answer we get, adds to the existing commotion, and for quelling which, we turn to another essential, whether real or abstract. And the cycle goes on.
As you can see, human life continues to grow in complexity.
I think we need to make a break, and address just Four Issues specific to humans.
One: an odd couple. Abstraction, which is a unique part of the human, while missing in all other forms of life, and the commotion that follows every instance of mating, which is missing in humans but present in all other forms of life. It seems, both are mutually exclusive. Is it then possible that abstraction evolved as a remedy for the post mating violence, which, given the fact that humans have a long mating season lasting all twelve months a year, would have been posing a serious problem to the early humans. Shouldn't we rein it?
Two: what we easily notice. Humans sport a certain element of unease, irrespective of one's condition or circumstances. In fact, much, or rather all of our philosophy, from sophism to existentialism, or communism, is nothing but an effort to appreciate and explain this unease, which causes our society to be always in a state of strife. Isn't it possible that this unease is a direct result of a mismatch between, what we learn and, what actually we do? As mentioned in many of my 'hubs', our current and historical styles of learning do not lead to a synchrony between what we learn, and where our natural interest or leaning lie. Whereas, it is so, for all other forms of life. Shouldn't we recast education?
Three: not an easy one at all. It is about our ideals, which the French revolution popularized. Namely, liberty, equality, and fraternity. All forms of life other than human, revel on liberty, and fraternity. Man seems to have discarded both, and chose to live as a society that thrives on demarcations based on the very same ones. At the same time, man is embracing with all his earnestness, equality, an unnatural ideal. As a result of which man is constantly ruffling feathers, both of mother nature, and of one's own nature. Shouldn't we reconsider our ideals?
Four: it escapes all attempts of an explanation. The more rational and clear we are, when dealing with material objects and the associated phenomena, the less bothered we are about any of those, when dealing with the objects of our imagination, entities like religion, customs, ceremonies, gods or demons. And the more eager, we are, to expose every secret, hidden in, say the earth, or the planets, the less inclined we are, to acknowledge the super natural powers or functions as rather obscure, let alone attempting to make it clear. Shouldn't we think further?
Peace, and answer to all the imponderables of life, is hiding here.
