MoonHowler

Imagine if these people had not been snuffed out by hate, bigotry and jealousy. What a different world we might live in.

5 Thoughts to “Imagine!”

  1. Elena
    March 23, 2013 at 5:39 pm

    hard to imagine, but wouldn’t it be wonderful……………..

  2. BSinVA
    March 24, 2013 at 1:15 pm

    I’m sure this won’t be popular but, as a people, we need to break down religious and national borders to achieve any peace in the world. We need to both stop stereotyping others and stop being a stereotype ourselves. As a species, humans feel the need to belong to a group for protection. That is still in our collective DNA from when belonging to a tribe was absolutely necessary for survival and running off other tribes was an imperative. We have brains and we have self-determination. We do not have to be tribal anymore.

    1. Moon-howler
      March 24, 2013 at 1:26 pm

      Please explain.

  3. BSinVA
    March 24, 2013 at 4:53 pm

    We kill each other because they (the other tribe) are not like us (my tribe). I instinctively distrust those that may take my land, my resources, my fellow tribesman. If I used my brain more, I would realize that “they” aren’t really after my animals or corn and that they are really just like me. “They” are easily and stupidly defined as those that have a different god than I do, or a different language, flag, accent,skin color, education or that use chopsticks where I use a fork. It is past time that we evolve beyond our tribal instincts and get civilized.

  4. George S. Harris
    March 25, 2013 at 5:46 pm

    Mostly for BSinVA–I think you and others might want to read Napoleon Chagnon’s book, “Noble Savages”. Chagnon is a world renowned anthropologist who spent five years with the Yanomamö Indians, one of the last primitive tribes in the Venezuelan Amazon basin area. He thought he was going to find these “noble savages” who lived very peacefully but instead found a very violent group of primitives who most often fight over women. They weren’t after land, animals, corn or other resources contrary to popular belief. The Yanomamö have very few possessions and since they are hunter/gatherers they don’t have a lot of animals although they do have some gardens. How many remember Jane Elliott’s “Blue Eye-Brown Eye” experiment in Riceville, Iowa more than 50 years ago? Religion, resources, survival, etc. had nothing to do hate, bigotry, and the like-it was all about eye color. It seems we humans have to have someone who is inferior to “us”- the more powerful group–not necessarily larger but more powerful.

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