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From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
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Subject: Re: World Government
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Date: Tue, 29-Oct-85 00:02:14 EST
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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