Military conflicts are on the rise.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In the last decade, we have seen the start of major and still ongoing armed conflicts in Ukraine, Gaza, and many other places \u2015 not to speak of a rumble that disconcertingly keeps roaring between China and the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Is the past not a reminder of the insanity and absurd simplicity of war<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Has humanity forgotten to grow up?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Industrial<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The weapon industry has a considerable influence on warmongering by simultaneously providing the weapons and fostering the reasons for using them. The latter is done not so much through direct intervention as indirectly \u2015 say, negative nudging, \u2018divide and rule,\u2019 fostering a general feeling of danger and more negativity in the background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2.5 trillion US$ is spent on the military yearly \u2015 2.3% of the total world GDP, the biggest spenders being the US, China, and Europe. Does that look like the rationality of developed countries? Does that seem like an amount of money that isn\u2019t amenable to Big Corruption?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Spend 2.5 billion US$ wisely, and there is no need to spend 2.5 trillion US$ on the industry of killing people. The wise spending comes with a return on investment of 100.000%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This doesn\u2019t make all involved into \u2018bad people,\u2019 but let\u2019s not be na\u00efve. There is Corruption, and there is Anxiety \u2015 and more within a self-enhancing pattern. There is also a lot of the above being realized by those who don\u2019t realize why and what they are doing<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Me-syndrome<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The me-syndrome<\/a> doesn\u2019t make anyone bad \u2015 but it shows how people can just-not-think or just-not-feel concerning those outside of the small circle. Eventually, it’s all ‘me first’ in the setting of this syndrome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The result at a large scale is a lack of broad empathy and a flowing along with whatever happens to stream by \u2014 even in the worst setting. Seemingly normal, the me-syndrome has the direst consequences, such as an unremitting blindness to what underlies war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The perverse mechanism.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This weapon industry (unfortunately, not the only one) directly prospers through the misery of many people while letting some individuals gain tons of money. It’s not only about those dying at war, but also the many for whom resources (money, people, insights) are lacking through being diverted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The main perversity lives in the abuse of some of humanity’s best qualities, such as the urge to defend one\u2019s people, love-turned-into-revenge, and the attraction from religious feelings. A lot of human energy (deep motivation) can thus be reaped and abused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n War is the product of anxiety on top of hostility.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n For instance, by feeling disrespected, manipulated, or \u2018made to look weak.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n Where there is fear, there can be talked at the surface level, and a solution readily found. This is different from anxiety, which is always irrational. Unfortunately, anxiety on one side of a conflict is enough for the grinding of war. If not checked or defused, the grinding may go harder and harder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Are weapons needed to defend the own population?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n That, at least, seems a good argument. However, on the other side of any conflict, the same argument is used. So, if both populations would listen deeply to each other, would they still need weapons to defend themselves?<\/p>\n\n\n\n The only decent answer is \u2018no.\u2019 Deep communication can make populations feel like one, which in the end, we all are \u2014 globally. This way, any two populations can feel like one, taking out any reason for war, thereby making it a futile undertaking<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Let\u2019s not be na\u00efve. Profoundly na\u00efve is any other vision. There is no people\u2019s enemy, only people\u2019s being manipulated \u2015 of which we see a lot. The above-mentioned industry plays a sorry role in this, but it cannot do so without the me-syndrome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n War rules where peace withers.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n So, peace should be the focus. Each individual can work on that. Global peace comes from within many people<\/a>, including you and me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Also, this is not a simple happening. Many things are related to many other things in different conscious and non-conscious ways \u2015 for instance, in the way we heal psycho-somatically. Either we fight disease, or we grow toward health by listening to symptoms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The latter is the core of AURELIS, of course.<\/p>\n