Even if we view those who aspire to a one world as bad guys [since they have their own agenda(s)], at least the fact that we are so close to each other, we as a species, we as nations, groups, etc., it’s a good thing., so we have an “empire” already, one in the making, “the Empire of Mankind” and I hope this will stay (a) non-political (“empire”) as in not having one governing body for us all, although … Anyway, I’m not the expert in any of these things/ideas.
Makes no sense 
Anyway, jokes and sarcastic comments for the rest of the day. I’m done preaching lol
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You triggered me when you talked about how empires have brought cultures (us) closer, so that’s why I mentioned about an “Empire” (with quotation marks, since it’s not really an empire, as in a literal one) …
Yeah, enough with the preaching. 
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You’re really not giving babies enough credit here Philip. Babies are awesome, they instinctively learn/know how to do all of these things all by themselves. Before the crawling stage they really only just need us to carry them around from place to place, that’s it. Once they can crawl then thats their moment to shine. I have friends who didn’t want to force showing their baby how to walk, they wanted him to get up and go in his own time and that’s what he did. Just by observing his surroundings he took it all on himself with no help and picked himself up and away he went. A baby instinctively goes for the mothers nipple when they are born, they just know to do it. When a baby Is ready for foods they know what to do already because they have been observing already for the 4 to 6 months prior to whenever parents feel like they are comfortable to give the baby food.
Babies are way cooler than us silly adults. We have lost or way through the years, babies are born as basically mini geniuses.
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Babies are awesome and the good news is that we all used to be (little) geniuses! 
Still, @DR_MANHATTAN is right, we depend so much on each other and babies would not be here without adults, without their mothers, etc.
EDIT/just to add this: (I should have added this earlier) I think we need to separate these 2 concepts/categories, how we view people (their opinions, their views, their actions, etc.) and the fact that we may need them, since we may care little about someone’s opinion(s), yet we may need them/their products/their services, etc.
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Do you have ADHD ?
I feel like you got hung up on the wrong details here.
They instinctively suck on a tits and they contract their bowels to push a 
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But they still need the tits and someone to teach them not to poop where they eat and how to cut some meat.
Yeah, because babies know it all and the taller we grow, the more we forget how to do things 
They are cute, they can suck on things and contract their bowels. But if I drop a human baby outside, I’m pretty sure you’ll call the police and scream asking « what’s wrong with you !? » meanwhile you’ll take care of it.
BUT, you are right to some extent, I should have been more specific.
They can also breathe.
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Ok, a little harsh, but I agree with you.
(I may be wrong but I think) What @anon77086103 meant is that there is an innate intelligence to us and we need guidance (from parents, society, etc.) to help us grow and manifest that which we already have in our genes (?) (so in that way we are not the product of society/others, yet, again we still need them and it could be argued that actually we are )
Jesus, where are we going with this topic? I’ll stop here (I’ll still like comments and only if it’s absolutely necessary I’ll comment/reply).
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Fair enough point about work.
I do think there are self-sufficient types and people answer to social/moral codes that on a functional level mean they don’t care that much about the opinions of others, especially if others are defined as contemporaries, but they may care a great deal about the opinions of long dead ancestors, spiritual masters, parents out of sync with post-post-modern times.
This forum seems in tune with mass culture (not a bad thing.) We want to be beautiful, We want muscles (and one gets the sense it’s not about so they can be more useful around the farm.) We want to be smart (again, it’s probably not just so we can stay in the lab developing cures—maybe we want a bit of dazzle and we don’t want to be left behind.)
Getting left behind or out of the group is the big fear. If our ancestors didn’t receive validation from groups or add value to groups, they wouldn’t have been our ancestors. We are selected for cooperation. We just happened to have born in era of such abundance and large populations that is natural to ponder if the opinions of others matter. And, for the most part, the opinions of strangers matter less, but the trick of our social media era is to convert strangers into friends or foes—and then we very much care what they think.
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i like all the points you illustrated; this part is my favorite and it’s true, we have been blessed to be born in such an era where we have the luxury to be less interested or even not interested (at all) in others (contemporaries) ideas and views, still getting left behind is our biggest fear (or one of them since I think fear or dying/death is the ultimate fear, so we need society/other people to survive -and to reproduce-, which I think is the ultimate cause for our fears).
EDIT: sometimes, when I can’t add anything new, I just highlight what I liked from someone’s comment and add my own reply to that (basically reiterating what you just said).
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