Topher Morrison
PurpleSerf.com
Small governments are the most effective political bodies in the world. You often hear or see the phrase "Think Globally, Act Locally" most often in reference to climate change, however, if we applied this concept to governance, the world would be a much better place.
People often talk about competition making businesses better, but how can competition make governments more accountable, more useful and more responsive to the needs of their people? The answer: create more of them! Governments by definition cannot survive without their citizens, therefore, it would seem to benefit us if we force them to compete over our tax dollars.
While there is of course a finite amount of land and little likelihood that the 188+ nations already established will part with theirs, there are efforts to create special economics zones if not radical open ocean platforms. These are the ideas espoused by organizations like FreeCities.org and Seasteading.org.
Imagine a world in which governments had to compete for citizens from 1000 nations? While central banks, politicians and technocrats more and more attempt to consolidate the world under one government, the ultimate goal of megalomaniacs over the millennia, the rights, liberties and needs of the many will factor less and less into the decision making of the few.
Ever since the Declaration of Independence and the establishment of the US Constitution what were essentially several large spheres of influence operated by German, English, Russian, Spanish, French, etc. empires gave rise to a wave of independent nation states embracing democracy under popular sovreignity.
Since that time these formerly independent nation states have been slowly consolidated once again under the European Union, the Meditterenean Union, the African Union and ultimately the United Nations under the auspices of peace and prosperity. If our current economic crisis and perpetual warfare has shown, this system which has operated over the past 50 years has not resulted in what was promised.
These systems have been called "The Most Progressive Movement on the Planet" while libertarians refer to it as the most important step toward securing prosperity, personal liberty and peace.
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| Pictures of Dubai before and after becoming a special economic zone (SEZ) and undergoing substantial legal reform. See also pictures of Schenzhen, China - amazing! Image Source: AThousandNations.com |
People often talk about competition making businesses better, but how can competition make governments more accountable, more useful and more responsive to the needs of their people? The answer: create more of them! Governments by definition cannot survive without their citizens, therefore, it would seem to benefit us if we force them to compete over our tax dollars.
While there is of course a finite amount of land and little likelihood that the 188+ nations already established will part with theirs, there are efforts to create special economics zones if not radical open ocean platforms. These are the ideas espoused by organizations like FreeCities.org and Seasteading.org.
Imagine a world in which governments had to compete for citizens from 1000 nations? While central banks, politicians and technocrats more and more attempt to consolidate the world under one government, the ultimate goal of megalomaniacs over the millennia, the rights, liberties and needs of the many will factor less and less into the decision making of the few.
Ever since the Declaration of Independence and the establishment of the US Constitution what were essentially several large spheres of influence operated by German, English, Russian, Spanish, French, etc. empires gave rise to a wave of independent nation states embracing democracy under popular sovreignity.
Since that time these formerly independent nation states have been slowly consolidated once again under the European Union, the Meditterenean Union, the African Union and ultimately the United Nations under the auspices of peace and prosperity. If our current economic crisis and perpetual warfare has shown, this system which has operated over the past 50 years has not resulted in what was promised.
These systems have been called "The Most Progressive Movement on the Planet" while libertarians refer to it as the most important step toward securing prosperity, personal liberty and peace.
