Taking Over Explained

When I lived in Chicago, there were certain neighborhoods that you didn't go into unless you had to and, when you had to, you conducted your business and got out, you didn't hang around the local malt shop and socialize with the locals.  Maybe it was a myth, but many people believed that those neighborhoods were dangerous because the people who lived there didn't like us any more than we liked them.  These neighborhoods had been taken over by the Blacks, and it was not considered safe for a White person to walk down the street.  I understand that, while I was in the army, there was a big ruckus about the Blacks taking over Rainbow Beach and Marquette Park.  I don't know how that turned out, but it was commonly believed that, once the Blacks had taken over these parks, they would become inaccessible to White people.  Uncle Ken has told us that it wasn't like that on the North Side, I wouldn't know about that.  Maybe the White folks on the South Side were just paranoid in those days.  Is it still like that now?

The moral of the farm story is that humans are territorial animals.  The lady who owned the property had opened it up to squatters, but had reserved the right to attach conditions to their occupancy.  My daughter had no problem with this until she planted the garden, which imbued her with a feeling of ownership, which she called upon God to validate.  People who believe in God commonly attribute natural phenomena, including human nature, to Him.  For many, it's just a figure of speech, like "Mother Nature", but I'm sure that some of them really believe that God wants them to do stuff that they feel compelled to do by of their own human nature.

We have discussed this truce thing in the past, although we used the term "cease fire".  I have asserted that, every time the good guys are winning in a conflict, the U.N. calls a cease fire.  Uncle Ken disputes this, saying that cease fires are called by mutual consent of the combatants.  Since Uncle Ken refuses to recognize a distinction between good guys and bad guys, it's not surprising that we wouldn't agree on the cease fire thing either.  One thing we might agree on is that a truce or cease fire is not the end of conflict, it just puts the conflict on hold for awhile.  The proper way to end a conflict is for somebody to win it decisively, once and for all, which will never happen as long as the losing side periodically gets a chance to rest up and regroup.