| I found an essay 'The Dreadful Mystic Banquet' written by Aphonso Lingis. I coped a piece out of this essay that fits with the question asked. "Why is it that so many people resort to violence?"
[[[ "In the world of work and reason we acquire our individual identity from the future we project before ourselves and set out to realize.
When our ancestors descended from the trees and advanced into the savannah, they entered an environment where most of the plants are edible for seed eaters and for ruminants. The savannah teems with insects, rodents, large hoofed mammals. In the midst of such multitudes, there evolved predators that prey on them. When our ancestors advanced into the savannah, they too became prey, but they soon became predators.
The predator instincts that made them hunters as well as gatherers soon made them warriors. Humans have become predators on other humans. Our World Wars were fought among the most advanced nations of this century, and the forty years of thermonuclear arms race have brought to the forefront of our consciousness the realization that not only thermonuclear war but modern warfare is Mutual Armed Destruction--MAD. It was something we saw already in the American civil war, in the European Hundred Years War.
But now our ecological science is showing us that our omnivorous, predator practices have amounted to a war on the planet. Deforestation, monoculture, cattle rearing, fishing the rivers and the oceans, damming the rivers and irrigation, pesticides and genetic engineering are not only overextending the possibilities of food production; they are devastating the planet's biodiversity and polluting the top-soil, the water table, the oceans. For us to face our nature is to face the enemy each is for the other species.
Until now we refuse to recognize the end to which our kind is destined. We put it out of our minds, restrict our perspectives to the traditional times of our lifetime, our civilization, our species; we see our species still advancing to take over deserts, oceans, and glaciers. Or we think we will have mastered interplanetary, intergalactic migration in time. We do not personally incorporate the visions of astronomical and of ecological science. Although movies have projected visions of our planet after global warming has raised the level of the oceans over all the continents, of our planet after interplanetary and intergalactic wars and migrations, they continue to depict humans as a predatory, dominating species.
We do not have visions which show the compulsion of one to whom so much was given, to give in turn. We do not have rituals to free that giving of that return to self, that recuperation, which is self-satisfaction."]]]
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"In the world of work and reason we acquire our individual identity from the future we project before ourselves and set out to realize"
We acquire our individual identity from the future we project. Are the kings of these world and their armies until the last king is left standing alone. The problem with this is that, the WMDs we have will insure that there be no last king is left standing. It's not only the WMDs may be releast one day, but the issues mentioned in the above. To hates our enemies will no longer work with the knowledges we have, because with the knowledges we have hates will manifesst it self into such violence that we would not what to see. You have heard that an once of pervention is the same as a pound of cure, but this case a pound wouldn't be enough. The 'Man of Peace' says, "Love will bring about Peace; Love leads to Peace; Love is the basis for Peace". Why doesn't Pres. GW Bush believe what the 'Man of Peace' says
Until now we refuse to recognize the end to which our kind is destined. - WHY?
Peace be with you, Paul |