What will unite humanity?

Will it take massive natural disasters and tragedies for us to finally put aside our differences in caste, religion, race, and geography and unite in a needto survive? Or will we be sufficiently inspired by love, empathy, and compassion to do so?

What will it take to unite us?or will we ever?

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BlueGreenGrey ·

We will only be united in our extinction, which will be to the benefit of all other species (which comprise the actual majority of life on Earth)

bijouxbroussard · F

@BlueGreenGrey Profound.

BlueGreenGrey ·

@bijouxbroussard I don't know what we're missing, maybe some crucial DNA sequence, but we've had hundreds of thousands of years to evolve, and we haven't, and that past seems like a good predictor of the future

All we've advanced as a species is our technology, not our behavior or our values

Even existential threats to our species do not unite us, in sharp contrast to Hollywood imaginings like [i]Independence Day[/i] (which seems to be echoed throughout this thread, ironically) ... the pandemic, climate change, the nuclear era, the failure to regulate AI all point at the reality