If your job was to unify the world, how would you do it?

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hypothetically speaking, if your job was to unite the people of the world, no matter what religious, political or philosophical opinions they hold. With minimal damage in terms of life.

How would you achieve it?

The first step is establishing a rapport with, and gaining knowledge of, many different ethnicities.

Seek to make yourself respected and liked by those of many ethnicities.

Create a 21st Century high tech multi media version of Orson Welles "War of the Worlds" broadcast to convince everyone on the planet that the aliens are invading. The resulting mass hysteria will galvanize the folks of every creed on every continent to unite in mutual defense against the common enemy!

Under those terms, it is impossible. The only way to unite the world to a common cause is to present a common threat to all people that could not be blamed on any one Earthly nation, people, faction or ideology.

Good idea. Orwell does that in the book "1984".

Broadcasts that "PEOPLE X are the enemy".

We all unite in our hatred of some unknown people.

perhaps .. because …

Point out that we will always be in conflict as long as we embrace tribalism. People derive too much pride from their race, nationality, religion, etc., etc. We'll never get along until there's a massive shift in human consciousness that eradicates that nonsense.

Pray!

For me there's no hypothetical about it, my job IS to unify the world.


First I plan on starting social movements and organizations to replace the church and other such institutions, where there is no need for religion but still focusing on helping and caring for people. I will also, through my work as an independent screenwriter and director, combat the corruption taking place in many forms of media today that people mimic and adopt as their own way to live and show them a better, kinder way to treat people and how people can rise up even after being put through *heck*.


This of course will take time, I have no delusions that I will be the one to complete this task or even live to see any real progress, but I will help begin it. I truly believe that the world can be, peacefully, unified. I have to because I decided a long time ago, that no matter what, I was going to change the world and I have no intentions of breaking that promise.

Make myself so hated the world would be united against me!

Truth, humility, and understanding of human frailties above all else and as much love and understanding as possible. These are all disparate blinking 'I' experiences going through their own hardships, their own pains, their own turmoils, their own internal narratives with their degree of anything ranging from cohesive integrity to even piles of constant external disruption and intrusion with barely any space for an unmolested personality to form. This is all the conscious field experiencing itself and it needs to find some way to be gentler, not just for the sake of what we're coming to know about our state but for the sake of avoiding us self-exterminating through exponentiation technology in the hands of the truly suffering.

It's not possible. No matter who you are or what you stand for, there'll always be someone somewhere who thinks you're absolute scum and should be killed.

To a point, telepathy. Then so many misunderstandings wouldn't happen.

But then again people would still second guess other peoples' judgements. Reading other peoples' minds still wouldn't always be interpreted as truth. People would still have bad motives. I'm not sure how it'd pan out.

So long as there are different deities, religions and belief systems, leaders, workers, as well as laziness, people trying to take advantage of others, and just human nature since we're all just animals using sophisticated methods to achieve the same things at the end of the day, there will always be conflict.

Even within every religion and belief system, you always get people acting up and going against their own group's beliefs.

So a singular belief system for everybody would make no difference.

When it gets out that it wasn't real, people will trip over each other to blame it on their preferred targets, bicker about who believed it or didn't, bicker about whether it really was real and it's a massive cover-up etc.

No, for this plan to work calls for the Ozymandias-approach: actually nuke a major city and blame it on space aliens.

The conundrum that seems to occur with religion - for most people it seems to need to be a) irrationally held, b) adherents make enough conforming sacrifices that they 'fit in' with one another (thank you Jonathan Haidt on that observation) and c) its part of a family tradition for them to feel threatened enough to stay involved. Otherwise if people were told that every religion is a system for growing oneself and one's relationship to the Universe and that aside from choosing one that contains the symbols you grew up with the specific make or model is less important than what you'd do with it - I get the impression that most people would either give it up altogether or drift into the 'spiritual but not religious' camp.

While that is speculation and it could prove true or untrue with things like civic organizations (ie. the Bowling Alone may say more about our current culture than our tendencies 'if left to ourselves') I do worry that most people don't join civic or religious groups without some type of push. The trouble with that - if we want to revivify social capital in the west we may need to take a completely different approach and I'm not sure what looks like in the 21st century nor whether we have the will to do it. Too many systems unfortunately - advertisers, corporations, governments, etc. - in a gesellschaft system benefit from atomized individuals who either need to project their internal needs out in the form of shopping or who don't have the financial resources to sue when these agencies behave badly.

That makes sense. I notice kids tend to be more naturally altruistic, but then children's TV programmes encourage them to be. Humans are naturally more territorial when they grow up and the programmes change with that.

It just isn't human nature to be altruistic once adults, without being shamed or dictated into it. There's always trust issues and even each individual needs to have trust built up between them and others, before others have earnt their trust for them to be helpful.

I agree people need an unhealthy kind of push to be less self-serving, otherwise there doesn't seem to be too much motivation. Karma seems to be a common reason these days.

And yeh, separation means more fear and unknown environments, divide and conquer etc. Big businesses and governments are another reason world unity would never happen.

Politically speaking, this would be a horrible and murderous idea.

Kraftie's approach is the best. Find common interests with people of all ethnic backgrounds. For me tennis, Toastmasters and pets are major sources of finding common ground. On a cat site I used to visit, I knew cat (and animal) lovers from all over the world, including:

Germany
Great Britain/England
Australia
The Netherlands
France
Finland
Israel
Italy
South Africa
All over the United States (At least 20 states)
Canada
Greece

Will remember more as time goes on, I'm sure!