It has been a long road to the current threat of a NewWorldOrder.
This is a brief outline of the story.
Nine thousand years before the present, the world’s first
city, with at least 150 mud brick dwellings and several thousand permanent
inhabitants, existed in a central Anatolia (Current day Turkey) marshy plain.
Catalhoyuk was really more of a village than a city, but archaeology has to
start somewhere, and Catalhoyuk is described as a community “at the threshold
of civilization.”
The first true cities came into being in the
Tigris-Euphrates (current day Syria and Iraq). Humans rather quickly invented
inequality, state organized warfare, taxes, and centralized population control.
We divided into those who cook the gravy and those who eat the gravy. At the
time there was no preexisting model to study or build from, no existing
template for civilization. These original starting points of civilization
developed by a trial and error approach from tribes that gave up the hunter-gatherer
life style and became sedentary, agriculture was another invention for which no
template existed. All this required maybe 2,000 years before we get Babylon and
Uruk. Basically those organizations successful at warfare replaced those
organization that were not successful at warfare, this was the process that
created the first city states and civilization. Plus a lot of dead soldiers.
Another thing present from the beginning was elites
determined to rule the world. Kingdoms eventually become empires, but no one has
every ruled the world. The elites never gave up the dream, Alexander the Great,
Caesar, Genghis Khan, Queen Elizabeth I, Napoleon and now Donald Trump all
harbor the aspiration.
Elites have tried everything from a highly-centralized system
of control and authority, to a diffused system of semi-independent local elites,
and all eventually collapsed. In every case the elites destroyed the polity and
then destroyed themselves. The elites have never managed to move beyond short
sighted greed. The archeological record is clear, from the first city-states to
the present, the results never varies.
Given that elites have been trying unsuccessfully to bring
everyone under their tenderhearted control for 9,000 years, one has to wonder,
is there a fundamental limiting factor, or have we just not invented the correct sociopolitical
structure?
How would it be organized, how would it be governed, what is
the economic model? Currently the world’s largest governments can barely hold
themselves together, the EU is spinning and wobbling, America has a government
that is mostly inoperable. China, Russia and India all have serious problems.
So what is the model for a One-World-Government? It appears that governments
are already at their largest possible size. How do you get 7 billion people to
follow a single government?
The writing of conspiracy theory folks gives us “Brave New World”,
“1984”, and “The Hunger Games”. “The Lord of the Rings” had the common hobbit
pitted against world domination by the Dark Lord Sauron. Other than magic rings
and hypothetical mind control technology the practical nuances of world control
is never outlined. Outside this short list of the best of the genre, the more numerous
writings appear as paranoid rants. Most warning that we are mere weeks from being subjugated,
the recent “Jade Helm 15” fantasy by the Texas governor being rather typical.
I think the NewWorldOrder threat is a fantasy, an acceptable
fear used by some people to hold at bay the really scary stuff. The same people that are fearful of a supernatural all
powerful government deny global warming. Both beliefs require acceptance of a worldview
based on the impossible. The conspiracy fans gather in insulated bubbles and tell each other
how super smart they are, claim to possess hyper-sharp critical thinking
skills, and they call out for the rest of us to “wake up sheeple”. I find it all
mildly entertaining, like watching the guy with a “The End is Near” sign dodging traffic.
That’s today’s thought from a hammock on an undisclosed Caribbean
beach.
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