Skeptic Project

I've spent years asking these very same questions. About 20 years ago, before conspiracy theories were so mainstream, it was primarily Evangelicals claiming that world government and world currency are bad. I always asked "specifically why are they bad?"

I was either accused of liking them or simply told "because they just are."

Fear of world government mostly originates within the US, from the whole "American exceptionalism" attitude, where as America's perfect and the constitution, style of government, founding fathers are completely infallible, and anything remotely different that isn't those, is an attack on the concept of liberty itself. It's basically a mindset where America is Liberty, Liberty is America.

If it were a situation where the US were even more hegemonous than they are now and were expanding territory like in the late 19th and early 20th century especially, it'd be a different story. It'd be OK for the US and her ideals to conquer earth, but anyone else is anti-liberty, and in fact since they're anti-liberty, they're worse than Hitler and Stalin combined -- they're given imaginary powers no human could posses.

Alex Jones has discussed globalization before, he said it was fine so long as the bankers and such weren't behind it. He ran off some line of bullshit about some over idealized libertarian paradise where the US is 110% isolationist, yet still manages to benefit from the low prices of overseas slave labor, my words of course, not his.

Until recently, you'd be hard-pressed to find any non-US individual worrying about the evils of globalization or world government, in the strictest of terms anyway. Globalization as far as capitalism goes is a whole different issue that we see protested every G5, G8, G11 or whatever they want to call themselves.

Thanks to movies like Zeitgeist and people like Alex Jones, you can find people in Russia, Finland, Indonesia, Singapore, Chile, probably even penguins in Antarctica worrying about the Federal Reserve system in America, worrying about "international banking cartels" which are almost all American corporations with extraregional offices, and so forth.

The last time people really worried about 'international banking cartels' they were literally equated with 'international jewish conspiracies'. It's a no-no to point this fact out to those in the modern conspiracy movement, but it's true. Go back to any of those who vehemently opposed the Federal Reserve and you'll find the biggest anti-semites in American government at the time, and if you read what they had to say, they tell you point blank: central banking is an international conspiracy by the jews to enslave the world.

I went off topic a bit there, but I hope you get the point that it doesn't really matter at all. Almost all modern conspiracy theories originate from three places:

1) Antisemitic conspiracy theories, even if they don't include jews anymore
2) Far-right militia, anti-federalist conspiracy theories, many of which are associated with #1 anyway
3) Evangelical Christian belief of the coming anti-Christ. Pretty much anything mentioning world currency, world government, the UN, microchips, etc originates from this.

I think you're right about America losing power over the coming years, especially if she choses to ignore globalization and become more isolationist, she will get left behind.

Then I worry about some kind of "november criminals" mindset a la 1920s Germany, where it will become hostile towards the outside world due to a belief power was not lost because of their own decisions, but because of some kind of cabal conspiring. Perhaps this is why so many people take comfort in conspiracies, it pushes blame for the country's problems onto others, rather than the people who elect politicians in the first place.

Globalization assumes the easy mobility that cheap oil gave us for the past 100 years. If we've already passed Peak Oil (something we can empirically observe, and therefore not a woo belief or a conspiracy theory), then the world's economies and societies will have to relocalize, power down and simplify to a level consistent with the available resources.

I just pointed to a condition where "globalization" would have to fail, and civilization takes a drunkard's walk away from it. No metaphorical "acorn" exists in our civilization with DNA saying that our species has to globalize. The flying cars futurists like Jacque Fresco and Ray Kurzweil make that mistake all the time.

Has anyone ever noticed that any threats to national sovereignty are almost always financially related?

I'm saying we have to globalize because it's the only way to have a full systems approach.