Why do we even have wars??

therin lies the answer to why I have come up with the ego.

I came to this conclusion after taking a Technology & Society class which went through the various debates of pros&cons of war.

I came to my own conclusion--that wars are about power.

Power is about ego.

It's about sending a message to other countries about your competitiveness- that your technology is superior to others.

It's about taking resources out of greed.

since the Cold-War we have been in this mode--mostly of our own figmented imagination..

We quickly put a man on the moon to subvert Russias' program..-for the photop?? what gains,advances, new technologies did we get from this trip??

We put up satellites into orbit without any regard for it's effects on the cosmos or if it could cause further harm to planets-even our own..

yet despite this--we haven't found an alternative for gas technology?

Or is it that the Inhofes of the OK oil sect don't want us to??

I would rather this country use it's technological advances for humane good-over the power,greed, or ego..(oil,military execs)....in using war as an exercize in how to kill a person 1,000 different ways...

That's not a good use of technological intellect or advances.

Technology has to have a goal in mind for its' pupose--not an assembling of engineers,scientists, designers and seeing what comes out of it...

It is also necessary that a compassionate side of this country realize it--and collectively decide on what goals we want our own technology to create--and not in a Frankensteinian laboratory to find yet another way to kill.

You are right HRC did vote for the war..

and that is what I meant that women should not sell out themselves to play the patriarchal game. Our nation would be much better off if they would not. I also said that I knew there were many men who weren't steeped in the patriarchal system of glass ceilings for minorities and women.

the problem is that the many who are are the ones making the decisions of this country.

I also said that having compassion & empathy is thought of as feminine-when both men and women have that yin & yang in both sexes..therin lies the problem..

Femininity should not be thought of as ONLY caring, soft, and nurturing---thus getting labeled as "BITCH" should we speak our minds..Who benefits from applying such labels?

The patriarchal system..

Women are stimatized as bitches, whores, sluts, naive, too soft-all sterotypes decided by males as opposed to women, that for 40 years, have tried to fight.

And the result of women not finding thier voice to speak up-for the voice of a compassionate side of ALL of us (which some men HAVE done)--debate is rooted in intellect, disavowing spiritiual or empathetic debate.

The result of the lack of compassion-for our own military and their families, the Iraqi people, the Afghani people---has been a propagandized & controlled disinformation war, resulting in the illegal acts of torture, eavesdropping, wiretapping, corruption..by men who never even served in any wars or appear to have any compassion for our militarys' broken state and morale(and the countrys').

I'm not saying all men don't have compassion for those mentioned above--but I'm saying all of us, men or women-SHOULD.