The Old World Order was a world where our leaders sat looking at the other world leaders and conspired to set their people in a project to kill the other world leaders and their people. And vice versa. First it was one tribe against the tribe in the next valley. Then it was one town against the town across the river, then it was one people against the people over the mountain, then it was one religion against another. As we moved from one survival unit to another survival unit. As we moved from City States to Empires. As Empires moved to Nation States. As Nation States moved into Alliances. It ended with Alliances poised to destroy other Alliances, ideologies vs. ideologies, Capitalism vs. Communism. That was the way things were for human history, that is the way that we were comfortable looking at the world and it was the way that all the little people, ie all the people, hated looking at the world, because it meant wars. Wars meant destruction and death and not usually for the leaders, but always for the people. It ended when two massive armies, two arsenals that could destroy the ecosystem of the planet in half an hour and one of them blinked and realized that one was more right than the other and stopped posturing.
And suddenly there was one side holding all the cards. And then the game changed. And then people rushed to create the only world that they knew because change and the idea of something different scared them.
You see, all this time the world was changing. Not the world but the technology. The means of attack and fighting brought new peaceful technologies too. It brought economic ideas and new ways of doing things. It changed the world underneath the Old World Order. Trade alliances formed and new ideas spread on each side. Each side learned to trade with each other and both parties lives improved together. As they improved they grew closer together and their economies became linked. The quality of life within the tied nations improved. Poorer nations joined the trade networks and the low wage jobs went to those nations and those poor economies improved and the wealthy ones got more inexpensive goods. The wealthy nations produced high value items and exported them to the poor nations, the lives of these people increased in value and soon they were sending low value work to poorer nations too. The economies learned very slowly that cooperation worked better than opposition. This was the seed of the New World Order.
When the Ideologies blinked and surrendered an opportunity presented itself. The opportunity to cooperate. Co-operation, is the New World Order. The New World Order is about understanding that everyone is connected. When did you first realize that everyone was connected? The world began to realize it in the 1960s when the United States and the Soviet Union almost went to war over the installation of ICBMs in Cuba. I was not around, but everyone held their breath who was alive, all over the world, because if there was war, the entire world would die. I first understood the inter-connective nature of the world when I learned about Acid Rain in school. I learned that the pollution in the US midwest impacted us, and our pollution impacted Maine. I was like nine. When you make this realization you have a chance to understand that it does not stop there. There is not just one connection. Years later the world came together in Montreal and banned the production of CFCs that were destroying the Ozone Layer around the world. Collectively the nations of the world came together and stopped something that was hurting everyone. Co-operation.
The New World Order is not about the Illuminati controlling the world leaders, it is about the world leaders being common people and working with the other common people to protect everyone else by co-operating with everyone.
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