I think more so governing a large number of people, such as in China, is a better example, but your point is well taken. The kinds of governments that exist today are far larger than they would been say before the existence of the Spanish Empire. The same reasoning would have been used back then to argue that such large governments could not possibly exist. It is simply a claim with no basis in reality. We don't know what the limit is to how large a government can be let alone how powerful a state can become.
It could very well be that governing seven or eight billion people is nothing for the next level of governance. That's what we're here to talk about: what might be the "right execution" of a direct democratic world system? What could it look like? Frankly, I'm yet to see a valid argument demonstrating that it's impossible to have a good one world government. I think therein lies the burden of proof, on whosoever doubts the ingenuity of mankind when it's been shown time and again to be triumphant in almost all we set our sights on.
It could very well be that governing seven or eight billion people is nothing for the next level of governance. That's what we're here to talk about: what might be the "right execution" of a direct democratic world system? What could it look like? Frankly, I'm yet to see a valid argument demonstrating that it's impossible to have a good one world government. I think therein lies the burden of proof, on whosoever doubts the ingenuity of mankind when it's been shown time and again to be triumphant in almost all we set our sights on.
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." -Carl Sagan
