quote:Originally posted by Ultra Magnus: I need to have more society with the ladies, I will tell you that right now.
Quality over quantity, my freind.
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"In high school you were voted most likely to get high / In my yearbook you drew black drops from a bloodshot eye"
I'm superconfused here. How is a global society being conflated with the idea of a world government? Europe during the 19th and early 20th centuries was held in place by an exceedingly baroque system of treaties and countertreaties and countercountertreaties. Instant global civil society. One which happened to collapse in an exceedingly messy way, but these things happen. New ones get created.
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That quaint 19th century baroqe system was funded with the sweat and blood of europe's "colonies" like India and all was well...if you happened to be a blue-blooded aristocrat (as opposed to the 99% of the population living in the squalor and filth that was the industrial revolution.
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Well, yeah...and? The last global civil society we had was predicated on the threat of thermonuclear armageddon.
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As long as humanity is fixated on our differences rather than our similarities, a viable global society or government remains impossible. Just the most common objection to any such thing - "there might be enough people who are different to me to vote for something I wouldn't want" - highlights that.
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Well those people just won't have any place in our harmonious global civil society then, will they? We'll run 'em out on a rail (-gun).
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For the last time, "global civil society" does not mean "happy bunnies living in Fluffytown Junction." Or is this just some conspiracy to drive me mad?
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Great name! We'll call our country "Fluffytown Junction" and then run all them dissidents out on a rail!
Sol, you miss the point that your "global civil society" has never been civil and it's "society" is only a pretense to regroup between armed conflicts and oppressions.
We've never known a world that talks out it's problems without at least the threat of armed response to back up their P.O.V.
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