Global Government

the eternal temptation of the educated class

Jeffrey A. Tucker asks today about “The Trouble With World Government,” the eternal dream of the educated class. He mentions how Australia wanted to put global censorship on Twitter/X, because.

The use of “disinformation” as a cross-border test case of global government power is designed to deploy a new strategy of governance in general, one that disregards national control in favor of global control.

Tucker offers H.G. Wells and his Outline of History as a warning.

Wells told a story of tribes turning to nations and then to regions, with ever less power to the people and ever more to dictators and planners.

At least Wells had an excuse. He wrote/broadcast Outline in 1919. Before social scientists Stalin and Mao had demonstrated in two double-blind experiments that top-down dictators and planners result not just in economic problems, not just poverty, not just concentration camps, but multi-million human deaths.

And the late COVID unpleasantness is a curious case of all the rulers — except Sweden — coming together to impose global rules on lockdowns, travel, vaxxes. All because.

No question that a nascent world government is in operation today. It is hugely influential over media, technology, and the operation of the Internet. It is managing global money flows and asset prices. It aims to reduce national sovereignty to mere brand names of the same thing and make it impossible for the will of the voters to prevail in any policy outcomes. It consists of large and well-funded elites that swim between the public and private sector and operate through foundations and non-government organizations. It is utterly detached from democratic processes.

I suspect there’s a natural human instinct in us that wants to control everything. It’s particularly strong in our educated class. I suppose that in the process of book learning you get to feel that, if only you could read one more book then you would have the knowledge to rule the world.

You would think that by now, experts would have agreed that top-down management of anything is a bad idea. Hey, the Germans were first up to the plate in their review of World War I. German General Hans von Seeckt decided he wanted soldiers that were “self-reliant, self-confident, dedicated, and joyful in taking responsibility.” By World War II the Germans had developed a culture in the military in which responsibility was delegated down as far as possible. Orders from the top had to be general in nature. Detail was for the final steps of the command structure. The US copied their ideas. After World War II.

How do we get through to our liberal educated friends that top-down administration does not work? I’ve been descanting on this for decades, as in “The Culture of Compulsion” in 2010 where I complained about “huge government pension plans… huge government health care plans, huge government education plans… huge government welfare plans” and finished up with

There must be a better way. There must be a way of building a society in which the ordinary person has a social and responsible role, something with more dignity than an insecure dependence on a government program.

And, I would now say, having social structures between the individual and the great big powerful bureaucratic administrative monster.

Of course, we know why our educated betters want a world government. They all know that if people are assembled in nations that they will fall upon each other. Literally Hitler.

And then they want to save us all from climate change. And save us all from pandemics. And save us all from Islamophobia. Why? Because only a global government can address such vital issues. In top-down administrative programs where the educated class issues the orders and the peasants do what they are told.

But I say that the real war-mongers are from the educated class and the educated-class fomented revolutions starting with the French Revolution.

Most humans just want to live their lives and make babies and leave behind a clutch of grandchildren.

But our educated-class betters know better. Because they are going to save the world.