{"id":5161,"date":"2017-03-21T15:23:25","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T15:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/?p=5161"},"modified":"2017-03-21T15:23:25","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T15:23:25","slug":"straight-talk-shorts-globalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/?p=5161","title":{"rendered":"Straight Talk: Shorts: Globalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5162\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/?attachment_id=5162\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5162\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5162\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/BW-MP-Logo-1024x862.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"421\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/BW-MP-Logo-1024x862.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/BW-MP-Logo-300x253.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/BW-MP-Logo-768x646.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5162\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">T-Shirt<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Globalism<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve ever read anything I\u2019ve written in the category of politics, it would be easy to conclude that I am a fierce anti-globalist. And this would be an error\u2014 albeit a forgivable one.<\/p>\n<p>Globalism, the inexorable move toward one world government, is not inherently and necessarily a bad thing. In fact, I consider it to be inevitable. One day, there will be a single global government. What is of crucial importance is what specific form and fundamental purpose will such a government adopt. Will it be representative and meaningfully answerable to all the peoples of Earth? Will it exist for the protection and development of each and every sovereign individual\u2019s full potential in a highly interactive world? Or will it rather exist as an unaccountable, bureaucratic means of containment and crowd management in an ever-increasingly authoritarian and violent new world order?<\/p>\n<p>The globalism we\u2019ve had to date, being relentlessly shoved down the throats of the world\u2019s citizens without any meaningful consultation, seems to fit squarely within the latter. And personally, that\u2019s a form and function of globalism that I definitely do not want. It\u2019s not globalism per se that is good or bad; it is rather all about its form and function. And we, the peoples of the Earth, need to have a say in that.<\/p>\n<p>So today we may be fighting globalism to the death\u2014 because it represents just one more layer of intractable tyranny\u2014 but tomorrow we may just be embracing a completely different form of globalism, as it endorses the collective will of humanity to provide the greatest opportunity for the full expression of individual potential for everyone in a growing, evolving world. It is not for us to label these things \u2018good\u2019 or \u2018bad\u2019 in a reductionist\u2019s dismissive sloth, but perhaps we should look closely instead at what direction the world moves, and decide whether we\u2019ll march in lockstep toward destinations selected by elite interests\u2026 or dance to an altogether different tune of our own creation.<\/p>\n<p><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-5161-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/As-the-World.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/As-the-World.mp3\">http:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/As-the-World.mp3<\/a><\/audio>(As the World by Echolyn, title track from their 1995 album)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Globalism If you\u2019ve ever read anything I\u2019ve written in the category of politics, it would be easy to conclude that I am a fierce anti-globalist. And this would be an error\u2014 albeit a forgivable one. Globalism, the inexorable move toward (&hellip;)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/?p=5161\">Read the rest of this entry &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-straight-talk-from-a-gay-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5163,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5161\/revisions\/5163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}