Oceans Yet to Burn

[Oceans Yet to Burn]

Anonymous asked:

How do you like the idea of global government? I have a bunch of socialist friends who are super into it. But man, as somebody from a collapsing AND post-Soviet country who was taught "immigrate from this shit pit whenever possible" since he was born, the question I'm intuitively gravitating towards is "what's the escape route if shit breaks down". Really, what is it? Flinging myself into space? Or am I being overly paranoid in assuming the global government might get fuckt.

ranma-official answered:

I don’t like global governments because people in different countries have genuinely different cultures and mentalities and the exact same economic policy would not make much sense and will likely reduce efficiency

[mitigatedchaos]

Oh man, the only thing worse than a capitalist world government is a socialist one. Anon isn’t being paranoid in the least, seeing as if you pick a random government somewhere on Earth, it will often suck much more than even the terrible American political discourse Ranma self-inflicts.

Even for people who do believe in uniting the world, there should be at least two or three different governments in case one trainfks itself. Governments screwing up is not an ultra-rare occurrence, and I’m saying that even though I’m quite the “Statist”.