Mike Teacher
11-12-2003, 07:23 AM
As the USA and the rest of the world [I hope] are mulling over frustrations to calm things down in Iraq, and elsewhere, I was listening to radio and a theory was proposed that was ringing true for me.
Perhaps there are people who do Not want Peace. They do not want Freedom. Because they have absolutely no concept of either. Some have been raised in environments such that:
-War, not Peace has always been their Way of Life
-Dictators, Tyranny and following leaders blindly, not the ability to self-actualize, has also been their Way of Life
-Having your house searched at anytime without warning, people being dragged off in the night, speaking only about thing you are allowed to, not the basics of the Bill of Rights, has been their Way of Life.
And this way of life has, historically, around the globe, been the Default Way of Life. War around the globe is the rule, not the exception. Ditto with Democracy, and human rights, and slavery, and the subjugation of women, and a few dozen others I cant think of at the moment.
So, perhaps this idea is so foreign, so shocking; that for some, the cognitive dissonance is simply too much; when added in with the displacement of war.
How you see the world is how you interpret the world to be.
How you interpret the world determines how you interact with it.
How you interact with the world shapes, and changes the world.
So: How you see the world shapes, and changes the world.
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Perhaps there are people who do Not want Peace. They do not want Freedom. Because they have absolutely no concept of either. Some have been raised in environments such that:
-War, not Peace has always been their Way of Life
-Dictators, Tyranny and following leaders blindly, not the ability to self-actualize, has also been their Way of Life
-Having your house searched at anytime without warning, people being dragged off in the night, speaking only about thing you are allowed to, not the basics of the Bill of Rights, has been their Way of Life.
And this way of life has, historically, around the globe, been the Default Way of Life. War around the globe is the rule, not the exception. Ditto with Democracy, and human rights, and slavery, and the subjugation of women, and a few dozen others I cant think of at the moment.
So, perhaps this idea is so foreign, so shocking; that for some, the cognitive dissonance is simply too much; when added in with the displacement of war.
How you see the world is how you interpret the world to be.
How you interpret the world determines how you interact with it.
How you interact with the world shapes, and changes the world.
So: How you see the world shapes, and changes the world.
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