Globalists aren’t just some shady dudes lurking in the backrooms of the World Economic Forum. We have all been infected with globalist mentality because it’s so dominant. Instead of feeling powerless over the imaginary sorcery of Klaus Schwab, we should work hard to eradicate this way of thinking from our own minds.
What does this mean?
It means simply that:
We should go back to thinking that is based primarily on the category of nation-states.
It no longer comes naturally to us, so we should make an effort. Every time the globalist “everybody is an interchangeable widget” idea visits us, we should banish it and ask ourselves, “how would I think about this if nation-states were real and valid?”
Here are some examples.
1. The war in the Middle East. Should we support Israel or Palestinians? This only gets confusing when we start drowning in the globalist widget mentality of who’s a bigger victim and who has which rights. If, on the other hand, we look at it from the point of view of which side would happily cut our heads off and which wouldn’t, it becomes really simple. Who’s on our side? Let’s support those dudes and not support their enemy. Who has taken more Americans hostage in the past year? Let’s not be for those people.
2. Russia’s war against Ukraine. The same principle operates here. Who loves and admires us and wants to emulate us? Ukraine. Who despises us and wants us to die? Russia. Let’s not be on the side of the people who want us to die.
3. Snowden. This is a fellow who is giving aid and succor to our sworn, mortal enemy. “Yes, but his life is hard, he’s a victim, he suffered badly.” Right, and this is exactly – and I mean, exactly – the narrative that justifies open borders. His life is hard, so screw the nation-state. Congratulations, we just reinvented globalism.
4. Pavel Durov of the Telegram. Here, again, we have the idea that an enemy combatant who is a foresworn foe of our culture has some magical rights that he somehow magically acquired just by the fact of existing and that it falls to us to guard these magical rights of his no matter the cost to us. How is this different from defending the right of some ISIS mullah in London to receive large quantities of welfare while rubbishing the country that gives him this welfare?
The social contract of the nation-state is this: the nation-state guarantees your rights in exchange for your willingness to die to defend it. Outside of the nation-states, nobody guarantees any rights. A trick is being played on us. We are duped into believing that there is such a thing as free-floating rights that everybody possesses by virtue of existing. We decide that the nation-state is not necessary because our rights already exist without it. So we dismantle the nation-state and discover that without being minutely defended and enforced by an actual, strong state structure, all those rights are just a fiction.
I’m not a special cookie in this. My mind is as infected with this crap as anybody else’s. More so, even. So I make a conscious effort to stop, reorient myself, and think about things outside of the framework and terminology suggested by this noxious mentality. Without everybody making such an effort, we’ll never de-globalize.
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Totally agree with you. Let’s deglobalise our minds!
As for Durov, I’ve come to the conclusion that the fact that there isn’t much dirt on him – a multibillionaire who is the 120th richest man in the world at age 39, with four passports, one of which is practically unheard of for a foreigner to obtain [UAE] and another which he obtained rather mysteriously as a “deserving foreigner”, ie for services rendered [to France] – makes it extremely suspicious.
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“a “deserving foreigner”, ie for services rendered”
I’ve some speculation that he knew he would be arrested and has decided to cooperate…
Have no idea how likely/probable that is, but…
Also, he was travelling with a russian(?) Dubai vvhore who some think set him up and others think was his handler/informer and she can apparently no longer be reached by her family….
So lots of intrigue before the dust settles….
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I also heard rumors that he wanted to be apprehended in France because there are Chechens on his tail, and that usually bodes badly for a tail.
It’s bizarre that people from normal, free countries would identify with this dude from a shady, oligarchic dictatorship because “freedom of speech.” Yes, there’s a ton of freedom of speech in Russia. Aha.
I simply can’t.
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What you said makes sense except for, “We are duped into believing that there is such a thing as free-floating rights that everybody possesses by virtue of existing.” I believe–as did our founders–that our rights come from God, and so it seems that we do possess them by virtue of existing. Which is not to say that the nation state must prioritize the rights of a non-citizen over those of it’s own citizens, especially when the non-citizen is hostile to that nation.
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You believe. Our founders. Our God. Crowds of people around the world have no idea who our founders are and aren’t interested in their definition of rights. Should we catch them and force them to believe? Or accept that our founders founded our nation and nothing else whatsoever so whatever they believe doesn’t translate globally?
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Hi Clarissa wanted to post this response to: You believe Our founders etc. Alas WordPress did not give me a reply to what you wrote.
