^ Ok you want to give the decision of "freedom" of belonging to a greater state to the people, along with all other decisions.
It has been a long struggle of egomanic monarchs and other donkeyholes to unite their small patches, and improve and increase the territories, but imho it is indeed a bit better than in the stone age.
Giving certain kinds of freedom to all will be the end of nations, but the result will not be a united world, but lots of small kingdom states or other smallish governments of all kind. Also different currencies, trade laws and so on.
You will then soon have the death penalty back, you will have burning of witches in some states, creationist ones, religious barbaries, and you will have guns everywhere (freeeedom!) and you will soon have those small states fighting each other again. No exchange of science, all for themselves. Germany for example will then have the new NSDAP in its former East, and Bavaria fights all others.
Ok this will at least be the end of this bloody bavarian football club.
The US already seems to embrace this bs with Trump, i guess those suns and the milky way will again be only strange lights in the sky, in a hundred years.
You take one small example going wrong and build a conspiracy and world philosophy out of one event?
