We are more used to the idea of ​​war than peace. We receive language imbued with warrior terms: struggle, strategies, vanguard, resistance; with warrior attitudes we represent an example of any stage of life. I understand that it comes from ancient times: long periods of history where life consisted of attacking or defending oneself, where growth and progress meant appropriating the goods and lives of others. That’s how empires were built and destroyed when the enemy was stronger.

“The art of war is based on deception,” says the highly acclaimed Sun Tzu, the Chinese author of a book of the same name written 2,500 years ago that guided Napoleon’s campaigns, thus incorporating his famous advice (appropriating the word “art” created to name nobler products) . Pretend, entice, convince, set an ambush. These codes set up a parallel morality because, coldly speaking, they do not agree with civilized life or even worse with Christian principles (which have managed to survive anyway, contradicting themselves). Let’s remember that the Vatican had an army and participated in all political and military affairs in the past centuries.

To construct a magnanimous hero, Irene Vallejo makes Aeneas, a survivor of Troy, say, “…the subjugated, supplicants, and strangers are holy in the eyes of the gods,” thus finding the plank not to torture or sell the vanquished, unlike Homer who is placed men and gods on the same battlefield. Of course, 29 centuries separating the authors are included, to imagine another class of people.

The ability to stand on corpses cannot be called art…

Stone, bronze, copper, iron to gunpowder were the way of weapons until the conflict between the Spanish conquest and the natives. The disparity and conflict between the rational mind and the mythic mind explain what happened through the centuries of incubation of anger and rage that reach our days. The alleged superiority of some nations over others, with their rise to dominance, stains the pages of history with blood. And it was considered natural for the “advanced” and the wise to take over the wealth of the “inferior”.

The wars of the 20th century were the most spectacular because the technology of the time made it possible to spread a certain amount of information. Already with well-developed cinematography, we continue its realistic horror in our heads. We seem to know everything about wars, even with the effects of nuclear explosions being the favorite threat of the leaders of the day. When the powerful mention them, we all shake. And in the confused discourse of the announced end of the world dotted with scientific signs of planetary difficulties and the decline of social life, fear of catastrophe, suspicion of an exhausted country riddled with diseases, in which the lords of war will survive again. Today, Russia attacking Ukraine illustrates the infinity of the chain.

The ability to stand on corpses cannot be called art, let’s stop polluting the holy word of the product of the soul with the fruits of the destructive desire of many human beings. (OR)