I want peace. Do you want peace?
If the answer is yes, then what are we waiting for?
If the answer is no, well, then we are a failed species.
That's how I see it.
We're a first-working-draft species.
We never needed perfection for our genetic material to lurch forward: just sufficient procreative momentum.
The real agony came from the confused tendrils of higher concepts we learned to slap onto our actions: "justice", "morality", "peace", "humanity".
Aquinas wanted so much to believe that we ache around such imperfect concepts because a perfect form exists.
But no.
We ache because we're *just* wise enough to grasp our inadequacy.
@MLClark Which begs to ask if we will ever be able to make that leap.
It's possible. But is it achievable?
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@Tacitus_Kilgore @MLClark We are slow learners but we are heading there. Dragging along with us genetic throwbacks that are extremely loud while we quietly walk into a more enlightened future. I never see the hour hand move yet it does. If I look at some issues from my younger years they have moved as well, though they still have quite a ways to go.
@Lucky188 Indeed. There is always hope. @MLClark