I strongly support Christopher's suggestion. Just some notes.
> From: Christopher Robinson <cr4@axe.humboldt.edu>
>
> Possibly, a more functional goal would be a decentralized system of
> increasing economically (and thus potentially socio/politically)
> autonomous "regions"
why not to begin with EU, NAFTA, Russia with CIS, Japan with S-East Asia,
India with South Asia, etc?
> that are "bound" by a centralized global system of
> standards
am I right that these standards should have the status of international law?
> and values
in my book 'The Values in the Problematic World'(forthcoming) I tried to
elaborate philosophically strictly a system of such values, including:
i) cardinal values (life, health, dignity, basic human rights),
ii) subcardinal values (ecological, political, economic
options necessary for realization of cardianal values) and
iii) ethos values (diversal cultural values, f.e. religious that can and
should be supreme for correspondent populations).
>derived from as generalized a consensus as is
> possible. Such a system can promote greater levels of individual
> participation in local planning and fiscal matters and potentially
> provide vital social innovation, the variation a global system will
> require to adapt in a sustainable manner to the ever volatile future.
>
> At least there are some working micro models as precedence for such a
> future (as opposed to the "correct" socialist concept).
alas, this picture is still very idealistic. What about to utilize the
great intellectual (and ctitical!) power of WSA in order to work out the main
possible structure of this system and the way towards it?
best regards, Nikolai Rozov
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