I don't recall where I heard it, but there was an interesting statement that was made, I think in some movie, about all of us (currently living humans) being the off-spring of the victors of violence/battles past.<p>That only those who are living and the spawn of Humanities particularly violent nature and history.<p>One of the thoughts I had on this concept was that we still see humans seeking to dominate each other, and while there is certainly the overt, obvious manifestation of this through continued violence and war in the world -- there is also a more subtle version. Politics. The systems of laws, rules, and conditioning that our systems of control and governance impose on all of us.<p>That while we have this docile, domesticated peaceful persona - we are really in a struggle against ourselves (as a species) with respect to who has control.<p>Now we have other forms of exerting our wills on one another, financial violence, if you will. To control through availability of, and access to, required resources.<p>If financial liquidity that one has access to is akin to the ability to move, then we can "physically" force mass groups to behave in certain ways through controlling their ability to move (make/spend money).<p>I believe that our physical bodies are highly evolved, in that they are perfect biological machines for what they are designed to do, and we are evolving a great deal now on the mental plane -- the spiritual plane is currently on hold....