Re: Global Trilemma United World: 07
In response to an article published in the Sept-Oct. 2007 issue of United World.
The Global Trilemma article stated that the barriers to achieving a sensible global management system “are not technical financial or political. They are mental”. I agree so far as the technical barriers are concerned, and I do believe that the barriers are mental in origin, but no existing system with vested financial or political interests wants to be displaced, and will protect itself by placing every barrier possible between it and any internal or external threat. World Federalism, or Foundation as its proxy, represents that level of threat, because it would, of necessity, fundamentally alter the financial and political institutions of our times.
Evolutionary Psychology tells us that there are two common errors of thinking that we all fall prey to. The first is called the “naturalistic fallacy,” the tendency to believe that what is ought to be. The second is the moralistic fallacy,” the tendency to believe that because we believe certain things to be right, that’s what the reality is. A society that grew up on Orwellian warnings, thinks they are right to fear world government, and so that is the reality.
That was my reality until I understood that such power need not be concentrated, that the only real barrier to popular world federalism will not be found in differences between left or right, blue or red, but rather in the idea that world federalism has no obligation to distribute power, to the extent that people, of any political persuasion, need not fear that power.
I would be very much afraid of a world government that eliminated “independence, and its ugly sidekick national sovereignty.” It should be recognized that federations are meant to value these concepts, to modify them perhaps, but not to destroy them. There can in fact be no world federation without them, only a highly concentrated and potentially very dangerous form of World Government.
Could there be a United States without States Rights, or a Canadian Federation without Provincial rights? Should there be? No, and there will be no World Federation without some measure of protection for the rights of Nation States, and the independence of their electorates to determine the right to secede from that federation should it become tyrannical or unjust.
That reality need not refute “the interdependent nature of our existence,” nor need it be so poorly or thoughtlessly designed as to allow “unregulated experiments”. I have no taste for herring, red or blue.
Carl Joudrie.
