The need for continued hegemony has caused the US neocolonial machine to take the West into a climate crisis enhancing hot war with the Global Majority which, by the way, we will lose.
However, I don't think that humans have a primitive urge to dominate and control. First Nation people seem to live in harmony and mutual respect with one another other, with other animals and with the land.
Children in industrialised nations have to be taught that they are better or worse than other children. They’re told that they have dominion over animals and that they can treat then how they wish; even if it goes against the child’s innate compassion. They are taught that things belong to them and must be protected from others. The Western patriarchy rewards domination or submission.
The industrial revolution may have ended feudalism and allowed anyone to become rich, though this was still at the expense of other people who did all the hard work. It may have seen the material wealth of millions increase. However, it has allowed for a larger human population, 90% of whom live in cities, than can live in direct harmony with the Earth and seems to require the control of resources and power by the 'better' children away from the ‘lesser’.
Don't tell the conspiracy theorists that I'm advocating for depopulation of the West! The populations of humans naturally decline with rising GDP, improved sanitation and increasing education and emancipation of women.
Surrendering the illusion that we’re separate from each other and the planet is the road to peace. And there is great freedom in letting go the need that’s been instilled in us to dominate and control one another.
Mother Earth is also totally capable of rebalancing herself.
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