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MULTIPLICITY

                                                                             
(as opposed to Unity)                                                             

Freeman Dyson argues                         WORLDGOV     
against the One World
idea.
   
   All of humanity in a 
   single tightly       
   integrated system    
   means that a single  
   error can destroy it. 
                        
In Dyson's "Weapons and Hope" he
describes a vision of a "defense
dominated" world.
                                  
National boundaries as firebreaks
to protect the whole of humanity 
against a system wide mistake. 
                               
Being a creature of my own time, 
I tend to focus on diversity over
unification, and I assume it is
difficult for a single government
to allow for it.   
                                 
I hope for a stable matrix within
which different cultures can     
independently exist.                       (Sterling's "Schismatrix"; 
                                 	    Sargent's "Golden Spaces")
The ultimate fragmentation of mankind,
as we learn to modify ourselves, and
each make different choices of
direction.
                                   

An opposing view:                            
                 
   Gerald Feinberg's                
   "The Prometheus Project",           ((Feinberg has written a number 
   from 1968.                          of other books I should look at.
                                       "Solid Clues".  And there's also
   He argues that humanity             a book about the consequences of
   should choose a common              growth that I should read... )) 
   goal for itself.            



From the "Outline of History" by 
H.G. Wells:                                p.1099  
                                          
   "There are unhopeful prophets who see in 
   the gathering together of men into one   
   community the possibility of violent race
   conflicts, conflicts for 'ascendancy,'   
   but that is to suppose that civilization 
   is incapable of adjustments by which men 
   of different qualities and temperaments  
   and appearences will live side by side,  
   following different roles and            
   contributing diverse gifts.  The weaving 
   of mankind into one community does not   
   imply the creation of a homogenous       
   community..."                            
                                      
   "The community to which we may be moving will
   be more mixed -- which does not necessarily  
   mean more interbred -- more various and more     (Heaven's no, not 
   interesting than any existing community.         more interbred...)
   Communities all to one pattern, like boxes of                      
   toy soldiers, are things of the past rather           ARYAN              
   than the future."                              
                                       

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