I think Idaho Winter by Tony Burgess does this pretty well. It’s a wild read.

I was lucky enough to already be seeing a psychiatrist, and during one appointment I mentioned I was feeling attacked by memes that a friend had been sharing, specifically the ADHD ones. He asked me to show them to him and after three he handed me paperwork to fill out, a questionnaire for my mom and one for me, and then the next appointment he looked at the paperwork for about three minutes and asked if I had any issues with trying a new medication. That was June, and other than my other health issues, life is so much different than I ever thought it could be.

Hey man I feel you. I should have added that I live rural and they are working cats as well as pets.

I’m sorry I caused you such anger.

Be well.

You’re an amazing beautiful being and I love you forever! 🫀🫀🫀

Dns blockers for the wiiiiin!

Since you stipulated our species, to me, the answer is an external threat to the whole. Aliens, higher or lower dimensional creatures, cryptids, flame unicorns sharting lava, even angels or demons if we want to get real wild.

Even just the threat of an existential terror such as these and probably a lot I missed, (feel free to add to the list! Feed me your existential threats!) has the potential to bring the species together to fight on a larger scale.

However this doesn’t eliminate war just moves the focus. So I’m not sure if I’ve answered your question or not but I had fun doing it!

I opened jerboa and this was the top of my feed. I was extremely confused for much longer than I’d like to admit.