The debate on Abortion, the passage of the 19th Amendment does not supersede the Commerce Clause written in the body of the Constitution. States Rights to bureaucratically regulate all intra-State trade and commerce. Abortion comes directly under the domain of States Rights. Women have the right to vote whomever they so choose to State and Federal Office. But women’s right to vote does not empower them to overthrow the right of the States to bureaucratically regulate all intra-State trade and commerce. Just that simple.
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I think this justification for supporting Israel for example is too convenient, too pat. One could make the argument that supporting Israel has cost many more american lives than. It is a liability for us in every which way.
No palestinian bombed USS Liberty, you know.
Agree about Durov. I don’t know much about him anyway. But I remember discussing with you if the right should also start canceling leftists the same way they do it to us and you were very strongly against it, citing principles. Here you seem to be fine suspending principles that (I think) you cherish, like due process, etc.
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Reactionary newspaper experts suck. Prior to the June ’67 Six Day War France not America the main ally of Israel. Recall that in the ’56 War Ike forced Israel to returned the captured Sinai back to Egypt. Israel received nothing in return.
The Liberty spy ship used a known Soviet broken code to transmit secret Israeli tank positions in the Sinai, picked up by a Soviet spy ship close by! Israel blew the Liberty straight out of the water! Good for Israel.
The Israeli victory in ’67 radically changed the balance of power in the Middle East. England and France not happy. With LBJ tied down in the Vietnam War, months prior to the Tet Offensive which cause Walter Cronkite to declare that America had lost the war; England and France pushed down the throat of the UN Security Council UN Resolution 242. France lost WWII, why does it enjoy a permanent member status with a veto? Something stinks in the State of Denmark!
All post UN condemnations of Israel 338, 446, 2334 etc etc etc based upon British/French written UN 242. Compare that resolution to the peace the Allied forced down the throat of defeated Nazi Germany. 2 hostile Germanies, 2 hostile Berlins, a forced population transfer of 15 to 18 million Germans from Prussia; that Capital of the 2nd Germanic empire awarded to Poland!
Name a single foreign great power imposed 2 State Solution that ever worked? Certainly not the coward Chamberlain’s 2 State Solution which divided the Czech Republic in 1938. Nor the 2 State solutions which established India and Pakistan. Nor the 2 State solutions which divided Kuwait away from Iraq! Clearly not the 2 State solutions which divided Korea or Vietnam!
Sucks being ignorant Strinker Bell
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If mandated two states solution don’t work, then why not work for a one state solution? Like Vietnam. All people from former Communist Vietnam are now equal citizens in the unified Vietnam, and enjoy equal rights. Can you say the same for Israel? Can Arab citizens live anywhere they want? Can they walk on any roads in Hebron? Can they marry Jewish woman without discrimination? Are they free like Vietnamese? If you don’t want a two state solution, then make a case for a one state democracy. No one is stopping you. Just don’t do genocide to achieve it.
And yes, Stinger Bell is right. Israel gave the world terrorism. No Palestinian ever killed or threatened me. And we can all see Clarissa’s clever wording of “Who has taken more Americans hostage IN THE PAST YEAR?” A very convenient framing. We see you.
How about “Who has killed more American citizens in total?” Who has killed more journalists? Who is likely to kill or betray or compromise Americans (citizen or politician) to achieve its goals.
Of course, that will lead to uncomfortable answers, so let’s rather confuse the issue.
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“free like Vietnamese?”
Vietnam is a communist dictatorship… not the best example.
And where is the evidence that Palestinians want or would tolerate a unitary state? Their agenda since 1948 has been to drive the Jews out of the area….
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Saying it doesn’t make it true. Arafat agreed to normalization. So has the current Palestinian Authority. Choosing to amplify extreme elements so you can say “Look, that’s what they ALL believe” is a Netanyahu strategy you continue to support. Moderates exist on both sides. And the last time we gave them a chance, you people killed Rabin. So stop lying.
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“Arafat agreed to normalization. So has the current Palestinian Authority”
Neither is in change in Gaza.
Hamas, which openly wants war and civilian deaths is in charge in Gaza.
“you people killed Rabin”
Me people? Who? I’ve never been in the region and am neither Arab nor Jew and am mostly uninterested in the conflict.
I generally support Israel more because Israel is a democracy while… how many other democracies are there in the region?
