Two
factors are propelling the World into catastrophic crisis: the first is Global Climate Change and the
second is the vast Inequality of Wealth, or I should say an extreme
Concentration of Wealth into Private Hands, leaving not enough Wealth left over
to pay for essential Public Infrastructures required for the maintenance of a
Major Global Civilization. Starved of Resources, an Economic and Social
Collapse would be inevitable, and Billions would die as the World plunges into
a new Dark Ages. Our only Salvation would have to be through fundamental and
systematic change. No single nation, or
even limited alliance of Nations could go it alone, as long as any Major Power
still has it within its powers to irresponsibly pillage enough Global Resources
to topple the rest of the World into a concatenated Collapse. (Global
Capitalism, as it is now, consists of billions of intertwined connections and
dependencies, where the proverbial chain is only as strong as its weakest
link. Our challenge would be to disentangle
that whole mess and restructure the World Economy on a New Foundation, without
first Knocking over the Old. It is not
likely we will succeed, but, well, “damned if we do or damned if we don’t”, but
we at least need to give it a try).
The
task of Unifying Jurisdictions would be daunting. Of course the Super Powers would stand in the
way. Look at what they did to Muammar
Gaddafi, who was neither a Communist nor an Islamist, but who had put himself
at the forefront of a Pan-African Unification Movement. The combined Western Assault on African
Political Self Determinism was as extreme as anything from the 19th
Century – sheer Imperialism backed by Military force. So the Unifying World States would have to
quickly pool military resources, as well as establish their own Banking
Resources, establish secure Trade Routes, and lay down plans to assure Food
Security (but maybe they could avoid the
worst if only they make a contribution into the Clinton Foundation, which was
probably Colonel Gaddafi’s most significant oversight… He did not Pay Off the
Wicked Witch of the West).
Of
course, the World States cannot be Democratic, because every Small Country
would be assured of NEVER being represented by a Popular Democratic Vote which
would hand a Solid Dominance to only the most populated Jurisdictions. As we now see in Democracies the World over,
it is the Ethnic or Religious Majorities that take the Entire Pie. 49% of People, the Losers in Democracy, are
effectively disenfranchised. So, no,
Government would have to be by open competitive Civil Service Appointments, and
all Economic and Fiscal Policies would have to be governed according to some
Constitutional Algorithm which would guarantee each World Citizen a specified Piece
of the Pie. Fortunately, the World now
has very affordable Super Computing Information Systems, which advances in
Artificial Intelligence will only make better, and so Computerized Economic
Planning could encompass the Whole World Jurisdiction with enough fine-grained
resolution to specify the resource disposition down to each individual.
Now,
if the Smaller Nations are protected from the Democratic Dominance of the
Larger Nations, than the Smaller Nations would be less fearful about bringing
Larger Nations into the fold. The
viability of the World States would depend upon their attaining a certain
critical mass of mineral, food, and manufacturing resources. In the same way as
the Advanced Nations now use their effective Monopoly in Capital and Weapons
Systems to compel the developing Nations to acquiesce to their Hegemony, well a
Unified Front of World States, with enough “Stuff”, could turn that same dynamic around on a
declining Western Europe and Canada (though I suspect the United States, with
its Dooms Day Military Megalith, designed on purpose to oppose the Rest of the
World, will be the last hold out). One
wonders whether any of the Major World Powers would find it to their advantage
to join the World States. Certainly, any
of the Major Powers that now feel politically and militarily isolated, could
benefit by not just attaining an incremental increase in their pool of military
weaponry, but more importantly by having access to military bases all around
the World as well as whatever maritime rights that go along with them.
And,
yes, we need to discuss the World Military Organization. The Military would necessarily have to be a “World”
Organization and not just Regiments from the various States, which is how the
United Nations presently runs their Collective Security. There is no cohesiveness in such a mixed
force. So, yes, Somewhere the World
States would have to set up a World City, not in the territory of any of the
World States, but a separate and independent Nucleus City where both Military
and Political Officials and Officers could be schooled from childhood to be so
totally indoctrinated in the Ideologies of World Jurisdiction that they would come
out fully Identifying themselves as World Citizens, seeing their Home Regions
as simply quaint Home Towns, but all their Allegiance would be to the Unified World.
It would probably be good if they never
went ‘home’ again, or at least not until they retire to a rocking chair on the
porch.
Would China or Russia put aside their
parochial National Prides and agree to the acceptance of a Unified World? Well, why not? If China believes in the Strength of its
Culture and Civilization, then it could almost bet, that with an impartial
Education for all World Citizens in the World Arts, History and Culture, that
World Civilization would come along slowly towards leaning their way, and that
World Civilization in the centuries to come would take on the color of the
Confucian Traditions and Values. But if
they wanted to impose their Language, that should be a deal breaker. A
scientifically designed Universal Language could be learned in six months. But given six months with Mandarin and you
will have barely gotten started.
Russia
could also stand to be a winner if more people were exposed to their Passionate
Cultural Achievements. Of course, I
worry about both India and Pakistan – two Major World Powers, but because of
their enmity and proximity, well, they zero each other out. They are the Same People, except for an
artificial difference in Religions. Certainly,
the Secular Elements in India and Pakistan could create arguably the Center of
Gravity for any World Civilization, but before they can do that, they both need
to get out of the 14th Century. Iran also – the Old Persian Empire, perhaps
the most Moral the World has ever known, before or since; well, they would need to shake off that Arab Conquest
they still suffer under, and remember their own Greatness as well as their own
Religion.
Europe
has experimented with Broader Jurisdictions lately but is not entirely happy
with how it has been going, and the Germans are still behaving like they still
believe they are the Master Race.
England’s Brexit Embarrassment shows that they are delusional, supposing
their declining little Island is still a Dominant World Power.
What
about Latin America? Well, they have a
strong Left Wing, although a scary and very deadly Right Wing. We can only pray that Justice will
prevail. If the Universal World Language
could be made to project a strong Latin Flavor (and who could object to that?)
then I think that Latin America could be a Power Center for the World State as
it strives for hopefully a Peaceful World Conquest.
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