Thursday, October 25, 2007
Friday, October 05, 2007
Why World Government Isn't so Scary
From fundamentalist doomsday prophecies to anti-whoever propaganda, everyone has bee stoking fears of a unified world government. Here's why world government is closer than you think, completely harmless, and nothing like the UN.
It's a pretty clear summary of history to say that people have never liked people from another place. The minute you try to bring people together they find excuses to split. We all believe that a world government won't work because our own countries are already too big to be run by the same people. If we just spin off New York, California, and Texas, the rest of Americans could get some peace finally. That's the conventional wisdom. It has a good point, but is it the whole story?
Sunnis and Shias, believers and doubters, shouldn't we all be able to get along? Even those who preach tolerance, forgiveness, and WWJD seem to forget who they are in an election year. Government is serious business and woe to those who don't control their government. Sunnis and Shias have something real to be afraid of. Where the power isn't, the pain is.
So is it power that we are afraid of? Not quite. It's other people's power. Different people. Different people making rules for you!
In a representative (i.e. half-ass) democracy like in the USA, your vote counts for almost nothing. It's only when you can get together in a group, sing a few songs, and act together that you can feel like you have any say over the rules. Imagine you weren't just voting against Texans and New Yorkers. Imagine the Sunnis and Shias and even the Saudis were voting against your vision of a perfect nation, under god or otherwise.
What if governments didn't have power? What if they didn't train police or soldiers? Would you be afraid to share your government then? The time for that kind of government is here.
True direct democracy is possible today. For the first time in history, people from around the world could participate in direct elections together. In the inverse of Murphy's Law, anything good that can happen will happen - and in fact it has happened.
I invite you to take part in a grand experiment. A new nation is being formed - a global nation. And it has a new kind of government, of all people, by all people, and for all people. Its only border is here on the world wide web, and we call it Damabopia.
Thursday, October 04, 2007
Sponsor me! - part deux
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Well your response was overwhelming, but I really can't accept endorsement deals that I just don't believe in. That's why below this post, I'm only recommending products that I've actually used, except for Ann Coulter's newsletter. Anyway, these are ALL quality products/services or I wouldn't let them pay me through Google Adsense