Needless Wars, Death, and Destruction
Power Hungry Dictators Vs The Peace Hungry Masses
It’s one of the most painful contradictions of our time.
That everywhere you look, there is violence, war, exploitation, displacement, devastation, when most people, in their hearts, just want to live in peace…
To love their families.
To be safe.
To share laughter.
To make meaning.
To rest without fear.
To be left alone by those who hunger for power.
To contribute something useful, and be part of something good.
This isn’t a naive wish.
It’s a deeply human one.
And yet, every day we witness a world that does not reflect this.
Where the few in power continue to choose the destruction of life for their personal gain.
Where peace is treated as weakness.
Where domination is normalised, profit prioritised, and brutality dressed in the language of necessity.
Most People Are Not the Problem
Most people are not monsters.
They are not hungry for war.
They do not benefit from destruction.
They are not asking for empire, or exploitation, or endless growth at any cost.
Most people are just trying to get through the day with some measure of grace.
But we live in a world where a few are given immense, unchecked power, and they do not act on behalf of the many.
They act to preserve systems built on extraction, hierarchy, and control.
And the rest of us, through overwhelm, exhaustion, or fear, are left to survive within the consequences of their actions.
This is not the natural order of things.
This is another hijacking.
Make No Mistake, We Have Been Lied To
We’re continually told humans are inherently selfish and violent.
That peace is just a dream.
That war is inevitable.
That someone always has to lose. That its survival of the fittest.
But these are not truths.
They are the propaganda of power hungry individuals, devoid of their humanity.
And, are maintained through a deluge of repetitive narratives of fear and division.
Because if we believe peace is impossible, we stop demanding it.
If we believe we are separate, we stop protecting each other.
If we believe nothing will ever change, we stop imagining how it could.
But the truth still lives inside us, quiet, ancient, undeniable…
We belong to each other.
We were made for cooperation, not conquest.
And our longing to live in harmony is not foolish, it’s holy.
The Power of Ordinary People Has Not Disappeared, It’s Just Been Diverted
What would happen if the energy we pour into survival, competing, and polarisation was redirected toward healing?
Toward repair?
Toward remembering our shared humanity? Toward care and protection of the innocent and vulnerable?
Toward protecting what is sacred?
Toward confronting the systems that manufacture division, and choosing to see through them?
This isn’t just a dream.
It’s already happening.
The current system may be louder right now.
But the people are wiser.
And make no mistake, that collective wisdom is rising again.
We Must Not Forget What We’re Made For
We are not made to kill each other.
We are not made to compete for scraps.
We are not made to be pawns in someone else’s power game.
We are made for kinship.
For shared meals, shared grief, shared joy.
For tending the land and telling stories.
For protecting children, the elderly, and honouring ancestors.
For music and meaning and the sacred art of enough.
This is not wishful thinking. This is not idealism.
This is inherent memory.
Cellular. Ancestral. True.
So What Do We Do?
We hold the contradiction.
We grieve what’s being lost.
But we refuse to normalise what is inhumane.
And then, we do what humans have always done in times of collapse…
We create community.
We speak up, we become fiercely honest.
We choose peace, not passivity, but loud presence.
We live in a way that interrupts destruction and honours life.
We remember our collective power.
We imagine, create, build, bless, protect.
We live as if harmony is possible, and in doing so, we make it more real.
Because it is possible.
We’ve just forgotten that we’re the ones who decide.