The Walls of Society:

Let’s go back to the hunter who killed the animal. Maybe when he arrived back in the village to feed the community he was celebrated and after many more hunts he has now become an expert on the ways of hunting. People look up to him and seek him out for advice. Some of the villagers decide that he should look after the whole village and make decisions that will benefit everyone. Other people who do different tasks that are maybe not recognised as important disagree. The village is divided and a vote takes place. The hunter is voted in and he appoints his friend as his helper. Authority and hierarchy are now taking shape and before long people stop listening to their inner knowing and instead follow the instructions of the hunter. His sons are born and they too are proven to be good hunters, so they take his place upon his death. His daughters are married off only to worthy hunters and they hope their children will have the great hunter in them. Generations later we have more people and a council is created, laws and rules are set and the hunters also form a group to protect the community from invading animals or other tribes. As the community grows so does power, authority, wealth, trade and hierarchy, until we reach where we are today, which also includes nations, governments, wars, poverty and starvation.

What started off as a small band of like-minded people has expanded out into huge egregores of vast churning machines that want to build more power and more wealth. Each country has its own society, its own way of doing things. If one country believes another country should change its way of doing things or wants its fertile lands for its own, it declares war and millions of people are sent out to massacre other humans who have been deemed as separate from them.

For generations this way of killing has been accepted and we think nothing of training eighteen-year-old youths in combat systems. After an acceptable amount of preparation they are then sent by the government to war-torn areas to butcher other people’s children, fathers, brothers, mothers and sisters and we call it a fight against terrorism or a necessary war for national security. We even give people medals and recognition for their war efforts, but when a crime occurs in the slums of a city involving the stabbing of young kids by opposite gang warfare, we cry in outrage and demand justice. Is this not a reflection of war on a smaller scale? Or does it become a ‘crime’ because neither side is backed by a government? In some countries children as young as ten are taught the basis of war and given weapons with the intent to kill. Is this the future that our children can look forward to?

How can we be so contradictory? How can we wage campaigns in schools against bullying and punish children for hitting other children, yet when they get to eighteen we send them off to train as legal murderers? The military and the police force have often been found guilty of bullying and these very same institutions are what we created to protect society, so what does this say about the workings of society? It is a system that separates, divides and contradicts. It works for its own betterment in the areas of power and wealth and it has a dynamic ability to control and manipulate the masses. There are two groups in any society, those that have and those that do not have and there is a wall between them.

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