Why is there a war?

(4) The existence of war does not affect the essence of the existence and development of social harmony, while the disappearance of war declares that mankind has entered a smart and harmonious society. The war between human beings stems from the survival competition between creatures, so the discussion of war civilization must first understand the survival competition. The survival competition between creatures is for the continuation of race, and the premise of this competition is to adapt to the environment and live in harmony. Under the control of the food chain, this kind of competition is not to destroy opponents, nor to conquer opponents. It is purely for one's own survival, but also to serve other creatures unconsciously, which has always been limited by the food chain. This kind of survival competition seems cruel, but it completely conforms to the natural law of harmonious life. For example, insect-borne flowers use insects to fertilize. Some flowers can provide nectar for insects, while others are just used to deceive them. Insect-borne flowers are usually extremely bright, and they are born to make insects "pet". Insect rape is not only unpunished, but also a high-level "reward" of plants-nectar. There is a once-blooming orchid that is like a wingless female bee, which specially lures strong drones to "mate" with it, and the drones help orchids complete the fertilization process in sexual frenzy. This kind of bee, the male bee is very strong and can fly, but the female bee has no wings. Their mating is carried out by the males holding the females in the air. If someone is sympathetic to this, it can only prove that he lacks the wisdom that human beings should have. Do we need to believe that crocodiles will cry when they swallow monkeys? Some religions prohibit eating animal blood, but most of us in China are not punished by God for eating animal blood. The wisdom of China people is not world-class, at least it can be said to be "the best". People who like spicy food may wish to go to Xinning, Hunan Province to taste the delicious taste of "duck in blood sauce". I believe readers won't mind me advertising for my backward hometown here: the first mountain in the world-Langshan! Hehe, I can't type the word "Lang". I copied it from a tourist advertisement in Hunan. By the way, I made a red advertisement for my hometown. Don't take it to heart. Is the human war completely like this? First of all, let's discuss, are soldiers who charge in the war really not afraid of death? The soldier said that he was not afraid of death. Only people with revolutionary families advocate the revolutionary spirit of "one is not afraid of suffering and the other is not afraid of death". Bloody revolution is the only choice for social civilization to get into trouble. "Brothers, come with me!" "Take him alive! Reward 100 ocean! " "Brothers, if you drink today, you will be drunk today!" This famous war discourse embodies the yearning and nostalgia of soldiers for life. In the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, some war novels were very touching: a nurse sincerely asked a dying comrade-in-arms what regrets and demands he had, and the comrade-in-arms said, "I have never kissed a woman." So the nurse gave the soldier a real and pure kiss without hesitation! Since soldiers are afraid of death-anyone who doesn't live enough is afraid of death, why rush forward? Napoleon famously said that soldiers who don't want to be marshals are not good soldiers. This sentence can be widely spread in all fields of society: believers who don't want to be leaders are not good believers, citizens who don't want to be presidents are not good citizens, businessmen who don't want to get rich are not good businessmen, students who don't want to be smart are not good students, and scholars who don't want to be famous are not good scholars (some famous scholars were not famous before their lives, perhaps because their thoughts were beyond their own times-French genius mathematician Galois is such a scholar, and more likely because they are engaged in state secrets-this is the shortcoming of civilization. ! Now, our philosophical answer has come out: the distorted life values that violate the essence of things encourage soldiers to take the lead in a subtle way. But even so, there were deserters in the war, and even when they were defeated, the whole regiment surrendered. In the historical war, it is necessary to deploy troops to supervise the array. In the historical film of China's civil war, we saw the Kuomintang troops shooting their own soldiers-I wonder how the authorities in Taiwan Province Province reproduced the history of this war. This distorted concept of life value is the necessity of life pursuit: life pursuit is also a scientific inquiry process, which can only be perfected under the guidance of scientific understanding. In the social stage when scientific understanding begins, political power is truth, and religious privilege dominates science. In the social stage of knowledge explosion, society has to put forward freedom, democracy, science and fairness. For example, in the Washington era, the president was declared to be no different from ordinary people. Rich Americans pay more and more attention to social charity-they don't want to leave too much wealth they have