[its_ethan]

Did a milquetoast motivation speaker write this? "Everyone just needs to realize that we all have to be nice to each other and we all succeed" rarely even works in a kindergarten classroom of 15 students, there's not really even a system for scaling that up to a city of a million people.

Imo it's naive to think that this is ever achievable given how powerful the human nature to find an in-group is.

[nologic01]

> given how powerful the human nature to find an in-group is

this is true as a general behavior, but its practical relevance is highly variable and culture dependend. For the longest span of our existence tribes routinely attacked eachother, decapitating for fun, enslaving for profit, and it was deemed ok.

by and large we dont do that anymore, though this is the instictual behavior being tapped to support, e.g., organized large scale war.

anything as large scale as organized war, any form of economic and political organisation might be building on primal behaviors but is not equivalent to them. a lot of cold calculation, ideology and even trial-and-error is involved and the end result is highly variable.

education, factual information and candid discussions between people is what will help us ensure in and out-groups are confined to sports and games and do not put our collective welfare at risk

[em-bee]

education, factual information and candid discussions between people is what will help us ensure in and out-groups are confined to sports and games and do not put our collective welfare at risk

exactly that. but also, finding an in-group really just means that we want to have a social environment where we are recognized and supported. there need not be any out-group. the goal here is to develop relationships such that neighbors and the local community become that group (or one of them), which again, as the article suggests, can be achieved by helping each other out.

[em-bee]

i didn't say "just", because it's not that simple. it obviously takes effort and rethinking of our life and our purpose. but doing that, and showing others how and why to do that is how i live my life. and i am not the only one. slowly more people are picking up and are spreading the idea. it may take a few generations before a critical mass is reached, but i am confident that we can convince the world that global cooperation and unity is necessary for our future.