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 Originally Posted by CoccoBill
I'm thinking it in terms of a global company. Having regional localisation where necessary, but perhaps only one central government that oversees everything. Nationalism is divisive and makes it harder for people to cooperate and live peacefully, seeing all humans as one nation might alleviate that. Wars probably wouldn't end altogether but it's harder to imagine any extended ones or world wars. Nuclear disarmament would likely happen. Economically it could be yuuge, think economies of scale. No tariffs, tolls, totally free movement of labor, resources and goods. The same laws everywhere, or at least based on the same framework. Far easier and more effective collaboration in research, technology, disaster relief etc. I see plenty of potential, even when thinking about it seriously.
Views about nationalism are a good example of the play between liberalism and conservatism, namely how the liberal view thinks it's making things better yet it might be doing the complete opposite. Here's how: a diverse enough population loses its diversity and its fitness, and then dies off. I recall Nassim Taleb discussing the math of this. It's like how if you have a population that breeds together enough, genes lose the diversity that provide for fitness. Instead, what leads to fit genes is when there are subgroups that mostly breed amongst themselves and somewhat mix with other subgroups. This allows diversity of genes to maintain.
The same logic and statistical nature exists for just about every aspect of human civilization. Ideas, policies, practices -- regardless of scale.
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