Considering the mankind has just come from the bloodiest centyury in history I find this not surprising...

We aren't teaching peace...

We aren't practicing peace...

We need a major cultural make-over... I am a firm supporter in the creation of a Department of Peace...

It's not as if mankind can't change... It's just that mankind hasn't... There are a lot of reasons for this... The first thread I started here in Mudcat back along, long time ago was about the Department of Peace... I'm not sure if it still exhists but there were some very interesting posts related to this subject...

I believe that with an ever interconnected world economy that war is a "luxary" that mankind can no longer "afford"... I believe there will be a change in our collective culture where militarism will be looked upon as something that folks used to do... It may not happen in my life time but there are things, such as creating a Department of Peace, that we can do as baby steps... It's going to be a long process but one that manmkind, if it is to survive, must go thru...

Until them, yeah, folks can ***easily*** be manipulated into a militaristic mode because that's the way the have been ***taught*** to respond...

B~