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In article <1992Aug11.180332.492@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> bunker@physun.physics.mcmaster.ca (Alex Bunker) writes:

>In article <archer.364@utkux1.utk.edu> archer@utkux1.utk.edu (T. Archer) writes:
>>In article <1992Aug11.145521.29060@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> bunker@physun.physics.mcmaster.ca (Alex Bunker) writes:
>>
>>>World govenrment is closer at hand now than in the 60's and yes I will
>>>not hide it Frank can speak for himself but I will stand proud and say
>>>I AM IN FAVOR OF WORLD GOVERNMENT AND I REFUSE TO FEEL ANY ALLEGENCE TO
>>>ANY SUBUNIT OF THE WHOLE COMMONLY KNOWN AS A COUNTRY!!!!
>>>Now put that in your pipe and smoke it!
>>>I can just see the parochial nationalists and "patriots" fuming!`
>>
>>>ALEX
>>
>>I'm not interested in fuming patriots.  I'm more interested in why you think 
>>that world government is a good idea?
>>-=-=-
>>T. Archer  PA142548@utkvm1.utk.edu
>>University of Tennessee
>>"Vote Dempublican, it's easier than thinking." -- Unknown
>>-=-=-


>Same reason why it is better for the USA to be one country than 50

What reason is that?  I see little benefit is continuing to feed the massive 
federal beaurocracy that has grown like a cancer on top of the simple, 
elegant lines of our consitution.

>There would be no war 
Why?  Civil wars are an everyday occurance.

>and decisions would get made through democratic
>process. 
What makes you think this?  Once world government is just as vulnerable to 
fraud and force of arms as any other.

>If the world government is democratically elected then there
>would be no way around the will of the people and we would not have
>to all sink to the economic lowest common denomenator in order to 
>survive. 

How does economics relate to the will of the people?  I don't follow you.

>And on a more general emotional level belonging to an inside without
>an outside appeals to me. I have always felt a universal patriotism to
>,and a sese of belonging to, the entire human race. Noone has ever
>been able to explain this nationalism business. 

It's easy enough.  People are tribal in nature, and devide up into groups 
instictively.  It's a survival trait.  There's safety in numbers.  Worked 
fine when the tribes were spread far enough apart.  Now our tribes are 
butting up against oneanother.  Us and them doesn't work as well.

>I simply can not understand
>people getting so worked up about silly red lines on the map,funny different
>coloured bits of cloth, purile regional ditties etc... 
These are symbols of the customs and mores that each tribe holds dear.  The 
symbolic content is what is important, not the cloth, the "purile ditties," 
or the lines on the map.