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General Discussion / Re: Obama Creates World's First Superstate With US-Canada Merger
« on: February 18, 2011, 01:55:15 am »
To quote Reagan, "The government is not the solution to our problem; the government is the problem."
Thinking that there's any magical government that can perfectly unite most countries, especially the way the world is today, is absurd. Any unification of two countries would have to be something that the people would want, not what the government wants. The biggest problem is the huge amount of opinions that amount to, "My way or... Wait, there is no other way!" If people would settle down and take a serious look at opposing views and consider the implications of each, then I think a large amount of the problems that separate not only the US and Canada, but every individual from his neighbor, would be a whole lot easier to get around.
People are just too contrary to form themselves under one government. It's amazing that a country like the United States has survived so long, all things considered. I think nationalism plays a huge role in that, as it does in any stable country. To take that away by merging two countries with so little thought as to the feelings of the people at large would surely splinter both already divided countries. It would be a disaster, and I bet the leaders of our respective nations know it.
Once people begin to recognize the merit of a conflicting point of view, then we can start talking about unifying nations. Short of that, we'd need a very large, powerful, alien force to make this world form itself under one government. Even then, it would be accented by war, decent, and rampant terrorism, because people simply wouldn't understand. Right now, they - we - just don't want to.
Thinking that there's any magical government that can perfectly unite most countries, especially the way the world is today, is absurd. Any unification of two countries would have to be something that the people would want, not what the government wants. The biggest problem is the huge amount of opinions that amount to, "My way or... Wait, there is no other way!" If people would settle down and take a serious look at opposing views and consider the implications of each, then I think a large amount of the problems that separate not only the US and Canada, but every individual from his neighbor, would be a whole lot easier to get around.
People are just too contrary to form themselves under one government. It's amazing that a country like the United States has survived so long, all things considered. I think nationalism plays a huge role in that, as it does in any stable country. To take that away by merging two countries with so little thought as to the feelings of the people at large would surely splinter both already divided countries. It would be a disaster, and I bet the leaders of our respective nations know it.
Once people begin to recognize the merit of a conflicting point of view, then we can start talking about unifying nations. Short of that, we'd need a very large, powerful, alien force to make this world form itself under one government. Even then, it would be accented by war, decent, and rampant terrorism, because people simply wouldn't understand. Right now, they - we - just don't want to.