Peace In Our Time.
Peace is an expensive commodity. The price of it is normally measured in human lives and it has to be paid up front. Cash with order and then a speedy delivery is not guaranteed at all.
When governments fight it is about ideologies, nations fight about territory, religions fight about dogma, men fight about women, and children fight about toys. Bloggers fight about… no, I don’t know. Maybe you can tell me. I noticed that now that we have peace on the blogs, the Poetry Corner has flared up.
Is it all part of the mechanism to make sure that the fittest survive? Or maybe it is just nature’s way to prevent overpopulation. Just as well we do no reincarnate in real life as we do on line. Or do we? Perhaps we are just the same people coming back all the time; continuing yesterday’s battles.
Why is it so important to assert our superiority over others? And why do we do it by destruction. If they don’t support our ideology, we undermine them; if they have the resources we want, we invade them; if they don't support our believes, we condemn them; if he gets the attention of the girl I want, I discredit him and if he has the toy I want, I break it.
It is a simple philosophy. If I cannot have it then you will not either. And the fittest will survive; or do they?
Neville Chamberlain promised us peace in our time but he was short sighted. He is now long gone and it has not arrived. It is not attainable; or so it seems. Peace never lasts very long.
Have a peaceful day.
Comments (53)
On your peace as never last very long..Well, at least for me Cat, I can say, that I am living in one heck of place which place safety as the primary concern to provide to its citizen and does anything within its realm to have it so. My parents and all my uncles, they were all involved in the fight for freedom, during the war and three of my uncle not only perished but tortured by the Japanese in front of my grandparents to warn people from siding the US during that time.. But horror stories are told over and over again, just to give us an insight at the expense of what we call, the attainment of peace.
Very deep and an expose of the dark elements man is capable of Cat.
PEACEFUL day here...I agree with both of you and Cat...We can't change what happened in the past, we can't change other people but we definitely can change ourselves and I believe that's where peace should come first...
It is strange how we refer to animals as cruel but they don't make war on each other. That is a human trait.
Learning is good but then the knowledge acquired should be put to good use. I find it uncanny that many modern gadgets in our homes like TVs, microwave ovens and even the internet was brought to us by military research. Just imagine how many aircraft were shot down before the cathode ray tube has seen use other than a radar screen. Wars intensify research and it brings new innovations. But at what price?
Hi all
Caaaaat
Yes I believe it was vital to the West to end the war before the Soviet Union entered the fray in that part of the world.
The alliance did not survive the war.
A new pic I see. Must clean my specs. Cannot see so well today.
Not necessarily see you know what is there for the fog...
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Cat
Peace is structured/programmed as external and internal, unfortunately not mandatory for survival of all mankind, ideologies, assimilation, colonization has been administered historically, continues within todays society, and will continue, there will never be peace, as aresult of the indifferences of yesterdays battles and todays, but it is attainable to have peace within yourself, however that also does not last very long, although we can tell ourselves that, sometimes I feel, we are the keepers of our own destruction and others, we have been programmed to do so, just my opinion
and just so you know, I have not been on the poetry corner, so I started nothing over there
Roses are red
Violets are blue
There is only one of me
and one of you
Isn't that true
And I so love you
no one commented, mudther flukers, not even one person
I suppose this is a topic that can go on for days. I live in a poverty stricken country where a very large part of the population lives under the bread line and many go to bed (bed?) without food to eat.
What has happened in the past is done and cannot be taken out the history books. We have to live with that. I may be a bit stupid but I cannot see why the West should blame itself when the help that does arrive here is misappropriated and disappears into the pockets of corrupt officials.
I blame the West only for not monitoring what happens to their help.
You mean it is now I see you and now I don't see you.
Maybe the problem is that everybody wants a piece and not peace.
Maybe I should have read your comment before responding to Boggie.
Maybe peace is just a frame of mind. A mindset that places us in a comfort zone where we believe that we are untouchable.
Soos in 'n stukkie?
Hmm, last night you were bored too but by then I was in Lala land.
I have just finished eating and must clean up now. I have opened a bottle of dry white whine to keep me company and help me with the job.
Then I have a book I'm busy with and I want to finish it tonight.
On Sundays I normally eat at my sister's place and chat with my old man. He also goes out there on a Sunday but lately I have been sleeping so late that I often skip the event. As it is now, those are my plans for tomorrow... if I get up in time. It is a few kilos to drive. Not too much though.
Every
facepicture tells a story.I normally spend the day there and only come home in the late afternoon. But as I said, it all depends on what time I wake up.
Another oldie.
take care kitten, hope you have a good weekend