What gives us the illusion of authority over life and death?

The Forgotten Question

We rarely stop to ask why killing has become normalized. Whether it's in the name of justice, survival, religion, or nationalism — we kill. Not because we can create life, but because we’ve arrogantly assumed power over its ending.

“We don’t have the power to create. Still, we kill.”
This is one of the most jarring truths. We claim dominion without divine license — acting as if destruction is a form of creation.

The Love for Killing

“We love killing, we love destruction…”

This isn’t just physical killing. It’s the urge to silence, suppress, outcast, erase — anything that threatens the fragile “me”. The deeper truth is: our desire to be alone with our desire has turned us into mini dictators of our inner and outer worlds. When something doesn’t align — we metaphorically or literally kill it.

“Me is infinite and me will kill.”
— is the root of tyranny, of war, of exploitation, and of moral decay.

War Without Death

Historical moments — Toledo War, Pig War, Whisky War — where humanity almost remembered itself. These were tug-of-wars, not slaughters. Disputes, not massacres.

“Why we never thought of planning a war with just a thick and sturdy rope…”  Rope here represents tension, cooperation, strength, and playfulness — all things that can resolve conflict without extinguishing life.

Map-Wars and Ego-Kings

Kings, saints, rich and poor all making the same mistake — thinking they are infinite — is a sharp critique of ego’s universality. The need to possess land, to conquer, to gift death as if it’s a mark of legacy, has infected us all. History became a sequence of “map-wars” where borders were drawn in blood.

A New Art of War

“Despite being small and thin we aren’t grounded…”

This is the contradiction of modern humanity. We have evolved materially but regressed morally. We have intelligence, but lack wisdom. Our call to learn “the art of war” — not in the sense of Sun Tzu, but in the sense of a grounded, creative, rope-and-tug-of-love approach — is a reminder that conflict doesn’t have to be fatal. Disagreement doesn’t require destruction.