Wagar Discussion questions from Group 6 (Chapter 6) **SAMPLE POST**

 **SAMPLE POST**

Choose one question to respond to, or you can respond to what someone else has posted:

1. Wagar says that in the transition between the second and third futures, people will "no longer need the service of public officials. The may switch to locally available, small scale energy systems...and one by one, communities of such individuals will sever their economic and political ties to the global democratic socialist system" (page 5, line 15-27). Do you think this is really possible? Why or why not.

2. The second future of Socialist Democracy will put an end to the warfare system once and for all by disarming the nation-states and permitting no military force but its own (page 4, line 6-7). Until today, some have tried to make a kind of "world police" (like the UN or NATO peace keepers, for example), but this plan has not succeeded completely. Do you think this plan of one "global military" can ever come true in the future?

3. According to Wagar, people will get an expanded idea of "cultural pluralism" in the 4th future (page 7, line 34). How do you think this will happen?

Group Leaders:
Kazuhiro O.
Taishi E.
Reiko K.