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.

@Tacitus_Kilgore

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?

@Tacitus_Kilgore

I see a lot of people who can temper their worst behaviours when they have enough needs met.

And I see a world in which most of us live with relentless exposure to stressors (media, environmental) that put them squarely in the category of "not having needs met".

And I see media & ecosocial stressors getting worse--upping tribalist derangement--in a cascade failure.

So no, I don't think it's achievable.

We can only try to gentle the ache of that failure for those around us.

@MLClark As I've said, if it is going to happen, it will come at great cost.