The WAR on the BODY; The WAR on the MIND and the WAR on SOCIETY.  Within these huge spectrums lie the war on family, our education system, our moral code, the war on personal rights, the war on truth and science, the war on the physical earth and the many battles we are barely armed to fight.

Here are five ways to arm yourself in the most beautiful and fundamentally effective ways.  We call them the five pillars of humanity.

1.  Humility.

2.  Self Control.

3.  Integrity.

4.  Generosity.

5.  Honor.

Why is the world a powder keg of chewy hate?  Because these five pillars aren't holding up humanity today, they are all but forgotten.

Ask yourself how many of these principles the US government follows?  Do we live in a humble nation?  Have we kept our spending, borrowing, consumption and appetite under control?  Are we still a nation that build things and does the best job we can?  Do we care about people outside of this country?  Do we even know what honor is?

If we are talking about our country and the vast majority of people in it...we know the answer.  I know that there are many United Statsians who are shining examples of all five of these pillars and I know that most people have decent enough intentions in life but to me, the evidence says we need to revamp the philosophical ideals of the modern human away from the obvious mistakes we keep making (acting before thinking, solving problems with violence, thinking debt is actual money, trusting corporations and media to put your best interest over their profits, etc, etc..) and put them into the obvious answers.

Humility, Self-Control, Integrity, Generosity and Honor.  These can mean different things to different people, but fundamentally these five pillars can turn the world around.  The change occurs one person at a time, but as a viral ideal...these five principles will hold humanity up into the light of wisdom and understanding.

There was a short period of time when the horse and buggy jumped to the space probe but nothing has changed for humans in the head for thousands of years.  Yes we can text 1,000 words a minute, program a machine to drop a bomb or know the location of anyone anywhere on the planet but we still haven't realized that just because we can do something doesn't mean we should.

I think the five pillars will help us not only realize the errors of our ways, but they can be daily reminders to help us realize our ultimate potential.

-Zaq Flanary