Consider Ronald Raegan's 1987 speech to the UN, famous for its mention of an alien threat. I'm convinced the UN really took it to heart that they need to invent

Consider Ronald Raegan's 1987 speech to the UN, famous for its mention of an alien threat. I'm convinced the UN really took it to heart that they need to invent a common enemy to unite the world toward countering an existential threat rather than fighting each other. > “Cannot swords be turned to plowshares? Can we and all nations not live in peace? In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity,” > “Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond," > “I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. And yet, I ask you, is not an alien force already among us? What could be more alien to the universal aspirations of our peoples than war and the threat of war?” Personally I don't think the anxiety and mental breaks I've seen in my millenial and gen-z peers from the whole "11 years left to do something" is really worth it, what good is world peace if our lives are defined by guilt and hopelessness.