Welcome to Gaia! ::

Actually Atomisk I am much like you in some respects. I am quite the nature guy, I feel for the trees, the landscapes, and most of the creatures of this world (I still try not to kill any, as they are living creatures, but some just get in the way and make me very uncomfortable: i.e. mosquitoes, cockroaches, etc.). I will do everything in my power to ensure that we as a human race live as humanely and efficiently as possible. Truth be told that if you were to have every single person in the world live in the "American way" you would need the resources of ten Earths. Americans are damn wasteful, both with their resources and theire money. That is something I will seek to remedy.

As for the perfect government, we're working on that... So far we haven't found anything globally acceptable. But please, members of the Darkstar Party, take criticism with a little bit more sugar; and you folks who are with atomisk, give criticism with more taste. To improve we need more detailed criticisms than, "Said plan will not work!!!" Give us reasons examples and, if you can, alternatives. I have one key word to all workings within this guild.

Compromise : Peacefully, it's how best to reach a common goal between two opposing factions. Those who will not seek compromise are oft times selfish and close-minded.

(Oh, and Raptoria: I don't think anything's wrong. You're still able to post in the guild so I think you must still be a member. The names in the list move around a lot when new members join.... )

black plastic love's post plays well into my whole ideal that the people are the source of our power, we are answerable to them should anything occur. Yet the general public cannot be entirely trusted to make educated decisions on even who to elect to government, yet we need them there to check our power to ensure that we are not violating their rights and that we are efficiently passing legislation and efficiently spending money.

One option would be to limit the general publics access to the vote, thus ensuring that only the most educated decisions are being made; yet this option could easily develop discrimination and eventually turn into the whole idea of a caste system where we are separated into separate classes much like a pyramid with the less mentally capable members at the bottom and possibly corrupt officials towards the top. Many would say that this removes too much power from the people and too severely limits their right to check our power. I'm inclined to agree with this, thus I would not believe this option is a good one.

Another option would be to refine the process of nominating and electing government officials to encompass a broader range of knowledge, virtue, and efficiency. This would ensure that our government officials are well capable for the position and also less susceptible to the dangers of corruption. However, even this plan has cracks and an intelligent yet malign candidate could fool the whole process and become elected. This is where the power of the people and the peers comes in. If that member commits any act which could be considered tyrranical the people and other members of the government structure would have the power to remove that candidate. Again however, a dominating and malign party could rule this governmental structure (although unlikely due to the strict process) and vote out all those who are in fact good-natured and well-behaved. In this case the whole power to oust the malign party would be left in the hands of the people whereupon they mention the misdoings to a higher authority for their discression or (if there is none) the people of the world would have to either overthrow the government (which of course would be the end of our grand plan) or simply throw out the bad members and start with more ideologically pure candidates, which of course would be the most ideal situation.

Obviously, I am a stronger supporter of option #2. But it wouldn't be easy to keep this balance, we must have conflictiing/checking forces to ensure that no malign member/party gains power. This would require constant surveillance of every member in every division of the government.

My grand plan for government structure to come. And yes, as you must have observed by now, reading my posts, while insightful and educational, requires a level of patience. Please bear with me.

True, but even then the class isn't a 100% sure way to make sure that they are making an educated decision, even with good grades. Every single person in my AP Government class was completely unaware of the fact that there were 74 candidates running in the last presidential election, until recently they didn't even know that the Democratic and Republican parties are little more than factions organized for power in government, a thing which Madison himself argued against in Federalist 10, but saw their eternal qualities in that they'd never go away and demonstrated how they could be incorporated into government. Some didn't even know who David Cobb or Ralph Nader were. How sad; especially for the fact that they are "college level" students with demonstrated accomplishments and merit.

It's a good method to bring out the best of the people of our society and to educate them on the workings of how government should work, and extended courses should be provided for those who wish to excel in this area. I do not think we can rely on this option to ensure good-natured candidates, but it would greatly increase the rate at which people are making educated decisions. Perhaps if we incorporated this idea into the other option (regarding making the process to run for an office more difficult) it would work best.

Agreeing with fish_bait's statement, I must ask: WHAT CAN YOU DO ABOUT IT? You say "I will protect it". Do you realize that you cannot? You are one, and we are many. Join us, that is the wise thing. Unless:
Do you mean you want to be in charge of natural resources? As in, "Let one side be your empire, then switch to the other and destroy that, by the time you're done, the original side will heal!" Because that idea won't work. It takes a very long time for an ecosystem to regenerate to it's state before human destruction. (your spelling is atrocious and your name is a rip off of optimus prime the transformer. Grrr.)

Hm. I had no idea you could do that. Destroy all electronics so you want to send the world back to the middle ages?(sounds like you've been watching too much scifi/anime) Electronics are nessecary. Of course, it would solve the problem of overpopulation. . . But if you want to kill people by lack of proper care, doesn't that make you evil? Making us good, again?

then i guss those ppl ruind it for the rest of you, eh? you humans are all alke, ignorent and wateful!!! so i will activate it without sympothy for any of you!!!

The current internal combustion engine is entirely dependant on eletricity. It is electricity that fires the spark plugs (or glow plugs ing diesels), which ignite the fuel, this forces the pistons to turn [what I believe is called] the drive shaft (although I'm probably wrong), which makes the wheels go round. So, yeh, the modern car pretty much needs electricity to move.