created to future generations, so Catholicism has to rehabilitate Bruno. In addition to these two extreme factors, there is also a personal emotional factor for soldiers to take the lead. When a soldier finds that his close friends have fallen down one after another, "the inevitability of death" urges him to look at death-this is no longer a question of "not afraid of death", but a natural spiritual liberation. Our Marshal Liu Bocheng refused to watch "Revolutionary War Movies" after liberation, just because all our own people killed their own people-it was cruel! This shows the double-edged nature of the bloody revolution. Therefore, the American art of war has clear provisions on the surrender of soldiers, acknowledging that soldiers have good reasons to surrender when there is no chance of winning. This is an affirmation of the basic human rights in the war, an eternity of human nature and an epoch-making significance. In response to Einstein's letter "Why is there a war?" Freud believed that human beings have the desire to die or are predatory, so it is difficult to avoid war. I don't agree with this philosophical view. Everything exists because of existence, not because of destruction-even if it is destroyed, it still exists-which is the original meaning of religion and the natural law determined by the harmonious existence of our universe. BIGBANG led to our existence, so we know the universe. If we combine the theory of evolution to analyze the "death desire", human death desire comes from ordinary animals, animals come from plants, all life comes from inanimate objects, and all substances come from energy. Then, energy should not exist, matter should not exist, and life should refuse to exist: primitive life is not necessary at all, grass is always eaten by herbivores, and there is no need to grow. Herbivores who are eaten by carnivores should also commit collective suicide. Humans must beg for death because they realize the inevitability of death. But this is not the case at all. Even if human beings are destroyed by their own nuclear war, life on earth will still reappear until life as intelligent as human beings evolves. Now there is a lot of evidence that prehistoric civilization may have existed on the earth-it may have been destroyed because of this philosophical concept. An obvious evidence is that the age of the earth is generally considered to be 4.6 billion years, the recorded history of human civilization is only a few thousand years, and human beings have only entered the era of scientific and technological civilization for a few hundred years. But today, nuclear weapons all over the world are enough to destroy life on the earth several times. Hawking therefore predicted that as long as 100 years later, human beings are expected to emigrate to other planets and even other galaxies, and then human civilization will not be easily destroyed by war. Therefore, in my opinion, philosophy should be harmonious: harmony is precious, harmonious existence and harmonious development. Talking about civilization today is meaningless without harmony. Only the political logic of bandits-power can still represent the truth in the stage of low-level civilized society, because ignorant human beings did not have the ability to destroy life on earth at that time. The causes of mankind's initial war are nothing more than these three points: one is to compete for living space and resources, the other is to have social beliefs, and the third is to form the so-called "war morality" on this basis. "War morality" is always relative to the civilization of the times, and will disappear with the arrival of the civilized era of human wisdom and harmony. Fighting for survival and following the rules of the game of natural selection, such a primitive war is understandable to us today. In primitive society, due to the formation of human productivity, tribes have achieved unprecedented prosperity, and the original living space and resources are insufficient, so it is inevitable that tribes will invade each other. This primitive war is the same as the current wild animals fighting for living space and resources. Two tigers are not allowed in one mountain. That's the truth. This kind of war completely conforms to the natural law of harmonious life. The result of this kind of war is to unify the living space and resources of many tribes, and obtain the harmony of social living space and resource distribution for a while. At first, this kind of war may not necessarily produce slaves. When the strength of the two tribes is relatively balanced, the original living space is intertwined, and there is no lack of communication between the two sides, the conflict between them can often be resolved, and finally a peace agreement can be reached, and even the marriage has already crossed the border. This tribe should be the embryonic form of the country. Ignorant animals don't make such demands, so it feels good to raise a pigsty, and so does the original intention of resisting human forces. This battle for survival is quite common in human society. In the early days of the United States, some farmers specially protected deer because of the value of velvet antler, and carried out destructive hunting on large carnivores such as tigers and lions, which led to a large number of deer breeding. Deer not only lost