Globalism - good or bad?

Why are  most people apprehensive of globalism? Isn’t it better if the whole world is organized from one center with no wars, conflicts, borders and custom control? Probably it is due to the negative experience with the infectiveness and wastefulness of organizations like the UN and the EU and above all the lack of accountability that causes the wastefulness and probably the ineffectiveness too. It is much more easier to control your local council at a town hall meeting than a faceless global company that pays its taxes in some offshore entity. That and the inherent corruption and ineffectiveness of major international organizations like the UN and EU gives globalism a bad name. On the other hand, we all love the global internet and ultimately benefit from international agreements facilitating global travel, currency exchange and goods delivery. The simple answer is - globalism is good, but it is still to crude to be satisfactory. More accountability and transparency will deprive it from its tendency to slide towards corruption and waste covered by secrecy. If you think about it the mayor of New York and the general secretary of the UN located in the same city may seem equally distant to the locals there.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish.*

This world isabout me! Without me the world doesn’t matter (for me). Therefore, the only practical use of this world is to make me happy! Unfortunately, based on recent observations that is not entirely true. Something is wrong. I don’t know how to fix it and that is driving me crazy.

On the other hand, that is not entirely true. There are so many things to be grateful for…

I am alive. I am healthy. I have a loving and happy family. We are striving towards our goals and we are all helping each other.

Also I appreciate that I have this blog, I have your attention, I have a job and … the internet.

Therefore, the only thing we have to fear is fear itself? **                            

But I don’t agree with the above even though I understand it. We don’t need to be rendered helpless by fear because that will play in the hands of our enemies and lead to our (and our loved ones and those close to us) destruction. On the other hand we have to fear the unknown and strive to understand it because arrogance is the path to ignorance and ignorance is the path to hell!

There are two ways to acquire knowledge – through experience – you learn better but it may take some time could be expensive and even painful if not outright dangerous, and through the shared experience of others. The main goal of knowledge being – how to make the environment more cooperative to the pursuit of our desires. Or in other words how to increase our personal power.

One obvious way is through better knowledge – the other through the cooperation of others. That is why we, the people form associations of which the government is the most powerful one. Unfortunately, that power comes with it being most prone to be corrupted and turned against us - the people. And that is not because power corrupts (it actually does) but because we, the people are not careful enough to use it correctly and establish the necessary checks and balances to keep it from slipping into dictatorship. The history of the USA is proof that the nation with the best (not perfect but still the best) system of checks and balances is the most developed (again not perfect – but still number one for the foreseeable future).

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettysburg_Address

**https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_inauguration_of_Franklin_D._Roosevelt

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The Quest for an Empire - TQE

The quest for an empire – powerful enough to deter all potential enemies and thus secure peace and prosperity for its subjects!

How did humanity try (and keeps trying ) to achieve this dream, where did we succeed and when and why did we fail?

I an attempt to discover a pattern I noticed that:

It obviously starts with concentration of power to achieve security, followed by large development, defence and ideological projects. Soon concentrated power leads to abuse, abuse erodes support for the government and ultimately the empire fails. Therefore, better systems – those with a better chance of survival are those that have implemented better governance. Good accountability is essential for good governance. Therefore, in essence, accountability is indispensable for sovereignty.