K: not at all… I just understand history… see the difference between us is
simple, you fear the future and I don’t…you seem to think that the future will
hold terror of such magnitude that we must fear and escape the future…
I disagree… will the future be an utopian paradise? NOPE, it will be somewhat
like today… little good a little bad… What wendy doesn’t see or understand is
that we are, right now, living in perhaps the best time in history…
and it came about naturally as we evolve as people…
recall that humans came from small families and small villages,
the problem was how to deal with a rising population…
what is the solution? increase the institutions necessary to deal
with the rising population…in other words, larger government…
went from small and I do mean small villages to larger villages
and then onto towns and then larger and larger towns…
we have Athens which was a city/state and even larger
entities which we call nations… at each step, the population
grew which entailed larger and larger institutions…
for each problem there is a solution and the solution
for a growing population is a ever growing government…
the size of government must be larger when you have
a million people as opposed to having 500 people…
as Rome empire grew, so did its government…
as we approach 8 billion people, the government, once again
must grow to accommodate the number of people…
globalism is really a step to accommodate the number of people…
at each step were those who were afraid of the future and they
too accused those who looked to the future as being “traitors” and
an enemy of that country… it the curse of pushing for a future…
as I mentioned, it won’t be easy going into the future, there will
be moments like Nazi Germany and wars will be fought and
lives will be lost, but we must put aside our fear of the future
and work toward a future that will be brighter then the present is…
you too can accomplish this by simply working toward the future that
isn’t a police state and that frightening place Wendy envisions…
we make the future and we can make globalism as accepting
and understanding as we want… we don’t need to be afraid
of the future like those like wendy and void and fixed cross…
their fear has driven them to fear the future to avoid
some imagined dystopian future whereas the future is most
likely to look more like today then some imagined police state…
take away your fear and try to imagine some future that
is better then today and solves the problem of rising population…
and your answer will be globalism…not some dystopian future…
Kropotkin