No. There will always be another “them”. That’s what makes humans so great, but also so destructive. We never settle, and will always look for division, even if we need to create it.
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Not as long as capitalist nationalism is the dominant economic system. It's just tribalism on a global scale.
No. That is human nature. In order to overcome that, we would have to evolve into a different species, which I would argue is less appealing than it might sound on the surface.
Instead of trying to overcome it, it makes more sense to build a society that directs that energy in a positive direction.
It's a good question. I think it's been shown it's in our DNA to have a tribe that we associate with, and anything outside that tribe is a threat. Used to be a literal tribe, now I think it's mostly based on race. Can this be overcome with education? Unfortunately I'm really not sure.
Not unless the fundamentals of human psychology change. Forever is a long time to say that won’t happen but certainly not in the foreseeable future.
That doesn’t mean it can’t be worked on or mitigated. But it’s not going away completely.
Not so long as there are “haves” and “have-nots”.
As long as politicians exists no. People need something to have control on group of people. So this exists for long. Hope it gets over when robots take over.