state of the world

What is the natural order of human beings? Are we like the animals, or are we special? Should we learn from their behaviors? Or are we too different for any comparisons to be made?

Are we to be as a cheetah, basically solitary in its hunt for life-sustaining food, while interacting only with it’s mate and offspring? Are we to be as the wolves, which form leaderless packs to increase the chances of everyone’s survival? Or are we to be as the lions, with to-the-death battles, to decide who rules?

As one can see, humans mimic each of these animal behaviors. We sometimes work alone to provide for ourselves and families, yet also form societal compacts to pull resources together. We also have physical, physiological, intellectual, and argumentative contests to decide who will rule the others.

But how should we be? Does our species have a natural order, an instinctive way to live?

Throughout known history, man can always be divided into two distinct categories:

Aggressors and the non-aggressors. “Those who want to be left alone and those who will not leave them alone." Those who want to manage other’s lives, and those who want to manage their own.

The aggressors wish to control the non-aggressors, and will take whatever means necessary to achieve this control. The non-aggressors wish to control their own life, and don’t want to impose their beliefs on others.

The problem has always been that the aggressors will not allow the non-aggressors to practice their way of life. And time after time, the aggressor’s greed becomes so immense that the aggressors system implodes on itself. There is a brief time when the aggressors are unable to control the non-aggressors, but inevitability, they forcibly regain control and continue their dominance.

Their control is bound to eventually fail, as greed is the root cause of their aggressiveness, and greed is inherently never satisfied. Greed will ignore and risk losing the ninety-nine that it does have, in trying to get the one that it doesn’t control. This greed makes them overextend themselves, and they try to control the non-aggressors so completely, and even the non-aggressors cannot sit idle anymore, and begin to resist.

Sometimes the non-aggressors defeat the aggressors, and there is a time of peace and freedom. But there is always someone that is more than happy to fill the role of ruler over others.

Sometimes it is the previous aggressors, coming back in a more subtle way. Other times, it is non-aggressors who see this vacuum of leadership as a chance for them to rule.

Either way, the same result is cycled again and again throughout history.

My question to you is this: Aren’t we better than this? Can’t we learn from the past, or are we doomed to repeat it?

Should I live my life by what someone else says? To me, that is unnatural. Do you live your life by my opinions? No. Then why live by theirs? Because they have guns and will kill you if you don’t. That is the ultimate power of the aggressors: brute force.

Now a smart aggressor will try to force submission through trickery, instead of an outright battle. What better way to control a person, then to have them believe that they are not being controlled?

This is where we are today. Most people do not realize that they are controlled. One is told what to believe, say, and how to act. Political correctness, patriotism, religion, all classify certain behavior as either good (with the group) or bad (different from the mainstream). This is the opposite of individualism, and the ideas of freedom and self rule.

I understand that these ideas seem abstract and foreign to many. That is because adults have a hard time looking at events and items objectively. Preconceived ideas are hard to break.

But being a sheep is not what is meant for us. We are different than the animals of this planet. We are each responsible for ourselves, and ourselves only. I wish people would just learn to let everyone run their own life, without feeling they have a right to tell others what to do.

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