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Long before we had invented the concept of countries, there were city states fulfilling a similar role, and those were preceded by various sorts of tribal const
by krono 3y ago
Long before we had invented the concept of countries, there were city states fulfilling a similar role, and those were preceded by various sorts of tribal constructs which have existed since forever.
Humanity has always gravitated towards building societies centred around the concepts that modern-day nation states also embody. Our natural drive to band together and our tendency to be creating new fake problems all the time is certainly an interesting pairing at times.
- beardyw 3y agoPerhaps the ultimate progression is even larger groups until there is just one.
- c420 3y agoCan't have an us without a them
- rcxdude 3y agoPerhaps, but the groups have subgroups and those have subgroups and so on until the individual. The world as a whole may get more integrated, and the exact way that dividing lines between the groups work may change (e.g. not so focused on geographic areas and more mutable), but I think it will always be there to some extent.
- krono 3y agoThe vastly complex system of interdependencies linked to globalisation could be the some early stage of that. Ironically this theatre is also where those made-up problems of ours can very quickly turn into real ones. Being part of only a single group isn't really our thing though. Without something external to focus on we quickly tend go down this path of surprisingly efficient self-destructive behaviour that often involves lots of heavy weaponry. We are chaos incarnate :)