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Unfortunately, there is no "team humanity", except in one losing game. If there was team humanity - and we weren't still focused on "us" vs "them" and throwing
by alluro2 2y ago
Unfortunately, there is no "team humanity", except in one losing game.
If there was team humanity - and we weren't still focused on "us" vs "them" and throwing feces at each other across imaginary geographical, religious and race borders - I'm confident we could solve the climate problem completely in 5-10 years. Not to mention what else (famine, diseases...), with motivation other than short-term profit...
- rbanffy 2y ago> Unfortunately, there is no "team humanity", except in one losing game Team Humanity is frequently identified as the political left. It shouldn’t be too hard to coordinate internationally.
- lxgr 2y agoShouldn't as in you suspect it isn't, or as in it really ought to not be? In either case, while a "sociological vacuum decay" into a more efficient mode of human collaboration seems at least theoretically possible (we've had some of these in the past: The invention of money, laws, nation states, organized religions, and other practically useful human fictions), if nobody can find a way to precipitate it, it remains just as unachievable as something even theoretically impossible.
- s1artibartfast 2y agoEvery team thinks they are team humanity.
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- mystified5016 2y agoFor some values of humanity
- tcfhgj 2y agoDoubt it, some just pretend
- StackRanker3000 2y agoSome teams clearly think ”go team [our nationality/ethnicity/religion], screw everyone else”.
- oldpersonintx 2y ago[dead]
- danny_codes 2y agoEven the political left (in the US, IDK about other countries) is pretty committed to the nationalist world order. Unless you mean the Marxist left, which doesn't really exist in the US.