[lit-ideas] Re: On the prospect of World Peace
- From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 14:30:54 -0400
Simon: Is that the only form of world government imaginable?
Eric: What do you think? I don't know.
As an undergraduate, I took a seminar on utopias and
dystopias, and got to examine a lot of happy and grim
potential worlds. Seems hard to minimize the downside.
_Ecotopia_ was a good read, for example, but it depended on
a strong US government, from which it had seceded, to keep
the other predators away.
Maybe the best thing is radical decentralization? Everything
small enough so that people can truly care about it and make
changes to it. Some sort of _Small is Beautiful_ world held
together by nonviolent global glue? Don't know.
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