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I mean, we'd all benefit from it. We can agree to stay off eachother's lands and business and be happy in our respective continents, trading with eachother and such, letting every country have their own culture without anyone bitching about it.
- 御園はくい repeated this.
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@boco It is, and it also risks a total cultural meltdown. It has happened multiple times in the past, but the damage was mitigated by that separation. Back then, if one culture crumbled and lost years of progress, there were still others that kept that knowledge so it'd be rediscovered (A good example being the dark ages, and rediscovering tech that Rome and Greece had from the arabs that had retained that knowledge)
However if you force the world to become one single culture, any such event will kick the entirety of humanity centuries back. It took the world over a thousand years to re-develop ball bearings for example, which were present in classical age sailing ships, so it's not a risk that should be taken at all.
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@boco @nerthos Always raises an eyebrow with me that people championing globalism are also championing "diversity". Like, have they not seen what unified EU regulations on food/drink/banana curvature et al has done to regional, traditional products and crafts? If ending up with the same bland, homogenized shit the whole world over qualifies as diverse, I'll pass.
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@nerthos @boco @ue If there's a lesson I'd take away from that, it's that an imposed, top-down world culturally strip-mined and reduced to a bland, soulless homogenized corporate limbo creates an emptiness in people. They all feel it, even as they deny it, as the creature comforts and conveniences of the bubble-wrapped world they live in are served up to them.
When people are stripped of any sense of identity, they seek it out themselves. Maybe it's ethno-nationalism. Maybe it's political ideology. Maybe it's racial or gender identity politics. In the end it doesn't matter. They'll try to find it, and as the pressure not to mounts, they'll find it in increasingly warped and dysfunctional ways.
If anybody wants a peaceful, stable world, they need to let people be people. They'll form up into groups. Sometimes they'll hate each other or fight. Sometimes they won't. But if they're going to get along, they need to do it themselves, because they want to, from a place they feel comfortable being themselves in. Forcing them to conform, no matter how well-intentioned the conformity might be, will always create a backlash uglier than anything that would have been without it.
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