Hello everyone, I'm Stephen West. This is philosophize this.

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Today's episode is part two on Ralph Waldo Wimmerson. I hope you love the show today.

So since the dawn of civilization, human beings in one way or another have been at war with each other.

Whether it's a culture war, economic war, all the way down to an actual physical invasion of a country.

Whether it's a war of ideas, you know, religions fighting other religions,

philosophers who can't stop arguing about the minutia.

Even that guy that spends all day screaming at bots on the internet.

Even he is a warrior in humanity's fight against our robot overlords.

Leave it to us human beings to never run out of creative ways to argue with each other about stuff.

And Ralph Waldo Wimmerson wouldn't feel bad stating the obvious here that the one thing we definitely don't have a shortage of in this world over the course of history is disunity within our species.

But why is that, he would ask?

I mean, none of us like being at war with other people.

We try our best to prevent fighting between cultures.

But for as long as we've been working on this whole project of getting along with each other,

why can it sometimes seem like there's been zero progress made in this area?

Why haven't we been able to do more over thousands of years?

Like even in World War I, they eventually came out of the trenches, played soccer, ate cheese and crackers, and had an armistice day.

When's our armistice day? When do we get our cheese and crackers?

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