Is a World State Inevitable? Feral Historian vs Damien Walter

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  @feralhistorian · 1 year ago · pinned

  Check out Damien Walter&apos;s vid for the &quot;yes&quot; side of the question. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2YVDhSyBVU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2YVDhSyBVU</a>

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• FL

  @Fluesterwitz · 1 year ago

  &quot;The empire, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide. Thus it has ever been.&quot; <br>Romance of the Three Kingdoms

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• MI

  @missZoey5387 · 1 year ago

  I liked the way Mass Effect handled this issue. The Systems Alliance doesn&apos;t rule Earth itself, as the homeworld of humanity is still divided into various nation-states. &nbsp;Instead, the Alliance serves as the face of humanity in the rest of the galaxy.

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  @SneedChuckson · 9 months ago (edited)

  A world state is a lot like like a method of faster than light travel. People have become so used to reading about it in fiction that they become convinced it is a real possibility, despite all evidence to the contrary.

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  @95keat · 1 year ago

  This reminds me of a old collegehumor skit where the first order of business if humanity encountered aliens was to immediately rename the United nations to something like &quot;The Global Republic&quot;, and pretend to be a unified world government so they don&apos;t get embarrassed.

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• JO

  @johnscott6984 · 1 year ago

  The world state gimmick was a typical Golden/Silver Age SciFi technique to focus in on their primary story - having only one polity for the aliens to deal with was an easy shorthand for pulp writers to use in order to get through their setup and on to the plot.

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• JT

  @JTPooka · 11 months ago

  I&apos;ve always found Titanfall to be an interesting take on typical space war premises, effectively playing out as a series of agricultural and mining colonies declaring independence from and fighting against what is essentially an interstellar Dutch East India Company -- a corporation working on behalf of Earth&apos;s general interests moreso than a World State itself.

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• SP

  @splendiferousfinch2656 · 1 year ago

  “I told you, We’re an anarcho syndaclist commune! We take the power in turns as a sort of executive officer”

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• JO

  @josephgalvez5048 · 1 year ago

  I foresee a bunch of bureaucrats sitting around a table grumbling over the idea of a world state - their entire roadblock boiled down to a simple question: “who’s going to pay for it?”

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• FR

  @freedomloverusa3030 · 1 year ago

  Imagine a global government telling the people in Brazil they must pay more taxes to build temples in India.

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• IN

  @Indeed48 · 1 year ago

  You had me at: &quot; bloated carcass of 20th century liberalism&quot;

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• GD

  @gdrinnon1 · 1 year ago

  Earth of Starship Troopers didn&apos;t require military service to earn the franchise, it required some form of service. &nbsp;Everyone had to be given the opportunity.

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