If it does, have you ever heard any Europeans singing it? With any enthusiasm?
Even in the highly unlikely event that there’s ever some kind of worldwide political authority, it will NEVER command love or loyalty or devotion from anyone anywhere in the world. At best, it will be accepted and respected as an efficient bureaucracy. But just as no Frenchman will ever sing a Europe-wide anthem with the same enthusiasm with which he sings “La Marseillaise,” there will never be a one-world anthem that anybody cares to sing.
How about NIN’s “Head Like a Hole”. Either that, “Around the World”, by the Chili Peppers. Or wait, I’ve got it: “Joy to the World” (aka Jeremiah Was a Bullfrog)!
Another suggestion: “Yakko’s World,” from Animaniacs.
Everybody gets a mention, except for Andorra, Burkina, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Comoros, Cote d’Iviore, Equatorial Guinea, The Holy See, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Federated States of Micronesia, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Seychelles, Singapore, South Africa, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Western Samoa, and Eritrea.
But I’m sure somebody can write verses for them too.
The idea of World Government goes rather well with: “Imagine there’s no countries.” (And yes, I know… if there ever was a World Government we’d almost definitely still have countries, too.)
That’s actually an awesome, haunting tune – way better musically than any other national anthem I’ve ever heard, not even excepting the “Marseillais”. And they can always change the words. (The Russians did, several times in the Soviet period, and again when they made it the anthem of post-Soviet Russia.)
I think the important question is whether it is to be unitary or federal, and, if federal, how much variation it will allow in the forms of government of constituent states.
Wait, you’re describing the kind of anthem that makes people proud of their country as against other countries. Not the message we want in the anthem of a world-state, the whole point of which is that it includes the whole world and we’re all in it together and there are no foreigners – and no wars, either, so why should it be militaristic?
