We need a World Government to Solve Our Major World
Problems. Below is a video from VoteWorldGovernment.org, an organization I
wholeheartedly support...
First off - I am very proud and honored to have been born in the United States of America. I am of the "war baby" generation - born in 1952. I have witnessed the infancy of television, the birth of the personal computer and the Internet, and the publicized "death" of the "cold war".
Today, now in 2007, I perceive an unprepared world in turmoil - with rampant terrorism, escalating wars, rising energy prices, and horrific projections of the new technology dangers from the likes of biotechnology and nanotechnology. I perceive a world with political systems unable to achieve consensus and be proactive with the challenges from these new sciences.
The scientific underpinnings of biotechnology are said to be doubling every six months. The promises are remarkable gifts like the ability to eradicate sicknesses, disease and aging itself. With nanotechnology - we have before us the ability to feed the world, procure abundant energy, and clean up the environment - (see remedial ecology) - making penance offerings to our mother earth for the damages caused through our shortsightedness during man's Industrial Age.
As mentioned above, nanotech also provides us with the quite perplexing capability of changing the basis upon which the economics of mankind's livelihood has been based from the very beginning - since the dawn of homoerectus and prior - from that based on scarcity - to a paradigm shift of an economics based on surplus. The basic promise of nanotechnology is that it reduces the manufacturing of all things to two component parts - basic matter (atoms) and intelligence (organizing the atoms into things). Significant cost doesn't come into play within either of these two ingredients.
Yet, with all these promises we also have untold risks. Garage labs are now capable of producing toxic biological viruses - capable of taking an enormous toll on human life - much more deadly in scope than the nuclear bombs which ended World War II.
With nanotechnology - there is also an emerging danger - like weapons of unthinkable military might, and the capability of total surveilance, both outside and indoors - which would make previous concepts of "big brother" seem tame.
With the above background - a bit more about myself... I have a deep passion for my earth and every living creature that resides in our biosphere. I have no problem whatsoever greeting any person on our planet with a genuine "hug" and best wishes. Within these "rose glasses" - which some say I wear, I believe that I can see the world's problems from a global perspective - drawing on perspectives from great thinkers like Teilhard de Chardin and Buckminster Fuller. From de Chardin's evolution of the "noosphere" - which is the gestalt of mankind's thoughts and intentions - to Fuller's ephemeralization - the phenomonon of doing more with less - optimism calls out for us to make a success of this world - our little experiment in universe. From de Chardin and Fuller -the answer cries out - LOVE. I am reminded of the Bible's two greatest commandments - to love a God of our understanding above all things - and to love our neighbors as ourselves.
These ideals just need to be put into total practice - and the world's policital and sociological problems will be solved and we can move on to more pressing issues - like taking the reins of technology and driving it into preferrable futures based on concensual validation between all humans alive today.
I am all for one vote per one human, as soon as that human is able to understand what the pros and cons of the issue to be voted on entail.
The above perspective brings one to a totally disruptive concept to the current world "status quo". The examination of the components and links from World Democracy Online dot org are geared for the non-scientist and the non-college graduate - in keeping with the hopes of making the concepts meaningful to the most people possible. I'll also be adding a translation feature to this website to further expand its scope.
Political Evolution and the Internet
The biggest force for the democratization of the world lies in the free exchange of information - and the biggest force today in this exchange is the free Internet. True there is some hanky panky being played out with the giant search engines and China's ruling party, and other instances of the information not being "freely exchanged". But overall, the Internet has changed us immensely.
And part of this change is a very large disruption to the pre-internet infrastructure. The commerce of online sales - via both "Business to Business" and "Business to Consumer" - continues to grow at double digits, putting great strain on the traditional "brick & mortar" retailers. Traditional power relationships between, say, a patient and his/her physician is changing - as today's patient is well versed in illnesses and therapies - prior to the doctor's visit. Doctors aren't the "authority" figures that they once were.
Along with social and economic changes, the Internet is also changing the political process across the face of the earth. China is having to accept much more "openness" with it's citizens, Europe is seeing the European Community foster and grow in the exchange of information, the improvement of communications with machine translation services, and one common currency. And Asia has several pockets where the Internet is more advanced, and power more dispersed - than in the West - such as Singapore, South Korea, Japan, etc...
World Democracy Online is all these things and more - even to the extent of actually changing the very basis of the United States' representative democracy. I envision us moving from a democracy where we elect representatives (Congress) to make our laws... to one of a more participatory democracy (Citizens) where we each adult person has an equal voice and can band together through the Internet into political "interest groups" to make our own laws.
Who knows - maybe the type of representative democracy which has served the United States well for over 200 years might be changing as well due to the democratization forces of the ubiquitous Internet. It seems to me that technology is placing a newfound power within our grasps - where we can truly be accountable to, and responsible for - our own destiny.
I have thought much about such a scenario, and will be expanding on these thoughts within the Blog section of World Democracy Online. Please don't misread me - I hold great allegiance to the United States - my birthing nation - and the freedoms which it has provided me.
But viewing our world from space as other beings might see us - there are no nation states visible - no boundary lines to speak of. Just one beautiful blue and green planet - inhabited by billions of humans and other forms of precious life and sensory delights.
Forces like the multinational corporations started a more encompassing view of our world, assisted with technologies such as space exploration and most recently - the Internet.
As the world continues to shrink and become more interdependent - I believe people need to experience a new renaissance or perspective - where we develop a "world allegiance" which grows out of, but doesn't displace, our more segmented allegiances to religion, culture, and political systems. Basically - the supreme allegiance should be to the world first, then to the other more segmented allegiances. Such a view has each of us as our brothers' keeper.
Which brings us back to Love, in a sense. What do you think? Feel free to contact us for now at ted@DomainNesteggs.com . Soon I hope to be able to add a forum for discussion on these types of issues. Every voice needs to be heard, and every voice needs to hold an equal weight.
As time goes on and problems and opportunites both grow in scope - our evolutionary imperative to grow and survive will most probably necessitate a "change of perspective" - taking us from a myopic "pre-Internet" view - to a compassionate, worldly "post-Internet" view.
