A Unified Earth.

[InfinityWhale 771]

So my opinion on the state of things is a myth? Splendid. Apple seems more interested in money to me for various reasons. Microsoft to a much lesser extent, but can you really name anything else we have? We're certainly not on the cutting edge of technology like we used to be, investing all money in more efficient ways to kill others. Our education system is poor enough that it was declared a national security threat.

 

No, I meant the idea that America is declining is based on a lot of false facts.

 

What do we have? Well, Linux, Firefox, Google, Microsoft, General Dynamics, NASA (Mars in 2030! Wooh!), xkcd, SMBC, a computer network that surpasses any other country, National Health Care soon, insurgent homosexual rights, Michael Phelps and Lochte, the Muppets, McDonalds, Carls Jr, Quiznos, AT&T, Verizon, the Hub, Lauren Faust, Stephen Hawking, Eric S. Nylund, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, guns, BBQ, George Washington, Teddy Roosevelt, conspiracy theorists, a can do spirit, a history of invention, the ability to import talent, a melting-pot, conglomerate culture, a thousand other fantastic things!

 

And this is just America we're talking about. If America is a bad country, that means that there are good ones out there, ones that would make a fine example of how we could or should run the Earth. And with a multi-tiered, nihg-infinite global economy that seems to work out its problems given time and no control, then we are so closer to being together than you can ever imagine!

[Random User 249]

No, I meant the idea that America is declining is based on a lot of false facts.

 

What do we have? Well, Linux, Firefox, Google, Microsoft, General Dynamics, NASA (Mars in 2030! Wooh!), xkcd, SMBC, a computer network that surpasses any other country, National Health Care soon, insurgent homosexual rights, Michael Phelps and Lochte, the Muppets, McDonalds, Carls Jr, Quiznos, AT&T, Verizon, the Hub, Lauren Faust, Stephen Hawking, Eric S. Nylund, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, guns, BBQ, George Washington, Teddy Roosevelt, conspiracy theorists, a can do spirit, a history of invention, the ability to import talent, a melting-pot, conglomerate culture, a thousand other fantastic things!

Basically computers and the dotcom boom are the only things keeping us up then. National Health Care is something we're especially late in, and we're pretty late in homosexual rights. Some TV networks with one or two great shows and a bunch of old good cartoons. We had some good presidents, we had talented people, a great history, have some fast food restaurants, and we have immigrants cramming into the country because they heard about the ever-so promising fantasy called the American Dream. Also AT&T is terrible.

 

And this is just America we're talking about. If America is a bad country, that means that there are good ones out there, ones that would make a fine example of how we could or should run the Earth. And with a multi-tiered, nihg-infinite global economy that seems to work out its problems given time and no control, then we are so closer to being together than you can ever imagine!

 

I never said it was a bad country, it's okay. Just okay. I realise how close we are to global unity. To a one-world everything system in which everyone conforms. Hoorah! Equality isn't in our basic nature, but power is. How likely do you think it is that a one-world system will impede on our rights?

Edited August 7, 2012 by Random User

[InfinityWhale 771]

Basically computers and the dotcom boom are the only things keeping us up then. National Health Care is something we're especially late in, and we're pretty late in homosexual rights. Some TV networks with one or two great shows and a bunch of old good cartoons. We had some good presidents, we had talented people, a great history, have some fast food restaurants, and we have immigrants cramming into the country because they heard about the ever-so promising fantasy called the American Dream. Also AT&T is terrible.

 

 

 

I never said it was a bad country, it's okay. Just okay. I realise how close we are to global unity. To a one-world everything system in which everyone conforms. Hoorah! Equality isn't in our basic nature, but power is. How likely do you think it is that a one-world system will impede on our rights?

 

I think that you're being tricked by a false nostalgia. I mean, at the time, people still thought things were terrible back then. I mean, no one liked Abraham Lincoln in his run, and true respect for many great minds didn't come 'til later. What happens when we look back in one hundred years and see how good things were at this point? Plus, we have plenty of good shows. MLP:FiM, Phineas and Ferb, Gravity Falls are all great examples.

And no, we're not late in rights for homosexuality, at least not from a cultural standpoint. There are plenty of places where it is completely taboo and horribly offensive to have anything homosexual at all, yet these days a character who is gay is almost commonplace or to be expected.

 

As for a unified Earth, I see it much like our world today, with all its pressures and needs to conform being impressed upon us, just without the borders attached to us. Rule #1: Everything happens. More than that, it tends to just keep on happening, and that's what it's going to do: keep on happening, without the countries involved. We're almost at that state already.

[Verde Wub 52]

The main flaw in this is it could lead to socialism, and that cannot work because of trust issues. If everyone could trust everyone, the earth would work, but instead we have to kill each other to show power.

[PlunderSteed 1,251]

Why do you people want a unified earth under a one world government? Don't you realize that is a bad thing and that the only way they are gonna do it is through a religion...

 

That's an interesting viewpoint. Now I'm curious. Which religion do you propose? And what should be done about the inevitable billions of people who would have to "switch teams" as it were?

[Twilight Sky 449]

That's an interesting viewpoint. Now I'm curious. Which religion do you propose? And what should be done about the inevitable billions of people who would have to "switch teams" as it were?

 

Well there is different ways too look at it but seeing as how you don't see it from my standpoint let me explain it this way...

 

Either a religion will sweep across the world converting like crazy till it has the majority of the world or...all the religions will band together in order to assume more power...I believe that is the only way it will happen...

[Cosmic Charlie 129]

The world doesn't have to specifically unite under a single government in order to get along as if we are. Do you think the United States, for example, would be better off as one enormous state than as 50 cooperative states? The oversight needed would be tremendous and untenable. Remember how well that sort of thinking worked for every other empire ever. The whole point of organizations like the UN is so that countries can maintain their sovereignty and protect the interests of their people while encouraging international trade and fellowship. Sure it isn't perfect, but it's ridiculous to expect any kind of sociopolitical system run by complex, highly flawed creatures such as ourselves to run as smoothly in real life as it might theoretically. The mathematical model you would need to encompass every society in the world into a single cohesive economic and political force that could be controlled or even predicted would probably match the standard model of physics in complexity.

 

I have a few words about the religious aspect of this that some of you have suggested. Despite the prevalence of religion in the world, it is no longer the vehicle for leadership it once was in centuries past. People will believe what they want to believe, but there's no way dogma and superstition (deal with it) could possibly pull the clout necessary to unite people under a single banner. That's just not the way humans work, unless they've been raised in the Dark Ages and have literally no other options or ideas about the world. This is the age of information, though, and the masses are slowly becoming less mindless.

Edited August 8, 2012 by Cosmic Charlie