Love vs Human conflicts, crimes, terrorism wars and other wrongs

Conflicts spread worldwide. Crimes, terrorism and wars are a constant in our present societies. In a sense, we live close to apocalypse. Hence the numerous and inflated appeals to love and to the good human side as a way of solving our wrongs…

But these are largely illusory appeals. They may be sincere, but the ground in which they fall is unable to produce the desired fruits.

The largely unfertile ground is, obviously, men themselves, and the causes of the infertility various and profound. They are undoubtedly partly economic, as many like to point out: there are too many miserable people in our world.

But the problem is deeply cultural, also. Even in the most developed societies men persist in believing greatly in their reasons, in their prides and indignations, in their animal feelings, in their country, in their gods and ideas.  Education and society keep on feeding these vices, instead of opposing them. Stuart Mill stated it, more then a century ago, in his Autobiography: there will be no significant mankind evolution without a radical change in the fundamentals of our thinking.
 
We remain captives of our animal judgement of life. Men take themselves too seriously, and are truly incapable of questioning their reasons, ideas, pretensions and hates. And without humble and tolerant minds, we will always be ready to hate, to be regimented, to kill and to feed wars and conflicts. And the callings to love will be of meagre use.


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Quotations
Love means too little to solve our wrongs. Men persist in believing greatly in their their animal prides, feelings and indignations, in their country, in their gods and ideas.  Ideas control men.
 

Ideas have devastated the twentieth century; they have burned our planet, caused a sea of blood, and deported millions of people.

D. Tchossitch, Jugoslav writer, Le temps du pouvoir       

The way we know and interpret the world depends basically from the ideas that fill up our mind.

E. F. Schumacher, 1911-1977, German ecologist and economist, Small is Beautiful

Our life is the creation of our mind.
Pali Tripitaka, Dhammapada, Budhist sacred texts.

 

Spirituality and sexuality (…) aren’t things possessed and within us; on the contrary, we are in them and are possessed by them, because they are powerful demons.
Carl Gustav Jung, 1875-1961, Swiss psychiatric in E. Morin Method V

It’s not only through society and by its culture that individuals are subjugated; they are also subjugated by their gods and their ideas.
E. Morin, French philosopher and sociologist, Method V

How many millions of people haven’t been victims of ideological illusion? Supposing being working for the emancipation of humankind, they really were contributing to their oppression.
E. Morin, French philosopher and sociologist, Method V
 

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