Here I am, reading this again, nearly an year later. When you talk about "people grouping together", I can't help but remember of this demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el9S1GNp4vQ

Yes, and the army. I always said to my family and friends that armies and mandatory military service are stupid and useless things, and of course I was labelled as crazy and utopic, and told that I didn't understand how things work. Well, I guess I know how things work, armies exist mostly because our leaders are not wise enough to put their differences aside, unwilling to cooperate, and then they get into a fight, not unlike two kids fight in a school because one said the other was ugly. Yes, there are other purposes for armies, like helping people in a catastrophe, but then, voluntary work could be used for this. I think that those who are willing to help don't need to carry rifles and missle lauchers...

There was this friend of mine whose brother had to go to the army and he was humiliated several times in there, and lived many situations in which he could have died. And he was not in a war, just in the training camp. When he got out, he told these stories of humiliation and shame with pride, and his wife praised how the military made him a better man instead of a "silly dreamer boy". And I guess this kind of story happens all over the world, which is very sad...people being brainwashed to believe that their country is superior...

I don't have a solution for the problems of the world, but I try to do my part, being reasonable, peaceful, avoiding consumerism, etc.