In reference to David Heilpern’s editorial, (Comment, January 15) Is land sharing the future?
I would say that if we don’t learn how to share land as a species, we don’t have a future.
In my unsophisticated brain the three main causes of war are:
First, psychopathic leaders, and their favoured pyramidic, outdated forms of government and business structures, and docile, and compliant citizens/slaves.
Second, our attachment, to the security of groups for now invalid reasons of survival, and to belonging, for reasons of identity, and feeling special, more, better or different. Think sport, tribal, social, gender, intellectual, cultural, racial, national, political, religious, spiritual and the one neglected group to which we all actually already do belong, but seem to overlook and under rate, human.
Third, our obsession with possession and ownership of land and resources.
So David, I think you’re right on the money there with your article, as were our nomadic, Indigenous brothers and sisters but the question is, how do we shake us non-indigenous agriculturalists of our 11,000 year old, Neolithic habit and attachment to mine, mine, mine?
Also thank you to Sapoty Brook (Letters, January 22) for his confirmation of the high degree of psychopaths in our world, three per cent with one per cent being severe. Unfortunately many of the one per cent would be our business, political, religious, and spiritual leaders I’d say. (Please check Wiki’s definition of psychopath – they’re not all killers, mostly they’re egotistical, narcissistic, control freaks with an unfortunate, for us all, inclination to violence, that lack empathy and remorse).
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