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RE: dear diary session: Does human nature tend to predictability or are we a complex system of randomness, using chaos theory.
Really fascinating, but I'll have to come back tomorrow, to read again.. too late already. But I didn't want to leave without raising my hat to you!
Thanks sir Reinhard, glad you liked it, these are my personal thoughts on several issues bugging me, glad that someone could read and understand it. If I may ask though, what do you think humans tend to most often, peace or war.
Looking at the history of mankind would make one think, the answer to your question must be war
But I would like to believe, that the picture is distorted and the amount of people living in peace at any given time by far surpasses that of those suffering in war. The reason for that is (in my humble opinion), that nobody "reports" peace, so to speak. In our historybook, most of the dates are related to conflict. For instance, when the 30 year war devastated large areas of Europe, a much bigger part of the globe, might not even been aware of it... but nobody counts the folks, enjoying peace at the time... don't know if I'm making any sense.
Same when you watch the news. Conflict and suffering everywhere. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to downplay this, but peace is taken for granted and isn't worth an extra headline (being a bit cynical)... and with the news being the way they are, we think war is all around us.
I think man is basically "good". Whatever that might be and in order to go on, we'd have to define it first. Plus, the age old question remains... what makes something good? The intention, or the outcome?