It is obvious, I think, that national democracy withers. This has to do with globalisation.

My conjecture is that most people will refuse to let go, even when their lives have become boring (at least in comparisons with possible lives lived by new generations). If this happens, there will eventually be no room for new generations. A kind of collective irrationality will lead to a bleak life for the last generation that decides to stay around. Unless we put and end to the human race (through global warming, for example), before this happens, individual egoism will block the path to a better world.

The US two party system is very different, of course. Here the people decides about who should rule them, but it is not reasonable to claim that the people rules itself through the political institutions. In comparison, I find that the standard European system is better, also as a model for global democracy.

Are there any good arguments in defence of moral nihilism? I think not.

Even where people in different cultures agree they may all have gone wrong.

It is obvious, I think, that national democracy withers. This has to do with globalisation.

When I was in my late teens I was already interested in philosophy.