As I look around at the things that are going on I have the tendency to believe that, although we’re in for some dramatic changes due to technological advances, nothing in the realm of human behavior and the overall state of the human condition is likely to change much at all.
If history repeats itself it’s not due to some cyclical cosmic phenomena, but because we, as humans, are violent. It could be said that – we are violence. I don’t see that this is apt to change. So we might as well accept it and see what we can do in spite of it.
I know I’m violence. There is no violence without me. I simply refuse to take out that violence on the world. Doesn’t the saying – take out your anger on something – seem sort of strange when you really break it down? It’s the same as pulling a knife or a gun on someone. It’s perfectly alright to walk around with a knife or a gun. As long as we know how to act.
We’re violent and our thinking is fragmented. We see parts of the whole. So we don’t know how to act according to the whole. We lack a proper perspective. Since we can’t see the whole, we don’t know what’s going on around us. So it only stands to reason that we don’t know how to act.
It’s no different than taking a child to a restaurant who doesn’t understand the whole “Dining out” deal. He doesn’t know what to do because he only sees a fragment of the whole picture – mainly himself. Humans need to be taught how to act, by people who know how to act. By those among us who understand more of the whole than we do. If anyone wants to learn how to act they’ll need to find a qualified teacher – or several.
