After watching a solar system video in my lab and watching the discoveries of our planets and neighboring galaxies evolve I began to think that really there is no other place that we know of within thousands of years of travel that could provide us with a home like our planet Earth. After thinking about that for a couple of days I really started to appreciate everything around me. I also began to think of the conflicts humans have had with each other throughout the times. It seems that these fights are so insignificant in the grand view of it all. I began to think how we are exploiting our planets resources and damaging it with our burning of fossil fuel. We only have one planet Earth in this vast cold region of space and I feel that as each day goes on our earth grows weaker and weaker. It is a sad and lonely journey out there beyond the skies and this beautiful blue and green marble that we live in is the most important habitat we humans have. And once more I started to think...
How wonderful would it be, if it worked, a world government? A government, perhaps, more like a democracy and a republic that allowed indirect representation of people around the world. A world government that ran on a free market system much like our capitalist country. Perhaps then we could put rest to threats of world wars and civil wars. Maybe we could take a one world stance on issues like poverty and world hunger. And maybe the world would be a better place if only just by a little bit. It seems that underdeveloped countries would be considered and they would be allowed to develop more. Trade restrictions would be lifted and countries would be more efficient at production. Somewhere I read in an encyclopedia that the theory behind democracy is that the intelligence of a group is better served at managing a group of people. In other words the strength of democracy lies within the strength of the participants. And to think that the participants would reach to the far edges of the world making global problems an immediate agenda. The collective intelligence of the world seems so tantalizing.Maybe I have my head in the clouds...maybe something like that is not feasible. But maybe something like that is a better solution to a world full of problems.
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Even though your idea is way out there, there are still some drawbacks. Don’t get me wrong I am not trying to bash your idea. The concept of solving world hunger and moving towards peace is great, but in my opinion the quality of life would not improve for most countries (countries other than third world countries) in fact it would decrease. Why? Because there would be no competition and from this effect the quality would suffer greatly. A great example of this is China and the United States; products are being duplicated and improved upon left and right. A demonstration of this is the iphone. A month after the iphone was released China created a phone virtually the same (looks and features) but with twice the performance possibilities. If Pepsi and Coca-Cola were to combine companies why would they have keep the quality up to standards when there is no one else to compete with in the soda industry? All I’m saying is there are ways for the world to be improved and merging countries into a unified government wouldn’t be it. Countries have grudges with each other, different religious beliefs, and different forms of government. I’m saying the UN is doing a great job, in fact, they are doing horrible. They shouldn’t be focusing any attention to Iraq they should be helping people in Darfur that are being killed (they just started helping). Even though your ideas are motives are great a unified government is just not practical.
SilverLight has a lot of good ideas here, and even if they are idealistic, it's good for young people to dream of a better future and how to make it happen. While I don't think a world government is possible, the desire to bring all nations together to protect the Earth and its people is a laudable goal. I think one of the first astronauts said that his response to seeing the Earth from space was just exactly how fragile it looked. We all need to take that perspective; start looking further than our own lives, families and lifetimes. I don't think a more united planet would rule out economic competition. The most importatn point here is that the secret to a better future is better democracies, based on decisions by intelligent voters with the greater good in mind. Iraq went from dictatorship to voting and democracy, but was that na improvement?
Iraq right now is like infinity over infinity. It is in an indeterminate form despite what either side might try to sell. Democracy is not the problem, nor is a different idea about government. The problem is when you start killing other people becuase they don't share your ideas.
I appreciate your honest perspective plunky. However I think you have an incorrect assumption about there being no competition. In America if one company wants to buy out another company they have to first get the approval of the rest of the share holders and more importantly they have to prove to the SEC that combining the companies will not hurt the consumer (i.e. create a monopoly). A similar SEC regulatory branch to protect investors should be extended to a world based democracy backing capitalistic free markets...how ever your point on culture crashes and incompatability is strongly taken. You are correct it would take alot of factors to create such a body.
Yes this is true, but in your "perfect world" under a new world government will there be a SEC. Furthermore, where's the drive or ambition when everyone's in the same boat (same country). By the way nice definition of SEC.
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