Will there be a World Government?

Ever since tribes were formed and tribal feelings were engendered in the hearts of men, battles and skirmishes have been fought to increase one tribe's territory and possessions which might include captured tribesmen forced to serve and perform slave labor, not to speak of raping and debasing women. This is not isolated to one or just a few parts of the globe or even to olden times as we can easily find graphic examples today. We find this even itoday. Ethnic cleansing as it was practiced in the Bosnian War was not really a new concept. A new term perhaps but not a new concept. What made it more appalling was due to the wide and open coverage by the press and television showing the brutality and gruesomeness of the atrocities committed during that war.

Various ways have been developed to avoid the annihilation of a conquered race or people or tribe. A very effective technique involved giving up the daughter of the king to become the bride of the conqueror. While this is a little better than just simply allowing the women to be taken force, a fact that becomes inevitable when the men fight to the death thus leaving their women defenseless, it nevertheles results in the same thing: the assimilation by subjugation of the conquered people into the mainstream conquering hordes. The Chinese turned the tables on the marauding horsemen of Genghiz Khan by embracing the barbarian hordes and giving them wives and introducing them to the decadent pleasures of a vastly advanced civilization.

Wherever we look and whatever time or era we turn our attention on, this recurring theme can be discerned: people want to be dominant over as much real estate and over as many people as they could. When the Japanese military machine lost the Second World War , the Japanese transformed their army into an economic Juggernaut that has overrun much of the world. Even the mighty Hollywood movie empires are now owned by Sony. Godzilla has even invaded the big screen of the Good Ol' United States.

When the October war of 1973 proved to the Arabs that Israel could not be destroyed militarily, they embarked on a different kind of war which involved using their unmatched surplus funds from oil revenues to buy up as much businesses in the United States and much of Europe and the rest of the world. Banks and real estate were a prime targets for this enterprise.

These days, the landscape has changed a little bit and the greatest area where conquest can be made is in technology, more specifically, information technology. More and more, businesses and governments have become vastly dependent on information technology to maintain their smooth functioning. Battles and wars are being waged right now on who would emerge as the conqueror of the Internet. This is no different from the other wars and battles that were fought before. The aim is the same.

Is it conveivable that a World Government can emerge from all of these wars and battles? The United Nations is not a likely candidate as it has lost much of its credibility owing to the many financial scandals that have emerged in recent years. Besides, the UN is easily manipulated and duped as shown by the Bush Administration's discredited reason for invading Iraq which was hinged on the search for weapons of mass destruction. Poor Saddam Hussein, having lived by the sword, has to live today with a sword above his head as he battles to preserve his life and past glory.

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The world is fraught with conflict and confusion. Maybe Meditation might help.