A couple of days ago, a comment was made on a post that Bill wrote about being a “citizen of the world“. That comment was made by a gentleman who apparently is a strong advocate for what many call a one world government. I, of course, responded. However, I can’t help be feel like there is more to be said, particularly in regards to the following statement:
With a globally enforced peace, we can actually defeat AIDS and poverty, get serious about everyone’s human rights, deal with climate change, encourage freedom and democracy everywhere, and build a truly sustainable future for our planet.
(Emphasis is mine)
First, I’d like to point out that the ideas behind that one world government are great. Everyone living together in peace and happiness? That’s wonderful. However, the terminology turns me off immediately, and it’s not that I think it’s inaccurate either.
The idea that one can enforce peace is ridiculous. Peace is something that occurs naturally when people willingly work together to resolve conflict. Willingness can never be enforced. All that can be enforced is obedience. To many, that’s close enough. Frankly, an obedient society often seems pretty Utopian too, especially from the outside. It becomes easy to wish that this was common in our own home.
Unfortunately, enforced obedience has another name through out the world. It’s often called tyranny. Forced obedience is how every tyrannical society has maintained control. While I’m sure this organization that the gentleman in question is part of would find the very idea abhorrent, that is the problem.
In this very nation, one that bills itself as the “land of the free”, we see our own freedoms stripped away with various calls for “the greater good” or told that “it’s for the children” when nothing can be further from the truth. These freedoms being ripped away from us aren’t benefiting anyone really. Instead, it ultimately harms the nation as a whole. A press that is less free, a populace less able to protect themselves, a Congress who is so full of self importance that they do as they wish, an Executive branch that bypasses Congressional oversight by appointing czars (we’re up to what, 16 now?).
With that in mind, how could we trust a world government, one populated mostly by those who’ve never really experienced real freedom, would actually be a free state? We can’t. In many parts of the world, bribes are not only legal, but expected. The people regions like to smile quaintly about our naive ways, because this is how business is done in the rest of the world after all. Others expect a state religion. As Islam grows, are we really OK with allowing any state religion since Islam may well become it? I personally don’t think so.
Obviously, not every nation takes bribes, or has Islamic roots. But the vast majority have very different values from the United States. This would make a “meeting of the minds” virtually impossible without us giving up all that makes this nation great.
Yeah…that’s a price that I’m damn sure not going to pay.
