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UNITED Or
DIVIDED?
The recent Tsunami Attack & this End Of The World DIARY made we wonder about what kind of world this will be in 50 years. 50 years ago people thought by this time we would have flying cars & traveling across the stars. There's a couple of ways it could go....
One says that as technology & economics takes hold throughout the planet, we will become increasingly interdependent on each other. The economic ties between nations & peoples will unite the world. Tom Friedman once wrote in a column that
"no 2 countries that have McDonalds have ever went to war with each other". As technology grows, people will learn more about different cultures. The foundation of hate & fear, is ignorance. Through this we will see we can accomplish more together than we can fighting each other, & become truely "One World".
The Other is that life is entropic. We are doomed to commit the same mistakes over again. Our species is not defined by it's happines, but it's missery. We must always have an enemy, because we aren't content with peace & order. In this way, only the names change but the darkness is always there. I once read an article where the writer said the best thing that could happen to humanity, is for Aliens to come to Earth, because we would have someone else to hate other than ourselves. And you can see it everywhere, whether it's Americans that hate the French, Greeks who hate Turks, Pakistanis who hate Indians, Chinese who hate Japanese...well you get the idea.
Will we still be tribes of humans fighting each other of territorial & religious differences, or will we try to make the world better by becoming a sort of "Star Trek" UNITED EARTH?