The Trans-Pacific Partnership looks like a giant step toward the end of sovereign nations.

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87. Was the nation-state model ever all that good?

"What are we going to do today, Brain?"

"The same thing we do every day, Pinky. Try to take over the world!"

I like the idea of a New World Order. We should all embrace becoming Global Citizens. We should push to create a Global Direct Democracy, wherein each and every Global Citizen has a vote on each and every law, policy, border, etc.

The fat cat industrialists who run (most of) the show now don't have any intention of getting rid of nation-states. They use the bug-a-boo of the New World Order to scare us rubes into believing our flags are the best and bravest ones. That keeps us all contained.

Nations and corporations were invented by the Old World royal families cutting deals with the rising merchant class way back when the Dutch began sailing to the Far East. The corporations that were invented then have receded into the background, but they have basically financed everything since. A nation really cannot exist without "the articles of incorporation", financed largely by wealthy plutocrats.

Representative Democracy has been a stop-gap measure to rein in the excesses of these competing plutocratic regimes called "nation-states", but it is now failing as an archaic vestige of the pre-electricity, pre-Internet era. We have the technological know-how to create a one-person-one-vote global direct Democracy right now ... a New World Order, which would be universally hated by all persons who worship at the altar of hierarchy, and who cannot conceive of a leaderless world that actually functions better than the one we have now. A world in which we finally bury for good the ideologies of master and slave, the pyramids of the Pharaohs, and the casinos of Donald Trump.