Robert Wright, Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny (New York: Pantheon Books, 2000) pp. 211. – “The reason to expect the eventual triumph of global governance lies in three observations. 1. Governance has always tended to expand to the geographic scope necessary to solve merging non-zero-sum problems that markets and moral codes can’t alone solve. 2. These days many emerging non-zero-sum problems are supranational, involving many, sometimes all, nations. 3. The forces behind this growing non-zero-sumness are technological and, for plain reasons, bound to intensify.”
Humans are inherently suited to achieve a global world-view and identity suitable for a single global nation
Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Second Edition (London: John Murray, 1882), p. 122: “As man advances in civilization, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he out to extend his social instincts and sympathies to all the members of the same nation, though personally unknown to him. This point being once reached there is only an artificial barrier to prevent his sympathies extending to the men of all nations and races.”
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