I Noticed Something On This That Really Stood Out And Relates To Human Society Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum

I noticed something on this that really stood out and relates to human society “si vis pacem, para bellum - if you want peace, prepare for war” and it made me think about something I read ages ago which was a post on tumbler with the humans are aliens stuff, it said in it that some terrestrial would try to make war with humans on purpose because as it figured out, humans evolve with war. We create new medicine we create new machines that are faster, better quality and more efficient, and once we gain peace for even a little bit we take into account the environment and try to make our items sustainable for it. But all in all we fight for peace but also we fight for evolution in our ways of thinking and lifestyle. Look at everything we have accomplished now. More than 80% wouldn’t be here today without fighting, without war…think about that for a bit.

In 1909, the biologist Jakob von Uexküll noted that every animal exists in its own unique perceptual world — a smorgasbord of sights, smells, sounds and textures that it can sense but that other species might not. These stimuli defined what von Uexküll called the Umwelt — an animal’s bespoke sliver of reality. A tick’s Umwelt is limited to the touch of hair, the odor that emanates from skin and the heat of warm blood. A human’s Umwelt is far wider but doesn’t include the electric fields that sharks and platypuses are privy to, the infrared radiation that rattlesnakes and vampire bats track or the ultraviolet light that most sighted animals can see.

The Umwelt concept is one of the most profound and beautiful in biology. It tells us that the all-encompassing nature of our subjective experience is an illusion, and that we sense just a small fraction of what there is to sense. It hints at flickers of the magnificent in the mundane, and the extraordinary in the ordinary. And it is almost antidramatic: It reveals that frogs, snakes, ticks and other animals can be doing extraordinary things even when they seem to be doing nothing at all.

~ Ed Yong, NY Times Opinion, 6-21-22

The Dispatch-Bearer by Giovanni Boldini, European Paintings

Bequest of Martha T. Fiske Collord, in memory of her first husband, Josiah M. Fiske, 1908 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Oil on wood

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/435694