I can't shut up about my classes, and I'm sorry...

...but I need to get all of these wonderful THOUGHTS down somewhere!!

I just got out of an awesome International Relations lecture session where we discussed the possibilities of global governance and what that looks like today.

I've never thought positively about the possibility of a world order - maybe that's because of my religious background. To me, global gov't has meant what is talked about in the book Revelation, and that = not good. But I'm realizing the difference between global governance and global government - and there really is a world of difference. There is no hierarchical order that supercedes sovereign authority, nor will there ever be - but, as the world gets smaller and communication gets more instantaneous, a global system has indeed begun to take shape. The question is how to make these governmental networks, connections across borders, and state-to-state, organization-to-organization relationships work in a way that promotes our progress.

There are a plethora of problems. So many, that there will never NOT be problems. But that doesn't make it any less fascinating, that in the natural endeavor of human progress, such a leviathan (and I don't mean a Hobbesian leviathan) has taken form and is influencing us in the day-to-day.

Think about it: Facebook and Twitter create connections between people that would never, ever meet under normal circumstances. Last year when shit went down in the Gaza Strip, Twitter was alerting all of us on this side of the world to what was going on through the personal perspective of an actual person who was actually experiencing the chaos. These personal stories resonate with us, and soon, everyone can sympathize one way or another, and there you have a global network of world citizens, pondering the same questions, mulling over the same moral quandaries, thinking the same (if conflicting) thoughts. This is HUGE, and certainly can't be regulated by any one sovereign state, because it touches and affects almost every sovereign nation on this planet.

Facebook and Twitter aren't governments, but there is governance involved - maybe on the higher levels of administration, but also on an individual basis. It's become only natural for this sort of structure to take place.

That's so different from the apocalyptic, world tyranny picture painted in Revelation. This liberal course that the world has set has so, so much potential - it's hard not to get excited about it. While it has its problems, it may also hold some very crucial solutions.