Well, I promised and here I am, writing something new! I hope you find it significant or, if not, just interesting.
A couple months ago, I was at Philosophy class, 9:30 a.m. or so, learning a little about Saint Thomas Aquinas when I saw a Europe map of the Europe of that age (13th century). I stared for a few minutes but what really stunned me was how this continent has changed within all these centuries. Well, the 13th century Europe is characterised for being formed by many more "countries" (well, the appropiated word is kingdom actually) than the current one. I found this fact really significant because a thought came to my mind, could this keep happening' I mean, Could we see less nations in the future, and if so, could we manage to live in a one nation world?
Ok, I know that the mayority of you may have thought "this man definitely became mad or some kind of stupid!). If so, let me explain myself: I am not talking about a few years, my verge is hundreds or thousands years, I know and I understand that affirmation of mine may sound impossible to us but I must say that, for the people who lived in Europe at that time, it may have sound as mad as this to hear about a unified Germany for instance (we can't forget that, 200 years ago, Germany was made of lots of kingdoms which some didn't even share religion as there were some that were protestant, others were catholic, other lutherans...yes, all christians but, in the time, that didn't matter). To explain myself crystal-clear, I'm gonna say that I don't believe in a perfect world, of course not that is impossible, but I do in a world without borders, however, we are not ready to open our borders, we have too many international problems such as terrorism, narcotraffic and all that, the borders will dissapear in a really slow and non-unified process. This process will go on as the international stress between the two border forming nation dissapears (just like it happened in Germany or Italy). Having said this, some of you may think "a nation must lead the unification process as it happened in those two nations you have summoned", and yes it has but I believe that there isn't an appropiated or capable nation to do this at the moment because, besides we are not ready to let a nation (with it's main culture and a unique way of living different to the ours) absorb us, the main international potences aren't ready (the US has too many economical difficulties right now, Russia has too many political difficulties just like China -Moreover, I don't consider this last ones to be the appropiated to lead the process...but that is my opinion, just that-).
Well, if we are talking about nations, could I forget independentisms? I believe that those beliefs are a part of the process, to live together, we need to understand that we are not all the same, we have different cultures and habits but that doesn't have to be a border between us. Every independentist movement has that purpose, to make us realize that, so every step backwards talking about that is actually a chance to walk a step forward.
Now I am gonna talk about another important issue: people's beliefs. It may look impossible to live in a world in which everybody respects the others beliefs but it is necessary to achieve that goal, a unique nation. I must say that, although I tolerate everybody's beliefs being catholic, this is maybe the most difficult goal to achieve in the process, people are too intolerant nowadays...I believe that, if we manage to get this goal one day, the world must be based in a religious ethos, not because I am christian or something like that but because I believe that, when we forget about God, we use to do awful things (as bad as the ones we have done in the name of God within History, but if we believe in him we have something that says "don't go beyond!").
Ok, I hope you find this interesting or funny hahahaha :)