The Sapiens Manifesto

You and I are kinsfolk, equal members of a single tribe. Accident of birth has placed you with one nation's passport and me with another. The same accident will put food on my plate when there is none on yours or put me into a uniform and demand that I kill you - or vice versa.

From clan to tribe to citizen to nation state, evolution in the complexity of the means by which humanity makes its living and builds its civilisations has developed to the present circumstance of nation states. In this interim stage, each state is still designed to maximise the advantage of its citizens over their brothers and sisters born to other nationalities.

Our home planet's natural equilibrium is delicate and vulnerable. The onward march of technology makes ever more apparent the damage that nations can inflict on it, on themselves and on others in their eagerness to extract from it more than their fair share of its resources. Not just the Earth but its people suffer in the ensuing conflicts. The time is fast approaching when it will be clear that no selfish national government will benefit its citizens in the longer term unless its natural enthusiasm for securing advantage at others' expense is dampened by a higher authority whose role it is to nurture all humanity.

Though nations in their historical turbulence might fragment into smaller, or coalesce into larger blocs, the world cannot wait forever for the power elites at the national level to surrender sufficient sovereignty to a global authority to enable it to work in humanity's best interest. Technological advance is already sufficient to allow the dream of a democratic world authority to become a reality. Only the will of those who don't want to surrender their power stands against it. Signs are that the sun is setting on the age of fully sovereign nation states. Whether or not it simultaneously sets on the age of Homo sapiens is in your hands.