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Totalitarian fist. Source: Seen on multiple sites.

I recently read “Globa: Accelerating technologies will create a global state by 2050” on Kurzweil AI. The ongoing expansion and progression of technology will ultimately lead to, as the author contents, a world where one language becomes the global language (and in the author’s view it won’t be Chinese, which he views as an ” incredibly clumsy and stupid writing system”), and nationalist mentalities will be replaced by globalist mentalities as nations cede sovereignty to a “much larger whole” and that blocs of nations will need to become larger to stay competitive.

We will eventually see a world with one global super-state, with, in the author’s words, “a global constitution, a global president, a global parliament, global political parties, global laws, a global civil service, global police, a global court, a global military, globiversities, global taxation, global wealth distribution, global resource management, global trade unions, … a global currency unit (the “Globo”), … etc….” Since democratic nations “do not go to war against each other” (this guy must have forgot about Nazi Germany where much of the initial aggression was mainly supported by the populace) we will see an era of unparalled peace and freedom, at least until the whole world degenerates into a civil war between those pushing for god-like intelligences and those fighting against it.

Reading this article gives me the same creepy feeling I get after reading a book like George Orwell’s 1984. The author appears to start out from the wrong implied principles: do human rights originate from the people, or are they only granted to us by governments? I believe that human rights originate from the people and that a stronger government that has the power to create a global military and police will also have the power to take rights away from anyone. Then there’s the huge deadweight loss from corruption, bureaucracy, and the stiflement of competition that such a huge structure would suffer from.

Human strength comes from diversity and a tolerance of differences, and a variety of different systems and different ways of trying things. If people try to force a global super state on the world, it will probably lead to a lot of hardship and misery for some people. I instead much prefer a world where people voluntarily come together in peaceful trade and exchange of information, and where sovereignty moves down to the individual level rather than up to some super state.

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  1. Sounds like an interesting read. I’m not much for conspiracy theories that big brother is going to take away our rights and freedoms. I’d be much more concerned about the amount of personal information that companies have on us, especially if you think of the direction a website like Facebook would have to go to leverage its users in order to make money (someone has to pay for that crazy valuation when they go public).

    Thanks for the mention Kevin, and have a great day!

    • I think the guy is completely off base but it’s important to remain vigilant regardless of if it’s big government or big corporations. Facebook has a crazy amount of data on its users, but you can choose how much you want to put on Facebook, and hey, there’s always Diaspora. 😉

  2. Interesting subject Kevin, I have to point it that at least initially the war that was supported by the public in Germany was perceived as rightful since its aim was to recover the lands that were taken away from Germany by the Versailles Treaty in 1919.

    Thanks for the mention!

    • I didn’t want to present my own judgment of whether they were in the right or wrong, I just think that the guy is wrong for believing that people will never support war and that it’s always a dictator forcing his will on the people.

  3. Thanks for including my article in your roundup, Kevin.

    As for the global superstate – I just don’t like the way that sounds! Where do people immigrate to then….other sub-states, or another “colonized” planet? 🙂

    I don’t see this happening in our lifetimes, though I can appreciate the intellectual thought process behind the author’s POV on the subject.

    • Haha, I guess the only alternative at that point will be outer space, at least until the global super state takes over that too. 😛

  4. Interesting, Kevin! The Global superstate thing sounds kind of scary. Sounds a bit like Hunger Games (I’m on the 3rd book and almost finished).

    Thanks for the mention.

  5. Thanks for the link, Kevin. I don’t agree with the article’s author. Just my opinion, but I think the trend is exactly the opposite, towards smaller states and entities, and more conflict as groups and nations clash over declining global resources.

    • The question is which trend will be quicker: declining resources or increasing technology which allows more efficient use of existing resources as well as lowering the cost of exploiting currently untapped sources?

      • Kevin, the more reading I do on soil and water resources, the less convinced I become that there is a technological silver bullet. But there’s always room for optimism.

        • I think optimism is the only thing we have because people are not going to start stop breeding, and if you look at things with a Malthusian viewpoint then it can get very depressing indeed. So, I look to the future of possibilities though I recognize the path from here to there might not be in a straight line, and I think that food and clean water are more serious concerns than energy is. Unless technology does progress it does seem like we’ll be hitting some hard limits soon.

          But… that’s what they said in the 40s and 50s too. I guess the only way we’ll know for sure is to get there and see what happens!

          • That’s right, these can be multi-generational trends, so fretting on the short-term can be counterproductive. And rather than focus on doom and gloom, there is plenty of hope to be had in regenerative trends like permaculture, acquaponics, urban farming, and land imprinting.

  6. Thanks for the mention Kevin!

    I’m with 101 Centavos on this: smaller states and hoarding, if you will, as resources become more and more scarce. Kinda like J-K when you have the best crayons amongst other 3 and 4-year-olds; are you really going to share???

    The next few generations around the world are REALLY going to feel this.

    • I think food is going to be something that we’re going to either have to figure out how to lower the costs without placing further strain on the environment or accept that there may be a lot more disorder around the world. People get the most rebellious when the price of food places a heavy burden on them, after all.

  7. I agree, diversity is what’s makes our society strong. I have heard many talk about this subject before and I can’t say I deny it is possible. Just think of how English is referred to as the global language and countries from all over the world are investing in teachers to teach their children how to speak it. Not to mention items like clothes, currency and so forth. As much as I can say I don’t want it to happen, I won’t be surprised if it does.

    • What could be quite interesting actually is as translation software gets better and better, we might not be too far from the time where we can communicate to each other using a universal translator, like in the sci-fi movies. It’ll have to be better than the online free translation to be successful, though. 😉

  8. After a secret meeting and deliberations European leaders selected globalist Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy to serve as the first President of Europe. In a speech after the news broke he celebrated the Lisbon Treaty global governance and the global management of our planet that he expects should come out of the Copenhagen summit on global warming.

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