Sep 15 2012: Its an unrealistic and way far off, perhaps not possible at all. You see European union though its a virtual conglomerate of some European nations boundaries still exist between those nations, there would be a internal resistance whenever there is financial trouble within one of those nations and that union is verge on the collapse.
To boundary less world first GDP of all nations needs to be more or less equal which is not possible because all conditions leading to GDP of a country are not same at different geographical
Sep 14 2012: Over the period today's technology becomes an essential service of tomorrow, if you look back at history from the beginning of the human civilization you can understand what I mean. There are certain aspects in life where the technology has become a part of it without which life would be smooth. Communication is important for moving ahead in civilization, where all the mentioned sources great an important role. No doubt there is always a 'crap' and 'junk' involved with any source of communication but learning to ignore would bring what you wanted 'peace of mind'.
Sep 12 2012: Not possible most of the time, intellectual conversations doesn't appeal masses. More than 90% percent of worlds population(masses) is born to serve less than 10% of masters. It is possible if two persons from that less than 10% happen to meet, probability plays a spoil sport even with those meetings. Though what I said seems pessimistic but true.
Sep 12 2012: I don't think it is possible to be ethnocentrism. It is not natural. If it is possible then there would not be so many wars in the history of humankind post human civilization. Which (wars) are happening even today and will happen in future. Humans are community-centric by nature meaning they feel that their community is superior over the rest, this feeling implicitly creates the boundaries. The most of the population (because nature hardwires this feeling in us for survival) feels the following way 'I am better than others' then 'My family is better than other families' then 'My community is better than other communities' then 'People from my state are better than people of other states' then 'people of my country are better than people of other countries' and this goes on to 'people of this world are better than aliens of other worlds' is it not true? Take this example in sports (it applies to all the fields where you exhibit one can exhibit excellence!), if there is a race between you and your brother you would strive to win the race, if there is a race between your family member and neighbors family member would want your family member to win, you can keep extending the boundaries to whole universe with simple mathematical induction! Forget about humans concept of altruism is NOT a natural selection.
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