Unless you've been hiding under a rock these past few years, you have probably heard a lot of rumblings about a 'New World Order' that is threatening to bring all of humanity under the iron-fisted rule of a single, centralized, world government. In the minds of the people who ascribe to this theory, the United Nations is the most obvious candidate to fulfill the role. There is also a secondary group - sort of a group within this group - that believes the 'Roman Pope' will birth the Anti-Christ and that he, together with the United Nations, will lead the world into a final, global Apocalypse.
Methinks some people have not been reading their bible attentively. I am not going to do a play-by-play account of all the passages that are being thrown around in support of this or that, because, quite frankly, that would take about nine-thousand pages and I don't have the patience for it. Let's just say that, for every passage being abused in such a manner, there is at least one other passage that I can dig up and use to refute it. Please remember I was a bad, bad girl when I was still enrolled in Theology, and dumped the course because of the hypocrisy of those running the program. Again, no patience for bullshit. And also, not prone to politeness when dealing with it, either.
The point of this post is simply that I think we are all blind to what is really happening in the world today. If there is a global 'elite', then they are certainly rubbing their hands in glee as they watch people spinning around in circles, coming up with all sorts of misleading theories in what can only be described as an endless pursuit of their own tails. It is kind of frustrating, because while large groups of the population are running around like Chicken Little, hollering 'the sky is falling', our world is slowly being swallowed by big business.
Yes. Big business. Moreover, it isn't the first time in history that big business has grown too big for its britches. We have historical precedent in the form of the Hanseatic League, and ultimately in the Dutch East India Company. The Wikipedia articles on these two organizations cannot, and do not, do justice to the power, influence, and harshness that they possessed and wielded in the name of their own interests. However, you can click on the hyperlinked texted to go there and read up on them.
It has long been the dream, and the goal, of big business to not just establish a state within a state, but to become the state. The Dutch East India Company achieved this in the Dutch colonies, where it effectively set itself up as the government. What we are now seeing in our own day and age is something similar: big business taking over our legal systems, and the government itself, through extensive lobbying and carefully placed, sympathetic elected officials.
I was already mulling this idea over, pondering the question of 'to write a blog entry, or not to write a blog entry', when I serendipitously came across an article entitled 'Politics: the latest fashion accessory for the super-rich' on the CBC website. It does seem that a trend is underway, wherein super-rich businessmen are now vying for the Presidencies of various countries.
Yes, I know, it is hard to beat politicians for sleaziness, and many people believe that having businessmen running countries must be an improvement. I'm not so certain about that. If you don't want to use the old merchant-dynasties as an example of how brutal big business gets when it takes over the laws, the military, and even the government of areas, then take a look at how big-tobacco, big-pharma, and and big-agriculture have steam-rolled right over the rights and freedoms of individuals wherever those rights and freedoms ran contrary to big-profit.
No, the 'New World Order' isn't a threat posed to us by the United Nations, or the Pope in Rome. If anything, it is the insidious effect of big business stealthily taking over our governments, one government at a time.
It is something we all need to think about.
