people tend to be remarkable cooperative when faced with an external existential threat.
Counterpoint in the US at least: Covid.
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AskewLord@piefed.social 2 months agowell, at least until aliens invade.
people tend to be remarkable cooperative when faced with an external existential threat.
daychilde@lemmy.world 2 months ago
AskewLord@piefed.social 2 months ago
that wasn’t an external threat. it was an internal one
notastatist@feddit.org 2 months ago
This about the external threat… the uniting against, was always against other humans from near around. Almost against neighbours. There is still a destruction of our planet where we are not united against. And there is even less unitedness for a fight against warmongering countries.
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 2 months ago
We got covid, and a lot of countries governments took advantage of it and spread misinformation and active vaccine denial. That’s about as close to an alien invasion as we’re gonna get, and we kinda failed disastrously at it.
I used to think we’d come together over an external threat too. Now I’m not so sure. In fact, we might even get people denying that it’s even happening.