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jlf1961 -> RE: United States to Pursue UN Global Gun Ban (2/14/2011 11:56:56 AM)
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Term, may I point out a few facts that you and your conspiracy nutjobs seem to have conveniently forgotten?
1. The term was used at the end of World War Two and the beginning of the cold war to describe the situation between east and west.
2. The term was used when mankind went into space, referring to the change in technology and the achievements of mankind.
3. The term was used to describe the world after the fall of the soviet union, again referring to the situation between the former soviet union and western countries.
The term has been used to describe any significant change in the political climate around the world, IT DOES NOT REFER TO A NEW WORLD GOVERNMENT.
Do any actual academic research on human civilization at its present stage of development and you will find out it is damn impossible for a centralized world government to actually come into existence. There is not one unifying idea that actually can get the world population behind it, and that is the rub.
Any attempt to take the world by use of military force to create such a government would continually escalate until nuclear weapons are used, and there would be nothing for a government to govern when it is all done.
As you have pointed out, there have at times been governments that controlled vast areas of the globe, all of which crumbled due to the weight of the problem.
Ghangis Khan's empire crumbled at his death because of infighting between his heirs that he left the empire to.
The Roman empire crumbled because it got too weak to fight off the barbarians simply because the Romans got to lazy to defend their empire.
Hitler tried it but came up against the allies who fought against Nazism.
Napoleon tried, twice and was defeated by an alliance of countries against him, not to mention the great Russian Ally, winter.
The British empire eventually came apart partly due to nationalist movements in various colonial holdings or simply out of necessity. It is expensive to try and hold vast areas in the modern times.
Basically it boils down to the simple fact, once again, that there is no unifying movement among the various ethnic and national populations that would make a change to a central world government plausible, or even possible.
Various science fiction writers have postulated such a government, usually the result of a series of world wars and one group coming up with a way to end them. The most famous of which is "the New World Order" by H. G. Wells. Another that postulated such a world government is Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein, which seems more of a political essay, in my opinion.
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