The End of War

By Miles Patrick Yohnke

© 2014 All Rights Reserved.

Killing people seems to be good business. Especially for governments.

As of 2014, In Tucson, Arizona, the top employer is a company called Raytheon Missile Systems. In fact, three of the top ten employers in Tucson are in the war business. The others are Davis ­Monthan Air Force Base and United States Army Intelligence Center and Fort Huachuca.

It just makes you wonder how many people would be out of jobs if we didn't have wars? If we didn't kill each other?

The casualties don't start in the battlefield. It starts with our leaders.

These are the first casualties. It isn't just about owning or protecting our properties. It's vital that we invest and enrich our human properties. That we nurture ourselves and our mental ecosystem. Our physical ecosystem.

A leader truly must understand their own mind and their own self first.

Far too often people that get into politics get in for the wrong reasons. It wasn't really to help or serve others. Moreso that they were longing for an emotional feeling. To be liked. Often that sense of entitlement or power and control will bring about this false sense of worthiness. It's very common that once the person gets into power that they still end up not feeling worthy nor happy.

We have seen this repeatedly, as with Presidents in the United States for example. We had a President (1961-1963) that cheated on his wife. He wasn't the only one. We had another case (1992-2000) that did it as well.

You would think that a person of this stature would be happy and comfortable in their own skin. But they weren't. They still didn't understand right from wrong. They were still dealing with very deep personal emotional issues, including a lack of self-awareness.

In parliament, how often do we see each party acting like little children fighting in a sandbox?

What does entitlement mean? Typically, entitlements are based on concepts of principles ("rights") which are themselves based on concepts of social equality or enfranchisement.

Did Adolf Hitler (USA's Time Magazine "Man of the Year" for 1938) understand or think that all people were equal? Do other countless leaders of this world (and past) that bring their countries into war think the same?

Intimidation fear tactics. Leaders master propaganda techniques, creating catastrophic reality. Human beings are manipulated on how to think. Adolf Hitler sold a message and people bought into it. He preyed on their weaknesses. Hunger. Joblessness. Hopelessness. Ignorance breeds fear. Fear breeds hate. So much F.E.A.R- false evidence appearing real.

Most leaders use this method for their own personal greed or their country's greed to capture another countries' resources.

These holy wars. These oil wars. These greedy wars. These religious wars.

These wars. These leaders make us all losers.

These so-called leaders wouldn't need 'bling', money, cars or real estate to feed their egos or to feel empowered, liked or respected. That void would be filled with proper parenting skills of nurturing and praise. It all starts there.

Adults need to understand themselves and teach their children a proper, healthy existence. Not one where we conform to many of society's undoing's, like false advertising. False lifestyle presentations of what it is like living with excess: 'bling'.

First, adults need to understand themselves and then teach their children the powerful attraction that marketing can have. They have to learn to differentiate between what they want and what they truly need. There is no poetry in advertising. It is a form of war. To break us down. Distorted visions placed upon us to lock us in and dehumanize us. And in the end, they dehumanize themselves. It's the perfect platform of disillusion.

"...And you look down upon me? Take another look. You, with your endless debt of mortgages, cars and credit card payments. Anxiety and fears. You, my friend, are really me. Only just dressed up in a suit or skirt," said the panhandler.

Can you imagine a world without greed and jealousy? Since people wouldn't be trying to outdo their fellow person, they would feel better about themselves and content with what they had.

From a mouth. From a tablet. From a laptop. From a computer. Transferred to a server, to a satellite phone, the words: "I like you." It doesn't matter how it is done, each one of us long for those three words.

Isolation. Despair. Loneliness. Teenagers. The elderly. From rotary dial to fiber optics. One looks out to the horizon, with a necklace of bricks, drowning in an ocean of tears, an ocean of darkness. Like our forefathers, looking, searching and crying out: "like me, like me."

World leaders, all peoples, none of us are immune. We all long to be liked.

Everything we do in our lives, comes back to this principle. Please "like me."

"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his," said George S. Patton. Often people laugh at that quote. Laugh? This is human life. We are all scared. It is ugly and harmful that we destroy human life and our lands. Have we lost the address to humanity? Do we have love for humankind? Are we all lost and need to kill just to feel?

Let's raise a white flag to all our nations and divorce ourselves from all the tactics perpetrated upon us. Let us not continue using oxymoronic terms like: "Military intelligence" or "friendly fire," but be peaceful warriors and use our human intelligence.

Understanding our path is acceptance.

When you show a positive demeanor, even with a simple smile with a direct look into the beholders' eye and a response (or not), this gives us a connection. This connection is one of acceptance to a fellow human, an acceptance into your presence, your space, your life and theirs. This basic connection can convey all the necessary love and encouragement needed for a response. This is when the ears that are tuned in to hear will lead us towards this positive interaction.

Status. Status quo. It is common in today's society for people to admire someone else. How often do we hear people talking about this and that of another person's life? Sad, isn't it? We don't even know these people. The time that we waste talking about matters like this and the time that we take away from developing our own mental ecosystem is a travesty.

Transferring from external validation to internal self-validation. Freedom doesn't mean doing whatever you want. Freedom means knowing who you are.

The transformation point does exist where we can learn from both our pains and our pleasures.

This transformation point occurs when one starts understanding their own brain. "Why I did what I did." "Why I do what I do." When you can answer these questions, well my friend, that is the first day of the rest of your life. You start getting comfortable in your own skin. Things that once seemed important that really aren't fade away and energies spent on others will seem foolish as you enter into a new light. One thing that you start understanding is that we are all equal. What we can't lose sight of is our importance to this world. That each of us are remarkable pieces of it.

Age. American architect Frank Lloyd Wright did a massive amount of his work in his 80s, right up until his death at the age of 91. I say this as a reference to age. It's simply a number.

We can become prisoners of ourselves. One must dig tunnels to escape one's own mind. We get just this one life. We have to stop doing time. We must live out our lives like we planned in our youth. No matter where we are or how old, we can always reach for our dreams.

If you don't conform to society and you don't lose that child-like spirit, then oh my God, each one of us can accomplish a remarkable number of things.

Have no limits.

Results are joyful. When one creates his or hers best there is the most wonderful feeling that comes from it. You've created a result that no one can take away from you. It has been said: "It is better to execute than to be executed."

An automatic weapon is a firearm capable of firing multiple rounds with one pull of the trigger. A simple smile, hug, or 'I love you' can deliver such an amazing positive shift to one's life and circumstances that it can truly transform the spirit. Today, let's kill people with kindness. Today, let's show people our true colours. Let's imprint positiveness upon the hearts of all others. Let us protect each other with our human arms and not our firearms.

Miles Patrick Yohnke photograph by Natalie Struck.

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