War on War

Edmond Burke once said: All evil needs to triumph, is for good men to do nothing. Even though we consider ourselves to be good people, war still is fought (in the name of god or people). Hardly ever dare we say it is a good war or that any war could in fact be good. There are two simple things we could all do to end ‘war’.
To explain why you’d need to do these things, I’m going to tell a story, see if you recognize yourself.
I know I’m a good person, because I live in a western democracy, have access to the internet and know just how bad the world is. I’m rich enough to give to charity and it’s tax deductible so I do it. I lean towards buddhist philosophy so I’m willing to look at people as sentient beings, willing and able to do good deeds (and therefor be described as ‘good’). All that needs to be done is for the veil of ignorance to be lifted and compassion to take its place. The buddha nature of mankind has no choice to to manifest itself in such an environment.
Now how does one actually go about this? Random acts of kindness are no enough. We must wage war on war. Tactics and skill are required to combat this illness. The intellectual gravitas of striking metaphorical swords is often delegated to chess players and philosophers. To remain limited to these dimensions is to allow mankind to perish by its own sword, now a fully automatic rifle and smart bombs. To declare war on an idea is the nature of a warriorlike society, such as the United States of America. They’ve had wars on poverty, drugs and even terror. Because when terror takes on the grandeur of war, I’ve decided to nuance and engage myself.
Large scale terror and war are a disease to humankind. Strategic planning is needed for our habitat and our species to survive. This rate of expansion and encrouchement on each others space (Homo Sapiens amongst each other and at the expense of the ecological system sustaining them) is destructive, indeed, self-destructive. Some guidelines on how to prevent this follow.
First, hug strangers. This is perhaps the most nervewrecking and horrible experience that I’m saving for last. This interpersonal contact seriously alters once consciousness and that of others. The ’self’, your personal space included, is violated and contact is made, up to an organ that covers our body, the skin. Touching has actual biological ramifications in the sphere of health. But that’s not the point, the point is it has consequences on well being. Empathy is mentally reinforced and neurons associated with laughing/smiling (because or by lack of embarressment) are burned even more deeply into memory and thought pathways. Not only is the almost inevitable effect that you’ll be a happier, friendlier human being; in the act of hugging, reciprocality often occurs. It becomes a two way street of equals, sharing this odd and pleasant experience. Suddenly, the streets are filled with persons for two people! Potential hug autonoma come more into focus. Cars and consumption goods are dimmed in light of this potentialities. Aggression and dominance are tendencies of any biological system, but in we can address these issues neutrally. We can observe the effects of actions, by experimentation they can be proven or refuted by scientific means. This action related to culture. There are many other systems that define our behavior. Less related to the ’software of the mind’ as Hofstede tends to call it, is the hardware.
Mckenna called this the ‘operation system’ of the mind, and perhaps he’s more accurate on a deep level. Discounting Paul Stamets idea that fungi are sentient and John M. Allegro’s thoughts on Jesus being an allegory for one, I’m inclined to think of fungi and plantea as inferior to animalea. In the tree of life this makes no sense, because Darwin would be surprised at any attempt to make a taxonomical distinction into a hierarchical one. Nevertheless, I’m an egalitarian for animals only. Bacteria have to die of natural causes (my immune system) and even (animalea!) insects that will bite or suck my blood are subject to extermination when they invade my sleeping area. Granted there are preferences even within this system of life. I prefer people feed and lavish people first with water, then other (descendents of) primates. After these conditions have been met, perhaps we could eat some animals, such as the ones with exoskeletons (protein). In the meanwhile, there’s nothing in my moral perception of life that could stop us from eating seeds, flowers(fruits), leaves(vegetables) and roots of plants. Even fungi aren’t safe. Perhaps this explains why India (and ancient persian cultures) venerates cows. Their dung is the easiest place for spores to grow. Visual accuity is increased by low consumption, higher doses enable higher rates of procreation. The evolutionary effects are explained by McKenna is what is vulgarised into the ’stoned ape theory’. Early (pre) religions and burial of the dead (belief of something beyond this) occurs around this time. Currently we’re still experiencing the mead (honey based alcohol) evolutionary path of neurochemistry (though by the use of cybergenitics this could easilty be altered in the future). This wasn’t always so. Since the ‘new’ stone age, the most recent one, when most tools were being made that bonobos or chimps can’t seem to make, we also grew hemp and it’s psychoactive sister. Having learned fire, dried weed(s) were often used to (dried leaves and even flowers burning faster than wood) keep it going. The effects were similar to what in popular culture is called passing the peace pipe (native americans who used tabacco). Having moved out of africa into the asians plateaus, cannabis (the plant containing 60 cannabiniods) is found to be flourishing everywhere. The endocannabiniod system is over 600 millions years and has several receptors in the mammalian brain, especially homo sapiens sapiens having at least two (conservative well studied ones) CB-receptors. This co-evolution could be between rather aware lifeforms (plants are older in the evolutionary branches of life, but they wanted to spread faster so they grew more complex and faster lifeforms) but assume that there’s no ‘knowledge’ on either side.
Imagine early hunter gatherer not knowing what he was consuming or putting on fires before he started domesticating the animals that produced these specific plants and fungi and fungi not knowing where you just stepped and instantly growing towards that spot -as it does for some reason, like tropisme in photosyntetic plants. In this instance (which could be said to hold true for most of modern day human society), what goes in, still must come out. If we eat less red meat and consume less alcohol, there will be an observable effect on both body and mind. But this is not enough given what we know (and more importantly we don’t know and have not tested as possible) about our evolution. Most of nature has been around for a long time (before homo sapiens first appeared, the rate of extinction was 100-100x slower as it is today -depending on which species you count-). Some of it only became taboo or even illegal recently (hemp replaced by wine 2000 years ago, made into an actual crime 200 years ago). Though generations this has an effect, but nothing that we couldn’t genetically engineer in the near future. Not that we need to do this. It still has a within generation effect, it is indeed culture. Neuropathways are blown apart and reconfiguring at increasing rates. Suddenly the effects seem to have worn off, but reality is never perceived the same (of course it never is, we constantly travel through time and space, negating the possibility of having an actual deja vu). THC and CBD grow a social conscioussness, psilocybe is deeply introspective (re-evaluating beliefs, assumptions and shared values). Therefor, the second step must be guerilla growfare. Have flamethrower equipped police be a requirement for this insane policy to be inforced. Just make sure you’re near the smoke when they torch it all. Free spores and seeds! Throw them everywhere!