One-world Government? Never happen

I've been thinking a great deal lately about the conspiracy theorists' projections of a push to create a one-world government. So, let's look at the effects such an event would entail if it came to pass.


Such a thing would, if possible, not actually be all that bad of a thing. Everyone living under the same government could expect to receive approximately the same treatment and benefits the world around. Rather than country-to-country hostilities, we could perhaps finally begin to focus where it would do the most good, which would be in improving the overall quality of life for all people. HOWEVER, that's a bit of a pollyana view. As we know from experience, people don't readily become what we would hope for them to, regardless of how successful we are at creating such a climate for them to do so. There's too much self-interest in the world for such a thing to occur.

But, in the end, I think the real reason we will never see such an event occur is the effect of eliminating war and, therefore, war machinery. Arms manufacturers don't lag far behind the most powerful financial institutions in the world when it comes to power (read "money"). Do we really think they're going to sit back and allow their bread and butter to be destroyed by having a single government? Or... do we expect they'll reform their ways, retooling their factories to build other goods that won't have nearly the income-producing potential as arms sales? No... not likely. Like it or not, conflict, armed and otherwise, is always going to be with us til the end of time. Therefore, demand for war machines is going to exist, making a one-world government impossible to realize.