Sep 6 2012: I think nationalism is linked to our capacity of organization. We started grouping in tribes, and as our intelligence and tech grew we became able to organize in bigger communities.
I think the internet became the seed of the next challenge, may be the final frontier, a global community which gives the same value to a any human being whatever his birth place may be. Its clear that if this happen it will take a few centuries.
However the are projects such as ours called Global Opinion Force at www.gof.do which is aware of this concepts and offers tiny steps to reach the sense of a global community.
I think a clever perspective for the futre is to think of ourselves as HUMANS FIRST, CITIZENS SECOND.
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I think the internet became the seed of the next challenge, may be the final frontier, a global community which gives the same value to a any human being whatever his birth place may be. Its clear that if this happen it will take a few centuries.
However the are projects such as ours called Global Opinion Force at www.gof.do which is aware of this concepts and offers tiny steps to reach the sense of a global community.
I think a clever perspective for the futre is to think of ourselves as HUMANS FIRST, CITIZENS SECOND.