RE: One world government?
October 27, 2014 at 9:37 am
(This post was last modified: October 27, 2014 at 9:43 am by Anomalocaris.)
(October 27, 2014 at 7:42 am)smithers Wrote: What about a one world government that strictly served the needs of the people as a whole? Where corporations were kept under heavy regulation from creating monopolies or destroying the ecosystem... The rich would be heavily taxed and their wealth redistributed amongst the rest of the world.
I am being an idealist though, and I realize some people are more so taking the realist perspective, as Blackout stated. The situation I am assuming is a world where people no longer feel the need to control people and everyone has come to a point where greed, malicious intent and the rest of it is simply not part of the human psyche anymore... obviously UNrealistic hahaha
People have conflicting interests. When you say "strictly serving the needs of the people", which people and which needs? The act of serving one group of people and need would be seen by another group as failing to serve their group and their needs.
BTW, a world in which both wealth are taxed heavily and people no longer feels the need to control other people is a word in which the most effective and enduring fundamental reason for and method of progress would have been removed.
(October 27, 2014 at 2:25 am)Aoi Magi Wrote: One world government won't work because there would be no one to challenge that authority. I on the other hand do agree that we need to lower the current count of governments. Maybe 3 strong governments would be the best bet. Too many powers and we get all the conflicts as we see today, too few and a dictator is bound to rise up and ruin everything, so a balance is necessary.
Considering most significant challenges to authorities of influential nation states do not come from abroad, the same influences which can challenge authority of powerful nation states today can challenge the authority of a world government just as well.
(October 26, 2014 at 9:11 pm)Alice Wrote: It wouldn't work, unless we had first achieved consensus. That we do not have but one government suggests that we have not.
Government is not achieved through consensus. It is achieved through cunning manipulation of human psychology.
