Can Humanity Evolve Beyond War?

Scientific progress and social progress: We can take it for granted that humanity’s ability to control and shape its environment through science has greatly increased since its earliest origin as a biological species. This has enabled us to become the dominant species on the planet. But we are also developing ways to kill each other that may well lead to the end of our species. One wonders whether there has been any social progress at all. There have been wars since time immemorial, and they get worse as science improves the ability to kill and destroy. Is there some basic force in human nature that has never changed and continues to generate these endless wars? Competition among animals for natural resources is always happening. Humans are now the dominant species and no other species can compete with us, but humans still compete with each other for these resources, and that is the cause of the endless wars, which are getting worse as technology gets more powerful and now threaten the human species itself. Can humanity evolve beyond war? I think it is doomed as a species if it cannot.

Col. Wilkerson says that the country’s military has become completely corrupt, and the politicians have no reason for supporting our wars other than hate. We hate the Iranians and we hate the Russians. They are evil. Nothing more needs to be said. But do these politicians really hate the Iranians and the Russians? Not really. They are just saying what their donors in the MIC and the Israel Lobby want them to say. They are total phonies, the product of a system where money talks and everything else walks, including justice and common human decency.