The New World Order Is Not What You Think It Is

“A CONSPIRACY!!!” you affirm. You are smart enough to realize that something doesn’t add up.

Perhaps you believe the conspiracy.

After all, which mind turns away a sweet, juicy pessimistic dialogue. Sweet, juicy? — Ok that’s a gross comparison I agree.

But we are in the wrong domain of discussion. I care less about the validity of the conspiracy.

Maybe I should just keep calling the conspiracy bit sweet and juicy so that I can gross your conspiracy-dazed mind into clarity.

How dare you call my methods manipulative? They serve a purpose!!!

I hear you calling me the R-word. Really? The H-word too?As if one conspiracy is not enough.

Drop those words. This is not a discussion about Reptilian humanoids!!!

Maybe I am. But am sure you’ll find much more meaning in what I say because I mean what I say.

*Cue serious face on, diving deep, not that deep, into world economics.

A little history of the word

It’s the 20th Century. Not that part in which many of us were alive. Much further. If you are not 77+ as of 2022, you don’t qualify.

Those are turbulent times. World war is a thing. Countries cancel each other with bullets and bombs.

It’s these power flexes and unimaginable losses that characterize this period by dramatic changes in world political thought.

These flexes also shift the global balance of power. There are winners. There are losers.

The turbulent times pass and the world is relatively peaceful with new normals.

Politicians at the time come up with a word/phrase to reflect these peaceful times.

“New World Order”

The word becomes a conspiracy

At the time when politicians are throwing that word around, organizations such as the UN are being established.

Red scare: The promotion of widespread fear of a potential rise of communism, anarchism, or other leftist ideologies by a society or state.

In the year when the UN was supposed to be celebrating 2 years, the second red scare began.

This scare embraced and spread dubious fears of the Illuminati, freemasons, and Jews as being the forces behind an international communist conspiracy.

The conspiracy theorists see this as Godless Communism.

In the United States, the Red scare shaped one of the core ideas of the political right. i.e, liberals and progressives supposedly contribute to the shift towards a collectivist one-world government.

Liberals supposedly do this through their welfare-state policies and international cooperation programs such as foreign aid.

“We shall have world government, whether or not we like it. The question is only whether world government will be achieved by consent or by conquest.” — James Warbug.

When an American banker appears before the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations as says something like that, of course, it is hard to ignore.

Americans didn’t ignore that.

Therefore by the 1960s, there were quite a lot of conspiracy theories about corporate internationalists, “greedy bankers” and corrupt politicians who wanted to use the UN as the vehicle to create a “One World Government”.

You can see that all the way since 1913 when the U.S Federal Reserve was established, through the 60s and onwards, this idea of the One World Government or a New World Order has been used in the same breath as banks, bankers, and governments.

New World Order as an examination of world economics

There is no denying the fact that when we talk about the New World Order, NWO, we are actually referring to a global system of operation.

Not everything about the conspiracy bit should be disregarded. But hopefully, by the end of this article, you can see why the conspiracy is highly unlikely.

My ideas about this examination and most of what we are going to talk about here are from Ray Dalio’s book called "Principles of dealing with a changing world order."

What is an order?

Quite simply, an order is a governing system for people dealing with each other.

I don’t think anyone would ask why they need a governing system to help them navigate their dealings with other people.

At the very least we’ve all lent or borrowed money from someone. We know how that goes. We also know what would happen without certain things like contracts, credit scores, and so on.

For simplicity, we shall stick to country and world levels.

Orders exist in two different forms.

Internal orders: These are orders that govern within countries. i.e(constitutions)

World Orders: These are orders that exist between and among countries. i.e(Treaties)

As you may have guessed, these orders change at different times from each other. Internal orders change at different times than world orders.

Internal orders normally change relatively peacefully while world orders change typically after wars.

Take the U.S, Russia, and China for instance. The US’ internal order of the US constitution is still operational today.

Russia has gone through at least 2 internal orders,(constitutional changes) since 1917.

While China began its current internal order in 1949 when the Chinese communist party won the civil war.

Then there are countries like U…. where the internal orders change when the president feels like it.

World orders on the other hand happen when revolutionary new orders defeat weak and old orders.

Over the past centuries, there have been multiple world orders and all the changes have happened the same way. i.e;

Countries didn’t have enough money to pay off their debts even after lowering their interest rates to 0.

The central banks began printing a lot of money to raise the money required.

Big internal conflicts began to emerge as gaps due to gaps in wealth and values.

Increasing external conflicts between a rising great power and a leading great power as is the case now with the US and China now.

1930- 1945 was the last time these things happened at the same time.

