I want to publish 2 – B4Peace posts this month.
Like the first one, Where Childhood Thrives, I don’t want to talk so much from my own experience but to give you something to think about in story form.
So, let me share this story:
There is a story by Osho which tells us how humanity has been indoctrinated by the system.
The story is called:
The Animal School
The animals got together in the forest one day and decided to start a school. There was a rabbit, a bird, a squirrel, a fish, and an eel, and they formed a board of directors.
The rabbit insisted that running be in the curriculum. The bird insisted that flying be in the curriculum. The fish insisted that swimming had to be in the curriculum, and the squirrel said that perpendicular tree climbing was absolutely necessary to the curriculum. They put all these things together and wrote a curriculum guide. Then they insisted that all of the animals take all of the subjects.
Although the rabbit was getting an A in running, perpendicular tree climbing was a real problem for him. He kept falling over backward. Pretty soon he got to be sort of brain-damaged and could not run anymore. He found that instead of making an A in running he was making a C, and of course he always made an F in perpendicular climbing.
The bird was really beautiful at flying, but when it comes to burrowing in the ground, he could not do well. He kept breaking his beak and wings. pretty soon he was making a C in flying as well as an F in burrowing, and he had a hell of a time with perpendicular climbing.
Finally, the animal who ended up being valedictorian of the class was a mentally retarded eel who did everything halfway. But the educators were really happy because everybody was taking all the subjects, and it was called a “broad-based education”.
(Osho 2001, 151)
I’m sure there are many who would disagree with me, but I rather think this is about how the U.S. has come to feel about other nations. We intervene in their affairs and when we are all done they aren’t themselves, and they aren’t us, and too often we have bombed their society into ruins.
Kashmiri’s seach the rubble of their bombed out home
Iraq Violence
Embrace Serendipity 
I agree to a point about interfering in other countries. I think we put more money into foreign countries than we do to our own. They get used to leaning on us. Realistically, I don’t believe there will ever be world peace. Someone once said something like, “If there’s people involved, it will never be right.”
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love that last thought.
Never the less — witnessing the insanity of war without any objections is obscene.
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