Message-ID: <32FAE945.353F@earthlink.net> Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 08:35:17 +0000 From: Richard Flyer <mailto:rflyer@EARTHLINK.NET> Subject: Re: THEORY To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
On Thu, 6 Feb 1997, steve worth wrote: > >
> I submit that the most 'praxis' thing we can do right now is to
> unite the world, establish a global society, with a global government.
> It is step one in resolving the problem... everything else becomes
> possible and practical after that..
I have been a lurker here for a while. For some reason this statement caught my eye.
Why do we assume that a centralized world government given today's realities is the best thing?
I may be a minority here on this list, but unless humans have mass individual awakenings to the actual fact of "unity", why would a world government be any better than say the current state of national governments with their corruption and elitism?
The reason for corrupt governments on earth seems obvious enough to me--- we get the government we "deserve"--- or stated another way we get the government that is refelection of the people within the society.
I see a big difference bewteen developing a global society and building a global government.
How do we develop a global society? IMHO this would be a globe of villages, neighborhoods, and local communities united by different bonds than the tenous political bonds of our current "world order."
These new bonds would not be some political ideology, but an actual and tangible experience by many people of the reality of unity of humankind.
Peace,
Richard
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