The surest way to tyranny is to implement a global government. As the saying goes power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. And what surer way to tyranny then to give a tiny handful of elites the power to run a global government.
Now the argument that global government is the way to peace and prosperity is hogwash, there will always be war, and poverty, and inequities, but when a tiny handful of people amass a lot of power the inequities get worse, you lose your freedoms, and war becomes a certainity.
All you have to do is look at powerful dictators throughout history to prove that point. But at least Hitler, Stalin, Mao, etc. did not control a global form of government. Just imagine if they had? And what’s our guarantee that if we do get some form of global government or a North American Union that we don’t get a Hitler like tyrant.
Heck, just look at the EU. Look, at all of the power the EU has amassed. You do realize that the EU is slowly realizing the goal of a unified Europe which was the goal of Hitler and Napolean. The people of Europe are losing their freedoms and the this will not have a happy ending.
[quote]LIFTICVSMAXIMVS wrote:
Headhunter wrote:
Would he be better to be simply dead or to have no choices whatsoever?
What is the difference? Having no choice implies one is already dead.[/quote]
Well, I think it means that the person is no longer human in the sense of western Man, such as in knowing the difference between right and wrong. The concept of ‘choice’ will simply be eliminated — like a body from which the the soul has fled (such as the people in Brave New World).
A world of limitless sex, drugs, and other such titillations will be soulless, but the populace (just about all of them anyway) won’t know it.
It’s like voting for McCain or Obama, and imagining that one is influencing the future. Laughable.
[quote]brabbit wrote:
The surest way to tyranny is to implement a global government. As the saying goes power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
And what surer way to tyranny then to give a tiny handful of elites the power to run a global government. Now the argument that global government is the way to peace and prosperity is hogwash, there will always be war, and poverty, and inequities, but when a tiny handful of people amass a lot of power the inequities get worse, you lose your freedoms, and war becomes a certainity.
All you have to do is look at powerful dictators throughout history to prove that point. But at least Hitler, Stalin, Mao, etc. did not control a global form of government. Just imagine if they had?
And what’s our guarantee that if we do get some form of global government or a North American Union that we don’t get a Hitler like tyrant. Heck, just look at the EU. Look, at all of the power the EU has amassed. You do realize that the EU is slowly realizing the goal of a unified Europe which was the goal of Hitler and Napolean. The people of Europe are losing their freedoms and the this will not have a happy ending.[/quote]
Tyranny is actually the only choice remaining. A liberal democracy is open to destruction from WMDs used by a few malcontents. Unless everyone is watched and controlled, the world will simply descend into chaos. The power of just a few individuals (9/11 is an example) to wreak massive destruction is growing exponentially.
Release a small suitcase nuke in lower Manhatten, about 10 AM on a Tuesday. Watch what happens.
A tyrant state though can actually be the embodiment of perfect freedom. When the individual’s will matches the will of the State, he is then perfectly free.
"All the apparently contingent events of history are in reality stages in the logical unfolding of the sovereign reason which is embodied in the State. Passions, impulse, interest, character, personality—all these are either the expression of reason or the instruments which reason moulds for its own use.
We are, therefore, to understand historical happenings as the stern, reluctant working of reason towards the full realization of itself in perfect freedom. (Hegel)
In the future, individuality will be considered a form of insanity.
[quote]Headhunter wrote:
brabbit wrote:
The surest way to tyranny is to implement a global government. As the saying goes power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
And what surer way to tyranny then to give a tiny handful of elites the power to run a global government. Now the argument that global government is the way to peace and prosperity is hogwash, there will always be war, and poverty, and inequities, but when a tiny handful of people amass a lot of power the inequities get worse, you lose your freedoms, and war becomes a certainity.
All you have to do is look at powerful dictators throughout history to prove that point. But at least Hitler, Stalin, Mao, etc. did not control a global form of government. Just imagine if they had?
And what’s our guarantee that if we do get some form of global government or a North American Union that we don’t get a Hitler like tyrant. Heck, just look at the EU. Look, at all of the power the EU has amassed. You do realize that the EU is slowly realizing the goal of a unified Europe which was the goal of Hitler and Napolean. The people of Europe are losing their freedoms and the this will not have a happy ending.
Tyranny is actually the only choice remaining. A liberal democracy is open to destruction from WMDs used by a few malcontents. Unless everyone is watched and controlled, the world will simply descend into chaos. The power of just a few individuals (9/11 is an example) to wreak massive destruction is growing exponentially.
Release a small suitcase nuke in lower Manhatten, about 10 AM on a Tuesday. Watch what happens.
A tyrant state though can actually be the embodiment of perfect freedom. When the individual’s will matches the will of the State, he is then perfectly free.
"All the apparently contingent events of history are in reality stages in the logical unfolding of the sovereign reason which is embodied in the State. Passions, impulse, interest, character, personality—all these are either the expression of reason or the instruments which reason moulds for its own use.
We are, therefore, to understand historical happenings as the stern, reluctant working of reason towards the full realization of itself in perfect freedom. (Hegel)
In the future, individuality will be considered a form of insanity.
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Where do you get all this? Our only choice is to be helpless slaves or dead? That’s pretty extreme.
[quote]LIFTICVSMAXIMVS wrote:
Petedacook wrote:
The real agenda is to turn America into North Mexico – not demographically, but economically. With a handful of oil billionaires and everyone else dirt poor. Democracy is easier to manage that way.
You think restless natives are easier to control?[/quote]
Yes, they are. Spears and bow & arrow thrown by restless natives are much easier to control using modern weapons technology.
Why, do you think wealthy, well educated, well financed civilized people are more difficult to control than restless natives?