Time for War

I was working at my computer when suddenly it burst into music. It was Sergio Sepiurka sending from Patagonia a musical version of Ecclesiastes, 3, 1-8. Verse 8 reads "There is a time of war and a time of peace" But verse 10 goes on "I have seen the travail which God hath given to the sons of men". "Travail" comes from "trepalium", torture, which is also the origin of travail (French), trabajo (Spanish) meaning work. Work is torture. Man would sooner fight than work. Fighting is one of the 4 Fs of our primitive make-up; work is not. Does this mean that men will never give up fighting? It certainly will be a difficult task to erase it. The best we can do is to sublimate it. The popular dictum is "make love, not war". It would be more realistic to say "play soccer". Those at the WAIS conference may have had the pleasure of meeting Sergio. My guess is that soccer is a favorite sport in Patagonia. Do the whites play the Indians, or in Chile for that matter? Who wins?

Ronald Hilton - 10/16/01