The coming of age of humanity

Here just a thought that's crossed my mind a few times and this might not be the best place to share it but I'd be interested to hear any views on this matter.

The collective being which is humanity has learned a lot since its birth.
A giant with a hazy memory of his early days and disturbing past still faces inner qualms.
It has grown to adulthood, its cells multiply and specialise, some faster than others, its still holds vestiges from its early childhood


Humanity as an entity, is a bit like a person going through different stages of life.  In it's infancy, humanity was uncoordinated knowledge was lost and many beliefs were held which were not founded on any sort of empirical evidence.
As humanity matured it went through a pubescent crisis

I believe (albeit naively) that humanity, the collective consciousness that has evolved through the transmission of knowledge across generations by the spoken and written word,  has come of age; that our tolerance, understanding, and scientific openness has reached a point where data can be put in the public space without fear of confidentiality, judgement or reprisal.

That we become as open about our genetics and medical problems than about our thoughts, religion, sexual orientation.  That these things don't become newsworthy anymore.  If anything genetics shows us that we are all exceptions, we all carry private mutations, minor alleles, strange intricacies in our DNA that distinguish us from everyone else.

What is interesting is not what makes us the same but what makes us different.

Group dynamics or group psychology

Democracy is founded on the "if everyone did this" thought excercise