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Re-Education

much more profitable for men than
peace is?

A time will come when one evil
character will rise up on the inter-
national scene and actually find
solutions for all of these issues
that mankind is facing now, and
they will be put to rest for a time.
The accurate response then will
not be to turn and praise him for
his brilliance, but to ask why all the
PhDs, all the Masters’ degrees, all
the undergraduates, all the diplomas,
all the billionaires and trillionaires of
this world, all the willing men, wom-
The way of love instigated some of the worst crimes en and children who were tired of
Why, instead, can we not just do on earth against other nations and all of these things, all the politicians
what most people try to do in their its own people, goes to a place of of our day could not achieve such
own homes? Smooth things over grieving when its soldiers are killed a thing in their day. Or, rather, to
by working past ego, fear, anger, in battle. Science also claims evi- ask, what prevented them and what
mistrust by humbling ourselves, dence of the negative effects of is the significance of their seeming
making amends for past wrongs continual stress on the body and resolution presently. But I digress.
and genuinely doing what is right in mind of the individual. Meaning
order to ensure that each one only that, at our core, we are actually My point is this. Mankind is en-
receives what is best from our hearts looking for ways in which to have gaged in trivial pursuits that do not
and minds? What is really so diffi- a measure of equilibrium that does add one drop of value to what is
cult about the world changing tack not result in harm by one person really important on this earth. As
in that way? Think about it. If the against another. So, why don’t we go they amass wealth, position and title
world is run by people, and we claim for it? Don’t say it is not possible, unto themselves and pat them-
that it is, then why can the people ask why it has not happened with all selves on the back for all their ‘great
not work out a way of actually the trillions of dollars supposedly achievements’ the real things that
getting along and doing the things being pumped into so-called peace- need doing, go undone. This leaves
that benefit one another instead keeping initiatives around the world society far worse off than before.
of smiling and shaking hands in decade after decade after decade. Far worse of, even, than if they had
pretense, while holding guns behind never existed – because they were
their backs, ready to shoot to kill? Is Ask why it has not happened with called to be an answer, a solution for
it really so hard to change the reality all the weapons that exist on the something that needs their expertise
on the ground? Or is it just a lack earth that seem to increase day by and their specific mandate in order
of willpower that is holding people day. Ask why it has not happened for it to be resolved. However, when
back or are we dealing with humans with all the supposed information they live distracted lives chasing
whose souls have been sold to the surplus that exists that would help after money or the approval and ac-
devil? people learn about the issues and be ceptance by others, then they fail to
able to adjust their positions. Ask understand that they have far greater
Try as I may, I just cannot imagine why it has not happened when the value to God and men than just
that there are people who long to communities on the ground do not these transient and useless things.
live in a perpetual state of chaos. wish to dwell like animals, hunted For what does it profit them to
Even the worst crime lord and the by their own who seek their own gain the whole world’s approval and
worst warlord on earth needs a place destruction. Ask why it has not honor, when the thing for which
to lay his head and wants to find a happened when you do not desire they were actually created and born
way to protect his children and fami- all the madness that you see going goes awry and is never actualized as
ly from harm. Even America, which on around the world to keep being it was intended?
has singlehandedly committed or sustained. Is war and instability that

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