The idea of every country in the world working together in harmonious unity sounds like a lovely idea.
However, Elon Musk has thrown a rather ironic warning towards the World Government Summit about this very concept.
He was invited to speak about a whole raft of topics and he made a point of how we really shouldn't try to work together too much.
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Speaking via video link at the The 2023 World Government Summit in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, the tech billionaire said a 'world government' can actually be a bad thing.
He told the attendees: "I know this is called the 'World Government Summit', but I think we should be a little bit concerned about actually becoming too much of a single world government.
"If I may say, we want to avoid creating a civilizational risk by having — frankly, this might sound a little odd — too much cooperation between governments.
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He then went on to reference how big civilizations in the past have fallen but, because the world was a lot bigger back then, it didn't mean the doom of humanity.
Musk said 'while Rome was falling, Islam was rising' and that meant it wasn't a total travesty that the Roman empire was coming to an end because the progress of humanity could continue.
His dates don't exactly line up as Business Insider says the fall of the Roman empire came around the fifth century while Islam's big golden age happened in the eighth century.
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However, now the world is much, much smaller thanks to advancements in travel and technology.
Elon Musk is worried that if we come together and work hand-in-hand, then there is no real backup if this new world empire falls.
"If we are too much of a single civilization, the whole thing may collapse," Musk said.
"I'm obviously not suggesting war or anything like that, but I think we want to be a little bit wary of actually cooperating too much.
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"It sounds a little odd, but we want to have some amount of civilizational diversity so that if something does go wrong with some part of civilization then the whole thing doesn't just collapse and humanity keeps moving forward."
When clips of his rather ironic comment started to go viral on Twitter, he wrote: "Seemed like the right venue."
Okay, so we want world peace, but not too much cooperation. Gotcha.
Topics: Elon Musk
Stewart Perrie