My primary purpose is to propose, and to outline suggestions as to the implementation of, a state of world unity, presided over by a single government. It is suggested that such a conversion within our society is actually not a difficult step. It would not entail a surrender to an overshadowing worldwide dictatorship. Rather, it would consist of a mere joining together of all present national entities into a single universal entity. Self-inteerested, ever-bickering, national governments would be replaced by a single worldwide guiding body, logical and efficient fromn an objective standpoint, and designed to promote only benefit and advancement for all of mankind. And, for a change, in place of efforts and exertions on the part of various peoples and nation-states to safeguard their respective "turfs," there could at last be joint efforts and exertions by all prople to conquer the evils that threaten and prey upon all of mankind, to the ultimate profit of every one of us.
To be sure, there certainly are many evils and problems in our world in addition to our political diversity and our system of sacred boundaries. Wrong is wrong and is to be dealt with, evil is evil and is to be stopped, regardless of where it occurs, or how many boundaries it crosses in its existence and its travels. The trouble is that we are so busy, and spend so much money, time, talent, manpower, and energy, guarding against and fighting with each other, that we have far less resources left to face and defeat the real problems that beset all of us. Instead of using our science and technology toward motre dilligent efforts to conquer things like hunger and disease, we spend a great deal of it upon never-ending searches for bigger and better weapons. And in fact, in view of the state of the world as it presently exists, this acquisition and maintenance of national arsenals is not altogether wrong. For, in a situation wherein we are divided into a number of "sovereign" nations, many of whom being at odds with each other, it is reasonable for each nation to possess weapons, at least for defensive purposes, to guard against possible aggression on the part of one or more of the other nations. But if there were no "other nations"--to require arms for protection against, to stand up to in the event of aggression by, and to fight with in case of attack by--i.e., if the worrld were but a single nation--then most of our weapons would be unnecessary and turn to rust. Instead the fight could be by all of us who are capable of doing so, against poverty and disease and ignorance.
If what now goes on in our world were reduced to a finer focus within the United Stsates--or, to put it another way, if the states which comprise our union were themselves all sovereign nations--then the United States would be the world in miniature. Different states would form alliances with each other, and with other countries as well. Each state would have its own army, and maybe a navy. Each state would not be as able to provide for the welfare of its citizens, because it would need to expend a large portion of its revenue upon its arsenal and further development of its weapons. And war would occasionally break out between states, or groups of states, or maybe states as allied with different foreign countries.
But what if this horrible phenomenon occurred --instead or as well--on lower levels? What if every county or borough or parish had to maintain its own army and navy, and its own cache of weapons? A worse nightmare could be imagined if this scenario were applied to each city and town within our country. And, to bring it to its ultimate ghastly fundamental, what if each family or household found it necessary to arm itself in order to protect its "sovereignty" against possible aggression by "the people next door"? This would truly returm the human race to an atmosphere that likely prevailed in prehistoric times, when the earliest humans resided together in small groups, ever watchful concerning possible aggression on the part of animals or other humans.
But the fact is that we have progressed--to a level of political organization wherein, with a few notable exceptions, people agree to live more or less peacefully within giant groups called nations. Logic tells us that progress to the next and final step is to a final union of the entire world into a single political entity.
I hope to convince whoever reads this that such a joining together by all peoples of our world would accomplish the correction or elimination of many of the evils that presently afflict mankind.
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