I used to think that global government would be a good idea but I now realize that this was incredibly naive. Now that I understand human nature better and how

I used to think that global government would be a good idea but I now realize that this was incredibly naive. Now that I understand human nature better and how the worst aspects of human nature tend to concentrate around the centers of power, I cannot think of anything more dangerous than a world government. I actually advocate for the opposite; break up existing governments and make them smaller; no government should govern over more than 5 million people. Having lived in some small sovereign nations (with 500K to 1 million people) and also some big nations with over 70 million people, my feeling about big countries is that people are essentially treated like livestock. People get used to it, but coming from a small nation, it feels very wrong. People living under such powerful governments tend to adopt an overly compliant mentality and to some extent lose some of their humanity; it gets replaced by a kind of fear and apathy.