Evolution: War and Bloodshed through the Modern Mind

This article is in accordance with the darker realm of philosophy that takes into account the evil and monstrous desires and ideals of human kind. It is my personal contemplation of the concept of war and bloodshed in today’s generation.

As we have escaped the royal legacies of kings and queens and developed into a political democracy, wars have become almost an unimaginable, rare occurrence in the world. This, however, has not eradicated human’s own personal need for vengeance and violence in their life. Whether it is the grief of their past, anger at their unfair reality or simply boredom out of which a human’s need for such destruction arises, the modern mind’s war exists in its sole ability to be consumed by their emotions to such extent that there is no limit or line that a person won’t cross to either feel more of that emotion or to be completely rid of it.

This war and bloodshed that I talk about is primarily the sickness that has conquered our kind since a few years. This sickness, although psychology must have many names for it, I shall only refer to it as “a sickness” since it involves all kinds of sickness and cannot be incorporated into one name. This sickness, in emotional terms, is the foundation on which today’s generation has learned to survive. Essentially, it is not just a sickness then, but a coping mechanism, a way to survive in the outside world of today. This sickness, one could say, is the cruelty of humans, the numbness, the silence, basically every morally wrong aspect of human nature and the addiction to the darker, more hateful part of our heart and our brain. A sort of ‘game’ has been invented in the subconscious of people, that makes them consider compassion and love as a form of weakness on their part, as the ambitious nature of humankind rises, the loving nature collapses behind the blind chase of their dreams.

My point here is, the fact that heartbreak exists, that people are purposely hurting each other and that such hurt is being romanticised or normalised through social media or in our ways of living in general, is proof that war and bloodshed, although they are seen hardly as much these days, have not been vanquished but rather, only their form has changed, what was, before some centuries, the brutality and bloodshed of people, has now become a mental game, a mental sickness that overpowers human’s good nature and this war and bloodshed is way more harmful than the normal kind as it is not for any specific purpose but has rather become a permanent way to live, a numb way to live.

We can consider the example of a metaphorical murder in our minds, the murder of our silly childhood selves with the notions of loving and being loved, as we grow up, we replace this self with another self of us that is darker, crueler and more numb in the face of reality. This murder is the modern mind’s bloodshed: Killing of the self. This, I don’t believe, is an individual issue on any single human’s conscience but rather a fear and standard crafted by society for all to reach that rejects every person’s unique individuality and makes them lose sight of the true purpose of their lives, thereby draining all the sweetness of it.