Living in a "united" world, is that a bad thing?

Question

Imagine a world were people lived peacefully due to a large "human internet" where we are connected to one another.

Through this network, we have the ability to understand each other better and thus we can resolve conflicts-everything would be peacful and content.

However, would the fact that you would never truly be alone bother you?


It's just an idea I was tossing around, but is a united world a bad thing were we lose individualism but work together as a "true" communtiy for the benefit of everyone?

A little quote I stumbled upon that helps emphasize my thought:

"You are constantly being attracted, compelled toward union with one another, then at the Moment of Unity, being repelled by conscious choice away from the Unity. Your choice is to remain free of It, so that you can experience it. For once you become part of that Unity and remain there, you cannot know it as Unity, since you no longer know Separation.”
-Conversations With God

Answer 1

thats hard to imagine...

Answer 2

Really depends on whose doing the uniting.
One world under a just government is not a bad thing.
All dogs under the same whip - bit of a nightmare.

I fear you've watched too much Disney & not enough Darwin. The idea that all conflict arises from poor communication is absurd. Do you think the Holocast could have been prevented if Hitler had just know the Jews didn't want to die?

You also make the Marxist error. Corrrectly noting that self interest creates conflict, but failing to note that group interest arises from self interest.

Dimish the rights and rewards the group gives the indivual, you diminsh the individuals desire to serve the group. The Communist credo: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need" ; does not attract people with ability.

Note to raybdog: If I make a sword, practice with a sword, then kill someone with a sword, the violence did not come from the sword. So if man makes Religion, practices with it, then uses it to justify a war, blaming the war on Religion is equally absurd.

Many communist countrys have specifical embraced Atheism, have you noticed ANY greater trend toward peace compared to their Religious counterparts?

Answer 3

"the individual is in a position to choose the way in which he wants to integrate himself into the totality of society."
-Ludwig Von Mises

This is an age where communication and transportation technologies make it easier than ever to enhance our sense of self. Granted most people will spend the rest of their life as a corporate drone, but that was their choice (or non-choice), because they have more opportunities to become a doctor, artist, lawyer, biologist, scientist, etc, than any person in any previous era. If you lived around 1900, unless you were part of an affluent few, your choice was to be a farmer or hold some assembly line job, probably with the same company your father worked for. And the further back you go in history, the more pronounced it becomes. In the Middle ages, you worked on a farm because if you didn't, you starved.

Thus, individualism increases even as technology brings us together. The future will see more people pursuing their passion and less people consigning themselves to the drudgery of colorless jobs, taken for the sake of necessity. A city of artists is going to have a lot more expression and individualism overall than a city full of manual laborers. And we are moving closer to the latter, as technology makes such jobs obsolete.

9-5 with 2 weeks paid vacation would have been an unimaginably luxurious schedule as recently as 100 years ago. Who knows what kind of schedules our grandchildren will have? We will turn our ever increasing supply of free time to our own amusement, which involves increasing our sense of self in parallel to others and their own sense of self.

Answer 4

For me, I prefer the world as they are. You see, with union world, there must be a leader that will control everything. Problems will arise and instead of the mutual understanding that we will hope achieve will caused much damage to the relationship. Believe me coz I see it happens and I experienced it myself... If you think about it, lets take a look at our family when we plan for the holiday. Every person in the family want something different and there will bickering and unhappiness there. Don't you think its going to happen in the bigger scale?

Answer 5

This will never happen. It is like the human body which constantly tries to have complete balance. The only time this accrues is when the human body dies.

We will all ways strive for a perfect world and there will all ways be conflict until the earth itself dies.

Answer 6

Its a lovely idea however probably unachievable since in reality people don't always get along online; don't believe me? Go spend 5 mins reading forum boards on aol, ebay or even here.

Answer 7

on no account. i'm attentive to actuality. the worldwide inhabitants will strengthen each three hundred and sixty 5 days. it extremely is in common terms organic that evil would desire to evolve with the folk. I even have infants and that they are fending for themselves even extra beneficial than I did at their age. do no longer hardship approximately yours becoming up in this worldwide. the extra severe the worldwide gets the extra beneficial each and each new technology turns into.

Answer 8

Of course not. That would actually be the best thing for the entire world.

Answer 9

No, actually i would prefer Life to be that way, I sounds simple... but alas it is in our human nature for there to be a leader and followers. (in other words there is always some airhead that wants more...LOL)

Answer 10

Actually, several civilizations united the known world, so world rose up and killed them.

Answer 11

Maybe with about 5,000 more years of evolution, such a thing might be possible.

Unfortunately, right now I think religion stands in the way of that possibility.

"Religion poisons everything" - Christopher Hitchens