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Originally Posted by casstony

I don't see One World Government as being even remotely possible anytime soon. Europe can't even manage a common currency (not that it was ever a good idea to begin with). Disintegration is more likely than unification.

Originally Posted by Merlin66

Don't see a world government, or any really large government surviving...
Look at Belgium, due to infighting between the French speaking and the Flemish regions they haven't managed to establish a government for over 18 months....the local region councils do everything....now they are saying it works better than the real thing!
Strong tribal groups.....barter system....

Originally Posted by AndrewJ

Dont think so.
When we run out of oil, a lot of things will have to be decentralised.
Its interesting to look how we started in villages but couldnt survive unless we made towns. Then it had to become cities then states then countries, then trading blocs, and now "ze vorld".
( no wonder we need moon and Mars bases )
I accept many benefits have occurred along the way,
but we have also lost a lot and its ( now proving its ) not sustainable.
The same parallel is happening with business.
ie we cant survive if we are small so we need to get bigger.
Then bigger again, and then ???? oops, nowhere to go anymore,
well, we may just have to takeover ourselves
( gotta be a dollar in that for me somewhere ).
What really annoys me about it tho, is they say
"we need to get bigger to survive and give you a better experience",
"we need economies of scale" etc etc etc.
Then they say that
"now we are bigger, the only way we can make stuff more affordable for you is to charge you lots more it"
and as long those near the top can still take their cut every step of the way, without being held accountable, it wont stop.

Gotta luv that sort of logic

Andrew

Gentleman ... you all make valid comments .... and rightly so .. but from where I'm sitting I see it taking a different course. It may not happen for some time to come ... eg: who would have predicted the collapse of Communism in Russia.... that took the World by surprise.

Let's watch and see

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