Elon Musk Rejects a ‘World Government’ at the ‘World Government Summit’

MUSK: “One thing I should say, and I know this is called the World Government Summit, but I think we should be maybe a little bit concerned about actually becoming too much of a single world government. If I may say that we want to avoid creating a civilizational risk by having — frankly, this may sound a little odd — too much cooperation between governments. You know, if — you know, if you’re looking at to say at history and the rise and fall of civilizations, really all throughout history civilizations have risen and fallen, but it hasn’t meant the doom of humanity as a whole, because there have been — there have been all these separate civilizations that were separated by great distances. And so you know, to say like, while Rome was falling, you know, Islam was rising. And so you had like a — you know, the sort of Caliphate doing incredibly well, while Rome was doing terribly. And that actually ended up being a source of preservation of knowledge, and — and many scientific advancements. And so — so I think we want to be a little bit cautious about being too much of a — of a single civilization, because if we have too much of a single civilization, then the whole — the whole thing may collapse. Now I’m obviously not suggesting war or anything like that, but I think we want to be a little bit wary of actually cooperative a little too much. It sounds a little odd, but — but we — we just — we want to have some amount of civilizational diversity such that if — if something does go wrong with some part of civilization, that the whole thing doesn’t collapse, and — and — and you know, humanity keeps moving forward.”