History

 I wrote this on my Face Book page 6 years ago.

I see two great, overarching themes to all of human history.

1) War

2) The desire of a small privileged elite minority to dominate and exploit the rest of us.

These two phenomena rise from the same root: greed.

War is always and everywhere about one of two things -

1) Somebody trying to take somebody else's stuff - wealth, land, natural resources, strategic locations, a population to be exploited.

2) The oppressed trying to exact revenge or take back what they thought was once theirs.

Nationalism and religion get the masses fired up and willing to go to war, but they are never the root cause.

Wealth and power are fungible. Money gives one the power to dominate. And with both wealth and power there is always the desire for more, and no amount is never enough.

Greed might not be the root of ALL evil, but it is the root of the greatest and most consistent evils in human history.