Women are not more compassionate or understanding, they are as merciless as the next man. In a way this is reassuring. Women are no better than men in any social hierarchy, we're all the same as soon as we lay our hand on any kind of authority or power.
Humans are simply not capable to live together in harmony, despite any philosophy and radical change that came upon us in history. We all hate each other, and trying to love the next stranger proves more difficult than Jesus Christ may have led a few disciples to believe.
It begins to explain why the word team work is so offensive to any of us, because none of us ultimately wishes to work within a team. We know it is always plagued with problems and insurmountable obstacles which in the end bring us all to the brink of war. Just like any normal hierarchy within any family.
This is at the microscopic level. If you want to verify that it is also true at the macroscopic level, what are governments most famous for? Waging wars, hating the next nation, stealing from them as much as they can. This is all any government in this world was ever able to achieve. In the last 100 years alone we had two world wars, and from what we can observe right now, at the turn of the new millennium, the third one and perhaps the final one is just around the corner.
Nevertheless, some optimistic people thought we were evolving, that events and mentalities were changing, that a true era of peace and love was upon us. There will never be such an era for humankind, we were not meant to develop any sort of relationship at all. Neither between nations, neither in schools, neither at work, neither within our own personal relationships or families.
Somehow some biological laws of nature force us to have sex, to become completely neurotic if we don't have any sex for a long period, or even get us to feel completely bunker if we don't find a mate for one sex session for too long a time. And if we have to marry for this to be, we'll marry any day of the week, any hour of the day.
You will not convince me that only men think of sex, or else women would not go berserk at the idea of not being married or at least being within a stable relationship. Or is it just security women are desperate for? And men, as primitive as they are, sex would be their only concern?
It is well known that all women would die happy virgins if they could, whilst men would have to go to war and kill to satisfy their most primal urge, if prevented from spreading spermatozoids all over the place. It is a wonder anyone should marry in this world, having such opposite motivations to couple in the first place.
Some other parental instincts, still obeying laws of nature, push us to take care of our progenies until they can finally walk out the door and reproduce themselves. These illogical, basic and low animal instincts are what finding a mate and reproducing are all about, and most often never mind about any kind of convention. We're desperate in front of any call of nature. When you've got to pee you've got to pee, otherwise you go mental.
Most relationships, if they are not based solely on either sex, security, traditions or some other biological animal instinct, or perhaps even other sins like greed, power, or a desire to succeed or fulfil one's ambitions, are painful, extremely painful. Some frail people are simply afraid of being alone.
Ultimately not many relationships will succeed, human beings were not meant to exist in groups, it doesn't take long for everyone to be at each other's throat, unless of course one if not most accept to compromise and relinquish all authority and freedom to another. Some people in society, in any relationship whatsoever, simply cannot function unless they are in authority.
And the worst thing is, everywhere there are authorities descending upon us, ordering us to do this and that, to think this way and not the other way. And if we ever talk back or refuse to obey, an army descends upon us and our career or our life as we knew it can quickly come to an end or suffer dire consequences.
Relationships are difficult, sometimes impossible. Wars are declared everyday everywhere in this world, even more wars are declared every second on a more personal level, and it can also become very bloody. Humanity was never meant to live in peace, to develop relationships, to love and live in harmony. We all want our own freedom, have enough for our own survival, with as little obligations or responsibilities or any form of authority over our head as possible. This is the only way humanity might find happiness, so we will have to learn to back off.
Very simple. We can solve the battle of the sexes right now, by shutting up and backing off, all of us. Don't you suddenly feel a breath of fresh air around here? Man or woman or gay or lesbian or transgender, who cares? We're all the same, we should all be treated the same, just learn to accept it, to live with it. Just learn to be more compassionate and understanding, to treat everyone with respect and dignity. And peace might finally come upon Earth, the battle of the sexes might finally end.
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"Without irony, this life would hardly be worth living."