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You mention Gaza for some reason, when I didn’t. Why hasn’t Israel treated the West Bank in a way that one is supposed to treat a good neighbour that has agreed not to attack you? Why is Israel still annexing land in the West Bank, where there is no Hamas? No one has given us a good answer here. All we hear is Gaza and Hamas. PA, like you rightly noted, isn’t in charge of Gaza. So why does Israel keep annexing more land from there? Do you see why that gives Hamas an excuse to recruit more people with the excuse “don’t you see what they do to those who don’t fight?”
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How are India and Pakistan not working out exactly?
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India and Pakistan have fought as many wars since ’48 as have Israel and Arab countries! Both countries now armed to the teeth with nuclear weapons.
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But they both have a homeland. Just because Russia and the US have remained enemies for generations is no reason to declare that Russians do not deserve a homeland. Being able to live together alongside a belligerent neighbour is a sign of progress. Unless you want to adopt Putin’s idea that neighbours must only be subjugated for peace to reign.
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The Nazis deprived the Czechs of their homeland and made that Republic part of the Germanic empire.
Your box thinking visa-vis Putin utterly crude. Putin invaded the Ekraine b/c he feared that Biden would cause the NATO alliance to expand like it later did with Finland, and include the Ukraine into the NATO alliance.
The entire back handed attempt to impeach Trump made by Pelosi, Schif, and Nadler, the corrupt California three which included Congress Woman Waters, also from California … this attempted coup done because Trump utterly refused to expand the NATO alliance to incorporate the Ukraine. Hence during the Biden Administration the Russian Ukraine war broke out.
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“How are India and Pakistan not working out exactly?”
Besides what we now know as ‘Pakistan’ was once ‘West Pakistan’ along with ‘East Pakistan’ (now known as Bangladesh). That separation was…. not peaceful.
And the two countries are constantly at each other’s throats often threatening nuclear war with each other….
Is that your gold standard for ‘peaceful co-existence’?
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So has the US and Russia. Do you recommend we dismantle one of them so you can have your graveyard “peace”?
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“so you can have your”
You’re very tiresome projecting all kinds of things on to more or less good faith questions.
Neither the US nor russia is derived from the other…. while the progression India -> India and Pakistan-> India, Pakistan and Bangladesh is very well known.
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Tell that to Putin and his people’s claim over Alaska.
What about Mexico and Texas? In short, what do you have against contiguous independent homelands?
What does Israel lose from ending its unending occupation and annexing of other people’s lands? Should the US have continued annexing Mexico instead of drawing a border and settling on a negotiated peace?
The answer to that question can give us an idea of how the crises can end.
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How many wars have India and Pakistan fought? As many or more than Arabs and Jews have fought. The latter European imposed 2-state solution an abomination so too the India Pakistan European imposed 2 – state solution an utter and total abomination.
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[[If mandated two states solution don’t work, then why not work for a one state solution?]] Never an Arab Balestinian state. The Arab alphabet lacks the letter P. [[Like Vietnam.]] The US lost its vile war of imperialism in Vietnam. Corrupt General Westmorland NEVER invaded North Vietnam. The strategic parameters of US great power imperialism: only to make South Vietnam into a banana republic.
[[Can you say the same for Israel? ]] Dhimmi stateless Arab refugees enjoy no more rights, than did the dhimmi Jewish pre-’48 Jewish state of Israel, who endured 2000+ years of oppression slander and despicable violence till this cruel slavery of Jews ended in the Shoah which slaughtered 75% of all European Jewry in less than 3 years.
[[Can Arab citizens live anywhere they want? Can they walk on any roads in Hebron? Can they marry Jewish woman without discrimination?]] ’48 Arabs have full Israeli citizenship, Arab sit in the Israeli Cabinets/Knesset\Parliament, Arabs sit on the Israeli Supreme Court. Arabs attend Universities in Israel without quotas. Arabs work as Doctors Nurses, Lawyers, Judges and police etc etc etc.
[[And yes, Stinger Bell is right. Israel gave the world terrorism.]] What Olympic athletes did Israel murder as did Arafat’s PLO at Munich? Remind me who exactly blew up Pan Am flight 103 over the Atlantic ocean? In short your write utter bull shit.
[[How about “Who has killed more American citizens in total?” Who has killed more journalists? Who is likely to kill or betray or compromise Americans (citizen or politician) to achieve its goals.]] Ham-ass still holds after more than 10 months stolen American hostages following Oct 7th 2023 Abomination. Your question complete bull shit.
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Please go back to smoking whatever you were smoking earlier.
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False assumption. I do not smoke. Go back to your Oujia board, spirit board, talking board, or witch board.
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You hit the nail on the head- multiple times.
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