Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Re: [BLUG] Linux Format issue 116 available for free

On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 04:46:29PM -0500, Barry Schatz wrote:
> Uh, and by that I mean bring about world peace. ;-)

I believe that world peace is only possible with global world
domination. You can do a lot of things as a one world government that
are just impractical as nation trying to impact a foreign power.

One of my favorites is forced relocation. You have two groups fighting
over the same piece of land, forcibly relocate both groups to totally
different regions of the world. Then move in a third group to occupy the
land in contention.

Depending on the number of people involved, this could be done with a
few skyscrapers located throughout the globe. Each skyscraper would be
a complete community able to serve all the needs of the members with
minimal interaction with the surrounding city. And the surrounding city
would be a culture so foreign that to assimilate in to it would mean
cultural death.

It isn't that I advocate cultural genocide in the general case, however
when there is a culture of contention sometimes the only way to save
lives is to kill cultures.

Also, with a one world government, it becomes more reasonable to adopt
a more Roman approach to management of problematic areas. In this case,
the peacekeepers never leave. They marry locally, or their children
at least marry locally. Their power and influence changes the local
culture, and due to their direct involvement in the community they're
driven to solutions that work in the long term.

> I'm certainly *not* plotting global world domination. Not me. Heh heh. :-)

All of my personal projects are plots for world domination.

If I make anything great, then it is the goal of that thing to take over
the world -- within the given sphere of influence.

Now, if this is a software program for calculating the amount of time to
boil a perfect egg world domination looks quite a bit different than,
say, a project to build a robot army...

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