Heyy (:
So, for Family Home Evening tonight my family played Risk, a game in which the objective is to take over the world. My little brother was boasting about how he was totally going to take over the world and win. So, I asked him WHY he wanted to take over the world. He tells me it's because "if you take over the world you would get a lot of power."
So I started arguing with him, explaining why I think it wouldn't be worth it to take over the world. He didn't get it... but he's only six. So, I wanted to see if my friends got it... here is the argument I gave my brother;
I wouldn't want to take over the world because it would be a huge waste of resources. I would kill off all of my minions just by taking over the world, and then I would have to go through the whole process of killing off everyone who had enough power to speak out against me and incite rebellion against me.
Then, I would have to go to all of the trouble to actually RULE the world. I could delegate, and let my minions do the work on camera, but I would still have to give my minions the orders, as to be perfect minions they wouldn't be able to think for themselves, so basically I would still have to go through all the work.
And, I would always be living in fear, because to take over the world I would have to become a tyrant, and tyrants always live in fear, because they always have to be watching out in case someone comes along who will rebel against them and take the world from them.
And for all this work, all I would get is a small feeling of power. Ya, I would get money and I would be in charge, but being in charge of such a large amount of people would suck.
I would have to listen to all of their petty complaints, because to insure that you stay in power, the people have to loose their ability to think for themselves. I would have to make sure that everyone has enough food, a nice place to live, clothes, and enough money that they don't always come begging to me. Plus, I would have to either learn every language in the world, or come up with a new one and teach it to everyone, so that I would be able to communicate with my subjects.
So it's not like taking over the world is something that you can do over the weekend. It would require lots of study, effort, and a real desire. Not to mention a gazillion minions!
So, to me, taking over the world isn't worth it. I don't get enough out of it to warrant all the work it would require.
And that is why I would not want to take over the world.
So, comments? Why would you want to take over the world, or, if not, why? Thankee :D
SMILE PPL!!!! ~LizzNerd (:
Oh man. I had this big long reply typed out, and then I couldn't post it. So what the jist of what I had said was introduce a new disease to the population. Then create an antidote. Give it out to only a fraction of the people. Maybe only those who can pay for it. Make friends with everyone. Be charismatic. Become famous. Then blame the world leaders or another group for the disease in the first place. Make it their fault. Name yourself as world dictator. Then give out the antidote to everybody. But don't make it too readily available, in case you need to use the disease again.
ReplyDeleteNow distract the people with petty little things. It's what one king did. He set his subjects against the other trying to please him instead of them trying to claim power. His courtiers became obsessed with who got the honor of putting on his shoes. Do this on a large scale.
Take out education, science, and the arts. You don't want people thinking. Oh, disable the army, too. That would be good.
And now sit back and relax and enjoy world domination.
It's not foolproof, but it's the best I could think of.
I definitely would NOT take over the world. It's too much work. And it saps up too much time. I wouldn't be able to sit and reply to blog posts. :)