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Weekend Reading: Global State Edition

By Kevin

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.

Weekend Reading


Warren Buffet on Gold Investing (Beating The Index)

Investing
  • Blogger Survey Reveals Preferred Stock Brokers (StockBrokers.com)
  • Know Yourself Before You Invest (Boomer and Echo)
  • How To Track Your Dividend Income (The Passive Income Earner)
  • The Usefulness of Asset Allocation (Dividend Monk)
  • Why Market Timing is a Bad Idea (Afford Anything)
Miscellaneous
  • Are You Stuck In A Rut? (Yakezie)
  • Believe You Will Succeed (Yakezie)
  • Government Budgets vs. Public Unions (Hope to Prosper)
  • More career-limiting moves (Larry MacDonald)
  • My Best Customer Service Experience Ever (Squirrelers)
  • Negotiate for Anything (101 Centavos)
Personal Finance
  • 6 Secrets That Canadian Car Dealers Don’t Want You to Know (Canadian Finance Blog)
  • Carnival of Financial Planning – Edition #176 – March 18, 2011 (The Skilled Investor)
  • Carnival of Road to Financial Independence #29 (One Family’s Blog)
  • Don’t Fall for the Call Forwarding *72 Scam (Yes I Am Cheap)
  • How to Get Good at Making Money (Inc.)
  • LEARN ECONOMICS FROM SOUTHPARK (Barbara Friedberg Personal Finance)
  • Life Settlement Investment – Scam or Legit? (Darwin’s Money)
  • My view on debt (My Own Advisor)
  • Paid For College on His Own (DIY Investor)
  • Passive Income Ideas ala Babci (First Gen American)
  • Pet Insurance 101 (Money Smart Life)
  • Protect yourself before Disaster Strikes (Hope to Prosper)
  • Tips for Staying Ahead of Home Loans (Young & Thrifty)
  • Things I Wish I’d Known about Finance: It’s Okay to Fail (MomVesting)
  • Why Inflation Hurts More Today? (retireby40.org)

Hope everyone had a great weekend!

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About Kevin

Kevin has left the office, and he is currently fighting the rat race by working on his own business. He enjoys exploring unvisited places around the world and gaining new experiences. He believes that by properly managing our energy and time, we can learn to invest our lives wisely.

Comments

  1. Echo says

    March 28, 2011 at 9:09 am

    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!

    • Kevin says

      March 28, 2011 at 10:12 am

      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. BeatingTheIndex says

    March 28, 2011 at 10:04 am

    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!

    • Kevin says

      March 28, 2011 at 10:13 am

      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. Squirrelers says

    March 28, 2011 at 1:33 pm

    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.

    • Kevin says

      March 28, 2011 at 1:38 pm

      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. youngandthrifty says

    March 28, 2011 at 11:27 pm

    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.

    • Kevin says

      March 29, 2011 at 11:23 pm

      Yeah the idea of a super state seems more dystopian than based in reality! I guess we’ll see…

  5. 101 Centavos says

    March 29, 2011 at 7:04 am

    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.

    • Kevin says

      March 29, 2011 at 11:25 pm

      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?

      • 101 Centavos says

        March 30, 2011 at 1:29 am

        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.

        • Kevin says

          March 30, 2011 at 8:52 pm

          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!

          • 101 Centavos says

            March 30, 2011 at 9:36 pm

            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. My Own Advisor says

    March 29, 2011 at 11:33 am

    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.

    • Kevin says

      March 29, 2011 at 11:27 pm

      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. Miss T @ Prairie Eco-Thrifter says

    March 29, 2011 at 3:08 pm

    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.

    • Kevin says

      March 29, 2011 at 11:28 pm

      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. Brookside Institute says

    May 12, 2011 at 8:55 pm

    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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