Poll: World Domination

[TheBlobThing]

I'm more for a state of total anarchy.

Firstly,that will get rid of all the idiots who don't know how to survive properly,

Plus the world won't be so complicated and basically whoever has the most guns and ammo survives.

I'm for a "Do as you please" land and a "Take what you want" Land.

Anyway,it won't have any horrible revolutions and in a few years the world would basically straighten itself out and become the same as it was,leading to exactly the same thing happning that caused the anarchy,thus it becoming a cycle.

Mate, you'd be the first to go.

Anyway, nah, I like my democracy thank you.

 

[la-le-lu-li-lo]

Hooray, America finally did something good!

Anyway, an Empire is only as good as its Emperor and those he commands.
Frankly, it would be nice to stop all the pointless wars and have some real direction (say, focus on medical science for a while and extend our lifetimes and quality of life.)

*is impressed Max made a serious and completely on topic response*

Anyways... I have mixed opinions on the subject. Max makes a good point though, a lack of war and political division would allow for more worthy exploits to be researched. I doubt everyone would get along though, humanity is far too violent at it's core to work that way.

But at the same time, what freedoms would I have? I'm big on freedom... I sound like such an American when I say that but basic rights do mean something to me.

 

[infernal_tuba]

I want zombie President Nixon to rule the world.

 

[IckleMissMayhem]

The brits couldn't even keep full control over as small an island as Ireland. They were cut to bits by the IRA and had to leave.

Tiocfaidh ar la!

NATO's made a huge mess of Iraq and Afghanistan(twice!), and the French and Spanish between then can't sort out ETA. What's your point?!

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

If the E.U. and U.S.A. joined up into one super nation, I would be very happy with that but humanity united under one banner would be even better.

Damn right.
It's about time Unification happened in this damn universe. it's taking too long.
And I can't afford to miss it in this shell's life time. it may be my last chance.

For The Terran Empire!

 

[Kasawd]

I'm more for a state of total anarchy.

Firstly,that will get rid of all the idiots who don't know how to survive properly,

Plus the world won't be so complicated and basically whoever has the most guns and ammo survives.

I'm for a "Do as you please" land and a "Take what you want" Land.

Anyway,it won't have any horrible revolutions and in a few years the world would basically straighten itself out and become the same as it was,leading to exactly the same thing happning that caused the anarchy,thus it becoming a cycle.

Anarchy, eh?

The problem with that is that fascist pricks like me would form a group and get to the conquering.

I wouldn't be too hot on human rights, either.

 

[butikilledu47]

If America hadn't had a tantrum back when it was young then Britain could have overpowered Spain and France, then controlled all of Europe (preventing both world wars.) Then taken over Asia then gone on to have united the world in a golden age of civilisation and fine moustaches.

In short its all the yanks fault.

Yes, but if Britain really couldn't keep a tiny colony of farmers with no military training in line, then they really didn't deserve to rule all of Europe, did they?

edit: And to answer the original question, an empire under one person will always fail. ALWAYS. The world will never unanimously agree to one person's wishes.

 

[jpoon]

World empire is a horrendous idea. I like what freedoms I have left far too much. I would go ape shit fucking nuts if some global elite attempt to take the world over. You would give the power of a global empire over to 1 person? You're a fucking idiot of massive proportions.

 

[JenXXXJen]

No, because in any situation like that, poor people suffer. I am poor.

 

[Redingold]

If America hadn't had a tantrum back when it was young then Britain could have overpowered Spain and France, then controlled all of Europe (preventing both world wars.) Then taken over Asia then gone on to have united the world in a golden age of civilisation and fine moustaches.

In short its all the yanks fault.

And why did the yanks win? Because they had weapons supplied by the French. So it's all the frogs' fault.

 

[Quad08]

LETS DO THIS!!!

 

[veloper]

The empire would lead to stagnation. No other countries and not even different political parties means no competition.

I also like what freedom I have.

 

[sms_117b]

All righty, i do want to say that this is a semi-serious topic. But enough of that:

All right, there has been a lot of talk about the `American Empire` (i`m Canadian by the way) and such. I wonder though, would a world-wide empire help the human race? Would it mean an era of peace and advancement or tyranny and stagnation. Please realize that not everybody can be the emperor, that's my job. Also, please stay away from using movie/game references, but who am i kidding, you won't. So, any thoughts, plans or complaints, lets hear them.

Like hell, I'm the Emperor.

I have my thoughts, most of them involve manipulating the British public leading my to taking over, then securing the oil fields in the Middle East, as many of them as I can. Then fund several militant groups in America before invading myself after demonising them to Europe to reduce backlash, I have thought many times about this. Hence why I'll be the Emperor, so get your knee pads on you'll be doing a lot of it.

 

[sms_117b]

All righty, i do want to say that this is a semi-serious topic. But enough of that:

All right, there has been a lot of talk about the `American Empire` (i`m Canadian by the way) and such. I wonder though, would a world-wide empire help the human race? Would it mean an era of peace and advancement or tyranny and stagnation. Please realize that not everybody can be the emperor, that's my job. Also, please stay away from using movie/game references, but who am i kidding, you won't. So, any thoughts, plans or complaints, lets hear them.

Like hell, I'm the Emperor.

I have my thoughts, most of them involve manipulating the British public leading my to taking over, then securing the oil fields in the Middle East, as many of them as I can. Then fund several militant groups in America before invading myself after demonising them to Europe to reduce backlash, I have thought many times about this. Hence why I'll be the Emperor, so get your knee pads on you'll be using them a lot.