A more likely New World Order

Ideas of James Warburg and others that speak of a one-world government are where the conspiracy bit of the New World Order is rooted.

The feasibility of such a world status is unlikely.

We know this because, over the several centuries of empire creations, we know that even the largest empires didn’t exceed a quarter of the planet.

And you have to consider that these were times when cultures were more homogenous than they currently are.

Over the years, splits have happened from Individual levels all the way up to global levels. So many more cultures exist now than they did several centuries ago.

A one-world government approach to creating a new world order is therefore much harder now than it was back then.

Also, world orders change all the time.

Currently, the world order is the American world order.

This started after world war 2 when the allied victory saw the U.S emerging as the dominant world power.

This was in the defeat of the then existing British world order.

Agreements and treaties were set out about how global governance and monetary systems were to work in this new American world order.

The American world order which in 1944 was the New World Order set the new world monetary system in the Bretton woods agreement that established the dollar as the world’s leading reserve currency.

Reserve currencies are currencies that are commonly accepted around the world therefore having one is key to a country becoming rich and powerful.

All countries or empires that stood at the top of the world order at any given time knew and did this.

A new world order begins with new dominant power and the establishment of a world monetary system.

Therefore you see. It is not about greedy manipulative bankers and politicians. They too are just cogs in the wheel of order. Playing a part that would be insignificant if it stood alone.

But nothing that runs a system ever works alone.

What causes shifts in world orders?

At the core, it comes down to two things.

1. Countries spend more than they make.
2. Internal conflicts of the country.

If you are interested in understanding more, I am going to quickly go through all the stages that go from the rise to the decline of any given world order.

Let me list the steps first then we go through them briefly. One at a time.

1. War
2. Peace and growing prosperity
3. Financial bubble
4. Reserve Currency
5. Wealth gap
6. Financial bubble burst
7. Printing Money
8. Revolution for Wealth distribution
9. Diminishing power relative to external rivals
10. External conflicts
11. New winners
12. Winners create the New World Order.
13. Back to step one.

War

A new world order begins when revolutionary new orders go to war with and defeat weak and old orders.

Peace and growing prosperity

The victory in war gets the winners together where the dominant power establishes orders such as monetary systems that will work for them.

This period of peace also favors growth and prosperity.

Financial Buble

As people grow and prosper, they begin taking on debt to get further ahead in life. This begins a financial bubble as people begin spending more than they earn.

As most people make more money and become wealthier, they abandon the idea of working.

Worse still their offspring are raised in luxury, mellowed by the wealth and unfit for much of the work.

Reserve currency

The New World Order has the currency of the dominant power as the reserve currency. This also makes that country’s ability to borrow much higher than other countries with no reserve currency.

Therefore countries end up increasing their spending too far, outmatching their incomes.

Wealth gap

All the money being pumped into the country causes money to flow to the top and remain concentrated in the hands of those with businesses or investments.

This creates a wealth gap between the “haves” and “have nots” which keeps increasing as the country keeps pumping in more money into the system.

Financial Buble burst

Soon all this spending more than the country makes comes to the point where the country cannot pay back its debts.

The bubble then goes burst.

Printing money

The central bank then prints money to pay back its debts.

As more money enters the market without an increase in the country’s productivity, it goes into buying things like stocks, gold, and other existing commodities.

This causes the prices of those things to increase as the value of that currency drops.

Revolution for wealth distribution

The increase in prices further widens the wealth gap to the point that conflicts arise.

People begin fighting each other based on status and values.

Diminishing power relative to external rivals

All this bickering and fight for scarce resources leave the country less productive thereby leading to many weaknesses such as diminishing shares in the global market.

External conflicts

If the loss of power continues, most likely, there is another country that is on the rise. This country soon reaches a point where it is capable of taking on and challenging the bigger country.

New winners

These conflicts lead to war and since the old country is already beaten by internal conflict, many lose the war leading to new winners.

New winners create New World Order

The new winners seat in agreements as dominant powers and establish a new world monetary system including changing the reserve currency.

This is briefly the cycle of each and every world order. And there have been many.

The American world order displaced the British, the British displaced the dutch, the dutch, and so on. But it was all the same.

Currently, the optics look like America is the old order and China is rising. Same story.

Conclusion

The New World Order has existed long before the word was coined as such.

Based on how diverse the countries' cultures are, and how big the world is, it would be naive to think that any one country can ever create a one-world government.

It is not impossible but highly improbable.

What is more likely is changing the world order as we know it now to a new world order.

America is not yet at the point where the shifts are inescapable, but it’s getting close.

Personally, I love the American world order with all its flaws. I love it. The other guy? No.