President of the world.

[Praxius]

Which I see as common humans not in power to unite to take power and remove such governments from the face of the earth.

[Technosoul]

Quote by: Thanatos Somebody intelligent. Somebody diplomatic. Somebody I could trust implicitly to never become corrupt. Somebody with the experience to manage a planet full of very different people. Somebody with a good heart and an inviting purr. I vote for the best being in the universe, the pinnacle of all that is good. I vote for my cat, Lexi. Now accepting campaign donations in all amounts!

I donate one white mouse.

My cat "Little Monster" is big trouble but is cute looking. My other cat "Minnie the Moocher" is too socialistic. "Boots" is too fat and lazy, and they do represent the idealisms of independance and freedom, as long as they all get a free lunch.

[Technosoul]

How about a computer programed vitrual reality President of the world?

If we used computers instead of people for our government that would make the budgeting cheaper accordinng to Al Gore. So we would have a gaint TV monitor in the U.N. buidling with some animated President and people could log on and what ever most people said, he would repeat that message after tabulating the input.

This is clearly the wave of the future.
The Gateway to a new era of poltical technology. Yep. A "techno-president". We can have Bill Gates and Al Gore create the new techno President and our new globalized cyberspace government, along with that guy in Japan who created Godzilla.

[Zeebadee]

I'd vote for Gramps to be President of the World.

It would be very interesting to see the predictions of the over-population crowd (was that Malthus?) come up against Universal Anarchism. Think of the giant leap Humankind would experience under survival of the fittest constraints.

[triad]

Praxius is right in that one day we will hit rock bottom with our own flaws - and will be forced to make changes in our ways. If we can't solve internal civil problems in one little country, how can we solve them in one giant united country? By being more smart. (irony intended).


I nominate Stephen Colbert/Rick Mercer also. Ever see a politician with a sense of humor? Nope. These guys would own global leadership and make us laugh at the same time. This time we'd be laughing with them, not at them.


"The same folks that are bombing innocent people in Iraq were the ones who attacked us in America on September the 11th." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., July 12, 2007

[grandpa]

Quote by: Zeebadee I'd vote for Gramps to be President of the World. It would be very interesting to see the predictions of the over-population crowd (was that Malthus?)

My first act as President of the world would be to assassinate myself.
Your place in the world should not be determined by authority figures.
Furthermore, please elaborate on my views about the overpopulation problem.
You apparently know what they are, so enlighten me.

Grandpa h.

[grandpa]

Quote by: triad Praxius is right in that one day we will hit rock bottom with our own flaws - and will be forced to make changes in our ways. If we can't solve internal civil problems in one little country, how can we solve them in one giant united country?

We'll never change our ways so long as we assume anyone with power is a moral man of good will. We all should know just how stupid that is, yet many apparently never learn.

Once countries become just locations on maps, we will have solved many of our problems.

Grandpa h.

[Zeebadee]

Quote by: grandpa My first act as President of the world would be to assassinate myself. Your place in the world should not be determined by authority figures. Furthermore, please elaborate on my views about the overpopulation problem. You apparently know what they are, so enlighten me. Grandpa h.

My post had nothing to do with your views on the overpopulation problem, rather it had to do with your ideas on anarchism, which might address other individual's views on overpopulation. I think that widespread anarchism might go a long ways in providing a solution to overpopulation.

[Technosoul]

Overpopulation will be less of problem as the ice melts and things warm up at the north and south poles we would have more room to compact more people toegether.

[grandpa]

Quote by: Zeebadee My post had nothing to do with your views on the overpopulation problem, rather it had to do with your ideas on anarchism, which might address other individual's views on overpopulation. I think that widespread anarchism might go a long ways in providing a solution to overpopulation.

Well, I don't view anarchism as a "survival of the fittest constraint." It is not intended as a "dog-eat-dog" approach to life (at least not by me).
My respect ends ends for arguments that unthinkingly address anarchism as nothing but a cartoonish stereotype. The worst is when people ask me "And where would it go?", as if I would be dictator of the world, determining every step a population takes.

There are ways to approach the overpopulation problem that do not involved "survival of the fittest." I think the obtuseness of the existing human condition is truly monumental, and made that way by a lot of superstitions. Birth control and education in general helps address population problems, yet religions tend to attack it by various methods most of us know. Also, a lot of pollution and bad environmental policies help make food shortages ever closer to being reality. For example, people seem to not consider desertification as a serious issue.

Grandpa h.