Everything is undercut by the scientific reality of the situation. We consist of energy, molecules, organelles, cells, organs, organ systems, and then the entire organism. Above that we consist of familial units, villages, towns, cities, counties, states, countries, continents, races, and Earth-faring beings, however you want to mark the divisions. But we are united by our existence on this Earth as opposed to some other planet. And even then we are simply members of this solar system, this galaxy, this galaxy cluster, this universe, this all encompassing reality
Why do people focus so much on small divisions? Why don't they focus on the larger ones? That is what is necessary for optimal organization and efficiency.
I feel like we're all trapped in a seemingly deterministic prisoner's dilemma and some ideologies are trying to break free from it but failing, trying to break free from the manipulation of individuals with neurotic psychologies that allow them a superior ability to be exploitative, even if it's not even necessarily in their best personal interest to be so
I don't think I've described my ideas very well and no doubt am repeating well known concepts, but how do we break free from this? Is it an iterative, step by step process that we have to do slowly, or can we make a large leap through one discovery, one idea, one revolutionary philosophy of human organization, or one new technology? How do we do it?
Maybe there's no problem and things are going okay, but I don't know.