project Europe

What Hobbes described, Kant would extrapolate.
The boons man finds within Leviathan
accrue--writ large--if each and every State
would take the yoke of something larger on.
The Book of Judges sketched it long before,
a tribal world of shocking violence
and looming over all the threat of war
for want of any global governance.
But dogs smell opportunity in strife
to sell munitions while their brothers bleed.
No values guide their actions in this life
beyond their all-consuming mortal greed.
Where each does what seems good in his own eyes
we're evermore condemned to balkanize.