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Originally posted by Hefficide
reply to post by SLAYER69
If you're fishing for a true one world society, I am afraid that I do not believe we are ready for it yet. There are too many people who are fixated upon their dogmas and indoctrinated identities to allow themselves to buy into it. They would rebel even if the one world society were the much better alternative. The old ways die hard.
The irony is that many of the things that people fear about a one world society would actually be resolved by having one. That is, if such a society could exist and be a Republic where law was even and fairly applied to all. Regional "isms" could remain to a degree - but those "isms" would be difficult to control.
Example. Say "one world government" and Christians immediately reply "Antichrist!" Where Muslims might immediately say "Mahdi!!!" And those two reactions are so polarized that the Christians would say "See, this IS the Antichrist because the Muslims LOVE it!" And the Muslims would reply "You are infidels because you revolt against this!"
Just as in fiction, it would take something very compelling and unprecedented for everyone to get shocked or scared out of their dogmatic thought patterns. Something unparalleled in human history. Something along the lines of an alien invasion or a near miss on an extinction level event.
Short of that? IMO we're just too attached to our ideas to let them go.
~Heff
Originally posted by Hefficide
reply to post by SuperTripps
Because one cannot be divided. IMO you are thinking in the reverse of reality. We already are one planet, one species, one people, all sharing one future.
Currently we are less than one. We are divided. Fractions in factions. Less than the whole.
One would be a step up, not a drop down.
~Heff
B.) Could a NWO function positively as a true Republic?
Originally posted by Hefficide
For what it's worth Tenth... I score in the top 99.8% on IQ tests. By your system of government I could end up in charge of a lot of people.
Now, seriously. Doesn't that thought give you pause and a desire to reconsider?
I know it scares the heck outta me.
~Heff
Originally posted by Hefficide
reply to post by SLAYER69
I am afraid that I do not believe we are ready for it yet. There are too many people who are fixated upon their dogmas and indoctrinated identities to allow themselves to buy into it. They would rebel even if the one world society were the much better alternative. The old ways die hard.
The irony is that many of the things that people fear about a one world society would actually be resolved by having one. That is, if such a society could exist and be a Republic where law was even and fairly applied to all. Regional "isms" could remain to a degree - but those "isms" would be difficult to control.
~Heff