Is the globalist philosophy dead?

 CAN VOLUNTARY COOPERATION REPLACE TOTAL CONTROL?

WE ARE INDEED AT THE CROSSROADS OF HISTORY

I suspect that most everyone would agree that the world is in a state of flux, economically and politically. As yet we do not know what the outcome will actually look like.

The American revolution was a turning point in global history. Before American independence there was only one system and it was Feudalism, it prevailed everywhere in one form or another, from benevolent dictators to not so benevolent, but it was a system of the aristocracy and the peasant class. Much of your life was determine by your birth, if not part of the aristocracy, you were in reality a slave in one form or another.

The American experiment, with all its flaws, was the greatest social success story in human history. Limited government and the freedom to rise from poverty to high places governed by your own ingenuity and perseverance, truly a system of opportunity. It was attempted to be copied in many places and was the hope of many countries around the world. I suspect that the use of a constitution that is not easily amended was what has allowed America to last as long as it has.

The next social revolution that raced around the world was Socialism, a promise of equality for all, guaranteed through democratic action and enforced by the state. The philosophy was born in the mid 1800's and found full implementation in the founding of the Soviet Union in 1917. Many believed it was a system of utopia that would be the future worldwide. The western world soon adopted much of the basics of socialist thought and through democratic action hoped to demand and enforce equality of result by the power of the state. The bigger the state, the less freedom and opportunity seemed to be the result. A result that conflicts with the natural character and instincts of human behavior.

Social guarantees seem to also stifle the natural instinct to strive for excellence and soon this experiment began to fail. Many found no emotional payback in their occupation and turned to past times and sometimes alcohol and drugs for some semblance of reward.

One must wonder if those who really pushed socialism believed in it or was it just another path to dependence and back to the original system of Feudalism with a new name. 

We all witnessed the unraveling of the Soviet system, a remarkable accomplishment that occured from intentional action by those who understood that it had not future. 

Whether we want to acknowledge it or not, we are now watching the unraveling of the western Democratic socialist experiment. It is under assault from its own excesses of unsustainable debt, a lack of incentive and a declining work ethic. The result of guaranteed sustenance without the incentive or internal demand to excel.

We are also seeing the rejection of the idea of world socialism which is what the idea of global governance really was. It was also a huge step back to world Feudalism, were you may be guaranteed sustenance in exchange for liberty and opportunity.  

We have seen the emergence of some new hybrid systems that at present seem to be thriving, but the danger is, as the present order unravels, that we choose some new hope of utopia in basically a new Feudal system.