Rafia, it's fine. Even if you're writing in fits and starts I hope you find it healing:-)
There is no civilization in our world. It never really dawned. So yes there are no civilized wars.
So if we can all agree to that premise, it's useful to study our evolution to understand how we got here. We know homo sapiens came out of Africa 300,000 years ago, started wearing clothes 150,000 years after, and invented writing only 5000 years ago.
But it was during the "identical ancestors period" (8000 - 3000 BC) when the human population that existed then all had common ancestors that differences imploded. The need for belonging became dominant in our DNA, and we quickly wired ourselves by colors, communities, traditions, country, race, religion, socio-economic status, education, sexual identity, friends and foes and followers, the powers of influence. I mean you can go and on. I also looked up this period and found it records the the oldest cave painting depicting a combat between archers around 6000 BC in Spain.
As an engineer and scientist my tendency is to look at patterns and predictability. Each of us is a complex biochemical nothing entity in this universe. We are born and we die like all the other microscopic species, like massive stars. Nothing special or chosen about us. But that's hard for many homo sapiens to absorb and accept.
He isn’t the only one.
See this list:
https://www.ameja.org/news-1
Rafia, it's fine. Even if you're writing in fits and starts I hope you find it healing:-)
There is no civilization in our world. It never really dawned. So yes there are no civilized wars.
So if we can all agree to that premise, it's useful to study our evolution to understand how we got here. We know homo sapiens came out of Africa 300,000 years ago, started wearing clothes 150,000 years after, and invented writing only 5000 years ago.
But it was during the "identical ancestors period" (8000 - 3000 BC) when the human population that existed then all had common ancestors that differences imploded. The need for belonging became dominant in our DNA, and we quickly wired ourselves by colors, communities, traditions, country, race, religion, socio-economic status, education, sexual identity, friends and foes and followers, the powers of influence. I mean you can go and on. I also looked up this period and found it records the the oldest cave painting depicting a combat between archers around 6000 BC in Spain.
As an engineer and scientist my tendency is to look at patterns and predictability. Each of us is a complex biochemical nothing entity in this universe. We are born and we die like all the other microscopic species, like massive stars. Nothing special or chosen about us. But that's hard for many homo sapiens to absorb and accept.
Thank you for this I've been feeling so angry since the beginning of this stupid invasion