Name: Zeitgeist Day 2013: Brandon Kristy | "Case for Human Unity" [Part 7 of 11]
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Hello everybody, thanks for being here with us. My name is Brandon Kristy.

The title for this presentation is "The Case for Human Unity."

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The first part, we'll be discussing how unity

appears to be a natural progression for us as a species,

being virtually expressed in all of life,

and on the critical role that unity has had in our human evolution.

The second part looks at "Human Division," where

we basically struggle against each other for survival on a global scale.

Part III, False Divisions, [is] a quick part about how the notion

of division is a narrow and really false perception of the world,

and that our observable human-earth oneness really returns us to reality

as the most relevant and productive view to hold.

looks at what the powerful benefits would be of a unified global society,

as contrasted to today, and ends with some closing points.

Human unity has been been an issue of survival;

Defined as the state of being one, or whole,

unity is expressed virtually everywhere in life.

The Earth itself is a unified, living, interconnected system

made up of interacting parts, attached to,

and a part of, progressively larger unified living system wholes.

Cooperation -the act of working together for common gain

and achieving more than being on your own -is

also widespread throughout nature as a common survival strategy,

expressed at many levels of life, from bacteria to living organisms to

social structures of birds and in insects, and it's universal in mammals.

evolved from this kind of cooperative way

at the cellular level, when life was just forming on Earth.

Inside cells, when the lower competing units of those cells

would start to cooperate with each other,

cells started to form more and more complex life forms.

Competition -the struggle between, and within, species for survival -

is also widespread throughout nature, as a means of survival.

Cooperation and competition are the activism of life to survive,

and it's no surprise that our social mode

has been based on these two varying roles throughout our evolution.

Today, competition is the basis for our social structure

in what we call "the competitive market system,"

but our capacities for cooperation and unity are ever-present.

Cooperation has its roots in the early stages of our evolution.

The culture of cooperation was a very successful survival strategy,

and we owe our evolution to our pro-social abilities

It benefited us to help each other as support was lent back,

creating a mutually supportive group-team.

Not only did this social unity work for us,

but our very human biology is wired for it.

The more connected we feel to others, the healthier and happier we are.

Culture in general is full of evidence of this need to be connected,

from the social media phenomenon, to public events,

and if you look around there's kind of like this social nature

Through our early evolutionary, cooperative behavior

our young species succeeded, and in time, populations increased.

As populations increased, another major driver of human evolution

that has continued to shape our values and cultures today

From early stone and bone tools, to early farming and agriculture,

to early developments in transportation and energy harnessing,

to the Industrial Revolution that transformed our economy at the time,

and the global Internet technology and awarenesses,

always resulted in increasingly more connected, more interdependent paradigms

that conformed to the technical reality and awarenesses of the times.

Human society has changed greatly over time,

as our advancements continue to connect us in larger and larger ways,

where we are now more and more a unified, interdependent, world community.

Now, harm done in one part of the world affects the entire population.

we now find that one's personal world of survival

becomes strangely and ironically self-sabotaging,

because at the end of the day, we all directly or indirectly influence society,

So, it is more and more now in all of our self-interest

to have a responsibility for the obvious reciprocal roles

Throughout our evolution, one's survival, activism and awareness

could only afford to extend to one's family or community

As we gained experience in the world and got better at surviving,

communities grew. But survival was crude, resources were scarce,

and the social environment was still competitive,

setting the stage for the competitive division paradigm we exist in today.

Human society is based on a multi-level division and competition,

consisting of nation-states, race, creed, social class distinctions,

giving this illusion that we are all inherently different,

and that we should act upon that perspective,

when in fact we share only a common human experience.

along with the environmental scarcity that has really always been with us,

it's easy to see how we built our economic approaches

humanity today still struggles essentially against itself

in an advanced form of competing for survival.

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