Quote Originally Posted by jamstigator
What's wrong with a world government, incidentally? We started out as bickering tribes, and over time those coalesced into nations, which are basically just big tribes. Why not go the next step and have all of us humans be part of the same tribe? The nice thing about that is that tribes very rarely war against themselves; all one tribe, no more wars. It seemed to work okay for the folks in the Star Trek universe!

I figure we'll eventually grow up from the tribal view of the world (nations vs. other nations). The human race could accomplish much more if so much of its energy wasn't spent on factions fighting factions. Of course, I could be totally wrong and we'll just maintain the status quo and keep killing ourselves, and eventually wipe ourselves out.
Well think of this as a perspective discussion.

We in the US have a perspective of things that differs widely from say someone in Africa. Our choices of food are different, our perception of danger is different.

To someone in Africa it may be normal for there to be armed teenagers driveing by in a "technical". Whereas here in the US that would be very alarming.

A one world government, is effectively putting all citizens of the planet on one perspective scale.

Once that is done, the perspective can then be manipulated on a world wide scale, and the young will be socialized into whatever perspective they are seeing. It may very well be that it will become a normal scene that armed teenagers are patrolling your neighborhood.

Altho we hold a certain perspective now, there are forces at work that are changeing this perspective at an alarming rate.

Do you like your perspective?

Do you want it to change?

In a one world government we wont have a choice but to accept the perspective we are being given.

Peace.