A call to peace

Question from the Internet:

“What is your call to peace?”

I do not have a call for peace. I constantly feel a call for war. As a result of the inherently self-serving, self-justifying, egocentric and individualistic nature that drives all of us by default, I constantly feel the urge to challenge, incite, provoke and overcome others. I am constantly thriving towards ruthless, exclusive competition since even defining myself and proving myself depends on how I compare to others.

This is how we all work inside — knowingly, unknowingly and our greatest pleasure is when we succeed at the expense of others. Just look at how we conduct our debates, what TV shows, even board games teach us, lead us to. Just look at the language we use when sports teams play and defeat each other, look at how supporters of different sports teams or political parties behave.

We constantly want to destroy, trash, humiliate, mock, erase and cancel, censor and muzzle each other, our whole life is about gain control over others so we could manipulate and exploit them.

Human society is built like a pyramid, with the more selfish, more shrewd and skilful egotists — who also have the best conditions and luck — ruling over and exploiting the less fortunate masses of egotists. But given the abilities and the right conditions, we would all want to be at the peak of the pyramid, doing exactly the same things we now despise as “they” do it to us.

Peace is not natural or instinctive to us. If we want true peace — instead of ineffective, unfair and temporary peace agreements — we need to learn how to overcome our inherent nature.

We have to learn how to build positive, sustainable, mutually responsible and mutually complementing interconnections and cooperation above and against our instincts and everything that incessantly tries to separate and reject us from each other.

We do not have a “call for peace”, instead, we need to call peace upon us by consciously, purposefully and methodically preparing ourselves for it.