Make Love, Not War Essay -- Social Studies

Life on Earth constantly swings between quiescence and state of war, even though human kind is famishing for happiness. Bliss does not derive from war and violence, why then humanity cannot live without the burden of wars? We are presumable pursuing the culture of death. Maybe violence is inscribed into our DNA, our ancestral reptile brain, somehow, is dominating over our intellectual reasoning and emotional intelligence, the same brain that helped us to survive in hostile environments of a primitive world. How could man make this world a better place? Could sleep with change this status quo? Leslie Marmon Silko writes in Ceremony Tonight the singing had come first, squeaking out of the iron bed, a man singing in Spanish, the melody of a familiar love song, two words again and again, Y volver. Sometimes the Japanese voices came first, angry and loud, pushing the song far outside(a), and then he could hear the shift in his dreaming, like a slight afternoon wind changing its dire ction, coming less and less from the south, moving into the west, and the voices would become Laguna voices, (6)Y volvere, in Spanish means returning, coming back, these words belong to a familiar love song (6) and they can evoke nostalgic feelings in the heart of a spend in war. A Love song, how can love feelings survive in a war situation, where a soldier in battle likely does not have the right to be compassionate and human? The angry enemy voices are pushing away the song (6). Hate and violence are wiping away love probably there is no space for love in war.And the voices would become Laguna voices another place, another situation but the same try story. Human beings denied of their freedom, dignity, history, traditions, and storytelling.... ...iolenza (Dottrina della resistenza passiva). Periodi storici e tematici Storia in network Cronologia Copyright One Italia 2010. Web. 06 of April, 2012 http//cronologia.leonardo.it/storia/biografie/gandhi2.htmLeslie Mar mon Silko, Ceremony, Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York. Pag. 6. PrintMario Rigoni Stern. Il Sergente nella neve-ritorno sul Don. In Guerra, quando sembra che tuttodebba crollare e morirre, un gesto, una parola, un fatto e sufficiente a ridare speranza e vita. (Einaudi tascabili di Mario Rigoni Stern. 1 gennaio 1969. Pag.51. PrintMark D. Tooley is president of the Institute on Religion and Democracy and author of Taking Back the United Methodist Church. Viewpoints on war and pacifism. Web. 06 April 2012http//0-ic.galegroup.com.library.lanecc.edu/ic/ovic/?userGroupName=laneccoll&