Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!greipa!pesnta!amd!amdcad!lll-crg!gymble!umcp-cs!mangoe From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate) Newsgroups: net.politics.theory Subject: Re: World Government Message-ID: <2016@umcp-cs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 29-Oct-85 00:02:14 EST Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.2016 Posted: Tue Oct 29 00:02:14 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 30-Oct-85 12:40:12 EST Distribution: na Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD Lines: 16 I don't think we have a wordl government. There are a number of different bodies (nations, corporations, churches, other things), none of which exerts anything resembling sovereignty over the whole globe. What we have is not a whole lot unlike anarchy, taking that word in the negative sense. The state of the world is, I would suggest, fairly representative of what happens when there is removal of central authority. It simply propagates backwards to smaller units, which in agreggate have the same potential for destruction and misery that a central authority had. Indeed, in many cases chaos is guaranteed, when the smaller sovreigns cannot coordinate, communicate,and develop cross purposes. What's the difference between a hundred security guards working for 50 people and a hundred man police force? More chaos, and little else. Charley Wingate