Currently - not possible. Later.. it's possible that it'll be possible. The Marquis may have a point though. First, everyone has to want it. Is that possible? Not currently.
Only a pseudo-intellectual wannabe-voltaire from the slums of disneyland would bring in the element of entertainment and pleasurable asthetics into the highly moral argument of a united world . I have to go with wes : 1)currently not possible in any way 2)possible that the possibility in the future will accur (almost by definition) and want to add : 1)probability will lie in the fields of economy and politics instead of fields like psychology or intellegence (who according to me are quite heavily related) . such shortcoming ammount also in the lack of probability when it comes to religion or culture .
Is it possible and how is it possible? One of the first steps would be to get rid of all forms of religion. Most peoples belief in their gods undermine their rationality.
yes it's quite possible...PNAC will/are making sure of that. It will be a new American century, and a new American world...woooohoooo.:bugeye:
For course it's not possible, racial tensions, i.e the Chinese would control everything with of India on the side. The small minority groups would be ignored. Ideologicly too many different theories, I mean who's theory would there be to control one planet? Religion... enough said. The only thing that could have ever brought the world to together as one would have been communism.
Which sheds light on the ability of the general populous to be rational. Hell, the people on this site are practically a "cream of the crop" sampling regarding potential for "rationality" and well, I believe that they make my case for me. There is an enormous amount if irrational bullshit from a bunch of supposedly rational people. It would be worthy to note at this point however.. that "rationality" is obviously a subjective measure. This is both valid in the sense that "people have such different experiences in life that rationality is different based on the needs, etc. established from their perspective" and "I am unable to fathom the nature of rationality and I have not basis by which to call myself rational, but I do anyway". On the one hand, circumstance leads to different needs and thusly different rational interpretations of situational and percieved needs, on the other, people are stupid but assume they are not. Either way, it's a deal breaker for "world peace". Hell with these kind of problems there's a long LONG way to go before any kind of "peace" can be sustained. Frankly I'm amazed that things operate as smoothly as they do. Brute force is far more effective than I would hypothesize (since the problem seems SO big, the amount of brute force applied to keep it in balance is very large, however I guess it's the fact that we have TV and video games that offsets the bulk of it)
I wouldn't, no. I think the original poster was speaking more in a sort of "we are the world" group hug type of "oneness" all smiles and stuffPlease Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
I just dont think we have developed the right governmental system to manage the whole world. Somebody needs to run a whole lot of in depth simulations and studies of past systems to try to find one. Im not even sure you would want such a world at all. It would most likly have to be imposed by force and you know how much that would suck. It would also be akin to putting all your eggs in one basket. If a world government collapsed there would be chaos and nobody left to pick up the pieces. It would be a massive dark age and a fall back to warlords and the like.
As long as you have morons like Europe (in general) on the planet, there wouldn't be one world. Nor would I want one...
Clockwood, I'm not sure the problem is a lack of a good enough system (though, you're right in my opinion, in saying that we don't yet have a workable system) - I think the problem is that despite the massive increase in basic education that the average human receives, that we have a lot of ground to cover before any form of government is going to work on a global scale. Jerrek, A post that proves my point regarding education...
Its not possible rigth now. But in the future when we will face a threat against the whole world then we will unite not because we will choose to do so but because we wont have any other option than to unite. We think now we are the best and can do alot of things. Actually we are nothing in this big universe. Nothing.. We cant even use half of our brain. But someday we will understand that we wasted our years with stupid wars and mainly wars about religion. Then we will unite.. and we will understand that this way we are more stronger and smarter
