“The wars of the world don’t come from outer space. People create them, people who have a war within themselves. I want to create music that eases that war within.” – Kitaro
One more reason why I love the man and his music.
More often than not, the major wars in the 20th to 21st century are orchestrated by a few men, whose self agenda soon overtook that of the large majority.
But wars are mostly triggered off by the territorial nature of humankind. The survival instinct – to put it more kindly – to protect one’s turf and self-interests.
The argument works both ways for the attacker and the defender. The misplaced and the poor will have more motivation to attack others in order to strengthen their positions. The defender – being threatened with a loss of territory – will arguably have a more legitimate reason to fight the battle, and – in the event when they earn a victory – penalise the attacker.
Either way, it is a poison that would blind man’s conscience. To the extent which the majority is easily manipulated to support the agenda of the elite few. History will have a way of getting at these ruling elites, but before then, the damage would have been done.
War does not resolve differences. It only magnifies the problems. Victory of one party does not guarantee immunity to repercussions in the future. But self-interests at play continue the dictate the politics and economics of the post-modern world. And the majority will have to suffer but for the few who would raise war – and continue fighting a war – often in the name of nationhood and religion.
If only music is the universal cure to the poison in all men’s hearts.
