just to show the airy fairy stargazing "lofteaze-tipflopsical" resolutioning and 'prebumbling' is in vogue and coming at one from all sides I give you another example. http://upf.org/thefed.htm Unified Planetary Assembly A Unified Planetary Assembly would be founded on a simple but important idea: diversity. Indeed, diversity would make up the very fabric of such an assembly, which is essentially an amalgamation of different peoples. From Compassion, Understanding, and a Love of Freedom comes a Respect for Diversity and Legitimate Responsibility ----- the freedom of all people to self-determination, the right to choose and follow self-determined destinies, and the responsibility to legitimately empower those destinies when obligating others. Such an Assembly would be the kind of globally governing empowerment that seeks, without sacrificing its legitimate sovereignty grounded in the will of the people, to maintain a pluralism of functions and loyalties in the lives of all citizens. It would show that the political absorption of the institutional functions of any association, be it family, local community, or trade union, must be followed by the decrease of psychological devotions to that association. The Assembly would seek to diversify and decentralise its own administrative operations and to relate these, as closely as possible, to the forms of spontaneous aggregation that are the natural outgrowths of human needs and desires which have relevance to the economic, educational, and religious aspects of culture. A Unified Planetary Assembly, founded on the convictions of welfare, integrity, and excellence, would state unequivocally that no one may interfere with the normal development of any people. As a result of this policy, newly encountered peoples would quickly gain confidence, thereby soothing their uneasiness and apprehension, and allowing them to join, with trust, the Assembly's constituency. Membership would serve to directly increase awareness of the Universe's richness and diversity, and reaffirm the trust, respect, compassion, and understanding that would bind the Assembly together. Balancing diversity and uniformity, the Assembly would not make a passion of either social order or personal adjustment, but recognise that the claims of autonomy through fundamental freedoms, individual rights, and legitimate responsibilities will never have appropriate recognition until individuals in society have a sense of cultural membership in the significant and meaningful interconnections of kinship, religion, occupation, profession, and locality. It will not spurn the demands of human society, but will seek means by which these demands can be met through association, creation, and agglomeration rather than through the bureaucratic rigidities of formal law and administration. A Unified Planetary Assembly would be inherently democratic, humanitarian, pluralistic, and whatever the intentions of its political leaders, its power would be regulated by associations whose plurality of claims upon its members is the measure of freedom from the monopoly of power in a global society of world citizens. I have been familiar with similar efforts like the "world parliament" since the middle eighties and most of them worry me. The world parliament platform includes such sensible measures as the application of fresh, paramagnetic dusts to the worlds growing areas including estuaries which would be a change from the poisons lately. Being a staunch advocate of such measures I didn't mind their occasional updates, usually consisting in efforts to muster the support (a mere endorsement and mention-permission usually) of a still more impressive and prestigious list of people (mostly men). The amount of potential for waste, unhealthy conditions and careers, anti Anteaus like rootlessness, and bureaucratic corruption is staggering. The European Commision is proving my point as we speak while the goddamn Serbs are moving the western cosmetic make believe and glitter front forward with full support of their own youthful beneficiaries. What more do you want. I mean multiregionalism is the strongest base for political clout and no matter the corporations understand the word differently from the evolutionary ethnographers. Their range of influence differs widely also. 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