Blog Thing

In the animal world, fighting for survival is an everyday occurrence, no one can tell them you shouldn’t hurt others, they survive using primal animal instincts, as do we. The only thing that separates us from the animals is our conscience, our knowing of right and wrong, our compassion towards others, our guilt and humility, and having the intelligence to make moral choices.

Unfortunately primal fear, which every living creature possesses, a basic component in our genetic make up which enabled us to survive, has evolved into an “attack before we get attacked” mentality. It’s complicated itself over the many millennia that we have been the dominant species on this planet, continually developing our techniques and technology for the “fight or flight” mechanism. From hedgehogs that hide from danger, and when found, curl up and protect themselves with their spines, to humans inventing the stealth bomber, taking the fight to the enemies doorsteps before they have even had a chance to ask “where’s them damn bullets?”!

There will never be peace in the animal world. There will always be danger, and a need to fight for survival. This world is naturally selective, where survival of the fittest rules, and in our world it’s become “How many people can you control with your militia?” If there can’t be peace found in the animal world, why should there be peace here in our manmade, plastic fantastic world of glass, metal and carbon fibre?

It’s the fact that when we can hope for there to be peace, to strive for peace and then to fight for it, that stops peace being totally found. Yes, we must continually fight for our right not to fight amongst ourselves. Just sitting back all peaceful and calm is not going to make it happen. You fight for a cause worth fighting over. And I’m not just talking about physical war here, we fight with our words. Which can be more hurtful to others than the blade of a sword. We evolved speech so we could communicate with each other and avoid the scenario of killing a neighbour because they’d wandered onto our territory. A change in brain function and new thinking came hand in hand with our newly found evolving conscience, our DNA causing our bodies to mutate and develop the capability of articulated speech. This evolvement was indeed the next step in the fight for survival ladder, not only fighting for ourselves but for people we cared about, and then for our near neighbours and distant neighbours. Communities formed, governments came to be. It’s fight for survival on a large scale.

So my belief, in this day and age anyway, world peace will never be until we evolve again into something more than human, and we can dismiss those primal animal instincts as they won’t be needed anymore. But that my friends, will not be in any of our lifetimes. It wont be for many hundreds of years, maybe even thousands. But saying that, there is always hope.

Yours in love and light,

Tammie Rees.