DangerousTalk

Maybe it is because I grew up in the “We Are The World” generation, or my love of Sci-fi (particularly Star Trek and Babylon 5), or maybe it was my study of early American history, or maybe it was all those things combined, but I have always believed that it was humanities destiny (if you could use that term) to one day have world peace and to unite the people of Earth so that we can work toward solving our collective problems together and explore the new frontier of space. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t expect to see that in my lifetime, but I always thought that was the goal that we should all be working towards. No more petty disputes over lines on a map, no more hording of resources, etc.

Apparently, there are people out there who out of fear have decided that 193 separate nations fighting each other for power, resources, and land are better than one united humanity working together in peace. I have always been a supporter of the United Nations. And while I don’t think it is perfect, I think it can be fixed. Now, there are some people out there who tell me that we shouldn’t have a place where governments work out their differences in peace. These people tell me that the United Nations is one step removed from the evil and much feared “New World Order.”

I understand with power comes control and abuse. I also understand that America at one time (under the Articles of Confederation) was made up of 13 separate nations each with their own currency, border patrols, etc. It wasn’t working out for us and we federalized and created on big government to help police the 13 smaller “big” governments. This has caused some problems and it certainly isn’t perfect, but it at the end of the day it has solved more problems than it has caused. There will always be problems and eternal vigilance will always be the cost for freedom. I have come to the conclusion that a United Earth is the best way to solve many of the problems humanity has to deal with and it bothers me that there are people out there who through fear of some evil totalitarian boogieman are working against this necessary first step to a greater humanity.

Sure there will always be people trying to take and abuse power, but we cannot allow our fear to control us; because at the end of the day there really is nothing to fear except fear itself.

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