(October 26, 2014 at 8:42 pm)smithers Wrote: Has anyone ever thought about this?
How exactly do you think a one world government would work? Or could it work? Is it possible for a one world government to act for the interests of the people rather than the corporations?
Or how would it NOT work? What flaws would a one world government have?
Would social darwinism eventually cause the world to revert back into separate regions/states etc.?
I am very interested in this idea of a one world government and I'm trying to get everyone's perspective on it.
Could it work? How different would the world and its inhabitants have to be before this could even be considered a possibility? Would population control be necessary for a globalized world? How could it work with over 8 billion people in the world? Or could it?
We already have that in global corporatism. Banks and fuel are investments friend and foe, open and closed societies invest in.
Which brings me to something I wanted to ask you in your introduction thread, why do you think the guy in your avatar is so great? Che was an opportunist nothing more. What he built is nothing any open society would want to live in.
You do not simply have a revolution to have one. The Russian revolution was the result of centralized wealth in one class. Which simply shifted the wealth to a party. Jefferson supported the French Revolution and that ended up with a dictator.
I am no fan of our corporate owned government, but that is not the fault of the Constitution anymore than you can blame a hammer for the user bashing someones skull in. I am no Ayn Rand atheist and I hate libertarians even more than republicans because they are simply republicans on steroids.
But I am also not for a Cuba style government either. They have no political diversity and speaking out against the government is not acceptable there. Cheap food and healthcare and free education can be obtained without setting up one party rule.
I think Europe and Canada and Australia are examples of balance, although global corporatism is trying to break them as well.
But no, there will never be a one world government in the context having one entity or one global state. I find it absurd in a diverse species to expect all 7 billion of us to be on the same page.
I do think what is more reasonable is that we promote the idea that our common needs should be a bigger priority than our differences.
