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“The world under heaven, after a long period of division, tends to unite; after a long period of union, tends to divide. This has been so since antiquity.” - Lu
by booleandilemma 8y ago
“The world under heaven, after a long period of division, tends to unite; after a long period of union, tends to divide. This has been so since antiquity.” - Luo Guanzhong, Romance of the Three Kingdoms
- kkarakk 8y agoour world isn't under heaven though, increasingly a lot of bureaucracy can be automated away - it just ISN'T because a fair deal of automation means taking away control from politicians. add to that the technical illiteracy in general in the political sphere and there is no push for automation apart from authoritarian governments like china all we need is an event that demonstrates the need for a world government - for eg a massive asteroid headed at earth or a planetary scale food drought to see these systems implemented. the world is stagnating
- petre 8y agoWe don't need a world gov't. We already have the UN, G8, G20. A world gov't means insufficient representation, inability to change.