Will Humanity Ever Unite?

Nubclear · September 20, 2002, 08:16

Well?!

Nubclear · September 20, 2002, 08:20

Oh my, there seems to be a typo in everything I type...

Title, of course, is supposed to be "Will Humanity Ever Unite?"

General Ludd · September 20, 2002, 08:30

No.

If humans are ever capable of uniting together, they'd of lost their humanity as far as I am concerned.

Serb · September 20, 2002, 08:31

Only if space bugs will ever attack us.

red_jon · September 20, 2002, 08:35

Only if there was an outside threat which would cause us to 'other' them.

It's like when I went to Senegal with a couple of Spanish people. The African culture was so different it caused me to think of the Spanish guys and us as all being European.

It would be a similar thing with extraterrestrials.

General Ludd · September 20, 2002, 08:37

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Originally posted by red_jon
Only if there was an outside threat which would cause us to 'other' them.

It's like when I went to Senegal with a couple of Spanish people. The African culture was so different it caused me to think of the Spanish guys and us as all being European.

It would be a similar thing with extraterrestrials.

Maybe, but once we got done beating on the aliens, we'd just go back to beating on each other.

Serb · September 20, 2002, 08:44

Of course.

This planet is so boring.

Velociryx · September 20, 2002, 09:17

I think it'll happen, yes. We're already seeing the first signs of it, IMO....by creating "superblocks" of economic union, we disadvantage those nations that are not already part of a union.

This will cause an acceleration of that trend, and we can expect to see more and more such groups forming.

Eventually, this will lead to the formation of "UberGroups" (combining two or more of the big econogroups into ever-larger groups).

With economic binding in place, it's a short step to political binding. One might even argue that the two are, essentially, one and the same.

The ultimate expression of this then, is one unified economic system. Maximum efficiency.

Probably not in my lifetime, but we'll get there....

-=Vel=-

rah · September 20, 2002, 09:36

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Originally posted by Tassadar5000
Oh my, there seems to be a typo in everything I type...

Title, of course, is supposed to be "Will Humanity Ever Unite?"

Fixed

Sava · September 20, 2002, 09:51

No, humanity will never unite.

KrazyHorse · September 20, 2002, 10:07

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Originally posted by Serb
Only if space bugs will ever attack us.

Ditto

Dauphin · September 20, 2002, 10:13

If one nation is able to obliterate the others, for a short time humanity will be united.

Bereta_Eder · September 20, 2002, 10:46

there must be freaky aliens

loinburger · September 20, 2002, 10:51

What a bunch of sourpusses. Europe seems to have finally stopped blowing **** up (more or less), why assume that the rest of the world won't eventually follow suit?

Bereta_Eder · September 20, 2002, 10:53

if they learn from us they have a chance

but US is slowing that process unfortunately.

Shi Huangdi · September 20, 2002, 11:01

No.

Lefty Scaevola · September 20, 2002, 11:02

"Will Humanity Every Unite?"

Hekk No! Now F*** Off!

Bereta_Eder · September 20, 2002, 11:03

we need to take americans off thisplanet

loinburger · September 20, 2002, 11:05

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Originally posted by paiktis22
if they learn from us they have a chance

but US is slowing that process unfortunately.

Europe's been blowing **** up (and hacking things into tiny bits) for over two thousand years, America's only been doing it (on a global scale) for a few hundred. Don't be such a sourpuss.

Bereta_Eder · September 20, 2002, 11:09

it has killed millions.

we are talking about a holocaust performed by america which is not known because it is still a superpower.

expect the sh!t to hit the fan when it ceases to be.

Bereta_Eder · September 20, 2002, 11:11

killed indirectly of course. supporting those hwho kill them

loinburger · September 20, 2002, 11:14

You win the one-trick-pony award for the week.

Bereta_Eder · September 20, 2002, 11:24

does that make them less culpable?

they also instgate overthrow of democracies and installement of brutal but pro american regimes with the result of the killings of millions.

Dom Pedro II · September 20, 2002, 12:32

Humanity will unite once the genetic engineering has ridded the human genome of selfishness, hatred, and such things like that. Of course, these traits are probably very closely linked with passion, individualism, and all the fun traits of humanity.

The product is a group of people like in Brave New World, but hey, we WILL be united....

Sandman · September 20, 2002, 13:33

If we want to survive, we must.

GePap · September 20, 2002, 13:47

Whats te definition of unite? Under a single political Hegemony? Probably, though in a long time. Under a single culture? Perhaps, in a much much loger time.

Will we ever get rid of the notion of 'other', a group of human different and distinct from 'us' [seperating this from the 'you' and 'me' dichonomy] ? No, that type of unity, when everyone is seen simply as another human individual, part of the same fundamental and thus single group, will never happen.

Dauphin · September 20, 2002, 13:52

You get the us and them mentality at every level. Just look at any sporting event - from the international competition to the school sports day.

H Tower · September 20, 2002, 13:54

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Originally posted by paiktis22
does that make them less culpable?

they also instgate overthrow of democracies and installement of brutal but pro american regimes with the result of the killings of millions.

are we going to ignore the sorry state of affairs that the european colonial powers left africa in? last time I checked they were still killing people left and right with a little religous genocide thrown in for good measure.

alofatti · September 20, 2002, 14:05

As GePap has stated, it is not clear what it is meaned by "unite".
All countries unite for the common wellfare of all the people?
All countries unite under the flag of a single imperialistic enterprise?

Regarding the current events, the first option seems very unprobable and the second one very likely to happen soon...

Stefu · September 20, 2002, 14:15

35 posts and no-one's made the extremely squirm-worthy "The world will unite under my evil banner mwahahaha!" joke yet!

...and now, 5 posts and someone will make it.