Why the world is failing to find peace.

Throughout the human history, the earth has been a land of conflicts, struggles, and wars. It seems like we have never seen a day of peace. It started from the early days of creation and continues to the present day.

One can argue that the struggle between good and evil is embeded within our very own souls, and that since everyone on earth continuously goes through this struggle, it is natural that this manifests upon our reality in the form of conflicts between parties, groups, and nations.

And while I acknowledge the continuous eternal struggle within, I don't believe that man's own internal struggle is the source of external conflicts. I watched lately a famous tv host discussing the current conflict in Palestine. I was shocked, patrified and appalled when the host mentioned that one of the conflicting parties had "the moral high ground" at the time when this party was killing innocent men, women, and childeren. At the time when the news was filled with photos of murderd babies, grieving fathers and mothers, displaced families, and lost hope.

I then started to think how can a human be so evil to describe what is happening as the moral high ground, how can we discuss proportionality of response when the life of the innocent is in the balance. It initially would seem that it is a case of collective evil within humans wining and manifesting upon our entire reality.

But as I looked deeper I became less convinced that this is the root cause. Humans can not withstand beeing evil, it is against our very nature to surrender to evil and this is why we always find justification to our most atrocities. This is why we always see the moral high ground in our actions.

This has always been the case with every human conflict. This was the case when the invaders decided to get rid of the native americans. This was the case with African slavery, with the british control of their colonies, with the belgian massacares in Congo. Humans always found the moral high ground and a justified reason for all of their atrocities.

And while having a strong value system and principles should have prevented all this misery, and as I argue that most if not all human beings would agree on principles such as just, honor, kindness, and equality, yet in the arena of economy, politics and nations affairs it appears that such principles were set aside and some how the outcome was this miserable unjust world we live in.

So, how come when most of us are coming from those undebatable principles that we reach this outcome. My current believe is that this is not because of the collective evil of man, but more into the mentality that governs the actions of nations.

Throughout the history the world has been driven by a "scarcity mentality" where the only way for one to win is for the other to lose. Where it is mistakenly thought that there is not enough for everyone. Even when idiology would seem to be the source of conflict, it is again driven by scarcity with the only perceived way for an ideology to win is by exterminating other ideologies.

The solution then becomes in dropping this scarcity mentality in favour of an abundance mentality. A mentality where everyone gets to win. Where we can all exist, prosper, and evolve. When a chance is given to all the good principles uncontended with the blind race towards getting it all. Where the struggle between good and evil is kept where it was meant to be, within man's own soul.

The time for an alternative proposition is here, and while this is unprecedented in humam history, I can see no other alternative if we want to live in piece. If we want to be truly equal human beings. If we want to be humans. Abundance mentality is this proposition.

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