Unification?

[Walter]

Only possible if the combine manage to open a path to earth again .

 

[Jintor]

When we find something or someone else out there to be the 'not us'.

 

[Remus]

And I hope it would be achieved without having to colonize Mars or fight space aliens.

In reality I think the concept of a single world government would be taken seriously only in one of those situations.

Since history has a tendency to repeat itself I see something like this happening: Lets say somewhere in the second half of the 22nd century there are several colonial states on Mars that unite and demand independence from the USA, or EU, or whoever might be a superpower then. A massive war starts and the only way the earth forces can continue the war is to form a global government that can drain resources from everywhere without restrictions for the war effort. Yeah I know it's a sad reason for globalization but totally possible.

This could be a good background story for a RTS:cheese:

 

[jverne]

See, everyone is pointing out the political implications (and the dumb religious implications) of vaguely defined "unification".

jverne is ONLY talking about racial/sexual equality, in a vacuum - basically a situation with absolutely zero racism and sexism, without downsides - which is obviously good but also fantasy.

actually you can talk about cultural and other systems. but this is not the point of this thread. but you were partially correct with the racism part.

i mean unification that we act as one, are treated as one, no more latinos, blacks, asians...just humans.

of course it's fantasy, but i was wondering what would be your answer if by miracle it happens tomorrow. would you like it or not.

but feel free to talk about other issues.

 

[delusional]

i mean unification that we act as one, are treated as one, no more latinos, blacks, asians...just humans.

Just kill all the latinos, blacks, asians, etc. and leave the white people then we'll all be unified. then you kill everyone with a different political and religious ideology than the chosen religion and political ideology and we'll be unified that way too. then it'll be much easier to unite the world, just have to brainwash the children and there wont be uprisings. there ya go, a united world without aliens or whatnot.

Another idea i have is to just genetically engineer alien looking things that are sentient and have them shot from the sky to earth in a manmade UFO and have them kill a whole bunch of people and keep sending them places around the world and everyone would be like omg aliens lets unite. then i come out and kill all the aliens and become president of the world.

 

[jverne]

Just kill all the latinos, blacks, asians, etc. and leave the white people then we'll all be unified. then you kill everyone with a different political and religious ideology than the chosen religion and political ideology and we'll be unified that way too. then it'll be much easier to unite the world, just have to brainwash the children and there wont be uprisings. there ya go, a united world without aliens or whatnot.

Another idea i have is to just genetically engineer alien looking things that are sentient and have them shot from the sky to earth in a manmade UFO and have them kill a whole bunch of people and keep sending them places around the world and everyone would be like omg aliens lets unite. then i come out and kill all the aliens and become president of the world.

you're delusional! :thumbs:

 

[Ome_Vince]

But its brilliant though

 

[Solaris]

I'd like to see a United Union of Socialist States.

 

[kirovman]

I'd like to see a United Union of Socialist States.

A United Union? A fanciful thought.

 

[Kadayi]

We've spent several thousand years diversifying as a species, even with globalisation we aren't going to congeal back into a collective gloop for a long long while yet, and let's face it the world would be a dull old place if everybody looked and acted the same. I think the big change for humanity will be the gradual adoption of a universal language. English is already pretty much accepted as Europes second language (mainly due to American media).

 

[Max35]

We've spent several thousand years diversifying as a species, even with globalisation we aren't going to congeal back into a collective gloop for a long long while yet, and let's face it the world would be a dull old place if everybody looked and acted the same. I think the big change for humanity will be the gradual adoption of a universal language. English is already pretty much accepted as Europes second language (mainly due to American media).

I got news for you, the world is a dull place already with even everyone acting "different."

I just hope that reincarnation thing isn't true, otherwise, I'm in for another dull ride...

 

[Kadayi]

I got news for you, the world is a dull place already with even everyone acting "different."

You seen it all then? Or you just trying to be dismissive?

 

[Max35]

Both, you could say. Although "seen it all" is a little too encompassing.