Mar 17, 2009

Thinking of Changing the World

What (if any) specific changes in the existing structures that govern international economic and commercial relations (the World Trade Organization, the G8, etc) should be made to make them more representative of the actual global economic and political situation or more fair or effective in promoting prosperity or addressing current problems?

Human kind is destined to function according to a set of rules, without which everything would be in chaos, misery and despair. Fortunately, from antiquity to today, there has always existed a set of rules to obey, differing from era to era. What is causing many problems to our society nowadays is the fact that we are not conscious that we have entered in a new era, and thus we are obeying the rules of the past in different circumstances.

Even though the structures which have governed the world until now have been somehow successful in generating ideas on how to give the right direction to the global economic and political relations, the United Nations need to create a new global organization, structured intentionally to study scientifically the global situation and to offer solutions to the current problems in world’s economy and political affairs. Organizations such as G8 and World Trade Organization are adapting the same old rules and laws, which used to be effective one hundred years ago, to a completely changed society. How long is the old system going to handle the situation and prevent a global management disaster?

We are living in an economic and political chaos and the situation is getting worse every year. The ultimate global crisis is the most dramatic proof of the fact that we need new economic laws and new political patterns to follow. In this context, we should promote scientific investigation in these fields in the level of an international organization, which will give us the best options to choose: these new laws and patterns. Even though it seems that in this way the world will be artificially controlled by the minds of few people, who will give directions, it is time to accept that the current democratic system that most of the countries have implemented, needs to change. This change will lead to prosperity and basically to the true democracy.

In order to understand why this new structure is crucial, we need to point out how has the global situation changed in the last century, while the basic economic and political principles are totally the same. The unpredictable improvement of technology has lead to a phenomenon, named globalism, against which no one can argue. Consequently, a global society is influencing every single national society that much that any barrier between two countries cannot prevent their economic interaction. Nonetheless, the political unions will naturally be integrated in a single-state united world, even though we are not enough prepared. What we need now is to consider this new face of the world, and find the right direction according to which the decisions in economy and politics should be made. Finally, let the United Nations, G8, etc. be based on these new ideas.

If the international organizations will keep obeying to the basic principles that used to lead the world’s economy in the past, they will never find the right solution for current problems, and the crisis that the planet is facing will become worse. On the other hand, the political relationship between countries depends on their economic issues; therefore additional political problems will appear. Creating a new organization, which will focus only on research, especially on new ways of thinking, independent from past experience, giving more importance to pure science, and encouraging professionals on working on this field, will potentially help world’s authorities to make the right decisions.

Let’s imagine hundreds of scientists: economists and politicians, working together on the same purpose: finding the most convenient economic and political system. It might take years until they figure out the right directions that the planet should follow. However, professionals can solve this better than authorities, who are all the time under the pressure of the responsibilities they are taking. Presidents or prime-ministers can adapt a general model in their special case. What the world does not have is this general model. The old one apparently does not fit anymore.

Human kind never understands how important the change is, before having grave consequences because of not applying it. It’s not too late. However, it’s time to start thinking of changing the world. It’s time to make up our minds that the old set of principles gave us its best and we cannot depend anymore on our past. It’s time to plan the future.