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Listen to how Californians talk about how their tax dollars are used to support Southerners and Midwesterners. Take that cultural/political/ethnic disconnect a
by guildwriter 9y ago
Listen to how Californians talk about how their tax dollars are used to support Southerners and Midwesterners. Take that cultural/political/ethnic disconnect and cube it. Then you might approach the level of drama that we'd see if a world government with actual teeth was proposed and implemented.
I can only begin to imagine the scale and scope of the issue. Humanity is not nearly close enough culturally where such an organization can realistically be suggested.
- jacquesm 9y agoThey talk about it but they don't secede the Union because of the benefits to Californians. It's all about balance.
- thanksgiving 9y ago> because of the benefits to Californians Sorry if this is naïvety and I can't speak for anyone other than myself but at least for me there's an irrational "love" element that I cannot silent. We fight for political control but my "tribe" is the entire country, not my region. Personally, the day I start talking about how it is economically beneficial to stay in the union is the day I start preparing for the union to dissolve.
- PoachedSausage 9y agoWe already have the global free flow of capital, goods, information and pollutants in the oceans and atmosphere. At what point do we accept that we already have some aspects of world government and take steps to formalize it. I don't think cultural homogeneity is necessary or even desirable. I quite like Neal Stephenson's idea in Diamond Age of some sort of enforceable world economic protocol.