NYD3030 t1_ixctqte wrote on November 22, 2022 at 2:09 PM

Reply to comment by ExLegeLibertas in ‘Without enough Latvians, we won’t be Latvia’: eastern Europe’s shrinking population | Latvia’s population is 30% smaller than it was in 1990 and by 2050 numbers will be in decline in over half of Europe’s 52 countries. by mossadnik

I would agree with you if national and cultural identities were being replaced with some sort of internationalist, humanistic group identity. But I think instead we're experiencing global atomization where the old collective identities are giving way to hyper-individualism and identity based on personal consumption.

ExLegeLibertas t1_ixdc746 wrote on November 22, 2022 at 4:21 PM

yeah, it's absolutely true that something more universal needs to be instated, i'm not denying that part. the thing is, it's already right in front of us. there's never going to be something more humane and international than basic human compassion - it already crosses every state line and every artificial division. we simply need to do more of it, and encourage it in others.

the primary prevention of that solidarity is things like state power, nationalist identities, racism, etc.

by breaking those systems, we permit that compassion to resurface.