Maybe they got it wrong in the 1700"s???? -

[ymetca]

35. As a thought experiment

I try to imagine what a Global Direct Democracy (or GDD for short) might look like. Suppose every person on Earth could vote directly on what this GDD should do. What would all the people of the world actually agree upon?

I'm guessing that something akin to a Universal Basic Income would almost immediately garner massive global support, along with "free" food, medical care, housing, education, and so on --all our "basic" Maslow Hierarchy of Needs, essentially.

After that, passing any kind of legislation would have to have such mass appeal that it might actually reduce the current mass destruction going on in the name of "progress". Decisions would need much more analysis and evidence of wide-spread "common good" before gaining acceptance. Voting might actually become more "gradient", and tentative. And more reversible.

Whenever I become alarmed by this idea, I examine why, and realize it's because I feel myself to be "in the minority". Then I wonder why I always feel that way, and come to understand it is because our system is designed to make me feel like that. It's done on purpose. People are driven by deprivation, want, and fear, and they use divide and conquer tactics in a never-ending cycle in the lust for power, under conditions of dog-eat-dog competition where nothing is assured, and it all can be taken away at any moment.

But there is already enough for everyone, everywhere. There is no need to continue this madness. As a species we've achieved Level One Planetary dominance, and we better grow up real quick and start self-governing with some sense of responsibility for each other and our Home World.

And then I realize that the only way to overcome this divide and conquer system of mass carnage is to create a 1 person, 1 vote GDD. It is actually possible with our current technology - a Global Direct Democracy for the first time in human history. Yep, that Great Bugaboo, the "New World Order". Only not the one our current overlords actually want us to have.

Time to put away childish things.