We shall begin this summary with one main point, which is of great importance:
In its current worldview, humanity is divided unequivocally into two opponent groups "us" and "them". We grew up in the state of Israel as Jews and Israelis. According to our perception of reality, Hamas suiciders are dark fanatics. A Palestinian child, born in a Gaza refugee camp, grows to hold an opposite worldview. For him the IDF soldiers are the "evil occupiers" and Hamas suiciders are the "martyrs". The citizens of both peoples agree only about one matter of principle: "the bad guys" are always on the other side. The division into opponent groups is based on cultural differences, but it is detached from reality. After all, we are all part of the human race and are very similar to each other. The genetic similarity indicates that we belong to one biological group and in fact we function as one huge organism.
Most individuals that are members of the human culture today live in the third world and are busy with two subjects: fast reproduction and increasing their ability to produce food. We cut off the forests, pollute the environment and annihilating many species of animals and plants because our food consumption grows with the growth of population. The wars between the peoples have an important part in the growth of population process. The arms race that evolved as a result of the wars between various nations encourages the fast development of new technologies, while the wars themselves contribute to the fast distribution of military technologies, and then to the distribution of civilian technologies, around the world.
Japan was defeated in World War II. Millions of Japanese were killed and the technological infrastructure was completely ruined. Fifty years passed and we can see how gigantic corporations like Honda and Sony grew out of the ruins of that war. The World War II style principle of "ruin and rehabilitate" worked in Europe as well and was successfully implemented for countries like Germany, France and Italy. We use wars as an efficient technique that allows us to spread technological and medical updating among the various cultures around the world. A conflict between peoples is just an excuse; the real struggle is about the living areas of other organisms. We spread wars and destruction in order to be able to feed the herds of people growing fast in the third world. Our social laws are similar to those guiding societies of ants and termites. Like them, in our society too, the individuals, the citizens, are not important. The survival of the collective organism, with maximal growth of the population, has become the only principle that truly leads us.
In order of investigating a complex process like war, we have to examine it from a pan-human perspective. For example, in Vietnam the Americans allegedly fought against the Vietcong, but in fact they were fighting the tropical rain forest. They systematically eradicated it by spraying it with weed killers and using "air-fuel" bombs. The American army spread tens of thousands of mines in the rain forest and built news roads in unpopulated areas. The Americans, Russians and Chinese supplied civilian aid to Vietnam, it included antibiotics and baby vaccinations, and this is how the war between capitalism to communism brought to the fast growing of many new Vietnamese babies.
Our planet has become a big and very crowded human village. The evolution of religions caused increase in population, which in turn resulted in the development of agriculture, Urbanization and industrialization. Inventing the rules of monogamy enabled the birth of millions and later billiards of human beings. In previous chapters we have seen that today religious belief has become to a kind of "Memetic" illness. The moral code according to which we have shaped the current basic family unit is basically wrong and interferes with the basic needs of babies, children and adults of both sexes. It is a common thinking that the price we pay for of our "consuming" way of life includes feeling psychological frustration, sorrow and pain, but the price we pay with our health is much higher. It is about disrupting the natural growth process needed for out body.
A symbolic example for such disruption is the how western babies, born in hospitals, are born today. The natural labor position for women is hands-and-knees posture, but in hospitals we have actually adopted the passive position of lying on the back. The new position interrupts the baby to slide out naturally. The helplessness of the woman in labor and the frightening atmosphere create immense psychological stress, causing her body to discharge adrenaline. Discharging adrenalin stops the contractions, thus preventing the labor from starting. In fact an unnecessary feedback is created due to the tremendous stress the woman is under, and it prolongs the labor very much. This can be seen as a modern and ironic realization of the ancient biblical prophecy: "In pain thou shalt bring forth children". 1
The distress of the mothers and babies gets worse after the contractions end. In the hospitals babies are separated from their mothers, and this separation stimulates immediate and continuous release of the stress hormones in the bodies of the babies and mothers. Studies have found that being chronically exposed to stress results in a serious disruption to the growing process, to the reconstructive and building mechanisms of the tissues, and to the immune system. An example of the problem created as a result of separating a mother from her baby is the new motherly illness "postpartum depression". In relation to this, we can look for a hidden but possible relation between the shock of abandonment nursing babies experience and the appearance of a serious developmental disturbance affecting children, "Autism".
As we reach puberty, the gap between social conditioning and biological needs creates a new and powerful inner earthquake. Today this is called "Adolescence crisis" and it is commonly treated by psychotherapy. But this is a severe physical crisis, resulting from the blatant social oversight of the sexual drive arising in the children's bodies. Checking the physiology of the psychological crisis, we have seen that there are unnecessary physical pains, mistakenly regarded today as natural. Like for example the ideas of women's menstrual cycle. Sexual satisfaction is necessary for health, while sexual starvation creates severe stress in the bodies of adolescents. The stress disrupts the normal growth process, the activity of the immune system, and there is new evidence for a possible impact on the development of intelligence.
Living by the moral laws creates unnecessary physical processes, which damage our health. Phenomena like regular menstruation, sexual starvation and being chronically exposed to stress brings to a total collapse of inner systems, and we accept this as a natural aging process. Examination of the types of disease typical for the elderly population, which are called in modern medicine "Geriatrics" (diseases relating to old age) proves that this is a continuous (and unnecessary) burnout occurring over dozens of years. This physical wear-out, measured today on a time axis (age), is therefore mistakenly perceived as time dependent (old age). But this time axis itself has nothing to do with the accelerated wear-out. After all, belief in the existence of moral laws, denying the natural sexual needs of our body, makes us an exception. Exceptions believing that obeying to the natural laws to which all other animals and plants are committed, is irrelevant for them. We must reexamine the medical ideas and the social taboos. If we will succeed to repair the "human errors" mistakenly inserted into our social and scientific concepts, we will be able to improve our quality of life and greatly extend life expectancy.
1This process is mentioned in Desmond Morris' book "Babywatching" (1991),
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