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BS ‘n’ About…
One World Government
Utter the phrase ‘new World Order’ and the conspiracy theorists start crawling out of the woodwork. These three little words have caused much consternation since they were first mumbled by Poppy Bush way back in ’93. They have been blamed for everything from H1N1 to 9/11, from global warming to the worldwide financial collapse.
What makes history a fascinating topic of study is that we never seem to see it coming. Even as the ‘American way of life’ proves unsustainable and collapses around our ears, we doggedly hold on to a vision of the ‘good ole days’. Did we really think that the barefoot little Indonesian kids were going to continue forever making our tennies for pennies a day without ever wanting a pair for themselves? Did we really think that we were doing our part by being in debt up to our asses so that we could consume a vastly disproportionate share of the sweatshop output of the rest of the world? Do we still?
The political, economic, cultural, and spiritual systems of our world are breaking down when subject to the breakneck speed of the Information Age. The Baby Boom generation was the first, because of television, to see the world that lie beyond the horizons of their childhood. So, rather than follow in their parents’ footsteps, they went off in search of the mythical better life. These same drives and motivations now apply to even the poorest of us in the most backward countries on Earth.
No one is content anymore. The old order of things has broken down and we can never go back to the way things used to be: The “lights of Paree” and all that. Humanity won’t be returning to the farm anytime soon. Everybody wants everything these days. Since we can’t go backwards we must go forward. And, as much as the Rush Limbaughs of America might not want to hear it, forward must include some form of an effective global governing body.
History has been crying out for one at least as far back as Wilson’s League of Nations. Had we all put aside our patriotic myopia back then, World War II could have been averted, along with the Cold War it spawned. Had it been around today, the world would stand united against the threats of international terrorism, global pandemic, climate change, and financial meltdown.
There are just too many issues we are facing these days that do not stop at the border. The War on Terror is not America’s war. Nor is the War on Drugs. Nor are the wars on disease, hunger, and poverty. These are not America’s problems. These are the world’s problems and should be treated as such. Eradicating the dandelions from your backyard is wasted effort if they are left untended upwind at your neighbors.
When history rode on horseback, problems on the other side of the world stayed on the other side of the world. That is no longer the case. AIDS jumped species in the African jungle, resulting in deaths that have touched all of our lives. Greed on Wall Street factored into the collapse of the Greek economy. Policies in Israel threaten the lives of New Yorkers. Franchising is erasing the diversity of human culture faster than the Brazilians are chopping down the rainforest or the Japanese are killing off the whales. None of these issues can be effectively dealt with as long as national interests take precedence over humanity’s interests.
The world we live in is a paradise and we need to start treating it as such. It is a finely tuned life factory that has given birth to billions of life forms stretching back millions of years. Are we going to be better off if the polar ice caps melt? No. Are we going to be better off if the rain forests are chopped down? No. Are we going to be better off if we pave the ocean in plastic. No.
These may seem like global issues, but for each of us who plans to have grandkids, they are personal issues, too. We need to protect the polar caps, the rainforests, the oceans, and the ozone layer. We need to conserve our resources, cut our consumption, and do a global inventory. We need to do something about the craziness that is the Middle East and quit killing each other over our faiths. Jerusalem needs to be an open international city and the canals need to belong to all of us, too.
We need a world court with oomph, a worldwide educational system with a plan, and some kind of a drug policy that makes sense. We need to be prepared for the changes being brought about by climate change and quit breeding like Australian toads.
Humanity needs a plan. We need to start working together if we are to have any hope of leaving our grandkids anything but a ‘Mad Max’ nightmare of a world. We have been killing each other since some Cro-Magnon king led the last Jihad/Crusade against the lone remaining Neanderthal warlord.
It is time for it to stop. For the first time in its history, Europe exists in a state of fragile peace. They’ve learned to quit squaring off against each other over race, religion, and politics. They’ve learned to quit viewing themselves as Red versus Blue just about the time we forgot we were supposed to be the United States of America. They spend tax dollars on their people while we spend ours on an army. They are learning to emphasize their similarities while we focus on our differences.
And, when it really gets down to it, it is those similarities that are what it is all about. 99% of us don’t want to be rich or powerful. We just want to be left alone to go about our lives, fill our bellies, and find our little niche in this world. Most of us hope only to be surrounded by those who love us as we die in our beds at a ripe old age. Take out the propaganda and the fostered hatreds and liberals aren’t all that different from conservatives. Chinese families aren’t all that different from American families. Rich or poor, death is a journey we all embark upon alone.
The 1% of us who want to be CEOs, Senators, and Generalissimos are screwing it up for the rest of us. Rarely is what they want in the best interests of the rest of us. We need a one-world government, but we need one that is working in our best interests, not those of the CEOs, Senators, and Generalissimos. There is a difference.
Everything else is global these days. Business is global. Faith is global. Science is global. The way we govern ourselves needs to be global, too. Peace on Earth lies in that direction. The Four Horsemen await us in the other.
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