Outside the Blur

If you would be an alien and you would come to the Earth and observe it closely what you would think about the Human Race ? What would be the things that you’ll remark ?

Well, it’s not so difficult to see that human nations are in a permanent state of defense one against the others. You will see thousands of nuclear weapons arsenals across the World, huge military armies and vast deployments of air, naval and terrestrial forces with the purpose of maintaining peace. They are always ready for war.

Yes, we consume a good part of our resources in the armament industry, in the armies and in the defense.

If you look at the table from bellow you will see the amount of money the nations spend for DEFENSE.

Table Of Defense Spending – Top 30 Countries in 2010

You would see that the latest science discoveries are applied in the army industry with the purpose to annihilate any possible attack.

And this is not sufficient. You will see wars, conflicts, bombs detonations, terrorist attacks, destruction of goods, revolutions, human repression, human exploitation, diseases, hunger, deaths and corruption and so on…and so on.

It’s clear from the start that something is not in its place. You begin to wonder, supposing that you are a peaceful alien, why this human race is such conflictual one against to the others ? From where it comes this aggressive behavior ?  Why they always try to dominate and why they are so violent ? You see a discrepancy between the stage of evolution and what the humans are capable of doing. You will remark that even if we have already good technologies which we are using in our lives, they are not used to have a better life, they are used to enslave the others who are weaker and gain advantage from their weaknesses.

This is the world that we know it today and where we live and in where the history always remind us of great victories and conquers, battles and wars. But we accept these because it’s only what we know. VIOLENCE !

In any great victory or defeat it’s hidden something beneath even if we don’t recognize it. VIOLENCE !

Now let’s begin to analyze a little why the human race, even if it is so advanced it is so violent. Let’s trace the events before the humans evolved as a dominant specie of the Earth. Look at the animal reign, and you will see that its structure is a Trophic pyramid system, on top of which are the strongest and deadliest creatures from Earth: they are called the predators. Before the apparition of the human race there were dinosaurs which were the absolute predators. Then mammals appeared and they conquered the Earth. Finally, homo sappiens arrived on the scene and became the last predator of the running the Earth.

You see here the big picture ? If not, let me show it to you. Animals evolved in time but the ultimate predators which were situated in the top of the pyramid of the ecosystem survived by catching the pray, which is a process of violence ultimately. Look at the tigers, bears, lions, orcas. They hunt their pray and kill it through a process of violence.  Then look at the primitive people. They were hunters, predators like the animals from the top of the pyramid ecosystem. And then across the time, the tribes appeared and after a few thousand of years civilizations. But they extended their capacity of domination. When civilizations collided one with the other conflicts appeared. Wars.

The comportment of the first civilizations is not different from that of the animals from the top of the ecosystem pyramid. It’s violent, aggressive. They were very territorial and they never were content with what they have. They wanted MORE. They conquered the weak, enslave them and formed bigger and bigger empires. Through violence.

But the world evolved to what we know it today. Do you think that the things are changed now ? No, not at all. Just the methods are changed. You can’t declare war directly these days. You can’t kill directly, you must have a reason. You must appear in good light to the others because there are some interests involved here, not because we are better. We just want to look good ! We want to appear well intended ! Just until we can make : FIRE IN THE HOLE ! Then all it’s perfect and we begin to feel in our environment: war and violence. Because this is what we knew from the beginning of the human race. This is implanted in our minds, our primitive minds and our instincts. It is like the reproduction instinct.

In all human history you see everywhere: violence from one nation against the other : again and again and again. Peace is not very remarked within our history books. Peace is not interesting for the human minds and history itself. The greatest events described are the successful campaigns of wars presented with thousands of details. That nation beat the other. Wow, great, what a great victory! How this strategy worked and the enemy was defeated. In the books of history the great events are the Wars. These are the relevant facts: when a nation gained some new land. Even the churches across time perpetuated violence. Kill in the name of God because killing the unfaithful it’s not a sin. They deployed campaigns and killed the heretics in great pains, suffers and tortures. To teach you the lesson. What lesson ? What lesson can be learned from them ?

Now let’s return to the other things which a possible alien would see.

Television, for instant. Look at the movies to local television and at the Hollywood. What they are mostly presenting ? Which are the most successful movies ? Of course, the movies which present violence. I looked at the Top 250 from IMDB and the first 20 movies from the top ( I know them because I saw them all). And few of them from this top list like City of God or Fight Club are extremely violent. Violence is so well perpetuated and present in our lives that it is everywhere. Violence is sold. People buy violence. Why movies should be an exception ?

Look at the news to the television. Which are the most interesting events ? Of course, the ones which present violence. Look everywhere. This is a world of violence. If the aggressive behavior is not manifested physically than it could be manifested through language, psychology, thoughts. Everywhere!

Unfortunately, peace for us is a dream. But this dream must come true. I will explain in the next part where these roots have the origins and how we can fix it. It is obvious that if we continue to be this way, we will never survive ! We will only dream and not live in plenitude. Life must be lived peacefully not in violence ! Until we completely eliminate these roots we will never have peace. We will struggle to survive. See the next part –> Living on Earth