One World Government

Inevitable, but its a long way off.

Shame the British Empire fell, we could have had it a lot sooner.

You mean one government for all?

Terrible idea.

Once we get a better form of government, and all countries reach a similar economic and cultural state, a one world government would be more efficient, and enable humanity to progress scientifically, technologically, and most importantly of all, more easily colonise other planets.

That's why a one world government is preferable before we colonise; although, since the cost of colonisation is going to be extremely high (the nations owning the colony won't want to risk that investment in a war) and take an extremely long time to develop (by then we'd probably be much more unified, even if not one world government) to anything approaching an entity that can wage wars, I don't think its really a problem.

Power over humans must be handled by humans; who else would have the power? Perhaps machines, if we ever develop advanced AI; but that is quite dangerous imo

I'm not afraid of governmental power, as long as it is a competent government in charge, who have our best interests at heart. The latter is the problem - we need to ensure governments are competent and benevolent, not necessarily curb their powers.

What do you mean "perhaps other life has already been found but is hidden to avoid chaos"? You referring to the conspiracy theories around Roswell and all that? If only our governments were that competent. In reality, they haven't got a chance of keeping that stuff under wraps for long, if it were happening. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7449927.stm

This would be impossible in our current situation and highly unlikely to ever happen for an extremely long time, although barriers between countries do seem to be slowly breaking down.
The main problem is how one government could control the entire population on this planet when individuals have such different attitudes, opinions, etc. Basically it all comes back to the reason we have countries in the first place. Also, who would be in control? Electing a leader would be a nightmare.

Not sure about a world government. Perhaps, robots will deal with these matters for us? :P

A world government might happen eventually, however I think it will be an empire (or two empires) rather than a coalition. The reason is an empire is more united than lots of different factions (can you imagine the back stabbing that would occur in a coalition?).

Either we impose our culture on others and they accept it while an single or two men hold equal power (think Roman empire/Spartan except with less corruption and more democratic).

One day an empire will raise, however there are alot of different ways of going about creating one (its not just war empires have been built on, for example Carthage).

An interesting concept. However, if it's two men which hold the same power (such as North and South of Rome) isn't it likely that they would just end up attacking each other? Rulers are thirsty for power. Also, what's your opinion on the matter?

Hi TheNerdxP,

That would be true if we followed the exact roman model, however if we added a bit of Spartan in there. Then there should be no problem.

The Spartans for example had two kings, one in religious matters and one for military. Therefore, the new world order or empire would have two elected men of equal power, but only one would control the military or we could have a council where the state controls it (kind of like the senate when they had power before the emperors).

So the elected kings or emperors would have power politically etc but they would either serve as different roles and thus there should be no conflicting interests or/and we could have a senate where they control the army/army's and are accountable to the people (who also vote for who will be a senator).

If one did try to attack with their army or built one of their own to try and take over, the senate could give full power to the other king temporally or march in themselves with an elected person. Naturally the Senate and the other king would declare the blood thirsty king as a enemy of the empire and thus anyone able should do him harm. They could even allow the people to elect a new king and give the military power to both kings to deal with the traitor (though this would be a last resort).

In addition the senate could pass a new law where they summon the fyrd if needed that are there to be called upon when dealing with traitors.

Ultimately, the Spartan and Roman's had an excellent system that if the best bits fused together would make for an excellent government (add a little bit of Saxon/modern into the mix for good measure).