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WAR
by Seb

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Humans killing other humans 
on a mass scale

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has always been a part of humanities 
quite brutal tale.

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From hands to stones, to knives, to guns, 
to atomic bombs and so forth,

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the destructive power of humans 
now threatens all life on planet Earth.

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The reality of war is very foreign for some,

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yet extremely real for others.

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Just imagine the complete destruction and loss of your 
home, culture, childhood, friends, sisters, and brothers.

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Sadly the free market has no consideration 
for how that would feel.

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Instead, it reinforces the rich to profit off another
billion dollar arms deal.

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Far over 100 million people have been killed 
in the wars of the 20th century alone.

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It really is the most primitive and brutal waste of lives, 
resources and time humanity has ever known.

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Some estimates for the total number 
of humans killed in all wars in history

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goes up to 1 billion people,

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and until this day so much is still invested into making drones, battleships, tanks

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and all kind of military equipment 
more and more lethal.

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Currently, we also have more than 
100 million soldiers worldwide.

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The task of these people is not to protect 
the human race from another species,

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but instead, it is to fight and kill other humans 
with dividing beliefs of national pride.

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Many believe being a soldier 
is a very honorable thing.

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That seems like a highly subservient point of view as 
it’s always the poor who die in battle and never the king.

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To me, real honor has to do with unity, understanding and non-violently refusing.

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We must shift our attitude from 
one of fear and aggression

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to one of courage and compassion 
before we all end up losing.

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Just like those who lost their lives 
in Nagasaki and Hiroshima,

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Nazi Germany, Rwanda, Armenia, Russia, Iraq, 
and the list would never end.

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We have to start understanding who benefits and why 
we have war if we truly wish to change and transcend.

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Sadly, the causes of war are still not properly 
presented in today’s average history class,

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as most books don’t touch upon false flag
operations, the military industrial complex

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and the upper banking class.

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Students need to learn that the mess 
in the middle east is not an error.

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It is a highly profitable situation where big
oil companies, arms dealers and banks

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make insanely high amounts of money 
off manufactured terror.

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They also need to learn that there is a big difference between what is reported by the mainstream media

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and what is actually going on in places 
like Iraq, Yemen, and Syria.

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War is unacceptable, yet in today's market 
system it is structurally inevitable.

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Hence, in order to overcome it we must 
design a new socioeconomic model

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where profiting from mass murder 
is systemically impossible.

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Maybe instead of spending so much time and resources on how to improve and profit

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from mental, physical, racial, geopolitical 
and ultimately self-destructive torture,

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we should invest our energy on creating new 
sustainable and peaceful social structures

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where we use understanding rather than violence 
to bridge our differences in culture.

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To Understand More about the potential 
to create a world beyond war

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please check out Tromsite, The Venus Project 
and The Zeitgeist Movement.

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Thanks for listening and much love.

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