The only problems that scaling up would automatically eliminate are those of conflicts between different states [...]
Historically, those have caused some major problems...
and these would likely be transformed into conflicts between interest groups in one state.
Warring political parties are generally less dangerous than warring nation states. Revolutions can happen, but they aren’t too common—especially in well-designed political systems.
There are as many ways to run a one-world government as there are countries on this Earth today, and possibly more. No single democracy is the same as all the others, and then you get the various dictatorships and plutocracies that hide behind the name…
Even now, a global government is forming from international treaties, fear of nuclear death and terrorism, as well as from trade—it would seem the trend cannot be stopped just by saying one does not want a global government. So, what am I worried about? That the global government that evolves will make my birthplace, the USSR, look like a utopia. The sheer number of USEFUL solutions needed to PERFECT a global government (that is, to create one that we would all agree is competent and beneficial) requires, I think, that we fix up the governments doing the negotiating for a world government FIRST. A good tree is much less likely to produce a bad fruit, to use a Biblical reference. I am not arguing for ignoring world government development, but I would like to point out that scaling up would work a lot better by concentrating on removing issues we see in our governments today...
Historically, those have caused some major problems...
Warring political parties are generally less dangerous than warring nation states. Revolutions can happen, but they aren’t too common—especially in well-designed political systems.
There are as many ways to run a one-world government as there are countries on this Earth today, and possibly more. No single democracy is the same as all the others, and then you get the various dictatorships and plutocracies that hide behind the name… Even now, a global government is forming from international treaties, fear of nuclear death and terrorism, as well as from trade—it would seem the trend cannot be stopped just by saying one does not want a global government. So, what am I worried about? That the global government that evolves will make my birthplace, the USSR, look like a utopia. The sheer number of USEFUL solutions needed to PERFECT a global government (that is, to create one that we would all agree is competent and beneficial) requires, I think, that we fix up the governments doing the negotiating for a world government FIRST. A good tree is much less likely to produce a bad fruit, to use a Biblical reference. I am not arguing for ignoring world government development, but I would like to point out that scaling up would work a lot better by concentrating on removing issues we see in our governments today...