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I can't see how a global democracy would be possible without some kind of "Other" as a uniting factor for humanity.
People would always put their interests first at the expense of others.
Now, some kind of proof of Aliens or something? Extra-dimensional psychic squid like at the end of Watchmen? Maybe.
Genuinely, I think the "other" in this case is the extinction of the human species. It's very scary to me that there are people like Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump are in charge of nuclear arsenals. Do I think they are going to start a nuclear war? At this point the best I can do is "hopefully not ๐ค". But the longer we roll the nuclear armageddon dice, the better our chances that we'll eventually wipe ourselves out. And the predicament that Ukraine finds itself in currently is proof that no nation with nukes should ever give them up as long as there's a real threat of invasion by another nation. And as technology advances and we find more efficient ways of harnessing huge amounts of energy, that arms race will only escalate. I think the only long-term solution is to find a way for all of us to disarm and find a stable way to prevent rearming, or in other words, world peace.