Clash of the Pyramids

The new world order is coming. The last few posts have been a little on the angry side. I become annoyed at the firm and resolute unreality of the vast majority of people. With increasing population and a planetary system that is increasingly impacted by each decision that we make the idea of a future populated be hundreds of individual geo-political entities vying for a smaller and smaller pool of resources with demands for those resources increasing is so far from reality that to argue against it is to lend to it what little legitimacy that kind of thinking will ever have. Chinese computers cost as much as French one's. People in Thailand want cell phone's, high-paying jobs and vacations as much as you do. The same infrastructure that will provide you with wireless information and communications will serve them as well. Education in any other language is the same. "No man is an island" neither is any nation. Yes Virginia, there is a new world order.

We here in the United States of America have a real problem with this idea. The reasons are to many to cover. The reality is, however, that we are the largest "pyramid" on the planet. Perhaps not is population but certainly in socio-economic development. And without a doubt, in technology. China is potentially, a rival economy as they continue to grow and India is developing it's position as a technological leader. The rest of the world will not stay in the shadow of the American Empire forever. Were not going to bomb them back into the stone age just to hold our lead, therefor sometime in the next 50 years we will cease to be the center of the universe. The rest of the world will soon be as developed, wealthy and sophisticated as we are. One world, one culture (technology) and one government to administer the lot. Global communications require global systems. A global economy will require global currency, these things are simply a matter of efficiency. Education, health-care, justice and human rights are global needs and will increasingly require global management and administration to facilitate. These are facts, not opinions. As we move closer to this state, the separate, distinct pyramids, growing and expanding begin to merge together at their bases. Increasingly, society begins to resemble a single structure split at the top into several separate capstones. This is the most unstable formation of all. the conflict comes from the power of the separate tops acting on the increasingly common bottom. We need to adopt a policy of reality only. "We" must, if we are to insure the safety and stability of the future recognize this process, adopt it as our collective goal and act as one to achieve it. The past is dead. We are moving into the future at an ever-increasing rate and it is a future who's shape is already formed. Denial will cause us to fragment and at these speeds, disintegrate. Let's decide to agree on the shape of the future as a little more than that which is obvious and surrender our resistance of it. How much longer can we last as angry juveniles stamping our feet and saying "NO" to the only future that we can have? This brave new world will either be a dark, dystopian nightmare born of the sickness of leadership or a free society base upon the principles of justice and equality. If your voting for the former, just sit on your ass and mind your own business, don't worry, it'll happen. If the latter, get the hell up and get to work.