Dear Friends,
It seems to me that there are no greater motivators of men than money and power. The thirst for which is unquenchable. In fact it can be said, and a good argument made, that not only are money and power great motivators of men but the more of either a person has, the more of both they want. In other words as a person’s thirsts are quenched the person’s thirsts grow ever faster.
That is why, if a cigarette company came out with research that proved cigarettes prevent cancer and that the higher cancer observed in populations that smoke is due to poor lifestyle including poor diet, no exercise, and other risk factors, including exposure to factory emissions, that in fact, smoking cigarettes lowered the prevalence of cancer in those populations people would be cautious.
Because everyone would know, and understand intrinsically, that the companies that produced the scientific papers and research, have a vested interest in the outcome, in both money and power. We innately understand, that having ‘a dog in the race’ so to speak, gives people bias. That bias can manifest itself in massaged outcomes.
It stands to reason that the more money and the more power at stake the more bias it would naturally coerce from people. So much so that until certain conditions are met any thought of world government is absurd. Absurd to the point of abstraction. Like a political black hole that, once created, would inevitably suck humanity into itself and feed on us until it had consumed us and extinguished itself thusly.
Many pernicious notions still exist, that invade the thoughts of mankind and keep humanity largely in a state of perpetual poverty, instead of a state of perpetual prosperity. Notions that are as pernicious as they are magnetic. Like, for example, the idea that a person has any “right” to the labor of another free person, or that any other is not free.
As Adam Smith said, if given the choice between slave labor and negotiating with a free man for his free labor most people will choose the slave because of men’s pride… People have an inner feeling, they, (you and I), have some right to the labor of another without or without their consent. This is manifested in many forms. I will name a very few but if you think about it you will be able to think of many more.
The notion that a person has a right to the labor of another is manifested most often as false “Human Rights” bestowed by some “benevolent” State authority. They freely give out “Rights” to politically favored groups. Meting out the labor of others in the form of taxation for votes to maintain power. The faction that keeps the authority in power Is not relevant.
Another example is the Social Security system in the US. Under that system the proletariat of today pay for the retired proletariat of today. Extra money is (was) then spent to garner political favors from political factions. Then rhetoric is thrown out that the money is in a lock box. Well, there is no tooth fairy, and there is no lock box. The money is spent and an, possibly valueless, IOU is there instead. The law entitles one generation to the labor of another with no guarantee that the payers of today will have a government that is able, for many reasons, to extract that toll from the payers of tomorrow.
Capitalist social security would be the best means to get a retirement system that would not give any faction the “right” to the labor of another. These two examples are two of many. To get this nut cracked will take many more years of civilization of humanity through the use of capitalism. As I have said before, capitalist and capitalist behavior makes people more civilized in many ways, more punctual, greater self control, the ability to maintain one task for an extended period of time etc…
If every country, or at least a plurality of countries, had a functional market system, un warped by political influence, the possibility of a world government could be considered, but until then it is like an ancient Scythian considering the possibility of interstellar travel. He could see the stars and consider their import but had no real context to imagine what it would entail what it would take to be done right.
People today, looking at the possibility of a world government, are no more advanced philosophically, that our Scythian was scientifically. To launch into such a poorly thought out venture would certainly end in disaster, but with the whole of humanity along for the ride.
