- 08 Feb 2019 13:23
#14986802
The solution to 1984 is 1973!
@Thomasmariel
It is held by communists that communism can't happen until every last trace of capitalism is purged from existence. Thus it is believed that a totalitarian world government is a necessary precursor to the coming of communism, in order to ensure that there is not one human being free to act independently enough to choose capitalism.
This in itself is unlikely enough given that in all of human history there has never been a single world encompassing government let alone a government doing so whilst also maintaining complete totalitarianism. However it gets worse, infinitely worse, because this world is not the only world and homo sapiens is already on the cusp of colonising the vastness beyond earth. We already have all the science we need, all that remains is for the technology to improve just a little bit to lower the costs of escaping the gravity well of earth to hit the tipping point where colonisation of our solar system can begin in earnest.
Once people are living beyond earth the whole universe becomes open to us and the universe is far too vast to bring under a single totalitarian state and light lag guarantees that can never happen. Governance requires communications and under known science communications can never beat the speed of light. Thus two way communications between even the very nearest stars will have years long lag time. Rising to hundreds of thousands of years just for our galaxy the Milky Way and way beyond millions of millions of years for inter-galactic communication.
Given that the conditions for colonisation beyond earth is almost complete but a project to impose a single globe spanning totalitarian state is not even 1% complete it is virtually guaranteed that the former will happen before the latter and once the former happens the latter can never happen.
It is held by communists that communism can't happen until every last trace of capitalism is purged from existence. Thus it is believed that a totalitarian world government is a necessary precursor to the coming of communism, in order to ensure that there is not one human being free to act independently enough to choose capitalism.
This in itself is unlikely enough given that in all of human history there has never been a single world encompassing government let alone a government doing so whilst also maintaining complete totalitarianism. However it gets worse, infinitely worse, because this world is not the only world and homo sapiens is already on the cusp of colonising the vastness beyond earth. We already have all the science we need, all that remains is for the technology to improve just a little bit to lower the costs of escaping the gravity well of earth to hit the tipping point where colonisation of our solar system can begin in earnest.
Once people are living beyond earth the whole universe becomes open to us and the universe is far too vast to bring under a single totalitarian state and light lag guarantees that can never happen. Governance requires communications and under known science communications can never beat the speed of light. Thus two way communications between even the very nearest stars will have years long lag time. Rising to hundreds of thousands of years just for our galaxy the Milky Way and way beyond millions of millions of years for inter-galactic communication.
Given that the conditions for colonisation beyond earth is almost complete but a project to impose a single globe spanning totalitarian state is not even 1% complete it is virtually guaranteed that the former will happen before the latter and once the former happens the latter can never happen.
The solution to 1984 is 1973!