The cat-a-lyst Book

The Piles of Dirt Theory

    In order to make a point, let's digress a bit into fantasy and imagine two groups of people (we'll call them the Hatfields and the McCoys) that have the same goal: to build a mountain 3,000-feet high. It doesn't matter why! But they do. That is a total of two 3,000-foot tall mountains.

    Now there are two distinct and diametrically opposing ways to approach this task. One is a constructive, cooperative path we will call Peace and the other a destructive, competitive path which we will call war.

    In the scenario we call "Peace," the two groups of people assist each other in their project and, before you know it, there are two new 3,000-foot tall mountains. Oh to be sure, there were logistical problems to be overcome. Problems such as where to obtain the required materials and how to transport that material from where it was to where they wanted it.

    And there was some learning, too. On the first half of the first mountain, the engineers made several refinements in transportation technology that made the building of the second half of the mountain 27 percent quicker. Also, it was discovered that music at the work place increased the production more than enough to pay the cost of supplying the music.

    There was much celebration as each phase of the construction process was completed, particularly when the top of each peak was finished. And, finally, a grand celebration at the summer solstice the first year after completion. The communities exchanged keys and enjoyed much merrymaking.

    In the "war" scenario, we find that the McCoys decided that they wanted to have their mountain completed before the Hatfields and that the Hatfields had, unknown to the McCoys, decided exactly the same thing. There was even talk of having a higher mountain. In fact, having the first and the highest mountain became so important that all the groups' efforts and resources were dedicated to the mountain project. Finally, someone suggested that maybe the way to insure success was to make sure the other side did not have a mountain at all.

    A mountain destruction team was formed and all the technology in each community was dedicated to the creation of mountain destruction techniques. Thousands of young men and women crept through the night practicing night mountain destruction processes. And out on the "front," the actual destruction of the enemy's mountain was taking place. Until that darkest of days when the two-mountain destruction teams met on their way to do their dastardly deeds. And there on the Road of the Two Mountains, twenty young people lost their lives. And they were revenged with three hundred more and on and on and ENOUGH! THE POINT IS MADE ALREADY.

The point?

It takes stupidity beyond comprehension to accept living in a warring world!