Peace grows on trees.

This is a bit I wrote after being disgusted by the new age hippie and listening to some of their ideas. Its all open for discussion, and intellectual debate is welcome. I enjoy hearing other perspectives, so please, add your two cents.


"Only the dead have seen the end of war."

At the risk of seeming pretentious, I open with a quote from Plato. The quote, as I'll explain, is necessary.

In order to acknowledge this quote it's important to realize that, in the same way, those who know peace have met death. Radical is the idea that mankind can obtain understanding intrinsic to itself to set aside cultural perspective for purpose of living in unison. If these ideas are not cultivated into beliefs throughout the intellectual lifespan collectively, then they are just ideas. I have not personally experienced any manifestation of the idea based on the design of the hopes of the new age hippie. The ones who brandish peace signs abundantly. Futility in peace is the same as futility in war. There are few things that I will resign to about mankind as a whole, this is one of those things. When pacifists put to action their specific breed of protest for the sake of peace, they in their actions are only waging war. Resistance and protest are not peaceful exploits. We take what we need, and the forceful nature by which we do so eliminates the hope that the understanding of peace can be recognized. Your own personal peace is the only thing you should hope for, and let societies do what societies do. Never will man lay down their arms in the name of peace, not when assets, resources, and lives are at risk; not even when morality is at risk. In a peaceful world where man is left to his devices death, violence, and crime no matter how petty, can be the only derivative. Ignorance is a great and only platform for which ecumenical peace to stand on. I end with a quote from a very quotable guy, one which I admire.

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." John F. Kennedy.