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Ironically, we do have a common enemy: The billionaires. Problem is the enemy has managed to brainwash almost half the populace into fighting for them.
Insert "Always has been" meme here
As an ex-biologist, I think this is just down to a choice of words: as a society, you could see Nature as an enemy.
Man, even as an individual, or even a monocellular organism, you could argue that entropy is your enemy.
If an enemy is a useful concept for maximizing potential within your scope of choice, then be it.
Truth.
Though, America got by for a long time with that being Russia, and Nazis...
What happened to that
Whoever fights with monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.
A more applicable version would be Whoever fights with monsters should see to it that they still have something to do in case they succeed.
Yeah, don't want to end up unemployed... better create some more monsters...
Having the local dictator as the unifying enemy seems to be popular. Just ask anyone from Tunisia, Egypt, Libya or Yemen.
This is the underlying plot of plenty of movies. The prevailing solution is to find something other than each other to be our unifying enemy.
Conclusion: Hopefully we get attacked by aliens or something.
We had a global pandemic and that didn't work. Maybe an alien invasion would work but I think it might just be a plot device.
The global pandemic of COVID-19 was not a visible menace, and only endangered the poor, the old and the weak.
We have built within us a need to fight for survival. Natural selection has bred us to constantly be fighting for the top. When we get there we have no idea what to do with it.
We need something to fight against, that's why we all love under dog stories.
We need something in common for people to get along. Enemies are just very easy things to share between groups, but common creeds, ideals, projects are all unifiers of equal power (though they're not nearly as convenient to find...)
You'd think being people would be common enough... life has enough difficulty without us creating more for each other.
Unfortunately I've found that unless they're given a very definitive common focus, humans are exceedingly prone to spending their free time carefully cataloging their differences.
No, it means that your society is not homogenous and most of the time people do not feel themselves as part of it.
this post was submitted on 17 Mar 2025
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