О космополитизме

[pilottttt]

Задался я тут очередным глобальным вопросом: а что лично я делаю для того, чтобы в этом мире прекратились войны? После некоторых размышлений пришёл к тому, что этот журнал по сути и есть моё основное поле битвы. Все свои посты о путешествиях я так или иначе пишу исходя из максимально космополитичного видения мира вокруг себя, при этом надеясь, что человек, прочитавший это, станет чуть более космополитом, чем он был раньше. Ну а если все люди на Земле станут космополитами – войны автоматически прекратятся просто потому, что они потеряют всякий смысл. В конце концов, все мы – существа одного и того же биологического вида, живущие на одной и той же планете, которая в масштабах Вселенной является маленькой песчинкой, едва заметной среди звёзд и галактик. И, осознавая это, мы почему-то по-прежнему готовы поубивать друг друга за каждый кусок этой песчинки.

Comments

[gwendraith]

If only it was that simple ;)

I am horrified by what is happening in this world and often wonder why people do such awful things to each other and then try to justify their actions. My conclusion, as I have often mentioned, is that we are poorly evolved as a species. It will take centuries, or more likely millennia, before we understand and become peaceful. If only natural selection erased the aggression gene!

[pilottttt]

I also think about it part of the time. Perhaps humanity should gain the ability to look at itself from the outside (namely, at the whole of humanity) and begin to think in global categories, and not in the categories of "mine" - "yours". But it will be a very long time before that moment.

[cmcmck]

By faith, I'm a Quaker which means I'm a pacifist and if anyone thinks that's easy, they don't know much.

As you know. I'm also the daughter of a soldier, the wife of the son of a soldier and a military historian.

Anyone with that background tends to know more than enough about war.

The fact that we talk to each other and share images while our polticians would rather we didn't is something hugely positive.

[pilottttt]

That's for sure. In general, I believe that those who crave war usually do not know anything about it. In Russia, for example, all these moods began after the last generation who saw the war with their own eyes left.

[dewline]

Tribalism, nationalism, whatever we end up calling it...it's still an issue in all our brains right now. And some of us still have no qualms about using it to murder, either by proxy or far more directly.

[pilottttt]

I agree. There is still something left of the primitive cannibals in us, but science has allowed us to use more massive and sophisticated methods of murder.