Time magazine had an article awhile back about the big problems caused from the invasion of alien plant and animal life into the country, but I couldn't help applying it to the mass invasion of human immigrants into the country, even though it is a politically incorrect comparison.
For thousands of years the separation of life by oceans, mountains, etc., allowed life to evolve into millions of separate species. Every species seemed to have its place in the balance of nature, and things really do seem to go best when species stay at home, which they are adapted to.
Our planet is attempting to homogenize everything, economically, culturally, biologically, but it's not working very well. Global trade has crushed local business just as new invasive species are displacing local species. Unchecked invasion and immigration is leading to disruptions on a planetary scale.
The problem is: the melting pot didn't really melt, it only upset the differences between people and caused civil disorder. Only the immigrants most similar culturally and genetically to the host people managed to virtually assimilate. Every ethnic culture wants its own place and wants its own culture, which is completely natural behavior based on real human nature which remains kin-centered and group-selecting, in spite of political correctness.
Setting things right means respecting ethnic and cultural borders, respecting differences, having a viable ethnopluralism with different regions and states set aside for different ethnic cultures. This perspective will bring balance back to human nature, and nature itself, by slowing the disrupting invasions.
The problem of course is that different selfish individuals and groups benefit greatly from trying to homogenize the world, not much carrying about the disruption it causes. Even religion has too often confounded group altruism with universal altruism, which has not created peace in the world.
These thing will have to be put right if we are to survive on earth. It might not be as difficult as it looks when we consider that in the United States at least the legal separation of powers and states lends itself to accommodate the increasing divergence of its people and cultures.
And when religion is transformed with the knowledge of our material/supermaterial evolution to real Godhood, the God at first seen only inwardly, then biological variety in evolution can be respected.
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