Materialism

The want is perhaps the cause of every tragic event of the human race.

Wants are infinite. We as human beings want everything. It is just a simple drive to the unachievable infinite, that everything that ever existed wants to attain. Even the universe, with its expansion, wants to be infinitely big. 

The want is defined as something desired but not necessary for biological survival. I define it as the uncontrolled, irrational, undefinable expansion of perceived need.

Human want, as crazy as it has always been, is logical. If you have a nice car, you will want a better car, because you says "Why not?" and you perceive the temporary gratification when that want is created. And after a while, the "why not?" question comes up again and you go back to the store and gets something perceived to be better. The same applies to anything of your choice. 

To create more, human beings have created societies, economies, firms, corporations, agriculture and more wants to create more. Human beings ceased being hunter gatherer tribes and became agrarian societies with cities. This in itself was perhaps the biggest trigger to the whole story of human beings (I don't want to miss the females out on this point) and their want. Once human beings were detached from nature and its finite resource and need basis, population was allowed to increase very dramatically and so did human want, for now, because people could now produce as much as they wanted. Humanity had found the way to expand its wants to the utmost capacity of his/her biological self.

The advancement of the agricultural society also allowed the advancement of creativity, and greed. The establishment of the state also enabled the establishment of a social hierarchy and centralized power - the king. The king was able to use his power to take from others by force through taxation of people's income, while he did not need to produce. His existence is justified for by the existence of other kings - people are told that if they did not have a king, then all shit will break lose, human progress of thousands of years would be lost, and everyone would die. 

At the same time, they realized that they could pillage others to satisfy their wants, that by now, would have consumed them.

From there, to facilitate the want, people have created a monetary system, and wants have spawned more wants, and more tragedy so on. 

I am not saying that wanting is wrong, even though I know a lot of people may agree. I am saying that when human beings, individually or collectively, lost touch with nature, that bad things of some degree happen to everyone. Our wants have lost touch with nature, and we do that at our peril. This is contrary to what we seem to believe - that the natural world is outdated and we are more advanced than nature.

to be continued...