Words

[arbil_poieo]

Everywhere you look you see people forming groups, small or large. They place everyone outside the group as an enemy, or worth less than the members.

Religion when you break it down is just a form of control over people, using words. Do this that or the other, or god will be angry and you will go to hell. And of course everyone else is an infidel or barbarian and must be killed, or treated as lesser.

Education is a form of control using words, the written history is never really accurate, just reflecting what the powers that be, or what the winners through history want you to believe.

When there is a communication barrier, be it language or cultural, the differences along with prejudices create conflicts.

In a school where 99% of the students are white, and one, or maybe 3 are african american, it is only natural to treat them differently. To look for ways to prove you are superior to them. I myself was taller than most, and that small difference singled me out from the crowd, spawning little hate groups against me. Not because i was in any way a worse or lesser person, just different.

On the whole people would rather hate, and try prove someone is lesser in order to elevate themselves. It is a wonder at all that society has come this far along with so many ingrained natural hatreds.

One could say that if a single race eliminated all the other races, and then eliminated all other religions or all religions, that the world may be more peaceful after that. On the other hand limiting the gene pool so much could open everyone up to be wiped out to a single susceptability.

How many books, be they fiction or non fiction are truely good books with only good things and kind words in them? Most fiction is about murder, rape, crime, war, strifes. And non fiction is similar, with hardships and wars spawning more books and seemingly more interesting ones than completely nice ones.

In fact can anyone think of a single book that is realistic where nothing really bad happens, only good?

If you look at the framework most writers use, you set up introducing a protagonist, and an ANTAGONIST, and then introduce a situation where there is CONFLICT, the only good if any comes from resolution of the conflict later on. It seems happy endings arent as desired as unhappy ones.

I agree with everything you just stated. That while words are weapons we almost always thrive on them, we either come out of it the loser or the winner. And we are taught by textbook that is often one-sided. Words are an effective tool and serve different purposes, but one thing for sure it can create drama and it can be used for control. I think anyone who writes are easily fixated on words and have a fascination with them, they know what to write and how to write it to make it appealing. While they write either to inform, create or entertain for a job or hobby I think that's what sticks to people. It can influence anyone whether you're naive or not.