[extropy-chat] [Politics] Real Politick

[Giu1i0 Pri5c0]

"We are good, they are bad" has been the main attitude of groups
toward the rest of the world throughout history, and despite the
suffering it has caused it has probably justified itself in historical
and evolutionary terms. But now xenofoby has exhausted its utility and
is doing only harm and no good.
We have to understand that in today's world there cannot be US and
THEM. Or more precisely, US must mean us humans (and tomorrow us
sentient beings), and THEM must mean the limits that the universe has
imposed on our species. This is the only war which makes sense.
I want ONE WORLD where we work together at building the future of our
species. Well of course this is naive at this moment: until we can
cure sociopathy with a pill there will always be sociopaths around
(everywhere, and speaking every language) to fuck up our efforts.
Sooner or later we will have the pill, and in the meantime we should
continue trying to promote rationality over hormonal aggressive pack
responses.
G.

On 8/16/05, The Avantguardian <avantguardian2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> These days as people make Internet penpals all over
> the world, it seems harder and harder to maintain the
> nationalistic illusion of "we are good, they are bad".
> I know that to many conservatives this sounds like the
> "it's a small world" disney land ride, but it seems
> that technology is making this so called "liberal"
> viewpoint much more rational than it was 50 years ago.
> In fact it seems that much of the jingoism is
> manufactured by the respective leaders of countries to
> consolidate their own internal power by painting the
> rest of the world as a threat to national security.
> But when there are nukes and linked markets involved,
> can we truly afford this paranoia? Especially when
> there are global issues (like pollution, asteroids,
> etc.) that need to be addressed.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> The Avantguardian