Is it Really That Hard to Have Peace?

Added: 2026-06-01

[00:00:01]All right, everyone. It's time to John Lennon it up, I suppose. We're going to be talking about war and peace. Yes, indeed.

[00:00:11]I was thinking in terms of the situation in Iran, of course. More than anything else, although you've got so many wars throughout my lifetime.

[00:00:22]I'm not even that old. I'm not even 40, and how many wars have there been? Like major wars, not just little conflicts or something like that. Conflicts. I hate that term.

[00:00:34]Uh dozens, I think, throughout the world. Well, probably hundreds of them, actually. It happens all the time.

[00:00:43]Is it really so hard for human beings to be intelligent enough to simply be at peace with one another? Is Is it really that difficult? I was thinking to myself, you would think, when people fight one another, and things are destroyed and blown up and shot at and stuff like that, and people are killed, doesn't that reduce productivity?

[00:01:10]Like even if you only have the pragmatic economic sort of backing behind your reasoning on human combat, even then, it doesn't matter. I mean, it doesn't make sense for people to fight one another. You're just destroying productivity. You're making things less productive. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense, now does it?

[00:01:34]You're destroying resources.

[00:01:37]You're utilizing resources that could be used for other things.

[00:01:41]Uh we could have effectively a paradise world if everyone worked together. This will never happen, by the way, and I'm not going full commie on you or anything like that.

[00:01:53]Um I believe in capitalism, actually.

[00:01:56]Capitalism is the driver of ingenuity and innovation.

[00:02:01]That being said, when that competition bleeds over to the governmental level, that's when it becomes a problem. It's not a problem when two businesses compete. Ha ha ha, we got bread for $2.99.

[00:02:17]Ha, well, we've got bread for $2.79.

[00:02:20]Screw yourself.

[00:02:22]That just drives the prices down and makes for a better world, in my opinion.

[00:02:28]But when you get to the point where it gets to the government level, they start utilizing military force to enforce what they're attempting to do.

[00:02:39]Well, we've got this idea.

[00:02:41]We're going ahead with it. No, you're not. Oh, yes, we are because we've got air superiority, so get out of our way.

[00:02:50]That's basically the competition that the government has in mind. It's really really sad, too, because people left to their own devices, generally speaking, will simply get along.

[00:03:01]They'll trade and they'll produce.

[00:03:05]Um I made a video sometime ago and I was talking about men and women uh on islands and stuff like that. And one of my points was, you know, if if a bunch of dudes are left alone on a desert island, what are they going to do?

[00:03:22]They're going to have competitions to see who can pick the most coconuts.

[00:03:27]They're going to have a competition to see who can make the coolest house or something like that. Just the way that we are.

[00:03:34]And this built civilization, by the way.

[00:03:38]But when government competes, they blow each other up. They're not competing for constructive means, they're competing for destructive means.

[00:03:49]And that's again really sad. That amount of, you know, push behind constructive efforts, if properly made, would be enormous. It would be a It would be a huge benefit to society.

[00:04:06]But they never do that. Instead, they would rather just fire off a couple of missiles and call it a day.

[00:04:12]And so, uh that's why I'm not an authoritarian because being an authoritarian makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

[00:04:22]Yeah, it doesn't benefit me. What does it benefit me if somebody in a third world country 1,500 mi away gets glassed by a rocket?

[00:04:33]What benefit is it for me? What did it do for me? All I did was help pay for the rocket, which is also unfortunate, in my opinion. Just saying, I'd rather not kill people. Can we just get along? I know that this is utopian [ __ ] It will never happen. It's impossible, and it sounds like a bunch of commie nonsense.

[00:04:58]But can't we at least try to get along?

[00:05:01]Generally speaking, wouldn't that be better?

[00:05:05]Because again, no Persian ever stabbed me in the back. No Jew ever clubbed me over the head. No British person ever shot at me. I mean, they shot at my ancestors, but you know, they were part of the same government, so it's a little bit different. Um no Frenchman ever [ __ ] me in the ass.

[00:05:24]No Russian ever [ __ ] me in the ass. No Japanese person ever scammed me. Why the hell would I hate these people?

[00:05:32]I don't understand it. I hate every government in the world equally.

[00:05:36]But I don't hate any of the people in the world. North Koreans, when's the last time that a North Korean came over and tried to kill me, tried to shoot me in the head or something.

[00:05:48]Oh, it never happened? Well, that's very interesting now, isn't it? That's about all.

[00:05:55]Peace out.