The Flag of Earth
Posted by xthinker88 8 years, 11 months ago to Government
I could see this coming soon. On the arms of international military and police patrolling your neighborhood.
Of course any world government would of necessity have to be collectivist socialist and totalitarian.
Of course any world government would of necessity have to be collectivist socialist and totalitarian.
A flag for every agenda.
How about a flag with a giant yellow dollar sign on a field of silver.
Jan
Gold on blue works well. Heraldically, the only country that was allowed to have metal-on-metal was Jerusalem. It may sound silly, but when you look at a flag or emblem from far away, gold and silver look the same, whereas gold on 'a color' stands out well. So, any pure color would work, and black would also work.
Jan
(heraldically, silver=white; gold=yellow)
This is disturbing. Also I really want to throw rotten tomatoes at the head of the rainbow glitter fairy dust moron who came up with such an abhorrent, to me at least, "idea".
It gives me the willies.
I do not like the implications of this though. While a world government or governing agreement which allowed for representative government and economic and political freedom would not be a horrible thing, given that most countries that exist today do not have economic or political freedom I do not see that happening. Instead, it is likely to be totalitarian (even if soft) and redistributionist.
1- the colors are those of the UN... and of Israel.
2- speaking of Israel, the design - like the Star of David - is 6 sided and similarly aligned. Add these 2 together, and it seems that if you're not Pro-Israel and/or Pro-UN, it would be hard to get behind this banner.
3- adding 1 and 2 together, it kind if spells out a potential impetus of what forces are really behind this.
imnsho, Nothing Beats Earthrise....
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/Histor...
Crop and center a little, maybe...
Where you can't see geopolitical boundaries... and it's completely non-exclusionary.
geometry is neat. . and 7 was always lucky in
my little family (7 rings). -- j
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"We are one in all and all in one.
There are no men but only the great WE,
One, indivisible and forever."
Put more succinctly by an Australian ex-prime minister, Julia (the Red) Gillard-
"We are us".
Asia, Africa, Europe, N. AM. S. Am. Australia is six ah yes....Antarctica. Actually it's Eurasia. looks like interlocking esposas or in english handcuffs.
Ditto on the one up the street. When is the USSA going to get it's own flag?
Each Greek city-state was a country unto itself, and the independence and inter-city rivalries lasted for millennia. Ultimately, the world got 'larger' and the concerns of any given city-state were overwhelmed by the formation of empires on (and across) their borders and then of countries emerging from the ruins of empires.
When, one day, we are out among the stars with hundreds of colonies, Earth will probably merge into a single governmental unit. But that will be OK then, because there will be lots of other places you can go if you do not agree with Earthgov.
Right now, if we were one government, there would not be anywhere someone could 'go to' and be 'in another place'. So, for now, it is better that we differentiate the nations and let each have its own system. People can sort themselves amongst the choices. The problem that we have in the Gulch, is that there is now no country that actually represents our 'choice'...the USA is still the closest, and the US is not doing particularly well in that respect.
That being said, the flag is actually quite aesthetic.
Jan
Sigh. We won't see it (except on screen)...but here's to the future Jim Kirks...
We have discussed many times here what the world will look like when everyone is affluent and no one has to work because robots (and replicators) do everything that is needed to keep the entire Earth population living lives of luxury. Probably the answer is that 75% of the population spends most of their time on the holodeck, 10% take over the remaining judgment-based administrative jobs on Earth, 10% enlist in Starfleet Academy, and the remaining 5% are the innovators.
Jan
Per my education in philosophy, economics, and technology, the "demand" for goods, services and therefore for human labor, even, at the lowest level, is infinite. Seriously. Infinite. There will never be, and can never be, an excess of demand over supply of human labor.
I mean that as very positive, and not at all argumentative.
There is no "post-Capitalist", only, Capitalist and individualist. No matter what luxuries can be provided to the affluent, there will always be more to be thought of, invented, and produced.
Just think: It's 1910, and "if only I had an automobile..."...luxury...oh, wait, a radio...luxury...TV...PC...AOL...
Or, better said in art:
http://wn.com/four_yorkshiremen_sketch
probably an expansion of the olympic symbol.
actually it disgusts me..
As an avid supporter of individual rights and values, I can see how a 'world flag' might be intimidating, but it only makes sense when you consider that we are all inhabitants of the same planet. Its a big world out there (no pun intended) and its only appropriate that we have some kind of sign that represents us as intelligent beings.
I have little doubt the next frontier is outer space, but sometimes I wonder if we will ever be ready for it as a society.
Why?
The only way any government could possibly work on that scale and still maintain guarantees of liberty and property would be if said government was strictly limited in scope by a strong founding document.
Sound familiar? Of course - that's what he had here in the U.S., originally, and you're right, look where we are now.
But here's the thing: In government, there's no point in looking for permanent solutions. Nothing lasts forever. The United States won't. Republics always fall, and are almost always either conquered (Greece) or succeeded by dictatorships (Rome.)
A global Republic could work - for a while. But it is in the inevitable nature of governments to grow ever more intrusive and even more bureaucratic, and that will happen in any Republic at any scale.
A strongly limited global Republic could lead to a Golden Age that may last a century or two. But it would fall, too, to be replaced by something less pleasant - which appears to be happening to Western civilization right now.
Nothing but overlapping circles
http://www.americanflags.com/gadsdenflag...
-- j
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The only comment that puzzled me was the one about current flags "necessarily" pitting people against each other. Missing the logic there. The way I view most flags is that they identify a country and not much else. Of course, if there's a hammer-and-sickle, swastika or the like anywhere in the flag, I may have other thoughts. And if it's all black...well...
And I still kinda prefer the ones further up the street...
Nobody needs such!
</sarcasm>