We are all aggressors

Question from the Internet:

“Is it a good sign that a single person’s aggression is causing war conflicts? Will it lead to the annihilation of the human species?”

I am not sure what you mean by “single person’s aggression”. If you mean that the war in Ukraine is the “work” of a single, deranged or evil person while everybody else are innocent bystanders, then you are mistaken.

It is similar to the notion that we just had to get rid of Trump in order to make the world a better place. Did it work? Especially considering that for 4 years we had relative peace in the world while he was the President of the US and as before him, now we are again back to war.

Putin is not the sole reason for this war, the reason this war broke out is multi-factorial and many other nations — especially those who now try to play the “righteous” judge providing solutions — were and are involved.

It is the same in history. If it was not for such characters like Napoleon, Hitler, Stalin and others, then it would have been different characters performing basically the same actions as this is how it was dictated by history and the conditions humanity had.

As long as we all blindly follow our inherently cancer-like, ruthlessly competitive, reckless, hateful and exploitative egos, we will stumble from one inevitable vicious historic cycle, from one crisis to another.

It is a catchy idea that we have “evil ones”, “rotten apples” in human society, and by getting rid of them we solve our problems. We already know from history and from the events of our times that it is not true.

We are all the same, only the extent our egos drives us, the extent to how much one is ready to sacrifice oneself and others are different.

As a result, there will not be any true, lasting solution until we all start changing, upgrading ourselves so we could build “Nature-like” mutual integration and cooperation above and against our instincts.