We were all one people until--

[packman]

[Spitfire of ATJ]

1. Don't forget Nationalism....

[logosoco]

2. This reminds me of a favorite saying...

Everyone is born an atheist, no one is born a racist.

[packman]

3. I like that -

Going to use it

[SoapBox]

4. Yup!

[libodem]

5. Until the gerbil sneezed

[SammyWinstonJack]

12. Ewwww...

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

36. If that is not the most perverted look I'VE EVER SEEN.

[libodem]

38. Yep

Creepy.

[Enthusiast]

47. Cruz is a fucking weirdo.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. Michaelangelo's god?

[The2ndWheel]

7. How far back in history do you have to go for that?

[Bucky]

28. Back to a time when we were only divided by tribe

Racism: it was started by those fucking Neanderthals!

[Bucky]

55. I have a better answer...

You have to go all the way back to your childhood. That's when unimportant demographic accidents didn't matter. When you were a kid, you played with everyone at the park

[Jack Rabbit]

8. You forgot one . . .

We were all one people until the Supreme Shysters declared corporations were people.

[gregcrawford]

33. YES!

You just hit my favorite hot button with a sledgehammer!

[Jack Rabbit]

34. I give you my permission to anything of that you want, Mr. Crawford

I'd be flattered.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. Geography

[SammyWinstonJack]

13. ...to realize that religion is man made.

[The2ndWheel]

15. Many things are man made

Human rights don't exist anywhere but in the human imagination. Time, direction, language, and laws in general. A lot of things were chosen for you. We're all prisoners of history.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

44. "Prisoners of history."

I like that.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

37. It was chosen for me. Luckily I was smart enough to call bullshit.

[libodem]

39. Beautiful

Great graphic.

[Act_of_Reparation]

10. If I had to guess...

...I'd say humans were killing each other before any of that, with competition for resources driving wedges between familial groups and tribes.

But that doesn't look as good as internet meme, so I guess we can ignore it.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

19. did you mean "bribes" instead of "tribes?"

bribes bring people together, especially Panamanian and Chinese lawyers

[Bucky]

29. Ha! that gives me hope

[qwlauren35]

30. Oddly enough

When other species fight to the death, it's usually about mating rights. From what I've seen, when a non-human "tribe" finds food scarce, they go looking for more. They don't fight to the death over it.

[Cowpunk]

11. Sorry to harsh your mellow, but that's a crock.

Humans obviously have a strong genetic predilection to divide ourselves into factions.
If it wasn't race or religion, we'd find some other reason to do it.
Getting rid of these categories would solve nothing.
We need to accept our differences and rise above them in awareness that, though we may disagree, we are better off when we work together.

[Bucky]

31. You sound so negative

All you negatives are like that... O-negs, A-negs, even those supposedly "enlightened" B-negs. Why don't you all go back to where people with your Rhesus antigen belong?! Our Founding Fathers meant this to be a positive antigen country. Either change to our ways or go home!!

[uhnope]

50. +1

that graphic is rather kumbaya.

[Odin2005]

14. Organized religion actually united people and helped form the first civilizations.

The "natural" scale of human life is a tribe of about 150 people divided into several clans of 20-30 people. 150 is the max number you can personally know. Religion made settlements of larger than 150 people possible by making people afraid of divine punishment if they wronged people in their community they did not know.

[jtuck004]

16. We chose to separate ourselves. None of those things is strong enough without our active

participation,

Would be cool to blame something else though.

[Dont call me Shirley]

27. Believing we are separate, the original "sin".

[yesphan]

53. This ^^^ !!! nt

[One_Life_To_Give]

17. Eve

Adam was fine, lonely but fine all by himself. But no, Eve comes along and we been dividing ourselves ever since.

[libodem]

40. Oh, the Goddess is going to get you

For that

This is the Age of Aquarius and we sre going back to the garden. It will be the Mother's way again in this age. Just wait and see.

[Mosby]

18. We were never one people

the premise is wrong.

[Act_of_Reparation]

21. Shhhh... we're having a feel good moment.

Which, around these parts, is much more important than the truth sometimes.

[pampango]

22. True. But liberals usually work to bring races, religions and "others" together. Conservatives

do just the opposite.

[FLPanhandle]

24. Yep.

We had a "them" concept way back as small bands of hunter/gatherers.

Humans never had the concept of "one people" and probably never will.

[heaven05]

56. being part of the human race

makes us all of one race, doesn't it? Or I'm crazy? Religion, politics and money. All are used to divde us to keep one certain group 'in charge'. People better start getting real about who is causing the calamity(s) WE ALL are facing. One race, the human race is in danger from the agendas and lust for power and control of us all......a lot of those sitting at the top of the three evils mentioned above want us to judge and sooner or later kill in the name of superficial differences, race, sex, sexual orientation and religion being the most used tools. And we are using those tools, efficiently, worldwide, daily.

