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Rose, Rose, Rose, Rose, Rose........................ Hi!
The survival of the species depends, I think, less on all of us getting along than it does on each of us striving to thrive. That's one of those paradox things, maybe. A globe full of humans, getting along, in a world that demands a certain cultural cohesion for getting along to occur, would mean every enclave of civilization is subject to extinction from the same single source of hardship. Can't get along is often little more than competition over a single set of resources. The peoples failing to get along are approaching the resource from differing cultural perspectives, ensuring that any disruption in availability is dealt with by "the species" from competing points of view, and with presumably differing approaches toward survival.
I guess what I'm saying is that the existence of competing peoples comes closer to ensuring the continuation of the species than any homogenization of human cultures can ever hope to match. A "global community" in which we "all get along" would equate to one in which we are all subject to the same risk given a single catastrophic event.
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