On 2023-11-16, David Dalton <dalton@nfld.com> wrote:

November 16, 2023 is World Philosophy Day.

From google :

The theme for World Philosophy Day 2023 is “Philosophical
Reflection in a Multicultural World”. This theme highlights the
importance of philosophy in promoting understanding and
dialogue between different cultures and perspectives.

Here is your philosophical understanding in a multi-cultural world, if
you like some dialogue. It is a necessity for a culture and people to be
able to express themselves as they wish, without too much interference
from other cultures, within some general and reasonable limits which all
half decent people can naturally agree with. For this expression they
need to be Sovereign in their lands. If they make a mistake, they can
learn from it. If they see another Nation doing better, they can choose
to adopt the example in a way which suits them.

There being many Sovereign Nations brings with it a cultural wealth,
which is more interesting to experience if one wishes to do so (on a
trip for example), and creates a greater wealth of also political
experiences, which can help Governments on all levels to gain good ideas
by example, and to also learn things to avoid from bad examples.

Some general limits would for example be a culture where they would
torture their own children to death for their own amuzement. Another
limit could be warfare and conquest against other Nations, or great
damage to the natural environment which is also affecting other
Nations. Methods to deal with these problems could be ranging from
friendly diplomacy to a war of annihilation against the enemy.

The point is: there is no Empire hanging over everyone, suffocating the
life out of people, wanting everyone to do the same thing on the same
day, so that the incomprehensibly large Empire becomes easier to rule.
The people who want such a uni-cultural world by mixing everything
together and creating a new culture to their liking, simply need to find themselves a land and people, and they can have the culture they seem to
want there. It isn't necessarily a problem if someone believes the whole
world should be ruled by google for example, so long as it is nothing
more than a belief.

Empires have come and gone. There was often great wealth in the
heartlands of the Empire, and it may have lead to a lessening of smaller
wars in the heartlands of the Empire. On the other hand, the Empire
waged war on a larger scale, including their wars of conquest and later
their wars of succession - which in modern times could be called civil
wars or Revolutionary wars. When the Empire became a Tyranny, it was so
much more powerful a repression than smaller Nations would likely have
been capable off. The Tyranny affected a larger area, making fleeing and
defeat of the Tyrants more difficult. The eventual collapse of the
Empire was also more destructive. In other words: a larger Empire merely
seems to bring out certain factors which happen in smaller Nations also,
and bring them out in a more forceful way. Both to the positive and the negative. In the end, you are not necessarily any better.

If you add that an Empire is typically conquered by war, an Empire is
in many ways little more than the people of one city dominating all
other people. This act of ultimately violent domination does not bode
well for what is to come in an Empire. This violence also happens on
smaller scales, from small villages going to war on each other, to large Nations and entire Empires. All this war is a result of the anti-social attitude of ordinary people toward each other.

A global Empire will not stop the warfare, because a large part of the
warfare is the war between the rich and the poor. In an Empire, this
difference often ends up much greater than in a smaller Sovereign area.
Here again, the larger area and people merely results in a more extreme
version of what happens in a smaller area. It isn't better, it just has
more potential to be extreme.

An example is the USA, who have now more or less conquered the whole world. They want everyone to follow their culture, while pretending to respect
and absorb other cultures. It all sounds so nice and peaceful, like
their proposal to have a "World Philosophy day" to think about the
greatness of the American global Empire. It is a day of worship for the
Empire, worship and obedience. At the same time, in the real world, the
USA is busy creating the worst World War the world has ever seen, to
deal with the uncontrollable looting of their ruling class against their
own currency (which means, against their own people). The other Nations
all do the same thing, even down to insane "Corona" policies, and they
all sit in the same Parliament (the "United Nations"), which "by
accident?" is in New York City..

A global Empire will not help, it will only make the extreme even much
more extreme, because now there really is no way out. A global
monoculture is a monoculture like no other before it. There is no
balance against it. It will likely become the greatest monstrosity
humanity has ever created.

THe fact that humanity cannot figure out a good way to live (yet), does
not help, but rather makes all this worse. If humanity could manage to
finally live correctly as a human being, without war and crime, as good
people, it is conceivable that a global Government of sorts might be a possibility. It would likely still have downsides and risk the dangers associated with a monoculture.

For example, if it was decided to make all traffic laws the same over
the whole world, while that might seem to make being on the road simpler
if you travel a lot, you loose the experience with different sets of
traffic laws and solution. You loose cultural wealth. It would already
be possible for all traffic laws to become the same if that was the best
thing to do (say), if every Nation slowly adopted traffic laws which
seem to be the best ones, using examples from other Nations and their
own. There would be a natural and dynamic convergence, it would be a
process based on many political decisions and debates over a long period
of time. It would likely actually come out at the best set of laws. This
could be called a betterment of the cultures.

If a global Empire had some bureaucrat, being bored with an difficult to understand Empire because it was different in different places, just
choose some whatever set of traffic laws or even had a research
department choosing the best set, and they then enforced a reasonably
good choice over the whole world, it wouldn't likely be as good. It
would just be what they think is good, but the whole experience with all
these traffic laws and each Nation tweaking them step by step, this
would not have happened. Their choice of global traffic law would be
similar to one Nation making up their traffic laws. They also try to
make good laws. Therefore a global Empire creates global cultural
poverty and stagnation.

It is also much harder to change big things, than it is to change small
things. The global Empire will therefore become exceedingly stagnant.

It should be noted that the things which are negatives for ordinary
people, such as repression and poverty, are seen as positive by the
criminals behind these Empires. They want a global Empire, because they
want there to be no escape. They want there not to be a counter balance
or different example to learn from. They want the wealth gap between the working poor and lazing super rich to be as big as possible, etc. They
create these Empires because they are after these ill gains for
themselves.

Thus a thing like "global Philosophy day" can be understood to be part
of the cultural warfare conducted by the Imperial ruling class. Why
don't you tell us about some interesting local holiday in your Nation
instead. We don't need a "global Philosophy day" to worship the USA, and
to show our obedience to their wicked ruling class.

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