Why is the world so ugly?
Yes, why is the world so unbearably ugly?
Is there any wisdom in that, whose meaning and meaning we may not realize? Who can explain all the human tragedies that have befallen man throughout history, the beings who crave the values of justice and fairness the most, and the beings who have filled the shelves of their libraries with millions of works on laws, constitutions, and laws...
At the same time, the being who does not go by a decade without his soul yearning for... The blood of wars, the destruction of peoples, and the devastation of souls and places.
Man has invented a science that preceded other sciences, which is the science of history, not only to record and preserve his exploits, but also to celebrate his bloody and deadly wars, and the extent of the destruction he inflicted on others who share his human character.
The reasons may be many and varied, some of which fall within the realm of the reasonable, logical, or objective, but most of them are due to motives that are closer to coincidence, or what the philosopher Hegel expresses in his absolute idealism through the deception of history. Isn't that really just deception and absurd coincidences, the real reason for which is that there is a certain level of violence in humans that finds no outlet except in destructive wars? Who today remembers Hulagu, Tamerlane the Lame, or Genghis Khan, and where are the Mongols and the hordes of Tatars marching across the globe, and the Viking tribes that filled the lands of Europe with their horrific massacres, and the Goths and their cousins the Vandals who spread plunder, pillaging, and committing massacres from Europe to North Africa... all of them melted into the peoples they afflicted. They expanded their killing and abuse, and after they had exhausted their level of violence and thirst for blood, they resigned themselves and submitted to another nature in man that had escaped his awareness, due to the excessive extent of his deep-rooted instincts tending towards violence and destruction.
We all learned in schools about the war of Al-Basus and the war of Dahes and Al-Ghabra, and how much we laughed at the triviality of these two wars and their causes, the first over a camel and the second because of a fraudulent race between the horses Dahes and Al-Ghabra, which ended in wars that lasted forty years. How much we admired the poet Antarah bin Shaddad, the hero of the Dahis-Ghabra war, and Amr bin Kulthum in his blatant exaggerations in the last days of the Al-Basus war. But on the other hand, we did not pay attention to the poet Zuhair bin Abi Salma for his call for peace and condemnation of wars, despite the man’s wisdom and experience in life and human nature.
Although peace advocates in various historical eras have never stopped calling for an end to the senseless wars and artificial conflicts that make the world become more hideous and put it every time before a difficult existential test, and despite the fact that man has fought two global wars, in which he destroyed all his gains, and before that he waged colonial wars. On almost all continents, its effects are still present, especially in colonial countries, despite the establishment of international and regional organizations whose goal is to maintain peace and establish security in all parts of the world. The number of regional and international wars and conflicts continues to multiply and worsen, sometimes due to complicity, and sometimes the absence of human conscience, moral integrity, and the use of fair standards in confronting conflicts and crises that cannot be ignored at all.
So that our world does not become more horrific, and so that a person always brings to mind his moral conscience during wars and the crises associated with them, we do not forget what human experiences have concluded, such as the ancient Chinese military strategist “Sun Tzu”, in his famous book “The Art of War”, which emphasizes the priority of peace. On war, in his saying: “To win a hundred battles is not the pinnacle of skill. To subjugate the enemy without fighting is the pinnacle of skill.” On the other hand, war is not only a military issue, but rather requires wisdom and controls, as the French statesman Georges Clemenceau said: “War is a process so serious that it cannot be left to the military alone.” This is because in peace, children bury fathers, and in war, fathers bury children.