this world is not at peace until all nations and all religions have been defeated. we are many centuries from that glorious time
I agree that we are centuries away from something like this. However, based on my expertise as an Internet browser and cherry-picked excerpts from philosophy texts we'll* never achieve this. We're social creatures and will tend to band together. At the same time we easily observe and fixate on similarities/differences between everything. Maybe it's the curse of human intelligence that drives us so. What you offer requires a fundamental shift in human behaviour. A supremacy of the super-ego of the id and ego. Maybe this is what you meant, but not in so many words. By the time we've evolved that far our psyche might just be different enough us for us to not even appreciate our global utopia. It'll just be status quo all the way down. That idea definitely scares folks (me) off.
The Tennessee Valley Authority (www.tva.gov) is federal organization which supplies power to TN and parts of the surrounding states and created a governemnt-run monopoly in the region. It was started way back with FDR's New Deal. Similar arguments were heard back then and continue today. I'm sure back then some people wondered whether they should pay for someone else's electricity - it wasn't a neccessity, they could live without it right? Of course it's apples and oranges and Wi-Fi cant cook your food or heat your home...yet.
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this world is not at peace until all nations and all religions have been defeated. we are many centuries from that glorious time
I agree that we are centuries away from something like this. However, based on my expertise as an Internet browser and cherry-picked excerpts from philosophy texts we'll* never achieve this. We're social creatures and will tend to band together. At the same time we easily observe and fixate on similarities/differences between everything. Maybe it's the curse of human intelligence that drives us so. What you offer requires a fundamental shift in human behaviour. A supremacy of the super-ego of the id and ego. Maybe this is what you meant, but not in so many words. By the time we've evolved that far our psyche might just be different enough us for us to not even appreciate our global utopia. It'll just be status quo all the way down. That idea definitely scares folks (me) off.
* For current values of "human"
The Tennessee Valley Authority (www.tva.gov) is federal organization which supplies power to TN and parts of the surrounding states and created a governemnt-run monopoly in the region. It was started way back with FDR's New Deal. Similar arguments were heard back then and continue today. I'm sure back then some people wondered whether they should pay for someone else's electricity - it wasn't a neccessity, they could live without it right? Of course it's apples and oranges and Wi-Fi cant cook your food or heat your home...yet.