Message-ID: <m0vt1Uy-000anjC@aztec.co.za> Date: Sat, 8 Feb 1997 03:22:00 EET From: steve worth <mailto:stevew@AZTEC.CO.ZA> Subject: Re: THEORY: Global Society To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
Richard wrote:>
>I may be a minority here on this list, but unless humans have mass
>individual awakenings to the actual fact of "unity", why would a world
>government be any better than say the current state of national
>governments with their corruption and elitism?
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>I see a big difference bewteen developing a global society and building
>a global government.
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>How do we develop a global society? IMHO this would be a globe of
>villages, neighborhoods, and local communities united by different bonds
>than the tenous political bonds of our current "world order."
You are 100% correct! And perhaps I did not make my point as well as you have made it for me. The list of three things are listed in order of action to achieve true prosperity for all. Some structure will have to sit at the centre to help ajudicate between resource rich and resource needing states -- and I use resource in the very broadest sense, not just land, minerals and rainfall, etc.
I believe we will not, however witness the action in the order proposed. I think we will see the establishment of some semblence of world structure -- if only to put an end to war. And then, with a tenuous peace -- truce? -- hanging about the planet and its resultant release of monetary and human resources, the slow process of re-educating mankind to unity in the real sense and to the flourescence of a world socieity -- then that process will begin in earnest. It does not have to be this way. We can choose to do it the way you propose -- uniting at the individual level -- and some have chosen that route, but unless more enlist in that process, we will probably start with some lifeless form of planetary peace and global government.... but whichever way it goes, the end result will inevitably be the same -- a permanently peaceful world, based on the true unification of mankind, resulting in prosperity for all humankind....
It is the oldest dream in man's history; it is the also the oldest promise in man's history; we can speed up the process or slow it down, but we cannot stop it... speed it up and we minimize suffering, slow it down and the suffering worsens.
We will _not_ do it under the current 'world order' we need a totally new order based on a new set of values...
Glad this caught your eye.... want to join the ranks of gobal society builders?
Steve Worth South Africa