Re:Sure, Earth Could Get Hit by a Deadly Asteroid–But There’...
by roryisok on Friday December 23, 2016 @04:42PM
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I wish I lived in your world. Mine only seems to be getting more and more divided. None of the leaders of the free (or unfree) world seem to have any desire right now to 'unite' it
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Re:Sure, Earth Could Get Hit by a Deadly Asteroid–But There’...
by golemotron on Friday December 23, 2016 @04:59PM
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Leaders? No. But many people do.
Re:Sure, Earth Could Get Hit by a Deadly Asteroid–But There’...
by kalleboo on Saturday December 24, 2016 @12:19AM
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I thought it was the other way around? Until this year, all the leaders were all in on globalization, more open borders (in spirit if not in name) and huge free trade areas. The people revolted and put nationalism in charge in the forms of Brexit and Trump.
Re:Sure, Earth Could Get Hit by a Deadly Asteroid–But There’...
by kobeya on Friday December 23, 2016 @06:03PM
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Global unity sounds like a dystopian nightmare to me. Are you sure you're not projecting here?
Re:Sure, Earth Could Get Hit by a Deadly Asteroid–But There’...
by ebcode on Friday December 23, 2016 @06:15PM
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Present day reality lives like a dystopian nightmare to me. Pretty sure I'm not projecting. (God I hope I'm not!)
Global unity sounds to me like world peace. Maybe not every individual would be peaceful, but we could finally put away our silly flags.
Re:Sure, Earth Could Get Hit by a Deadly Asteroid–But There’...
by roryisok on Saturday December 24, 2016 @09:15AM
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Who rules this global unity? A government in Washington? London? The UN? People in different cultures want different things from their country. Just look at the US right now. Split down the middle between what kind of leadership there should be right now. And the US is fairly simple in that most people are happy to pigeon hole themselves as either liberal or conservative. On other countries things are more complicated. Ethnic groups who hate one another. Opposing Religions. Separatists. Unionists. In many countries there are separatist movements who want to split the country into smaller countries, because they don't feel like they are adequately represented in the majority.
It's a lot more complex than ditching the silly flags.
Re:Sure, Earth Could Get Hit by a Deadly Asteroid–But There’...
by grkvlt on Saturday December 24, 2016 @09:23AM
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If the present day is a 'dystopian nightmare' to you, then I'm pretty sure you're projecting. Out of interest, if you feel we are in such a situation now, what would you classify the Soviet Union between the fifties and the eighties, or Nazi Germany, as?