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The cause of conflict is almost always an attempt to preserve one’s
status as “same.” A tribe, a family, a nation, in fact, defines itself
by drawing a border around the actual or ideological territory it
must protect. They are like the rhinoceros that marks its territory
and attacks without any further provocation anyone who enters
that territory, even accidentally. When this territorial principle
comes into being, the wall also appears (more about this later), in
an actual or ideological sense. This strengthens the cohesion of
the same. We could say this is completely natural. It comes from
human nature; after all, the human is an aggressive animal, as
it has been from Cro Magnon to the present day. Kubrick’s film
2001: A Space Odyssey, when the ape realizes the bone can be used
as an excellent tool, it also comes to the realization of
% the importance of killing for self-defense, but at the same
time
© the importance of killing for food.
One who is capable of making weapons from animal bones can
gain more sustenance, and—which is at least as important—can
more easily defend that sustenance from strangers. In this way, that
person—whether they mean to or not—establishes and strength¬
ens their group belonging. If this does not succeed otherwise, this
is achieved by and only by entering into conflict.
Along with this, another element arises when the goal is no
longer self-defense but acquisition. This is, of course, the third
component: aggression, the emergence of which is activated by the
bone as weapon-tool-existence. If I can easily get the supplies, I need
without having to take a risk (the mammoth has grown too big),
Iwould rather take them from someone else. Doing so means less
risk and effort for me. For this, the term “efficiency” was coined.
This is what the Vikings did, and this was also what the so-called