Q&A#4 Question 2

 Would it be possible for all the people of the world to fall into the idea of internationalism? The idea that everyone is a citizen of the world which they should protect and promote allegiance to. 

        This question is extremely difficult to answer in terms of realistically approaching the situation. Assuming you were able to get away from the problem of having everyone agree on something in the first place I feel this ideology would really have to start with the idea of education. As I may have mentioned in some of my other blogs, assimilation is how people think and act how they do. I feel pretty confident in this idea because how is one perspective more valid than another when you really get down to it? But anyway, onto education. If we taught people a better and more optimal way of living and perceiving it would initially have to start at a young age. This is not in all cases, but in most for they are easily persuaded into opinion and thought. It is also much harder to change the perspective of an adult who is already a firm believer in what it is they are assimilated in. 

What now maybe you are asking would be a optimal way of living and perceiving the world? I would say one that is obviously open to new ideas and not focused on the self, but of helping others (establishing community). A lot of these ideas stem out of Aldous Huxley’s novel Island which inspired my idea of how society should be. One of these notions is living here and now, which is a phrase that pragmatic empiricism is fond of. He goes and demonstrates ideas of personality within animal fables that were told to children, which has a more notions of just straight up morality. The book explains that it shows how all people are part of a system, suggesting interdependency and having a sense of where we come from in terms of the environment. Thus, the idea of a citizen of the world, internationalism, is more or less produced for we are all apart of the giant system embedded on Earth. 

They also taught ideas that explain the idea of experience at a young age. Saying that we describe our experiences based on symbols (words) that we can all take from. In that sense, every experience is different from one another’s, and in turn showing that every human is unique, demonstrating the preciousness of human life. The specific example would be that everyone experiences a pinch differently, so today their would be 6 billion unique interpretations of pinch. Another idea is that “All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.” To prove this point, the society in the book, makes scarecrows that resemble various deities and gods. It is then that the children in the fields protecting the harvest understand how the ideas of Gods and supernatural entities work.