Adam--
Good question. So far, of course, almost everybody is kicking and
screaming, and almost no one is doing the dragging, but this is just as
plausible a scenario as in my "A Short History of the Future." If history
proceeds rationally--don't count on that, though--it ought to be the South
that exercises leadership in the World Party because the South contains
the most screw-ees and the North the most screw-ers.
Cheers,
Warren
On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Adam K. Webb wrote:
> This posting deals with what to many comrades seems the less
> compelling of our current two topics--world government. The assumption by
> many on our list, and in Wagar's "Short History of the Future," is that a
> movement such as the World Party should devote considerable attention to
> cross-regional mass support, including in the North. I fully support the
> idea of a coordinated global movement to restructure world order, but I
> have a simple question for all of you. Does anyone seriously expect
> Northern populations not to have to be dragged kicking and screaming into
> a new order?
> Rather, such a movement should devise a strategy for assuming
> power globally over the opposition of this fifteen percent of the
> population. This would involve bogging the USA+EU+Japan down in
> pan-Southern counterinsurgency, fomenting immigrant and underclass
> volatility, destabilising Northern economies by disrupting transnational
> economic links (eg. oil), splitting the Northern leadership as it attempts
> to save its own necks, and ultimately carrying out an occupation of those
> areas of the world that consistently obstruct majority will. Such a
> strategy, I emphasise, would bypass Southern governments altogether as
> wholly irrelevant in the new transnational order. A truly global
> movement, in other words....
> Any reactions? (I am thankful rotten tomatoes do not travel by
> e-mail....)
>
> Regards,
> --AKW
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