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2016-06-25 10:04:30 Post No. 61276351
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2016-06-25 10:04:30
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I feel for the Britpack, I really do. I've been a believer for a long time in the essential worth of bringing the world closer together. I believe fundamentally in the value of being able to communicate and travel across borders and cultural divides. Such things are of immeasurable value in tying us together as a species - it's hard to hate someone when you can look them in the eyes and talk to them. Along with this, trade and movement of populations helps promote world peace and the sort of unity we need to fight the really difficult problems like climate change. For me, anything that increases the divide between nations is, fundamentally, a blow against world peace, prosperity, and humanity as a whole.
I suspect, though, that this is our future: fragmentation, disunity, and a growing divide as short-sighted people split apart the social and political structures that such much blood, treasure, and energy have been spent to build. I suspect the EU's days are numbered, and perhaps NATO after that, and maybe the UN as well. In the wake we'll get a more Hobbesian world of nations warring against each other political, economically, and literally for petty, short-sighted gains, not unlike what we had in the 19th century. It'll probably take another big, horrific war to learn the value of global unity.
Sucks that you guys have to be on the bow-front of that particular wave.
