> Global needs should have global support, such that the failure of one hegemony doesn’t fuck up everything for the rest of humanity
While this is true, I suspect that putting the UN in charge of all global matters will cause them to become such a hegemony.
Until we have multiple planets (or equivalents), I think a multi-polar world with multiple superpowers capable and motivated to work on such things is important.
Hopefully the superpowers will keep their fighting to "indirectly", like the USA and the USSR used to.
My most recent commute took me over the line of the Berlin wall. While what you say is true, a direct conflict between the USA and USSR would have been so much worse for most of the world.
Co-incidentally, home discussion about "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" this evening.
I didn't mean to suggest direct conflict would be any better, I just found out disturbing to see NINBYism applied to war. Basically "let's hope it continues to be other people who suffer from our conflicts and never us."
…but also I think NINBYism is the wrong metaphor for the point you make: if everyone NINBYs housing, we have an end to housing and all suffer the shortage; if everyone NINBYs war, we have an end to war.
But everyone can't do that. There are tremendous global power disparities. That's why there's near continuous proxy conflicts but it rarely flares up to the point that aggressor nations have to suffer directly.
Turns out that people bombing your infrastructure and your people actually makes life worse, regardless of your ranking in the world economic stack ranking...
Is the suggestion that we should fight all our wars in the most impoverished places because it makes the least difference to the people there? I'm not sure what you're trying to imply.
While this is true, I suspect that putting the UN in charge of all global matters will cause them to become such a hegemony.
Until we have multiple planets (or equivalents), I think a multi-polar world with multiple superpowers capable and motivated to work on such things is important.
Hopefully the superpowers will keep their fighting to "indirectly", like the USA and the USSR used to.