What If We’re Actually Terrified of Peace?
A chorus of timeless minds cuts through the noise of contemporary chaos When Timeless Wisdom Meets Modern Folly Imagine a council of history’s most profound thinkers and leaders, summoned from across the ages to witness our world of digital echo chambers and drone strikes. Picture King Baldwin IV, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Jesus Christ, John F. Kennedy, Robin Williams, Socrates, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Friedrich Nietzsche gathered in a room, gazing upon our “advanced” civilization. What would they make of our endless conflicts, our geopolitical games, and our refusal to learn from the past? What would they say about a society that champions progress while enabling atrocities? Their collective voice might be more piercing than we’re ready to hear. Photo by British Library on Unsplash The Theater of Perpetual Enemies Our world has mastered a craft that even the most cynical of ancient minds would find staggering: the industrialization of enmity. We’ve engineered a g...