their original life vigilance, but also lost their basic food sources, which eventually led to the tragic situation of deer death and forest destruction. Isn't this a battle for survival? During the Great Leap Forward, iron and steel smelting and massive deforestation in China gave us profound historical lessons. This "pro-democracy movement" in peacetime is also a battle for survival, but it also violates the objective laws of nature. In ancient times, the production technology was backward, the means of transportation was extremely underdeveloped, various languages were still in the formative stage, and scientific understanding was still in the primary stage-mainly simply linking the memories of different natural phenomena, so distant primitive tribes did not have far-reaching contacts, and different primitive tribes had different beliefs entirely out of accidental epiphany on natural mysteries. Freud made a subtle analysis of human totems in totems and taboos. Now we can reasonably imagine what might happen when an ancient tribal leader led his people to hunt: a group of wild boars were chased by a group of wild animals, and these people didn't notice it beforehand; It was not until the wild boar ran towards them in panic that they realized that the danger was approaching and finally escaped! Being saved by a wild boar once, the people of this tribe have awe and gratitude for the wild boar. If it is repeated over and over again, people in this tribe will be puzzled. Finally, pigs may become the "totem" of their tribe, and even people within the tribe are forbidden to eat pork. Of course, it is also possible that the leader of the tribe had a dream: wild boar suddenly appeared and saved his tribe; This dream happened to be confirmed in the hunting the next day! Usually, it is impossible for such a big tribe to have a war. As long as there is war, the conflict will only intensify. Why? Because once the totem is determined, the power of the tribe will get unprecedented cohesion, so the political center of the tribe will naturally form. However, in the marginal tribes, like today's Xinjiang and Tibet, there are always some ethnic and religious extremists who want to engage in national independence-they always want to be the Monkey King. Once natural and man-made disasters occur, there may be a lasting war conflict between the two political center tribes. At this time, the marginal tribes who know the language communication between the two sides have completely lost their right to speak, and the emotional conflicts of the tribes often outweigh the immature language negotiation skills. Fighting for totems may become the sacred mission of each tribe. This kind of war is caused by ignorance in the initial stage of human civilization. There are many natural and man-made disasters, and the difficulty of language communication can not be ignored. Compared with fighting for survival, it makes people understand gratitude and faith, and it is worthwhile for human beings to pay a little price for it, because this is the beginning of human advanced civilization. These two wars expanded the living space for the harmonious development of society and unified the understanding of civilization, which can be said to be the catalyst of human civilization, and as a result, the animal nature of human beings was eliminated. These two wars can be regarded as the natural choice of human civilization. In this way, the war between human beings stems from the survival competition between creatures, and human civilization was born in the destruction: animal nature was destroyed and human nature was born. Eventually, the gradual improvement of human nature will make the war within human beings disappear completely. The development of human civilization must first follow the principle of survival and competition among creatures. The formation of human productivity leads to the continuous expansion of the living space of primitive tribes and the surge of civilization consciousness (especially totem consciousness). Striving for living space is for one's own survival, and unifying the consciousness of civilization is to prove that one is a person-it can be said that before the emergence of totem consciousness, "people" were still animals. This primitive war is the natural choice of human civilization-the survival of the fittest, often the winner can represent human civilization-and it is impossible to destroy human civilization, so it is just and conforms to the natural law of harmonious life. However, with the prosperity of human society, the cause of war is no longer so simple. People have learned advanced thinking and simply combined the battle of survival with the battle of totem, resulting in war morality. The civilized war between the main primitive tribes has begun. War is not only to enrich our own resources, but also to unify the understanding of social civilization. It is said that the Yellow Emperor is the humanistic ancestor of the Chinese nation, and it is his long-term campaign that unified the primitive tribes. We can say that since the morality of war was established, war has become common, and it has forcibly distorted the values of life, so that today's war may completely violate the natural laws of biological existence, such as the Second World War launched by the Nazis in the last century. "might