A story with no end.

 

A story with no end.

I woke up just as the sun was making things visible. From the living room window, I observed a bear running by the base of the hill across. He ran until there was a slope going up and continued at the same speed up the hill. Just a few years ago, the hill had bears, moose, deer cougars, and smaller animals. Now it’s full of houses. Should I call anyone to trap and possibly kill the bear? He could be dangerous to people, especially if they feed and try to pet him. A wild bear is not a good prop for taking selfies. Is it more important to stay safe or to let nature do what it has been doing for generations? Who’s hill is it, anyway?

There is a rock ball hurling through space at tremendous speed and on it many life forms, human beings are dominant. For some unknown reason, it made itself just perfect for our existence as we adapted to it. We slowly learned how to thrive, but the invisible power seems to disagree with our methods.

Life for some of us is great, but not for most of us. That includes the animals. The Earth, spinning and speeding through the galaxy, is able to provide all that its creatures need, but the Universal Mind demands cooperation. Humans, unlike other life forms, must use their intellect to survive. The more we know, the more we must do. Nature designed us to be competitive and improve through evolution. Works for everything else, but not for us.

Just like the natural competition between males and females, we can’t exist without each other. When we fight, we come to a point where it becomes obvious that we will destroy ourselves, be gone, or start again from scratch. It happened before and will happen again. We have an almost equal split on most issues.

Humans developed technologies and machines that can perform tasks that were once considered miraculous a short while ago. Much of the recent development has been to prolong our natural life, improve health, produce food, and save us from pain. Much more is added each day to make our lives easy and save us from doing work. Lives in the advanced areas of the world improved and communication increased exponentially. Now people around the world know how much better it is to live in the developed world and the majority who are not wealthy see and envy what the others enjoy.

Many people are trying to join the good life peacefully, even if they perform the undesirable tasks that others refuse to do. This doesn’t work for their children who are born into wealthy environments. They expect returns for their sacrifice and hard work, without needing to cheat or steal to get it. While this is happening, others are risking all to join in. In the poor places, there are wars and insurrections that filter into our country.

Just a short time ago, we had to break up a fight between opposing parties from Africa. Canada is dealing with diplomatic issues over past crimes in Ukraine and Poland, and a scandal from India. We have problems to solve over the treatment of our own First Nations when the country was being formed. There are still many people around who wish to restart the conflict between the French and English Canadians. Others are fighting over sexual variations, sex changes, and abortions. Just as many people are looking for fights as those wanting peace. We have the most fresh water in the world and now we are fighting over water. Global Warming is causing unexpected conflicts.

People find things to fight about everywhere. In some places like Afghanistan, it is about religious practices. Other places fight over political ideologies. Many more are at war over economic issues. The rich want to have more money and the poor wish to have some and divide it amongst many. Very often, conflicts arise about raw power and domination. The biggest war ever was between a few powerful men who wanted to dominate the world. When they do, people fight for freedom and independence. Anything scarce causes people to fight. Gold was the main reason for Europeans taking over South America.

As far as I can see, the biggest reason for fighting is to dominate portions of the planet and do on it what the inhabitants wish or must do to stay alive. People get violent about their native soil and often have some ideas about getting some of the ground that others occupy. Bears and other animals feel the same about their territory. With animals and some people, we feel justified in killing them and taking their land. Take for example the Armenians in Nagorno Karabakh or people in parts of Ukraine.

In my birth country, Israel, Jews have been fighting Palestinians for thousands of years. It is clear to see if we want, that there is pressure from somewhere to teach us we can only win by cooperation and not by fighting and winning. Will we do it, or die fighting? The answer remains unwritten. The story needs an ending.

We must have Democracy and use it to benefit all.

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