Some body wanted a two word answer and somebody else didn't like that mine was a couple a more.
This was mine: The cause of war.
Ignorance of human nature.
Humans developed a full functioning representational, symbolic language probably sometime in the last 200,000 years. This language allowed for something that could never have occurred before, the development of thought and the impression of time, the ability to symbolically self represent oneself as an ego separate from experience. Humans developed the capacity to step out of the stream of being and analyze their situation, self talk to themselves about what is happening. Coupled to this, via the pain pleasure response, the fight flight mechanisms, our capacity to suffer organic terror and pain, language included the capacity to represent reality in dually as good and evil. The capacity to represent experience, individuals and things as good and evil allowed for the development of words the intent of which is to put down. Thus came the capacity to control by words, to put into words the experience of terror and pain. The behavior of man became a tool of manipulation by language. The ability to control with words, to terrorize with words, to inflict pain with words, to symbolically connect a feeling to a thing, the tree of knowledge of good and evil, took man out of the garden and straight to hell. Why?
Every human being is born with the capacity to experience pain and terror and every human being does. What we have all forgotten is just how great that capacity is. You can't sit in your chair and feel how terrified or how hurt you can be. You are armored to protect yourself from that experience. You have learned to dampen down that experience. You are defended, armed to the teeth to prevent that from happening. You have no conscious memory of how deeply you can feel how deeply you were hurt. Every human being has been through a concentration camp from hell. Every human being has been made to feel like he is the worst person in the world because every human being, born completely without sophisticated mental defense, feels pain and terror to the maximum human extent and can't any longer remember. Every human being has been told that what they were before that experience, before the sh!t hit the fan, was that being perfect and undefended was the greatest evil in the world. We were all put down, controlled by words, made to feel as bad as humans can feel.
But the human child cannot survive in a maximized state of pain. We are organically equipped with the capacity to forget, to come down. All that's left is the residual terror of returning to that state, being what we were before it occurred, alive and mentally healthy. We learn to conform, to defend by playing the word game. We become exactly what we fear. We spend the rest of our lives making sure that evil is the other guy. And the other guy is doing the same thing to us.
This is why man goes to war. He would rather kill or die than remember.
Bad as that is, though, it's not the worst. We are like moths to a flame. We left our lives, our true selves, our undivided being back there in infancy. We don't know what is wrong but we know something is. We hunger; we cave for our original selves. This impels us for the sake of our lost life to return to the scene of the crime. We want to experience terror and fear, to do battle with put down. We long to be whole again. But we do it in such a way as to get close but without remembering. We have to tempt the fates. We walk up to deaths door for our vicarious life. We seek out situations that art like the ones in which our spirit died. Man is headed for extinction so he can remember. We recreate the means by which we died. We have to. We are human. It's how we are.
This was mine: The cause of war.
Ignorance of human nature.
Humans developed a full functioning representational, symbolic language probably sometime in the last 200,000 years. This language allowed for something that could never have occurred before, the development of thought and the impression of time, the ability to symbolically self represent oneself as an ego separate from experience. Humans developed the capacity to step out of the stream of being and analyze their situation, self talk to themselves about what is happening. Coupled to this, via the pain pleasure response, the fight flight mechanisms, our capacity to suffer organic terror and pain, language included the capacity to represent reality in dually as good and evil. The capacity to represent experience, individuals and things as good and evil allowed for the development of words the intent of which is to put down. Thus came the capacity to control by words, to put into words the experience of terror and pain. The behavior of man became a tool of manipulation by language. The ability to control with words, to terrorize with words, to inflict pain with words, to symbolically connect a feeling to a thing, the tree of knowledge of good and evil, took man out of the garden and straight to hell. Why?
Every human being is born with the capacity to experience pain and terror and every human being does. What we have all forgotten is just how great that capacity is. You can't sit in your chair and feel how terrified or how hurt you can be. You are armored to protect yourself from that experience. You have learned to dampen down that experience. You are defended, armed to the teeth to prevent that from happening. You have no conscious memory of how deeply you can feel how deeply you were hurt. Every human being has been through a concentration camp from hell. Every human being has been made to feel like he is the worst person in the world because every human being, born completely without sophisticated mental defense, feels pain and terror to the maximum human extent and can't any longer remember. Every human being has been told that what they were before that experience, before the sh!t hit the fan, was that being perfect and undefended was the greatest evil in the world. We were all put down, controlled by words, made to feel as bad as humans can feel.
But the human child cannot survive in a maximized state of pain. We are organically equipped with the capacity to forget, to come down. All that's left is the residual terror of returning to that state, being what we were before it occurred, alive and mentally healthy. We learn to conform, to defend by playing the word game. We become exactly what we fear. We spend the rest of our lives making sure that evil is the other guy. And the other guy is doing the same thing to us.
This is why man goes to war. He would rather kill or die than remember.
Bad as that is, though, it's not the worst. We are like moths to a flame. We left our lives, our true selves, our undivided being back there in infancy. We don't know what is wrong but we know something is. We hunger; we cave for our original selves. This impels us for the sake of our lost life to return to the scene of the crime. We want to experience terror and fear, to do battle with put down. We long to be whole again. But we do it in such a way as to get close but without remembering. We have to tempt the fates. We walk up to deaths door for our vicarious life. We seek out situations that art like the ones in which our spirit died. Man is headed for extinction so he can remember. We recreate the means by which we died. We have to. We are human. It's how we are.
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