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(posted by one of the messengers, All rights re-served, 2015)bully

S. Hawking warns that “human aggression threatens to destroy us all”:

My wimpy friend would say U the same thing, but it’s good to have more authoritative figure to say something that we all can see every day of our lives. If U don’t see it, while not being Buddha-like person, pliz tell me where do U live, i promise we will live quietly near by and will be very nice to all 5 people of your village. I don’t want to retell the news, U can read it here for ex.:    http://news.discovery.com/space/hawking-our-aggression-will-destroy-humanity-150223.htm

As my boss likes to say (aggressively, may i say): “It’s not a rocket science” (about the job i’m a little getting paid for once in a while). (It’s funny how people use the same trivial cliches for decades w/o getting tired of it and even saying it each time with a “smarty smile”, as if saying: “Obviously your job is not a rocket science, but to say it to U by me was pretty clever”. He does it every week (at least to different employees). But it’s not as bad as it can sound, because he’s a living example for me of a famous and profound Heraclitus’ sentence: “You cannot step into the same river twice, for other waters are continually flowing on.” Therefore according to Heraclitus my boss is never repeating himself and it’s me who cannot understand the ever-changing nature of things. Nevertheless if i will ever meet S. Hawking or at least average physicist, after polite “How R U?” i will politely ask to demystify that scary “science of the rockets”, because i’m tired of my boss…i mean feeling stupid that i feel headache only from hearing “aerospace engineering”.), so although it’s not a rocket science (it’s a human psychology) not many prominent figures talk about our real problems. May be they assume that this is inherent human nature and only God could help us, but we talk about wars, weapons, violence, murders, etc., but we are rarely talking about their roots. At least in the mass media. But Aggression even worst than Recession, or may be i’m wrong…

But being a wimpy…   However from my friend’s experience i do understand in human aggression from my personal experience and under the protection of the great mind and cosmologist Mister S. Hawking i feel more safe to talk about something that also obviously is not a “rocket science”. & if my boss will make a fuss, i will be more confident this time: “i’m not alone.  U probably heard of Mr. S.Hawking or saw the movie, since U R so fond of the rocket science, so….And before i forget…U remember me working on a Martin Luther King Jr. Day? U respect him so much, U probably know he said “Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.” Do U remember how U treated us on that day? Yes, exact the same way U treat us always. But at least out of respect for your respected MLK Jr. U could at least pretend.”

There R 2 reasons why i talk so elaborately about my boss. The 1st is obvious, & the 2nd one is that i believe in a personal aggression. Of course wars in Middle East, East Europe, Africa, etc. is a worldwide Tragedy. Murders, bullying, humiliation every minute, everywhere is a living hell. I was there, I saw it. But i also know that all the wars combined (unless they R in my city) don’t affect me even a tenth of what i feel after my boss dishonors my human dignity. I know he’s sure i don’t have one, but i disagree with him on that too. To me “it’s not a rocket science” to see that every living (yes, not only human) being feels pain when is being treated as someone unworthy and inferior. Not every human or animal shows it, but we all feel it. Losers are not different from winners in a sense that they need respect too. & if U say “it’s a tough competition, “survival of the fittest” and all that kind BS, then, fine…go and survive. But pretty soon U will need a rocket to go and look for another planet. It’s not me saying, it’s S. Hawking (aha!…) Luckily, U do understand in rocket science, so enjoy the incredible views of out-of-space!

If U think that my boss looks (from inside of course) something like this: Evil_Creature__Wallpapers

… then no, He is one of the best i met and since i’m not a rocket scientist i met a lot. He kind of a nice guy, when he’s not in his role of the professional boss. If U”ll meet him on a train he might smile to U, if U”ll meet him in a store he might wish U good day, if U”ll meet him in a strip club he might even…Anyway, what i meant to say is that to my belief Mr. S. Hawking is not talking only about the real dangers to the Mother Earth like wars, nukes and such, U don’t need to be a rocket scientist  (did i just say it myself?) to understand how this is very bad. extremely bad. Super Bad! What we gonna do w/o Earth? Even in a movies it looks pretty bad. Yet, the root for that Super Danger is not there, the real origins of all wars and violence are here, in our daily lives. Aggression (explicit or implicit) that comes to us through our bosses, classmates, spouses, neighbors, coworkers, police officers, cashiers, government workers or just someone who is passing by is much much much more poisons us than Big Genocide 1000 miles from our home. & the reason is simple: emotions r contagious.

As S.Hawking remarked (since those scientists want so much to believe that everything which is natural must also be useful): “It (aggression) may have had survival advantage in caveman days, to get more food, territory or a partner with whom to reproduce, but now it threatens to destroy us all.” I personally think that life must be much more complex and diverse than just animal features and all that Darwinistic…what’s the right polite word?.. mistake? Yes, inside the perspective of 1 specific caveman it looks as if the purpose of aggression is to achieve something valuable/desirable (food/sex/respect) …wait a minute… i see many parallels around me, except the cage thing. Also it’s unclear to me if it means that he is optimistic about human species, that we can learn to get food/family/status by other means than simple (or sophisticated) violence. Unfortunately, in our days aggression still has “survival advantage”, although not always as blunt as in prehistoric times. Although again, depending on a place and time. Aggression is still very useful and beneficial (if U, of course much stronger than your opponent, that’s why usually we see so called “hierarchical aggression”, as in army: U can yell on someone as much as U want, as long as U R superior on them. Of course in modern times in some areas of life instead of physical fight or yelling there R tests, firings (out of job), gossips, judgings, music concerts or sport games.

My apologies for a long post (i only started), but i completely agree with S. Hawking (if i understood correctly what he meant): what kills us it’s not so called (abstract) wars, when it’s some leaders faults or greedy capitalists or whatever they say in newspaper. It’s only the outcome. The reason, cause, IMHO, is always one: our mental state is similar to that of the caveman, he spoke about: our collective psychological development (i think some people call it EQ) is more-or-less at the same level of primitive people.

(to be continued, until the end of the Aggression)

grey color designates the parenthesis, kind of footnote, annotation.

Disclaimer: I don’t really speak English, so i apologize for all the hard-to read passages. i’m not here to write, but to call. for Peace. Inner. Also due to a few injuries and traumas during long periods of my life, i always try to be funny, while talking about serious issues. Sorry) Don’t take me too serious in places where i am not. Thank U!