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what year do you expect the world to come together as one nation
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Twilight Princess
Member
Never
DragoonKain
Neighbours from Hell
It'll never happen, and I'll even go as far as to say if there is another planet out there in our universe somewhere with advanced intelligent life, they aren't unified as one either.
When advanced emotions are involved, it's basically impossible on a large scale.
When advanced emotions are involved, it's basically impossible on a large scale.
shnurgleton
Member
Never
There's a reason the song is called "Imagine"
There's a reason the song is called "Imagine"
themagicalkitsune
Member
Can't wait for Trumpworld.
Diprosalic
Banned
2000 and never.
whiteninja
Member
When the aliens invade.
BoogieWoogie
Banned
Skynet
John Rabbit
Banned
When we've all been replaced by robots.
SMOK3Y
Generous Member
Westbahnhof
Banned
I believe there'll be no borders, some day.
But that's the result of extinction, not some giant nation.
The NWO ain't real.
But that's the result of extinction, not some giant nation.
The NWO ain't real.
That's just one thing. There are so many more problems, I just don't see it happening.
Ordinaryundone
Member
Honestly? Never, short of some cataclysmic event that hits humanity so hard that the concept of nationhood becomes outmoded. But then we'll just go right back to "me/my family/tribe/people first" and be back where we started. Humans are inherently social, but also inherently selfish, and you can best believe that anything bad enough set us back to square one isn't going to create an environment good for improving that.
Or its gonna be like Alpha Centauri where we all agree to leave behind nations and old Earth prejudice when we go to colonize a new planet, but just start fighting over philosophy instead. You can't exactly breed opinions and preference out of people.
Or its gonna be like Alpha Centauri where we all agree to leave behind nations and old Earth prejudice when we go to colonize a new planet, but just start fighting over philosophy instead. You can't exactly breed opinions and preference out of people.
Fenderputty
Banned
Post scarcity society where robots do 99% of the heavy lifting. A lack of greed would go a long way. Probably well into some form of physiological modification too. Think bionic man type shit where we're all smarter and more capable of logical thought instead of having things devolve into cultural bitch fests and other nationalistic concepts.
150+ years
Increase everyone's mental capacity 100 fold and you've done just that.
150+ years
Increase everyone's mental capacity 100 fold and you've done just that.
valkillmore
Member
First we have to decide who is going to design the official 'Earth Nation' threads. Kanye? Jaden? Kendal?
yanipheonu
Member
I'm thinking technological singularity or a massive paradigm shift in our evolution. So not for a while.
If ever. Is such a thing possible? Or even worth persuing? Is the very question too anthropocentric to be of any worth?
If ever. Is such a thing possible? Or even worth persuing? Is the very question too anthropocentric to be of any worth?
schwabdizzle
Banned
Never will happen. The US itself is dividing and taking a step backwards.
SatoAilDarko
Member
A common enemy like aliens would need to happen.
Ordinaryundone
Member
Trust me, even when we are all highly evolved 4D plasma intelligences we are still going to be arguing over who knows best. Perfect consensus will never be reached so long as opinions are to be had.
ElectricBlanketFire
Member
Abstrusity
Member
I am of the opinion that there are two ways for it to happen: Crest of the Stars, or nuking ourselves into extinction.
SkateorDi3
Member
year 1000000000000000000
If the aliens can directly map their thoughts end emotions onto one another/read each other's minds, they'd probably be able to become some sort of hive mind type knowledge factory in which case they'd probably unify no problem. It'd be like next level communication where understanding and compassion would be through the roof.
Otherwise, yeah, not gonna happen.
Fenderputty
Banned
We don't need perfect consensus for us to act as one species of earthlings rather than a bunch of smaller tribes under that banner. In fact ... I hope we never have perfect consensus. How do we grow if we never question?
It will be because of multiple technologies that we're able to do this. Why wouldn't this be worth perusing?
Again why are you just assuming it's going to happen? That's a massive logical leap.
The problem isn't necessarily nations, which are relatively recent, it's states.
I don't know why people are assuming it'd require an outside force though. I could absolutely see one state essentially taking over the world.
UnemployedVillain
Member
Why would you assume this would ever be a thing?
God Dayumm
Banned
When human genetic modification goes mainstream. So about 80 years
Megalosaro
Banned
Sooner than people here think.
500 years ago we need didn't have nations and countries as they exist.
The world is slowly coming together. Once it does, it will be bloated and ugly and flawed but we will get there.
500 years ago we need didn't have nations and countries as they exist.
The world is slowly coming together. Once it does, it will be bloated and ugly and flawed but we will get there.
Uh why?
This is a weird argument. 500 years ago we didn't have nations, now we do. That's not moving towards a unitary state, it's moving away from one. There's now an ideological pressure pushing for a diversity of states as opposed to only an institutional and logistic one.
Also the bolded is incredibly Whiggish in a particularly unfounded way. What's bringing the world together? Why is that enough to overcome all the hurdles to a single state? Are there not countervailing centrifugal forces?
Phrozenflame500
Member
post singularity
buttery fistful
Member
When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east. When the seas go dry and mountains blow in the wind like leaves.