Are we in a new world Empire? A NWO?

I don't know about a new world order but it was announced this week that 62 people have more money than 50% of the world's population combined (3.6 billion people).Something is very, very brokenRichest 62 people have more money than poorest half of the planet — New York Daily NewsEdited by Tangle, : No reason given.

The French are no different.Communism is the anwer, sadly that doesn't work either.The nearest we've achieved are the liberal democracies of Scandanavia, and they're hardly perfect.

You need to ask yourself why? They had great moral ambitions but all failed.It's generally called 'the human condition'. We're born to compete and look after our own. Social morality grows only very slowly. We're not ready to share fairly yet; as a species we're still childlike and greedy.

The word has always been massively unequal. But I suspect the real gap was wider then than now. Or another way of putting it, it's probably better to be poor today, than rich then.The reason is the way GDP was static for thousands of years, then grew exponentially after the enlightenment and industrial revolution. (But, of course this is a very western-centric view of the world.)

Our individual selfishness is quite definately a weakness in a mutually supportive society. If we were organised like an ant colony we would be far more efficient.But of course we're not built that way and we can't be made so. The trick is organising ourselves to balance our selfish instincts to do the very best we can for ourselves against creating benefits that should be spread amongst everyone. It's also impossible - which is why I'm not arguing that point. It's also our greatest weakness, which is why we have laws and regulations to control our worst instincts.

Ugh. I'm saying that our primitive instincts of survival and completion do not equip us for living in a tower block in New York earning a living infront of a computer. So much should be obvious. Our modern societies have far outstripped evolution's controls. People are far more complicated than you want to make them - they're not amoeba, they have competing objectives and motivations, we have consciousness and intelligence. We both compete and cooperate as we judge the circumstances. Utter bollox.