The anti-NWO diary currently on the rec list is extremely disturbing. Not because it's some crazy conspiracy theorist diatribe, as many of its critics are suggesting. I'm not going to make any jokes about black helicopters here.
It's disturbing because the conspiracy is real. And the anti-NWO people are unwittingly supporting it.
For those of you who need a refresher on how globalization works, it goes like this: Modern technologies and lax regulatory structures allow the corporations to move capital wherever it is most profitable. Unions in the USA? Move the factory to another country without unions. Environmental regulations in Europe? Move operations to the Third World. Financial regulations? Just move the money to another bank.
The end result is a global economy over which our democratically elected governments have no power. Capital needs no passport. No individual nation has enough power to make the corporatists toe the line. We are fast headed toward a truly corporate dominated world, in which our governments are nothing more than social clubs, and our elections just a feel good media event. Unchecked, this will be the next revolution in the organization of human society. The age of Democracy -- over. The NWO, if there will be one, is a world governed by unelected capitalists.
Many people do see what is happening. Our governments understand they are in danger of extinction. The global regulatory structures Gordon Brown suggests are part of our attempt to fight back. This is a unionization of nations, in a sense. If we succeed, corporations will finally be compelled to bargain with us. We will have power over them once again. If we fail, democracy will die.
The argument put forth by the anti-NWO folks here is no different than the argument that says national health care will take away our "freedom of choice." It's the same argument that says the Employee Free Choice Act will take away a worker's right to have an election. It's corporate propaganda. And if Gordon Brown's plans look to you like an "attack on our sovereignty," you've bought into it. The capitalists would like nothing more than to see us shoot this down.
Yes, Virginia, there is a conspiracy. And if you oppose the global regulatory structures that offer our only chance to defeat it, you are its tool.
Many seem afraid of the power of a "world government." Even if instituting global regulatory structures would take us down that road, which it won't, what about this actually frightens you? That someone will have power over us? They already do. Someone will always be in charge. The question before us is this: Who will it be?
We can choose. It will be governments, or it will be corporations. Governments can be democracies. Corporations cannot.
I choose government. And I support Gordon Brown's plan.