Nationalism vs. globalism: the new political divide | Yuval Noah Harari https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szt7f5NmE9E Feb 22, 2017
How do we make sense of today's political divisions? In a wide-ranging conversation full of insight, historian Yuval Harari places our current turmoil in a broader context, against the ongoing disruption of our technology, climate, media -- even our notion of what humanity is for. This is the first of a series of TED Dialogues, seeking a thoughtful response to escalating political divisiveness. Make time (just over an hour) for this fascinating discussion between Harari and TED curator Chris Anderson.
Globalism over nationalism, stresses Yuval Noah Harari | December 23, 2018 3:40 AM https://www.financialexpress.com/india-news/globalism-over-nationalism-stresses-yuval-noah-harari/1422367/
Moving beyond nationalism https://www.economist.com/the-world-ahead/2018/12/17/moving-beyond-nationalism
Three global problems create a need for loyalty to humankind and to planet Earth, says Yuval Noah Harari Dec 17th 2018
Some nationalists hope the world will become a network of walled-but-friendly fortresses. In the past, all attempts to divide the world into clear-cut nations have resulted in war. Without some universal values and global organisations, rival nations cannot agree on any common rules...No modern economy can survive without a global trade network. And, like it or not, humankind today faces three common problems that make a mockery of all national borders, and that can be solved only through global co-operation. These are nuclear war, climate change and technological disruption... However, for millions of years humans lived in small, intimate communities rather than in large nation-states. Homo sapiens eventually learned to use culture as a basis for large-scale cooperation, which is the key to our success as a species. But cultures are flexible. Unlike ants or chimpanzees, Sapiens can organise themselves in many different ways, none of which is “the natural way”. City-states are not more natural than empires, and nation-states are not more natural than tribes.
To successfully confront these three problems we need more, rather than less, global co-operation. We need to create a global identity and encourage people to be loyal to humankind and to planet Earth in addition to their particular nation. Nationalism need not prove an impossible barrier to creating such a global identity. Human identities are quite adaptable.
..It does not mean establishing a global government or abolishing all cultural, religious and national differences. I can be loyal at one and the same time to several identities—to my family, my village, my profession, my country, and also to my planet and the whole human species.