Quote (IceMage @ 20 Jul 2015 10:46)
How did I contradict myself?
Since the first man took a rock and bashed in his neighbors head, the basic reason for war has been our primal urge for violence and our herd mentality. We've transferred that collective violence onto militaries and politicians, but our basic violent nature is what really fuels conflict.
You yourself said it's not a good reason for going to war, but then you say it's why we go to war.. I say there are other reasons.
Quote (Skinned @ 20 Jul 2015 10:43)
I think it is a psychological thing. I from the Freudian camp that says that people are constantly repressing natural feels that society deems unacceptable due to the social contract and that things like war happen when this psychology repression goes on for too long. A very dysfunctional collective defense mechanism. When wars happen it happens on such a level through the many various individuals that entire cultures will become imbued with a belligerence. The World Wars, aside from being the final death of the Monarchies and the last throes of the aristocrats cannibalizing one another at the end of their world and the ascent of the New World Order of the United States and the Soviet Union dichotomy. Europe can be a player again if they stand together in the EU, but if that fails they'll be weak individually....either way the postmodern idea played itself out. I think the World Wars were very much caused by the death of god as a viable philosophical concept and how that made apparent that the aristocrats were not better.
We suppress many different feels yes but. haven't we as a civilization become so enamored with ourselves that we've taken care of those needs without getting our hands bloody. I mean look at the vicarious abilities that just electronic Gaming has given us. A man/boy can surely rid him self of that as the "feminazis" like to say toxic masculinity by fantasy killing, raping, stealing, driving, and shooting.. and that's just GTA. men work out and burn endorphins, they can shoot at ranges, they can hunt and kill things. I think that we pamper ourselves so much that we wouldn't dare let a need build up. That wouldn't be good form in today's atmosphere.
We may get whipped into a war-like frenzy by terrorist attacks like 9/11 our nation has hated Muslims for over a decade now they have been our parents Commies. The war machine is business it's probably actually one of the biggest businesses in the US. The money that congress pays for our conflict is dumfounding when thought about. looking at the spending budget alone is enough to make your jaw hit the floor but the clincher is the in discretionary budget which easily can hit totals three times as high. That's why we wage war for decades against invisible enemies who kill the same people we are killing the poor fucking civilians who don't have a home and don't have any fucking place to go.