@izzythepush,
izzythepush wrote:That's just an opinion, and not one based on logic either.
It is based on the well known history
of human nature, both qua the political predator
and qua the passive, docile victim.
Look at the history of the Capetian Monarchy:
innocuous at first, moving toward absolutism.
It is human nature that politicians wanna re-make society
in the image of what thay deem right;
what thay like.
With time, there is progressively more intense political control.
The idea is that perceived bad is cured by having
government
make the operative decisions, rather than a free citizen;
i.e., the notion that the answer to every problem is to
constrict personal freedom, by either prohibiting or mandating conduct of the Individual citizen.
I don't fear the UN; harmless, at least now,
but if world government actually took hold
the nightmares of the paranoid wud be manifested.
Government micro-surveillance and overhead from satellites
wud be universal; George Orwell.
I will not live to see it.
izzythepush wrote: America isn't despotic, at least towards its own citizens, and it's fairly big too.
Its getting worse.
Obama will make it as bad as he can; he 's trying, but its not ez,
with Republican control of the House.
America was born in
anti-authoritarian lust.
A new world government wud not be; the E.U. was not.
izzythepush wrote:The main outcome would be that smaller, third world countries
would have a far greater say than they do now, and resources
would be more evenly shared out, meaning you wouldn't have as much.
The aliens 'd vote themselves American taxes.
That, of itself, wud be bad enuf,
but inevitably, despotism wud prevail, with
no rescue, except blessed death.
Man wud be permanently re-defined, as a colony creature; the Borg.
