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by aristofun 1590 days ago
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.