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?
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.
It already has. 🫂
(The cost part, I mean.)