The ability to organize is the hallmark of our species. It is what separates us from the other living things on this planet: to coordinate, to distribute resources, to distribute effort and labor. One would think our organization results would increase linearly across the rise of technology and civilization. That we would be many orders of magnitude further along the graph to our cohesiveness as one species.

And yet it feels we are more disunited than ever. We still engage in war, and prejudice appears rampant. Even while not fighting with violence, politically we could not be more separated, and the threat of violence lurks sinisterly.

We must step outside of ourselves and see the bigger picture, view our species across thousands of years. To come together is the only way to avoid peril. To see our species as one, to eliminate othering, is the only way we’ll manage organizing on a planetary scale, and thus be able to solve our global problems. We can take the leap to global consciousness. We have the technology and the tools. We only need to see.