The extremely slow transition of humans shedding in/out group psychological behavior, that may or may not still be necessary for the survival of the species, for a single, world collective? Seems like it anyway.The Dreaming wrote:But that's kind of a side note. My overarching point is that it's easy to only think of what's right in front of you, but sometimes I think I'm the only person who takes into account what it's all for. What, exactly are we moving towards? What can we do that's going to matter in 10 years? 100 years?
Is it actually good to be globalized like we aspire to be?
In nature, time and time again, it has been proven that the generalist survives extinction much better than the specialist. The specialist can outperform the generalist, at a specific task, but cannot "adapt" to a rapid change in environment, or outright elimination of that environment. As humans globalize, we also standardize our behaviors - through our governments and cooperation, as beautiful as it sounds, we centralize and thus specialize.
I'm worried that we will approve of that view, secure in its specious presentation and then will harmoniously die. Humans were bred to compete self-interestedly, and it would seem better for us to continue to empower that quality, and find a way to remain peaceful without becoming "the same". We need to stay as diverse as we possibly can. I'm not sure we can throttle globalization to right point.
This is partly why I find communism and socialism so threatening. Inevitably, they standardize human behavior. And that's not good for anybody.