He lifts the object up in his right hand. He selects a person walking along the opposite side of the street. He grins to the Inspector. The inspector smiles and watches. Havanka points the tube at the person opposite, and pulls a lever. There is a loud explosion, and the person opposite falls down dead.
“There you go!” shouts Havanka with pride, unable to hold back his boyish glee.
The inspector’s jaw is dropped. Staring at the body on the ground. Then he looks at the grinning man. The Inspector’s mind has nowhere to go. There aren't the neurons to cope with what has occurred. He just stares and gapes. Unable to grasp why anybody would want to make another person dead. The concept of killing simply doesn’t exist. There is no rational explanation for why anybody would design a machine with the specific purpose of killing someone else.
Havanka grins on, nodding slightly, waiting for the inspector to spot what a clever invention it is.
“See? There you go! What do you think?”
That’s why war is mad.
We only think war is sane because we’ve been brought up to believe it is so. But it isn’t. We have been incorrectly conditioned. The perception of war as rational behaviour is itself a mental illness. We can break out of this conditioning if we so choose. Do we choose? Do we choose to let our children watch violent programs? Do we choose to give them toy guns? Do we choose to show them loving behaviour to emulate or allow them to copy our aggression? Are we as individuals grown up enough to put love into our own lives on a daily basis? Take the responsibility instead of shirking?
The funny thing is, we already live on Utopia. The only reason why our Utopia has fallen apart is that we all have a little bit of Havanka in us. We create all the problems of the world. If we don’t create the problems, we can relax and enjoy our perfect world.
Havanka was never arrested. There are no police on Utopia. Nor indeed a legal system, as there was never any crime. No locks either for that matter. Funny that. All the stuff we spend so much time with – laws, punishment, security devices, they’re actually all completely unnecessary!
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
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