is truth" has become the highest declining state of war morality! Narrow national concept, religious concept and national concept are the warmest veil of war morality! So the war made the savior of the world, the dream of emperors from generation to generation, the great achievements in troubled times and the history of mankind. Therefore, "the winner is king and the loser is the enemy" is the historical truth of China for thousands of years! However, what war really destroys is not the common enemy of mankind, but the civilization that we human beings have struggled for decades, hundreds or even thousands of years. Today, we know that the savior can't even save himself. The folk in China have been singing this song "The emperors take turns to do it, and come to my house next year". The heroes in history are nothing but warmongers. What you earn is a gentleman, but what you lose is a villain. More than 20 years ago, the Sino-Vietnamese War broke out. At that time, we plausibly said: destroy the Vietnamese devils! At that time, I was in the fifth grade of primary school, and how many times I dreamed of becoming a generation of invincible generals! Now-who can tell me who is the enemy of mankind? I like talented and beautiful women since I was a child, and I also love Vietnamese beautiful women! So Rousseau advocated "returning to the primitive ecology of barbarians and animals". Yes, Rousseau's idea is ridiculous, because he didn't carefully distinguish between the conflict of human civilization and the survival competition between animals, but his naive thoughts inspired generations to think more rationally! However, no matter how we understand it, the civilization distorted by war can't escape from the "hidden rule" of social harmony: productive forces determine the relations of production. In other words, class society is still in the effective fluctuation range of harmonious society. Nowadays, mankind has entered the era of high-tech civilization. The input of scientific productive forces can help all mankind get rid of the predicament of hunger and cold: improve production efficiency and crop yield, strengthen the construction of social security system-guarantee everyone's right to survival and development. Advanced transportation has turned the earth into a civilized cosmic village, and advanced communication equipment is transmitting all kinds of civilized information all the time. On the premise of unified scientific understanding, people's daily communication is very convenient, and the theory of clash of civilizations has been unable to gain a firm foothold. Once a conflict occurs in any country or region, it will attract the attention of the whole world, and neither side of the war has a good impression. In recent years, the United States' thinking about the Iraq war is no longer limited to national interests and national dignity, but we are more willing to think about the timetable for the disappearance of "war justice"; Even the voice of anti-war in the United States echoed around the world, which, together with narrow nationalism, religious spirit and nationalism in Iraq, alerted the philosophical crisis of mankind. We think carefully about the reputation and absurdity of Osama bin Laden, a religious extremist, and the strength and barbarity of the United States. Modern war has become a cancer of a harmonious society-less and less active than the original war. Curing social civilization is like saving lives, and preventive health care is much better than all medical operations. Philosophers should shoulder the responsibility of prevention and health care for the harmonious existence and development of social civilization. Humans have a comprehensive scientific understanding of themselves and complete rationality to control their reproductive behavior and war behavior, completely avoiding the emergence of free will leading to human self-destructive prosperity. In the western world, the population of many EU countries has experienced negative growth, and the government does not advocate family planning at all. The Russian population has also experienced high and negative growth. Not only is Japan's population aging, but the phenomenon of adolescent suicide has also reached a social alert point that cannot be ignored. China was deeply influenced by Confucian culture, and Confucius' theory of "private morality in one's family" led China to fall into the birth cycle of "getting poorer and poorer"-even Mao Zedong thought that many hands make light work, and even criticized Ma Yinchu's population theory. Of course, the absolute negative growth of social population is definitely not feasible, and the total population should be controlled within the carrying capacity of the earth and the capacity of future space immigrants. I hope this control mode is not a modern war, but a philosophical understanding of social harmony. After entering the era of nuclear civilization, mankind announced that it had entered the period of building a smart and harmonious society. At this time, the earth has been built into a cosmic village-the living space of the earth has been unified, and the struggle for living space has lost its original meaning. The conflict of civilizations can be melted in daily communication, and the differences of civilizations can be unified in scientific understanding.