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ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT April, 2009
Look around. What do you see?
A history lesson. Government – valid, representative, progressive – is one of the greatest attributes of mankind. From the beginning, leadership and proper stable government has created the fertile ground through which development has dragged different societies and the world in general forward.
Step by painful step mankind has progressed. We have progressed towards the light of reason. Largely, although obviously not completely, we have progressed beyond the shadows of superstition, beyond the shackles of restrictive stagnation, aiming far beyond poverty, towards something far better than has ever been before.
And yet, with each step forward, with each wave of innovation, with each gasp of imagination, with each desperate reach towards those dreams, we have all had to contend with those who would hold us back, who would send us backward into the degradation of stagnation and mediocrity by not being allowed to question (and expect reasonable answers).
When you look around, just what do you see?
From a non-exclusive vantage point what I can see is chaos. Government is under threat. It is under threat from a number of different areas and struggling to retain some form of control … but it is becoming increasingly difficult. From experience to me this means increasing threat. With increasing threat there comes the increasing potential to halt progression, a decreasing development and very much the potential to decrease sustainability.
This of course is not good news.
And so the first question that comes to mind is this: would a single world government really be so bad?
So many people seem to be vehemently against the concept, the potential, the actuality of a single one world government But why? Does nationalism and individual government factions really serve a valuable purpose in these days of significant shared global threat? Individual governments – of which there are many – complete with their own hidden agenda’s may be seen as a barrier to stability, to grown and to development. They are trying their best, yet with too many competing agenda’s, can the world really be placed in so many hands when the hands aren’t on the same level, when the hands are too much fighting, when the hands are half hidden and clutching their own secret plans for their own individual ends.
No, the world needs something better than this. Something better than the perpetuation of chaos.
To be honest, the only reasonable alternative would be a single global government. The purpose of this government would be to create stability, to guide valuable development – and to halt the inhumanity of superstition based extremism.
Tell me, would this really be so bad? Or would you prefer the chaos? Does anyone - apart from the politicians with their own pockets to fill - really see advantage in perpetuating the petty medieval fiefdoms? Don’t we deserve something better?
Regards
JS
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