Humanity's endgame?

[Cat piss martini]

They are trying to leave this prison planet
because they know the shift/reset is coming.
soon.

 

[CopiousX]

Obviously we have lots of things separating us right now (religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, culture, class, age, politics etc...etc)

I'm assuming that ultimately the end goal is to eventually erase all things that separate us and become one

is that not true?

or are we destined to fight and have violent disagreements for all eternity?

is an "other" always needed in order for things to function properly?

are we too stuck in traditions for that to even be a real possibility?

lettuce discus

I think this would be catastrophic. Humanity has only gotten this far because various groups and individuals diverged on concepts and ideas. A single culture and ideology leaves us horribly weak as a species both to ourselves and to the world around us.


Microbiology is a good example of being weak to the world. Think of how a bacteria or virus can theoretically be wiped out by a single drug, but still manage to persist because of variation between bacteria/viruses. This variation protects the microorganisms in ways they themselves are unaware of. In a human Racial context this is evident in whites remaining white and being resistant to small pocks or black people remaining black and being resistant to malaria/skin cancer, or south Asians remaining Asian and being resistant to leprosy


As for being weak to ourselves, think of nations/cultures that previously practiced slavery or ran narco-states. The "others" stopped these activities. Although these ideas were immediately profitable to their historical societies, they were detrimental to the species and were eventually scrapped due to cultural/ideological opposition by "others" . If everyone was Catholic/puritan we would not have had the "other" quakers with radical ideas like stopping slavery. If everyone embraced drug culture like 80s Colombia or 1880s British India then we would not have had the task forces against cocaine or the international conventions against opiates.



Disagreements are a good thing. They are a battle of ideas. Disagreements and fissures are a battle for humanity's future.