You were not Caesar in a previous life, and you aren’t in the middle of an Epic Battle of Civilizations
I suppose it’s easy to get the idea that you are in some grand, history-shaping battle between good and evil when your leaders spend such a great deal of their public time fervently shrieking that you are involved in a grand, history-shaping battle between good and evil.
Here’s the thing, however - you’re not.
You see, just like people who believe that they were great warriors or historic figures in past lives are deluded, so are the “Epic Battle of Civilizations” or “Epic Battle for Civilization” folks. It is a great mind game doled out and eagerly consumed by those that feel impotent, in order to give their lives some meaning and direction.
Basically, the “Epic Battle of Civilizations” has become a new religion.
If you’re reading this and shocked at the naivety of the author, try doing this: crack open a history book. Go to any year, from the dawn of mankind. Whether you think man began 40,000 or 6,000 years ago is of no concern. Now, quick - point to a year, month, day, or moment, where peace reigned supreme around the globe. You can’t.
Whether Christians, communists, fascists, Nazis, Muslims, etc., there has always been an evil in the world that - if somehow unchecked - will either slay or enslave us all, according to the masses. For Muslim nations now, the U.S. is that great evil. Because their masses are as deluded as ours and also have visions of immense self-importance. Like many in the West, they feel they are embroiled in a history-altering moment in time.
They’re not. Neither are you. The “Epic Battle of Civilizations” can be defined in one word: narcissism.
What the world’s population is involved in now is what the world’s population has always been involved in. Like always, we are riding the interests of our leaders, nothing more. And the leaders on both sides are simultaneously good and evil.
So just keep that in mind if you start believing you are in an “Epic Battle.” You’re not. In the history of civilization, you are not even a comma. Deal with it. The “epic battle” will proceed in the minds of many until this planet shakes us all off of it. Think about it - every last generation has had its own “epic battle” thrust on it by, or due to the world’s leaders. Shouldn’t that tell you something?
An “Epic Battle of Civilizations?” Please. Stop thinking so highly of yourself.
–WKW
December 22nd, 2006 at 12:56 pm
Well said.
And hi from Shakes’ place!
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