Thoughts about war and tradition

Thoughts about war and tradition

The strength of a select, cooperative few is power, the strength of the diverse non-cooperating multitudes is resilience. And evolution is the dialog between them.

Power is always attacking resilience head on and resilience never fights back. It holds on until power runs out of steam.

And so we always have war and peace, the age of power and the age of resilience. Sometimes we have both at the same moment, in the same place.

In peace we build up and pile up all sorts of walls against enemies that do not exist. In war, the few come together and tear down the walls they can. And when we continually get the most diverse of people to build up walls that are strong in the most unique ways and then get the most powerful of people to tear them down, what we have left, is that which cannot be taken down.

Tradition and heritage is thus time proven. Except that the speed we build up and tear down isn't linear but exponential. Tradition isn't entirely about preserving what the dead have left us - it isn't carved in stone. Tradition is always in the making. And in the age, more so than ever.


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