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Does it appear to anyone else that the Powers That Be seem to be trying their best to construct a new world order of Western states, eventually merging them int
by mmjaa 7y ago
Does it appear to anyone else that the Powers That Be seem to be trying their best to construct a new world order of Western states, eventually merging them into one larger super-state, bit by bit? The war coalition, the 5-eyes .. Brexit .. all of these things seem to be geared towards creating an Anglo- super state ..
- jdc 7y agough.. let's not give them any ideas
- ghostDancer 7y agoYou mean like 1984's "Oceania"?.
- pjc50 7y agoI think you're overdue on noticing that by about 70 years: the postwar international order, UN, Bretton Woods, WTO, NATO etc. It's not even necessarily a bad thing, provided that it's free, democratic and transparent. Mass surveillance is none of those things and does not belong in the international order. It would be great to do away with hegemons, but in a world of multiple would-be "great powers" you end up having to pick one to be protected by from the others.
- mmjaa 7y agoI've noticed it for decades, its just in the last few decades that things seem to have gotten very, very bad. Should have been obvious when the PATRIOT act got pushed through with no oversight ..
- hopfscotch 7y agoPeople like to claim this forum is more intelligent than most others. I like to point them to comments like this as counterexample.
- zajd 7y ago> It's not even necessarily a bad thing, provided that it's free, democratic and transparent So it's a bad thing?