New World Order

An email from a random reader and my reply:

Hi, you don't know me but I thought I'd email you anywayz. I was scouring the internet for information for an english project and I came upon your site. I started to read some of your philosophies on anarchy and individualism, and I gotta ask the standard questions. First of all, how do you expect anarchy to actually work? That is to say how would a society function without a government? The answer is it wouldn't. People are naturally power hungry and vicious, if you took out the current government it would just be replaced with a new, more ruthless one. Therein lies the flaw in you logic, because in overthrowing the government you would just make way for another ruler or rulers, thus defeating the purpose of overthrowing it in the first place. Individualism would also never work because you would be left with an Animal Farm (great book by the way) situation in which someone's individual rights would have to be enhanced or changed somehow because of their importance to the survival of the other individuals, like the pigs in Animal Farm. Basically Individualism is just a simpler version of communism.

Ok, now here's my philosophy. I think that groups are good, I think as long as they can co exist peacefully they should be allowed to do just that. I also think that all the governments of the world should eventually unite and become one super country which would consist of all of the world's countries, no exceptions. The U.N. for example was a step in the right direction. Concepts like nationalism should be discouraged, but done so without violating anyone's civil rights. All the world's religions should either coexist, or if they are unwilling to do so, be disbanded. Civil rights are key in setting up a society like this, and such rights will be taken from the constitution, the english bill of rights, and should include some elements of eastern philosophies as well as concepts from different religious beliefs, concepts like "thou shalt not kill". Any and all weapons capable of killing someone will cease to be publicly sold, and will not be present at all in society since the need for a military will have been removed entirely, the 2nd amendment to the constitution will also be cut from the new list of civil rights. surveillence tools will be used only as safety tools and will only cover public areas like parks and streets, and not homes or private property. Anyone will be able to access any camera from any computer or handheld device for any reason, for example if somebody were walking home from work late at night and they wanted to check the next street for muggers they just tap into the security camera there. Also, should the need arise the police force would be equipped with non lethal weapons only, deadly force would not be necessary since no criminal would have access to a gun. Along with guns, all tanks, missiles, and any other weapon of mass destruction would be searched out and destroyed by the government, a special group of overseers picked at random from the population would see that all the weapons are destroyed and none are kept by the government.


anyway I think that pretty much sums it up, if you have any comments just email me back.

peace, E[...] S[...]

Well, Mr. S[...], we could not possibly disagree more starkly. You sound like you have your vision for world government pretty well worked out for yourself and a full confidence that a united State would remain free from corruption and abuse of power. I won't begin to try to talk you out of any of it. I'd suggest only that you look into some microeconomics and some game theory to bounce off your ideas. They'll at least help you anticipate the arguments of well-informed opponents to your preferred system. Public Choice theory, for all its problems, would also be well worth your time.

Thanks for writing.

laissez faire,
bk
http://bkMarcus.com/blog/