[governance] A Rudderless World: we've moved from an ocean of separate boats to 190 cabins on a boat without a captain

[Thomas Lowenhaupt]

See New York Times Op-Ed b 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/19/opinion/19iht-edmahbubani19.html?_r=1>y 
Singapore's  Kishore Mahbabuni where he says:

First, the world has changed structurally, yet our systems for managing 
global affairs have not adapted. In the past, when the billions of 
citizens of planet earth lived in separated countries, it was like 
having an ocean of separate boats. Hence, the postwar order created 
rules to ensure that the boats did not collide; it created rules for 
cooperation.

Up until now, this arrangement has worked well. World War III did not 
follow World Wars I and II. But today the world's seven billion citizens 
no longer live in separate boats. They live in more than 190 cabins on 
the same boat. Each cabin has a government to manage its affairs. And 
the boat as a whole moves along without a captain or a crew.

The world is adrift....

Tom Lowenhaupt


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