Tribalism probably served us well when we were wandering deserts, moving from place to place in search of food. Another tribe, one that doesn't know your customs or language, is certainly a threat to be feared.
However, those days are over. We're no wandering a group of wandering tribes. We're a global civilization. I can communicate with someone on the opposite side of the planet and experience no latency. We've explored not just our planet, but others as well. We have robots on Mars. Footprints on the moon. A probe built by us just hurtled past Pluto at incomprehensible speeds.
Yet still, we maintain this tribal mindset. Everything has to be couched in terms of Us VS Them. It's time for it to stop. There is no "them" anymore. It's all us. We're all human - regardless of race, gender, sexuality, political leanings, or any of the other myriad ways in which we see the division over the unity. To the best of our knowledge, we're the first life form in the universe that's moved beyond looking out. In spite of our differences, we have still succeeded in performing countless feats of engineering and exploration that can only be described as miraculous. Imagine what we could do if we stopped bickering about the frivolous and started working together. We are a collective. We've evolved as a social species. It's far past time that we took full advantage of that.
Tribalism probably served us well when we were wandering deserts, moving from place to place in search of food. Another tribe, one that doesn't know your customs or language, is certainly a threat to be feared.
However, those days are over. We're no wandering a group of wandering tribes. We're a global civilization. I can communicate with someone on the opposite side of the planet and experience no latency. We've explored not just our planet, but others as well. We have robots on Mars. Footprints on the moon. A probe built by us just hurtled past Pluto at incomprehensible speeds.
Yet still, we maintain this tribal mindset. Everything has to be couched in terms of Us VS Them. It's time for it to stop. There is no "them" anymore. It's all us. We're all human - regardless of race, gender, sexuality, political leanings, or any of the other myriad ways in which we see the division over the unity. To the best of our knowledge, we're the first life form in the universe that's moved beyond looking out. In spite of our differences, we have still succeeded in performing countless feats of engineering and exploration that can only be described as miraculous. Imagine what we could do if we stopped bickering about the frivolous and started working together. We are a collective. We've evolved as a social species. It's far past time that we took full advantage of that.