more notes on social contract

3. Social Contract for the world
4. World Law – states to act towards each other as persons are expected to act – war as affray and assault
5. Separate the government from the people – how to punish one and not the other?
6. Paxd Romana – Paxc Britaniica – Pax Americana – Pax Sinica?

What’s a blog for anyway?

- ok, so a lot of people use it as a journal or diary or a reporting tool – I see it as a sort of sand-box for essays (this is a bit cheeky of me as I have’nt read many essays lately, and haven’t even touched some of the greats of the last three hundred years – giving them their own web sites would be a worth first step ..there’s a hmmm moment J

Brevity on the web

– they say brevity is the soul of wit, and indeed maybe the web encourages this up to a point – the danger is that it also becomes like the television and radio news and the tabloids – and everything gets reduced down to one-liners which don’t mean very much…the Ten Commandments would be a counter-example of course.

Social contract

Step back a bit - ok, so the idea of a Social Contract is that you have a Society - comprising of a city or county or even a state, where the people acknowledge that they have rights and duties in relation to each other - so the idea of a social insurance system, where everyone contributes to the government so that when times are hard and you are out of a job, the rest of society will help you out financially instead of stepping over your quivering form on the street. It's a nice idea, but part of it involves actually contributing, in the twentieth century there has been a lot of people sitting around with their hand out not willing to contribute much, and they have given the whole idea a bad name

And World Peace :-)

the law of nations and the laws of men

social contract for the world

to be returned. might have to explain what social contract is. might have to find out for definite first. Read Rousseau? sheesh!

the real price of oil

so what happens when you top up your car? Is your money slowly but surely being saved up to chopper some troops into the Amazon rain-forest to finsih off the pesky natives who are holding up the oil drilling?