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Superior Human Nature?

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Isn’t it funny, we consider ourselves enlightened and superior to all we see?

Yet we feel the need to tear at each other, much like an animal.

We glorify the killing of other humans just like us,

Whose only crime was to be different in our eyes.

Slav.  Austrian.  German.  Brit.  American.   Canadian.  Malaysian.  Chinese.  Etc.  Is there truly a difference?

Racism’s, Nationalism’s, Greed’s tainted grasp on the reality of humanity illuminates the difference, no matter what others think.

White Man’s Burden, ethnic cleansing – see genocide – vengeance, biological warfare………..

How many reasons can we invent?  How many ways can we kill each other?  Is anyone keeping track?

Why do we keep falling backwards each time we make progress?

I know whom to ask.  All the people who are dead because of this human invention called War.
A poem that questions war....

It was an assignment about WWI for AP Euro, but I liked it, so I decided to put it up here.
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freaktrigger's avatar
nicely done... the picture really seems to outline the "my daddy can beat up your daddy" attitude taken in so many wars...