Broaden The Second Superpower By Narrowing It

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Second superpower people identify themselves as citizens of the world, and care about social development, collaboration, innovation, open societies, and commons. (Jim Moore, in Charlie Nesson's great idea)

Their are plenty of people on-line who might see themselves as part of the second superpower -- until they read something like this, because they do not identify as world citizens, or they consider social development to be at it's peak (or slipping and needing to go back to some other values), or they prefer the traditional over the new, or privacy, security, or strong private property rights over the commons.

In his descriptions of the second superpower, Moore ( see original article) often adds in some of his other values. Doing this will (indeed already has) lead to it being seen as simply another expression of some existing orientation.

The rest of what was originally in this post (including a minimalist definition of the second superpower) has been moved to SecondSuperpower.