Tuesday, July 05, 2005
Accept Conflict
Accept conflict instead of conficting with it. People love to hate each other. Most living creatures assert some form of proprietary control over territory and resources. Most creatures are less than totally open to freely sharing and accepting incursions into this private space.Peace theorists usually begin with the premise that we must all behave as “one.”
But for centuries, human societies have existed that incorporate ritualized violence into their cultures. The “warfare” practiced on the North American Plains was nothing like the savagery that Europeans brought with them… instead of simply “counting coup,” modern warfare is characterized by its absolutism and aim to exterminate.
Perhaps Cosmic Harmony includes accepatance of the common Human trait of maintaining a healthy dislike of one’s neighbors.
