Much akin to Nietzsche's outlook on war in "Thus Spake Zarathustra." However, the idea of war and warring is all too often driven astray by those who operate under the pretenses outlined by the Will to Power model.Diebert van Rhijn wrote:Seeing the world through these eyes would show peace mostly being a mask for perpetual war, pacifism a luxury for those being able to afford it - a lucky circumstance - and world unity a menace for freedom and progress. When the lid comes of the human mind perhaps has not progressed that much at all. It only learned to contain, to drive itself increasingly insane?
As with Islam, the Sufi's speak of jihad-an-nafs as being highest, to war against one's self and ego above all other types, just as Nietzsche wanted for new creators of value to first cast down the old values and virtues. As with most of TSZ, I think Nietzsche was being metaphorical when speaking about warring.
This attempt to contain and compartmentalize the different factions in the world to preserve peace is an imminent sign of catastrophe's presence. Only through understanding the inter-connectedness and inter-dependency of things can we hope to diffuse these dangerous situations.
If we cordon these different factions off in our thinking and approach to peace, one from the other, that will only increase the ignorance, fear, and hatred of the "others."
We need to understand how these forces rely one on the other in order to understand how to better deal with them.