Do You Think You're Clever? by John Farndon

Author:John Farndon
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Humour
Publisher: Icon Books
Published: 2009-11-30T16:00:00+00:00

Why isn’t there a global government?

(Philosophy, Politics and Economics, Oxford)

Countless times through the ages thinkers have wondered if all the world’s problems might be solved if there was just one government for the entire world. The logic is simple. Wars seem to be fought at the behest of governments and rulers. So if there was just a single government or ruler, there would be no wars.

For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see,

Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonders that would be;

… Till the war-drum throbb’d no longer, and the battle-flags were furl’d

In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world.

There the common sense of most shall hold a fretful realm in awe,

And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapt in universal law.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, ‘Locksley Hall’ (1837)

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