If borders were drawn around ideals...
Imagine if borders were drawn around ideals. One nation will have people who are racist, bigoted, enamoured with weapons and quite contemptuous of the environment and other lifeforms. Another will have people of the opposite mould. A third can be made up of those who are neither here or there; the indifferent multitudes who just want to plod along. This is possible in the virtual world. Let us call them country A, B and C, respectively. What country would you find yourself in?
The alpha bigots
If you happened to be in country A, you would have a lot of friends. You would certainly have many enemies too. Your country would probably have to be divided into countless different parts to cater for all your pockets of fanaticism. Your country will become many countries, each despising the other. The stronger will destroy the weaker, until a balance of power is achieved with a precarious peace. At this point there may even be a certain respect as the survivors will struggle to cope in a depleted world.
The good seed
B nationals would try to make the A's see reason. They would fail, but they may perhaps be able to preserve a corner of the world that can develop, despite the destructive tsunamis coming their way from country A and its spores. The tsunamis will be made up of climate change, mass extinctions ... even nuclear fallout, perhaps.
The wishy-washy complacent multitudes
Many citizens of country C will possibly be aroused enough to take sides as the world starts going to pot. Most will just carry on salvaging what they can for themselves, perhaps blaming everybody else in the process.
So there is something in the parable of the weeds amongst the wheat. The fact we are all jumbled up keeps the fools in check, somewhat. But for how long, when so many people are of the C mould? People of goodwill must pool together to ensure the planet and everything in it is not swept away once and for all. This is where UN-aligned can help. It is a force for good that will mobilise like-minded people and give them more of a say. The complacency of the C crowd is no longer and option.
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