The Human Condition can be likened to the ‘rules of the game’, defining the parameters and limits of what it is to be a human being that have been established, and embellished, over thousands of years. These rules ‘set in concrete’ both our instinctually-based behaviour patterns as well as the beliefs, morals and ethics that have been passed on from those who were here before us. Thus the gender, family, tribal, spiritual and world views, concepts and attitudes of each and every newly-born human is, without exception pre-established at birth.

The Human Condition is deemed to be a fixed condition, so much so that it is universally accepted that ‘you can’t change human nature’.

The most striking, persistent and enduring attributes of the Human Condition are malice and sorrow – both at a personal level and a global level.

Malice and sorrow in humans are the direct result of the instinctual animal passions of fear, aggression, nurture and desire ‘in action’.

The range of the Human Condition of malice and sorrow is marked by resentment, frustration, anger, violence and warfare at one end and melancholy, sadness, depression, despair and suicide at the other.

The history of Humanity, both past and present, is essentially a history of continuous warfare between various tribal groups on the basis of territorial disputes, religious and ethical differences or acts of retribution.

Human malice is much more vicious and vindictive than the innate aggression obvious in other animal species due to human inventiveness, cunning. Furthermore in the human animal much hatred, bigotry and spite is also passed down from generation to generation as a social conditioning that is layered on top of our instinctual animal passion for aggression.

There is no evidence that human malice is abating – quite the contrary. The last century was the bloodiest and most savage to date. To call the brief periods of ceasefire that occur between human wars and conflicts ‘peace’ is to completely misuse the word.