RE: You can't choose your neighbours
Globally, there is no country that gets along with its neighbors. Jesus, even Belgium is an artificially created country to serve as a buffer in the complicated warring relations between Germany and France. I think it should finally be openly acknowledged that Earth is a hostile and warring territory. (No wonder aliens don't like us.) If you look at the world news, the calls for armaments and increased spending on weapons, it can be clear where the focus is in this world. Besides money, there is also hostility.
On a micro level, the issue with problem neighbors is huge, perhaps for the same reason as above. It is very difficult to influence or change people who are not good to begin with. There are laws, yes, and it is good that they were created probably for this purpose - to control bad people in some way and they help to some extent, but only to some extent. For some time now I've been thinking how good it is that laws were ever created, that there is still some kind of state organization... Until the next psychopath appears with calls for war, lies and false values, distorting reality, hiding behind religion or some invented ideology.
But generally, if you look at things from a global perspective, maybe you'll calm down, because things are the way they are. And they won't change. Not in our lifetime. Not in that of future generations.
You’ve said it so well. Sometimes it really does feel like conflict is part of human DNA. History just keeps repeating itself; only the costumes change. Power, greed, fear — same story, different century.
Maybe we humans just love drawing lines, borders, ideologies, even emotional ones, and then spend our lives guarding them. Laws and systems do help, but only till someone decides their truth is the only one that matters. Then the cracks start showing all over again.
From a distance, you’re right. This world has always been a restless place, and maybe the best we can do is find our own sense of peace within it. Collective peace feels like a dream that keeps slipping away.
No wonder aliens don’t visit us. Who’d want to deal with this drama anyway?
Do you believe in alien conspiracy theories, by the way? It’s such an interesting topic for me… maybe a whole other kind of conflict to explore! They must be having their own conflicts... No?
I guess there are too many species, each with its own peculiarities, specificities, systems, problems too. Humans are too undeveloped creatures, and the earth is too sad a place to live, for us to imagine that we are the only ones. I think it's been said and shown thousands of times, whether through movies, reports, and documentary videos, but people are too egocentric to "believe it."
I always use this "joke" about aliens when I talk about the misery of life on earth, but it's not so much a joke. (It's a joke, as long as I don't present myself to people as crazy.😂) But somehow my mind can't accept that this is the only one here. It would be very sad. It already is.
It took me a lot to realize it, to somewhat assimilate what is happening on the global stage. I understand why most people don't want to think about it - it's just not rational, we are put here to just live, no matter what is happening around us. And it's almost always scary around us.