Two major ongoing, seemingly contrary, trends in government today are: decentralizing with increasing local & regional autonomy, and unification into larger political/trade, blocks. Both of these movements are working towards the dismantling of the current nation-state system. The World Wide Web too is serving to further break down the divisive nationalistic walls, just as surely as the walls that once preserved the city-states of old.
We here in the US don’t have to look far to witness the how costly, ineffective, and destructive (to life and treasure), 18th century political systems have become. This is not to say that nothing can be salvaged from the wreckage; in particular, a constitution as absolute king – guaranteeing the inalienable rights of all the world’s citizens.
A democracy too, for all its human failings, has no viable alternative. But a democracy does not require the heavy governmental apparatus of chief executives, parliaments, immense bureaucracies, and multiple marble buildings. We vote every day in the market place without representatives operating as our go-betweens.
This is the future world marketplace model I foresee, one replacing all former ‘ruler-representative’ authoritarian models with society (‘an organized group with common interests’) itself ruling itself via ‘bid –offer’ negotiation. Society is not just a single grouping, but is in fact a grouping of groups within groups, many of which overlap, as well as stand directly (or tangentially) opposed to each other in their goals and functions.
I recently remarked in another thread the essential role played by groups organized predominantly for the purpose of making a profit, (i.e. generating products & services in the greater service of creating community wealth). This did not mean that we should turn over our leadership to ‘Amalgamated Meatball Inc.’ But rather, that private industry can, and does, provide for all our human needs at auction prices, with no tax applied.
A world united under one constitution brings an end to wars between nations. A free enterprise capitalist economy, sans a parasitic ruler system, brings an end to taxes, and their slight-of-hand illusion that governments provide some things for free. It would be an end to currency inflation forever. There is no service, product, or resource that cannot be provided by for profit groups. This would include labor unions competing, like any other essential resource, in a free and fair marketplace.
That's my target opinion. All shots are welcome.
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). I´ve read and listened two things between last week and today -from very diverse sources- that I enjoyed in relation with democracies and nations. See and listen if you want! 
