When I was going to high school, it was common for students to drive to school in a pickup with rifles on a gun rack in the rear window. One difference being there were far fewer students (those with issues were easily recognized), and there was much less of a divide between the haves and have-nots. I might even say it was a more respectful atmosphere, with exceptions being frowned upon, but that’s hard to quantify. At the same time there was evidence of divides, some blatant like signs in the window of some businesses to the effect, “No Dogs, No Injuns.”
It’s only going to get worse with increasing population, an ever increasing divide between the haves and have-nots, and more prominent lack of empathy in the haves. Think about the difference in the meaning of insecurity relative to haves and have-nots, and how the divide is increasing.
But one example is our country’s leadership pursuing a course where many with existing mental health conditions have access to firearms, but not healthcare. It’s not profitable for the haves to care for the have-nots. Where individual material gain is the corner stone of a culture, the divides will increase until the consequences are harmful to all.
Though we stick our heads in the sand, assuring ourselves we have superior intelligence, we are simply another life form in adaptive evolution’s course. That is, we have the same inherent behavioral tendencies as all life forms in a natural world model of life fueled by life. I won’t go on with the ample evidence, but read the following BBC article and think about the disguised parallels.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/18035811
Though some would wish it so, peace and love is no more than a subjective desire in the natural order. On the other hand, respectful coexistence with all life forms (not just with each other), would go a long way towards improving quality of life and longevity.