Who knows what the future holds. I personally think a benign autocracy
without political parties would be close to ideal, but it has such a
danger attached to it that most, probably rightly, would never allow it
to happen. How does one be sure the autocrat will stay benign?
A single global government, though, is needed, and we pretty much have
one. Not the United Nations -- it is getting better but still is pretty
much a joke, but the network of international treaty organizations,
especially the WTO, combined with all sorts of conventions dealing with
specific problems, such as global warming, freedom of the seas, human
trafficking, endangered species, money laundering, human rights, and so
on.
As nations learn more and more how to act together to pull errant
nations into line using embargoes and sometimes force, and as economies
and political systems move more and more toward each other (i.e.,
socialists become more capitalist and capitalists become more
socialist), and as the overall level of health and education and living
standards improves and evens out, a single world seems inevitable.
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