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Best of All, it's Free! </FONT><A HREF="http://click.egroups.com/1/9068/6/_/1406/_/970159914/"><B>Click Here!</B></A> ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> by Brett Daniel Wills founder/editor-in-chief e-Venthorizon.net ******************************************************* e-venthorizon.net is a free online magazine covering trends and obstacles toward the establishment of a global government; international political analysis and socio-cultural issues; a comprehensive political research resource directory; book and film reviews; and literary work from contemporary writers throughout the world. ******************************************************* Marketing its Wares, the UN Fashions a Facelift Unimpressed by the package's exorbitant cost, cowed by its complexity of additional features, and vexed by its newfound confinements, the First World bloc of nations is now chanting for a revamping of the system's requirements, to allow for partial, or custom, installation. By implementing only the bare minimum of functions required for utilization of skeletal programs, the bloc is arguing in its defense that this will ensure a thorough and speedy adaptation of all applications the package offers. Then later, when the system has been skillfully and universally applied, if it is decided further upgrade is requisite, the social price-tag is affordable, and the condensation of sovereignty and other political resources allows ample room for a system overhaul, so be it. As if anticipating the watered-down requests, the bloated UN bureaucracy, much-maligned for the fiscal waste and extravagant payrolls of its white-collar work force, coupled with the moral ineptitude within its military ranks during deployments, agreed to an overhaul of its organizational structure and pruning of its overlapping and sluggish departments. A rationing and redirection of its expenditures would take place, combined with a modernized, image-conscious public relations facelift to generate extra-governmental sources of revenue by a greater appeal to domestic sources of financial strength, such as the media, film industry, and numerous cultural institutions and educational foundations. Reaching the Political Summit: Eternality of Government Rule Consequently, if not intentionally, the success of such an endeavor would resurrect a profitable aspect of the Plutonic ideal of endless governmental dominion. If achieved, such a phenomenal feat would remove the last and greatest hindrance to achieving the purpose of such an entity, i.e. its embodiment as the divine substitution of the historically dominant religious system — monotheism. More simply put, the time continuum would empower the government with the means necessary to break the shackles of national rise and collapse, finally enabling it to rescind the claims to authority, provision, judgement and other divine rights which a great majority of the masses attribute exclusively to a Creator. As the most influential of mile-markers arrives with the passage of 2000 - 2001, the final anchor that kept the kingdom of Christendom fastened at bay is about to be lifted. Harbored in absolutism, and thus able to resist the storms of relativity being waged in societal depths, Christianity has relied for two millennia on a final world war to crush all attempts at international unification. Hoping to snuff out the national integration process altogether, the Church has labored toward global evangelization in order to usher in the reign of a messianic monarchy, with Christ as the hierarchical King, to accomplish what no world governing system has — a thousand year reign. Rome, being the closest to successfully aspiring to the crown, stretched its reign between 350 and 500 years total, depending on how historians define the parameters of world dominion, and Hitler's Third Reich was the most recent to make the attempt. A Triumvirate Political Philosophy is Forged When endeavoring to liken the characteristics that are shaping the current drive toward a world government to a political philosophy, a strange confluence of similarities becomes apparent. In the present mold, a hybrid system of Fascist and Social-Democratic elements is emerging. "Fascism," said Carl Cohen in the classic 1962 text, Communism, Fascism and Democracy: the Theoretical Foundations, is a "commingling of the traditions of absolutism, organicism and irrationalism." Absolutism is "the view that the power of government, to be successful in its chief goal of maintaining and expanding itself, must lie in the hands of one powerful and intelligent leader — the prince or sovereign, il Duce or Der Fuhrer." Authoritarian and "molded along military lines," it espouses that the "virtues of the lower echelons will be chiefly those of responsibility and obedience." Organicism is the theory that a nation is "an organic unity like a human being, having many separate organs that contribute to the general welfare, and a large interest, or general will, that is superior to, and more important than, the interest or will of any particular member or members." The state is seen as a "superperson" or "superorganism" that is "endowed with supernatural or divine power." Deliberate irrationalism is the attitude or methodology expressed by the philosophical likes of Nietzsche and Schopenhauer, which stands as a "defense against rational criticism," manufacturing "effective social myths, attaching them to a latent but powerful nationalistic sentiment." Interestingly, of these three traits, the first two expanded the influence and power of Pre-WWII Italy and Germany. Yet the third trait — irrationalism — was, in the eyes of the international community, the blemish that marked their political movement as flawed and dangerous, and most importantly, gave the greatest impetus to justify the formation of an alliance to counter their advances. What is most remarkable when comparing the characteristics of Fascism with those of a pending global government, is that absolutism and organicism are perfectly paralleled, while irrationalism is not. Incompatible with the acid coherence and almost mechanical logic of globalism's tenets, irrationalism's odd absence is replaced, conveniently, with certain principles of social democracy that manage not to conflict with the first two characteristics, and thus form a triumvirate political philosophy. The Final Form of Global Government — the E.U. or U.N.? The first convergence of nations under an organizational umbrella took shape with the advent of the League of Nations following World War I, allegedly to provide collective insurance against another conflagration. The League eventually proved a bureaucratic failure when it's inter-agency gridlock exposed a paper tiger that crumpled into impotence when faced with the even greater menace of World War II. Springing back with questionable resiliency, the League underwent a long-due upgrade. The newer version came replete with a sharper image, expanded membership, enhanced military empowerment, larger budget, more refined mission statement and clarified mandate, and a new nom-de-guar — the UN — all of which, officially, was to ensure smoother running internal affairs, and stave off a third global war. It should also be noted that the first system of rule to take place — multiethnic unification — stands apart from the subsequent five, being a compilation of peoples who came together of their own accord, in synchronicity. Laying down their collective sovereignty as a sacrifice at the alter of self-deification, they raised up a tower of stratospheric height; it would stand as a enduring monument symbolizing a fierce ambition in mankind to achieve godlike status. Unlike the first system, whose tower collapsed and scattered the inhabitants to the ends of the earth, forming the structure of nation-states that has endured to this day, the proceeding five feats of world integration, either for fear of consequence or lack of opportunity, were all wrought by a single nation driving the unification not by mutual agreement, but conquest. Yet now, undaunted by the psychological damage ringing through generations as an echoing reminder of the severe judgment that fell, the proper environment is finally ripe for reception of a multinational unification. For millennia, an understanding that God's indignation would quickly kindle if such an affront to His sovereignty occurred successfully dissuaded humanity from such a foolish confrontation. As a result, every endeavor to resurrect the system thereafter was isolated to an individual nation which, even when it conquered the known world and boasted against Heaven, it did not ignite God's universal wrath because they were unable to form a united front to stand as one voice. Forced to embrace the system, and left with no desire to rally under an oppressive dictatorial nation, the nations lost heart. When the contending powers are cancelled out, leaving two entities vying for the mantle of global dominion — the U.N. and the E.U. — the world, too fearful to risk the calamitous consequences of another synchronized national convergence, may opt for E.U. empowerment. Assuming this will allow for a national entity to bear the brunt of any potential judgement, the world may then press on to embrace universal integration under the E.U. banner, with the U.N. acting merely as a regulatory assistant or some in other sub-level capacity. Today the soil is again fertile. As humankind casts off its fears, a multitude of whispers builds steady from every continent, ascending in one resounding voice. And from the chambers of Heaven the nostrils of God are beginning to flare and fill with smoke, as the dark silhouette of a global government — rising like an eclipsed sun, its contours no longer hidden beyond our visible horizon — awaits reception. ******************************************************* To receive a free subscription of our e-newsletter, visit: www.e-venthorizon.net *******************************************************
