Controversial Is The World Government A Good System?
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It's great, in theory.
We as readers are privvy to all its crines and shortcomings.
If instead of the gorosei there was a council of regent kings, picked every Reverie, that would serve as a stopgap in case bad policies get voted in in the Reverie, then the WG could work splendidly.
Have every member country send a representative to Mariejois to serve as their liaison, also on a Reverie-to-Reverie term.
We as readers are privvy to all its crines and shortcomings.
If instead of the gorosei there was a council of regent kings, picked every Reverie, that would serve as a stopgap in case bad policies get voted in in the Reverie, then the WG could work splendidly.
Have every member country send a representative to Mariejois to serve as their liaison, also on a Reverie-to-Reverie term.
I think it is a valid criticism when the word is derived from Greek roughly meaning "rule by the people" or "power of the people". In short, the people are (hypothetically) the highest authority in the nation.
If you can't trust the people to not be retarded, you just flat out have zero trust in the concept of democracy in general. No respect/trust for the hypothetical highest authority = fundamentally no respect for the system in general.
If you can't trust the people to not be retarded, you just flat out have zero trust in the concept of democracy in general. No respect/trust for the hypothetical highest authority = fundamentally no respect for the system in general.
No.
Some sort of global alliance akin to NATO or UN is definitely a good system.
World government however is inherently a bad system.
It has to do with effectiveness and efficiency. More removed decision-makers are from the immediate issue, more likely they are to screw up even IF they genuinely have people's best interests at heart. And more removed they are from the local community, less likely they are to care about it - elected or not.
So the world government could be composed of the biggest saints (and I mean, actual saints), and it would still be bad system. Fact that it is run by evil people merely moves it from being "merely bad" to "pretty damn awful".
Basically this:
https://epublications.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1018&context=english_4610jrrt
https://fantasyview.wordpress.com/2024/04/16/tolkiens-ideal-of-monarchy/
Turn the "World Government" into basically just the Reverie + defense alliance, and it is an OK system. But introduce the Celestial Tribute, central government having laws enforced by global-spanning military... that is a recipe for disaster.
Problem with democracy is that it puts people in power who want to be in power, and such people are pretty much without exception always lunatics. Sure, Trump is a lunatic... but if you want to know why he won, all you need is take a good look at who his competition was.
Equality for everyone is the ideal.
In practice it nearly always ends up being genocide for everyone.
Humans are not equal by nature, and trying to force equality will always end up in mass murder.
So no, communism is an inherently awful system. Any system trying to establish some kind of "ideal" or utopian society is.
Some sort of global alliance akin to NATO or UN is definitely a good system.
World government however is inherently a bad system.
It has to do with effectiveness and efficiency. More removed decision-makers are from the immediate issue, more likely they are to screw up even IF they genuinely have people's best interests at heart. And more removed they are from the local community, less likely they are to care about it - elected or not.
So the world government could be composed of the biggest saints (and I mean, actual saints), and it would still be bad system. Fact that it is run by evil people merely moves it from being "merely bad" to "pretty damn awful".
Basically this:
https://epublications.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1018&context=english_4610jrrt
https://fantasyview.wordpress.com/2024/04/16/tolkiens-ideal-of-monarchy/
Turn the "World Government" into basically just the Reverie + defense alliance, and it is an OK system. But introduce the Celestial Tribute, central government having laws enforced by global-spanning military... that is a recipe for disaster.
Problem with democracy is that it puts people in power who want to be in power, and such people are pretty much without exception always lunatics. Sure, Trump is a lunatic... but if you want to know why he won, all you need is take a good look at who his competition was.
Equality for everyone is the ideal.
In practice it nearly always ends up being genocide for everyone.
Humans are not equal by nature, and trying to force equality will always end up in mass murder.
So no, communism is an inherently awful system. Any system trying to establish some kind of "ideal" or utopian society is.
The WG did not combat piracy, their very existence was a catalyst for piracy. Piracy is a symptom of the WG's authoritarian rule, and the perfect world scenario where it would work if the right person was in charge is just childish fantasy.
A single ruling entity requires a single unified culture and set of rules/laws which is just counter to everything in one piece.
They can only function as a military force by taking resources from unaffiliated countries which isn't a long term strategy because that list of countries will get smaller and smaller and then they have to either create new ones or take from their own.
The concept of a WG in one piece can only work if the people on top are abusing the people on the bottom, if they change it to a trade union might be onto something but aside from that no.
A single ruling entity requires a single unified culture and set of rules/laws which is just counter to everything in one piece.
They can only function as a military force by taking resources from unaffiliated countries which isn't a long term strategy because that list of countries will get smaller and smaller and then they have to either create new ones or take from their own.
The concept of a WG in one piece can only work if the people on top are abusing the people on the bottom, if they change it to a trade union might be onto something but aside from that no.