The Genius of Conquest

There must surely be a certain natural logic
to it all, but it does seem passing strange
that humans, all of whom share the wealth
of emotions that beset us throughout life
find it difficult to recognize that needs
are universal, as fundamental as the very
struggle to maintain life -- a valued albeit 
temporary inheritance each succeeding
generation faces anew in various degrees
of success or failure. Compartmentalizing
the human race into segments identified
by region and all the separations that flow
from location where cultures are born in
support of identifying the endowed group
and spurning the orphaned group into
categories of strangeness and competition
we isolate and we ostracize, threaten and
demonize the other as obstacles to guaranteed
endowment meant solely for the favoured
routinely denied the suspect. The hierarchy
of entitlement versus disinheritance surely
a human construct yet not a phenomenon
lacking guidance from that primeval era
inducting humankind into the social strata
harnessing the unequal powers of blood and
belonging in competition with the meekness
of humility yearning to achieve cohesion on
a different scale, that of empathy and gentle
persuasion through minds elevated in the
spheres of a social contract urging accord
in the process surrendering self agency to
an ideal that tyrants target for destruction.