There is a story, believed to be of Cherokee origin, in which a girl is troubled by a recurring dream in which two wolves fight viciously. Seeking an explanation, she goes to her grandfather, highly regarded for his wisdom, who explains that there are two forces within each of us, struggling for supremacy, one embodying peace and the other, war. At this, the girl is even more distressed, and asks her grandfather who wins. His answer: “The one you feed.”
This from a New York Times article "Are We Hard-Wired for War" http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/opinion/sunday/are-we-hard-wired-for-war.html That also references this national interest article on the nature of war: http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/what-our-primate-relatives-say-about-war-7996 <http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/what-our-primate-relatives-say-about-war-7996> Looks like Kant thought war ingrained in human nature: http://www.iep.utm.edu/war/#H3 <http://www.iep.utm.edu/war/#H3> But I wonder, are we so hell bent on dominating one another that we can't help but rip each other apart, whatever the group? Marshall Rosenberg's compassionate communication model has been around for at least a decade but you couldn't see it anywhere in a CNN broadcast. The models of argument, problems solving, conflict resolution, group dynamic are available to everyone here since this group is on the internet, yet the drive to deconstruct into war and chaos seems to overwhelm, and often. Why? We go around an around with it, and come up with problems in translation and cultural differences yet it seems to me that over time these could be resolved. So what is it that brings us back to the dross over and over? Beyond who's right and who's wrong there is a skip in the record here interfering with the concert. What is it? On Monday, March 23, 2015 at 7:29:29 PM UTC-4, Molly wrote: > > https://youtu.be/_d8C4AIFgUg <https://youtu.be/_d8C4AIFgUg> > > > > On Monday, March 23, 2015 at 7:03:34 PM UTC-4, Molly wrote: >> >> Howard Zinn, http://howardzinn.org/ historian, author, professor, >> playwright, and activist, whose life’s work focused on a wide range of >> issues including race, class, war, and history, and touched the lives of >> countless people, said "war itself is the enemy of the human race" >> http://bit.ly/1FwyDUP <http://bit.ly/1FwyDUP> >> >> We go to war in a variety of ways, big to small. daily (some of us), in >> interpersonal ways, and over decades, as the human race. Why? >> > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
