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| Jan 23, 2010 3:37 am |
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re: Global issues - governance |
| abbeboulah
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Ken -- your position sounds fair and noble in principle -- but in ignoring the reality of global power relations, I suspect you are unwittingly supporting the very powers that currently hold sway. Economic isolation as a sanction for ‘not playing fair’ is an illusion bordering on the hypocritical when the international community (or its leading forces) are so desperate for the resources of those poor players that they incessantly resort to very non-isolationist ‘regime change’ tricks to control them. No matter how much they might be ‘justified’ on moral grounds -- but then what would be effective and justified as ‘economic isolation’ against the biggest bullies on the block when they don't 'play fair' -- for example one who ‘in the defense of democracy (or capitalism)’ maintains an uncertifiable number (3-digit? or more?) of military bases all over the world? Or an ‘emerging’ bully who finally has learned the capitalist propaganda well enough to beat the existing bully at his own game?
The answer that no ‘world governance system is needed’ is patently inadequate. The dangers of such a system are real and should be taken seriously -- but they are pretty much the same as the dangers associated with the existing and emerging bullies de facto usurping that role. And the question of how to deal with those dangers is what should be addressed -- it is desperately in need of better answers.Private Reply to abbeboulah (new win) |
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