| Depending on how deep you want the answer to be? On one of the levels without ww2 and the cold war afterwards — there would never be the Internet and modern computers as we know them [1] On a philosophical level — as long as there is a dualism, there is a constant battle and interplay between the sides. So war in one form or another is as inevitable as peace. In a sense the whole life itself is a constant battle between good and evil, chaos and order, entropy and information [2] On the surface — scarced resources, justice, religions are just silly stories that people create for themselves to sugarcoat and rationalize those (or other) deeply embeded into the reality drivers. [1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1732265119/ [2]
https://www.amazon.com/Into-Cool-Energy-Flow-Thermodynamics/... and other similar books Also Jordan Peterson “maps of meaning” and any serious book on roots of religious myths and stories. |