 

[Good morning blues]

The world is too big and diverse to govern centrally. We already have hegemonic empire, and it's damaging enough; trying to make one central government capable of responding to the unique cultures and conditions of every region in the world is completely unworkable.

 

[Soushi]

All righty, i do want to say that this is a semi-serious topic. But enough of that:

All right, there has been a lot of talk about the `American Empire` (i`m Canadian by the way) and such. I wonder though, would a world-wide empire help the human race? Would it mean an era of peace and advancement or tyranny and stagnation. Please realize that not everybody can be the emperor, that's my job. Also, please stay away from using movie/game references, but who am i kidding, you won't. So, any thoughts, plans or complaints, lets hear them.

Like hell, I'm the Emperor.

I have my thoughts, most of them involve manipulating the British public leading my to taking over, then securing the oil fields in the Middle East, as many of them as I can. Then fund several militant groups in America before invading myself after demonising them to Europe to reduce backlash, I have thought many times about this. Hence why I'll be the Emperor, so get your knee pads on you'll be using them a lot.

Ha, my good man, you would not stand a chance. Manipulating humanity through force is a laughable notion, ha ha ha (see, laughable) You need to take advantage of economic means. Humans, despite all appearances sometimes, are wily and intelligent creatures and thus, will never be able to be controlled fully by force. America will never be invaded, too much land with too many guns and too many people who know how to use them. Oil may have been a prime target about 5 years ago, but the new target is water, water my good friend. And i already have a plan to dominate it... i won't tell you... because telling you would be a tactical error on my part. Ha Ha Ha. Canada shall rule supreme!!!

 

[sms_117b]

Ha, my good man, you would not stand a chance. Manipulating humanity through force is a laughable notion, ha ha ha (see, laughable) You need to take advantage of economic means. Humans, despite all appearances sometimes, are wily and intelligent creatures and thus, will never be able to be controlled fully by force. America will never be invaded, too much land with too many guns and too many people who know how to use them. Oil may have been a prime target about 5 years ago, but the new target is water, water my good friend. And i already have a plan to dominate it... i won't tell you... because telling you would be a tactical error on my part. Ha Ha Ha. Canada shall rule supreme!!!

I never mentioned taking over the UK through force, politics would be my countries downfall, many simple things would put me completely over for the winning vote with out going to far left or right and even then the unwashed masses wouldn't know what too far is for some topics. Oil is still vital, however my hostile take overs would not necessarily be aimed at the primary resource locations, storage of the billions of liters that various nations have in reserve would be found through espionage and the SAS for either detonation or siphoning, whilst at the same time cornering the Hydrogen market so the rest of the world finds it difficult to receive any, (with the thought that hydrogen cars will be taking over after oil).

Yes invading America currently is impossible, however, after funding some of the more backwards states in America could lead to a civil war if I could send some SAS guys (in costume and fake history) to snipe Obama after funding some of the more aggressive and larger fanatic groups like the KKK and Nazi's basically the white supremacists. Being Americas ally going in there to reinforce would be welcome, but my sneaky SAS would secure American military positions hindering their efforts in the war, the lack of training in the rebels would lead to their ultimate downfall, but, America would still be weaker, primed and already have parts secured, at this point a invasion could possibly occur by taking advantage of the xenophobia and staging fake terrorist attacks on New York killing hundreds of thousands and then a second in Washington DC on a organised memorial day of the New York attack victims killing possibly more. Here I'd step in saying the government cannot protect them anymore, and try similar tactics to what I used in the UK to win over the population as the military is practically already mine. This new power imbalance would shake the world and make Europe very tense, France I'll just bribe as we all know they are cowards giving me a foothold in mainland Europe, wait, why am I divulging all of thi-

 

[Timotei]

I don't know why I didn't pick up on this earlier, but the fact the OP created a thread about world domination with a Light Yagami avatar is just hilarious.

To me at least.

 

[Veylon]

Stagnation would be the result. Look at China or Japan's history vs. Europe. In the former two countries, power over their whole area was always in the hands of a tiny elite. If X innovation or Y idea was undesirable, it could be repressed. In Europe there were many nations. If Genoa or Portugal said no to Columbus, there was always Spain to try. In China he would've been outta luck. It's not that Europeans were naturally more innovate - look at Japan today - it's just that they were split up.

Condensing the whole world into one political structure ensures that a single elite can decide what's right, preventing other social and political ideas from being tried. A single world government has no peers to compare itself to, no way to find out if it's making the best decisions or not.

 

[Jinx_Dragon]

A world wide unified government that could peacefully and legally resolve the worlds problems, share and transport resources and afford the massive scientific programs needed to make the world into something even we can't imagine... all that would be good and such. Such a peaceful utopia world where war is obsolete thanks to a government that can please at least 51% of the billions of souls is a wonderful dream. Yet I've stopped being a dreamer, as sad as that is, cause reality crushed me.

Those who try to make world domination possible don't seem to be the sort that will step aside to a world wide elected figurehead. We can be assured that whoever achieves this feat will be as brutal and demanding a soul as needed to keep the dozens of society structures, century old feuds, intolerableness religious organisations and so on in order. Without that brutality in a world wide government then we would see the whole thing collapse the very first time one social group turned to violence when it didn't get what it wanted.

Frankly... the only people I can think of who could achieve such a feat and keep order are not the sort of people I would feel comfortable having in control of the world.