World peace

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Social media genius asks, “What is the biggest impediment to world peace at the moment?”

Predictable enough answers: greed, ego, colonialism, the Great Satan, idiocy, defence companies, toxic ideologies, the military-industrial complex, the lack of respect, the establishment —

But isn’t the answer, the hope for something better?

We might not like the idea of conflict, but isn’t its absence even more horrifying?