SOCIAL EVILS — excerpts!           (popular essay)           Chris MYRSKI, 2004       — — —        Abstract:      Here we will speak about some major scourges of the society, like the: wars, violence, terrorism, corruption, and others, but not to scratch our tongues (as we in Bulgaria like say, and how do the media), but in order to find their causes, and from there to reach the right methods to combat them (which, in many cases, differ from the officially accepted). The problems exist since the human society exists (and will coexist together with it because we can't separate the evil from the good), but it is important to move in the right direction, because now, as they say, "the knife touched the bone" (and it touched it because we became too many people on the earth ball, and very powerful), and if we could not succeed to solve them in a half to one century then there are written bad things for us (in the heaven). Our approach to the matters is philosophical and psychological, but also popular, so that there is nothing inaccessible for the common public (if it decides to show some wish to think about the problems). At the end, by old habit, there is a poetical appendix.         — — —           0. Preliminary remarks      We will surely not "discover America" saying that the main reasons for our sufferings, i.e. of the reparable by us, or those that stay outside of the indifference to us of the world in which we live (where this world some of you, if wishing so, may replace with God), are rooted only in the human shortcomings, called also vices or sins, as well also in the bad social regulations (which are consequences of our shortcomings). This is known by the old Eastern philosophers (from the "morning" countries — Morgenländer —, as the Germans say), but while in the ancient times the man was much weaker than that from today so also the harms inflicted on us by ourselves were lesser, or at least commensurate with those that the nature has caused to us, so that the situation was more or less endurable, but nowadays it is not so. Because we saw (well, some have not seen personally, but surely don't doubt it) that the 20-th century was the most bloody one in the human history, and judging by the beginning of the 21-st there are no reasons to expect something better during it either! Thousands years ago some wise men have come to the conclusion that unless the human beings change we could enter in no paradise, and for that reason (as well as for others) the religions have arisen. So that this psychological change of the humans is necessary, though we will not occupy ourselves here with moral sermons (in relation to which the author has come to the thought for the need of emerging of one atheistic religion, but about this — somewhere else), but will observe some concrete evils and propose (where this is possible) concrete "medicines", not searching for total decision, because the difficulties are part of our life and it is naive to expect (contrary to the media, which are always ready to praise, or else to spit at, each government to which they serve) that we will enter sometime in the paradise. But before this let us make some common remarks, or laws of the living things, of the humans, and of the society, without understanding of which we can only, as we say, "transfuse from empty into hollow" (the nearest idiom in English must be "to trash over old straw"). They are pretty common, maybe also metaphysical, but this isn't scientific treatise, it is popular consideration, so that even intuitive knowledge can do the work.      First of all about the strength, because, will we or not, but we live in a world of the strong — This is a man's world, as it's singing in a song — and in this world even the right is determined by the power. With the Bulgarian pravo-jurisprudence the things are clear because it comes from the right (or pravaya in Russian) hand, but also by the Germans Rechtsanwalt is a lawyer, where its first part is again the recht-right, and the second is derivative from walten, what is to rule (where from is also the Slavonic vladika-bishop and the vladeene-ruling), so that he is the man who enforces with strength the rightness. Such view exists also in the Arabic where the right was 'hag' or 'hak' (from here is the known in Bulgaria from the times of Turkish yoke 'dish hak' what was the bribe required out of Bulgarian hosts from the Turkish officers after eating and drinking at their full by some wealthy person during their visits in the vilayet-region, and this meant "for the eating", for the rubbing of their teeth; and the single quote means that you have to read the word so, maximally near to the pure Latin vowels), but the sounding of the word is like hitting with a cudgel on the head. Well, when the strength decides, it is natural to expect that all living things will resist the effect, but the important law on which we want to stress is that by the living things the reaction is not equal to the action, i.e. the Newton's law here does not apply, or more precisely: to stronger action usually corresponds weaker reaction, and to weaker — stronger! Similar behaviour is observed also by the plants, only that we will not concern us with them but with the animals, and primarily with the people, where such inadequate reaction is wholly justified, because it leads to rejecting of the action when it is weak (stronger rejection), or to saving of power when it is strong enough and we, anyway, can't oppose to it. For example, ...           1. The wars      Here we will begin with the assertion that the war, despite the fact that the Latins have called it the "last remedy" (ultima ratio), remains almost the first tool for solving of international conflicts, and only after it was conducted for some time the parts may sit at the negotiating table, but from the position of the power. This, obviously, is not solving of the problems, but rather one ... bloodletting, as the cutting of the veins in the past, and with the similar naive explanation by analogy with, hmm, with the man who, when certain his part becomes too hard to feel comfortably, and until he does not let "something" to flow out is not pacified, so also here. It may safely be stated that for each war there are others, and hundreds of times more bloodless, ways, as for example: sports competitions, intellectual combats, economical competition, or then, if we so much want to have victims, then there might be also real fights, but with 1/1,000 of the army staff and of war weapons, or with equal number of people (say, by hundred solders). But the point is that until there are no killed, and so much that the nations become frightened and horrified, the people can't become calm. Generally, for each war there are economical (sometimes also ideological and religious) reasons, what is very well known, but there are also psychological reasons, which are rooted in the human nature, which is such that it likes the power. With the economical causes there is a way out and this is reduced (or not whole) control, in proportion with the invested capitals, what is analogue of a commercial company with units or shares, and blessed be God (and let us hope that this is so), that the wealthy countries at last, after two world wars, have reached to this conclusion. In other words, instead of wars there might be just economical competition; for the stronger countries this is one reasonable decision (rather than to kill themselves mutually), and for the weaker ones — well, it is really silly, if a given country is not strong enough, to begin to fight with the stronger countries, isn't it? And about religious wars we must be ashamed to speak, because each person or nation has the right to deceive himself or themselves with whatever he /they prefer(s); the religion is essentially some moral, and the war, however we look at it, is unmoral. ...           2. The organized crime ...           3. The terrorism ...           4. The drug addiction ...           5. The corruption ...           6. The poverty ...           7. The disunion ...      April 2004       — — —           APPENDIX           Homo Sapience   Homo, Homo, sapience, All you need is happyence, But to live in paradise You have to be just more wise!     Or, to put it like refrain:     Try to show that you have brains! ...      April 2004