THE NEW WORLD ORDER: AN OPEN-SOURCE CIVILIZATION OF 3D-PRINTED MEDICINES & CROWDSOURCED TAXATION

[The following post written by TDV Head Researcher, Justin O'Connell]

Depending on who you talk to, the phrase "New World Order" means different things. To plenipotentaries and politicians, the "New World Order" might refer to "global governance," a form of cooperation among nation-states in which laws and policies are standardized. For another group of individuals, mostly independent and some academic researchers, "New World Order" refers to a post-Bretton Woods world order in which global institutions - like the United Nations, International Monetary Fund, World Bank and their associated think thanks - take authoritorian precedence over nation-states, creating effectively a "global government" defined mostly by its unity in economics and politics; including money, leaders, laws, etc..

But meaning is personal, and so these are not the only meanings for the "New World Order." For me the "New World Order" has always been the same as the old world order: a centralized, homogenized, hierarchical, singular system. Presidents and Prime Ministers, in this view, were merely evolutions of the "king-gods" past, rather than entirely new models of authority. I came to this conclusion by keeping an open-mind towards the "planned view of history" which differs from the "circumstantial (or coincidental) view of history." In the former, plans and agendas determine the course of history, whereas in the latter reactive decisions and spontaneity define it.

In the last five years or so a new understanding of "New World Order" has presented itself, and I predict it will be the most popular path moving forward among grounded and thoughtful individuals. For many people, accepting this New World Order will be particularly stressful because it breaks most with the past than other understandings of the term. Nearly each and everyone of us were/are educated for the current way of doing things. This is the only way we've ever known, and, due to our lack of harmony with nature, most people do not feel confident that, if things changed (even if for the better) they would be able to handle the stresses. (all change, good or bad, brings stresses)

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