Being united on a planetary level is a beautiful idea, beneficial both economically and as means of establishing a long term peace. I am all in for it! Though we would have to agree on terms of such prosperous coexistence first, right?..
Everyone in the west presumes we are talking about some western values, right? When you imagine a unified Earth, you don't picture sharia law, North Korean single party regime, or ways of Australian aboriginals, right? And that's where it hits the wall - I, personally, welcome everyone in the world to adopt values of the North European nations, and consider such a society as the only, personally for me, acceptable way of living the rest of my life. And someone who was burning people alive in Syria a week ago, wants that sort of society for everyone. And the gap is just to big for a grown up man to walk across. It's easier for me, for that matter, to start burning people, than for such a person to sit casually in our work cafeteria, and joke about newspaper articles involving Kim K or an elderly lady falling to her death in an industrial sized pig-piss tank ( true story from today's newspaper, we had many laughs )
So I have to be realistic here, and say - well, I can work, pay taxes, support state's foreign aid policies, and hope that western type/level of education, media, Internet, and all the other mighty western influence, will eventually change the ways of the rest of the World ( not in my lifetime ), while keeping an absolute military superiority. I guess I have to be ashamed of my selfishness, for not wishing to change my ways, but I don't...
It really does seem that the World will be united at some point, at least as a sort of Union of nations, or something... But it's not going to happen tomorrow, and definitely not by making a circus out of a few European countries.