[Octafish]

20. What draws us back together...

Democracy -- the idea that ALL are equal...ALL have infinite value...ALL are unique...ALL are worthy of respect.

Except assholes, tyrants, fascists, royals, Republicans and other forms of hypocrite who think they're better than others, of course.

[Rex]

43. Groups stick together.

The authoritarians will always have us as a thorn in their side. And every generation after. Just too much bullshit to real now and known as fact. South America is unraveling and will join in multilateral takeovers from China etc.. It is important to remember what has happened. For many it is JFK. For me being younger it is 9/11.

Blame life right Octa? They pretend reality is some plot. Oh wait...it all happened. I've changed my mind, history does not have a liberal slant, history is totally neutral. Just there to record passively. That is why so many Rovan agents are hard at working scrubbing facts. They keep the shit that works for them. Hell they are all still Pinkerton agents at heart, so many still don't realize how brutal and barbaric Trump and Cruz zombies are for blood. Also all those confused libertarians and neo-liberals and neo-fascists following around Trump and all the crazy fundie begging for the Rapture Cruz lovers.

And of course the M$M constant babblefish too bad for them we won't ever forget right? The WWW will be here forever. They cannot control it. They cannot control us.

[Enthusiast]

48. When "they" allowed money into politics it exacerbated an existing problem into a crisis.

Those that champion the status quo are not acceptable as my candidate.

[Fresh_Start]

23. don't forget Gender (or Feminism) nt

nt

[elleng]

25. It's always/often US vs THEM, imo;

part of human nature. Genetic? Maybe.

[ConsiderThis_2016]

26. It all stems from religion.

Created by man, many, many moons ago. Nothing divides humans more. It instructs people how to think and act for fear of retribution. As long as our planet is still habitable, things will get better in direct proportion to the waning of faith. Hey at least we don't burn witches like we used to. PS. Some people think they need it to cope, realty can be tough stuff at times. There is a lot of positive instructions in those holy books. it's the other stuff that sux.

[qwlauren35]

32. The comment earlier about religion makes sense to me.

That the purpose of early religion was to allow smaller groups to band together. You may think that religion divides, but at the same time, it unites those within it. So, it fits both cases.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

35. Sorry...Gender divided us first.

Almost every human culture, starting with earliest findings, practiced a gender based power system. Men=powerful. Women=subservient.

Look how gender didn't even seem important enough to the meme-maker to include! Violence and discrimination against women is at epidemic levels worldwide, yet it didn't even register in the m-m's consciousness.

[Initech]

41. Two words: Southern Strategy

That changed everything and for the worse.

[montana_hazeleyes]

42. It's cilantro.

You either love it or hate it. I'm in the hate it group.

[chwaliszewski]

45. Same here!

Cilantro and pickled ginger at the sushi bar both taste like soap to me. Bleck!

[progressoid]

46. Until the Olive Garden wars.

[Warren DeMontague]

49. Ah, have you ever seen what gorilla bands will do to each other? It is BRUTAL.

Sorry, this is bullshit. The tribalism is part of our primate wiring. Doesnt mean we can't try to rise above it, but this "idyllic original state" crap is nonsense.

It doesnt work any better than when it involves cartoon devil snakes and forbidden apples.

[Nitram]

52. I hate to break it to you, but we've never, ever been connected, together, undivided...

...and unclassified. First we were small clans that fought to the death to protect hunting grounds and food sources from other clans. The better organized and smarter ones with better weapons survived. Wealth became a thing as soon as we developed agriculture and started living together in much larger communities that could accumulate and store wealth. There never was a Golden Age of harmony and cooperation.

[pampango]

54. Conservatives drive us apart - the better to promote fear of the "OTHERS" and get elected.

Liberals try to bring us together - to overcome our differences since 'we are all in this together'.

"There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?"

[MrScorpio]

57. America was founded on these very divisions

...Of race, class, religion, political affiliation and gender.

The entire history of this country is a story of the struggle to overcome the inequality of these differences. And we're not even close to resolving any of it.

When you think about humanity, the first thing that you need to ask yourself is, "Who is humanity representative of?" Are we talking about, rich, straight, white, land-owning males here? Because in our founding as a nation, it was only these people who were fully franchised citizens.

Today, we're still greatly divided by many of the same divisions, only altered to accommodate a modern form and function. White supremacy, patriarchy, oligarchy, straight normality and Christian dominance aren't going away anytime soon, simply because of the unearned privileges and unequal amount of power that each of them confer to one group over others.

Until those who retain the privilege and power are either forced to share, or decide to share on their own, don't expect it to change anytime soon, in spite of the struggles of the disenfranchised. Those struggles are necessary and well worth it, but they can also end up being futile instead.

If you have power and privilege, the two hardest things to do with them are both recognizing that you retain such power and privilege and also sharing that power and privilege with those who are disenfranchised.

So, this begs the question... Who is that message for?

[NuttyFluffers]

58. if only we could return to this Noble Savage Eden...

oh wait, it's also factional bullshit.