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THE TERRIFYING FIGMENT Why I do Not Fear "One World Government" Humans are potent critters, so when misfortune comes for us, it usually needs to arrive by stealth, to take us by surprise. And so it is that the disasters we prepare for, more often than not, are Not the ones that befall us. The spectre of a "World Goverment" is a perfect examplar. The Conspiracy Not that there isn't a plan. Oh, no - the aspirations are there, have been for some time. Soros, Schwab - the cheerleaders are not shy. It's the execution I doubt. There is a slogan, popular lately on the Right, that goes "When they tell you who they are/what they want to do - Believe Them!" And sometimes, in hindsight, this looks like really good advice. October 7 comes to mind. But not always. Sometimes, that advice will have you keyed up over nothing, wasting precious resources on phantom threats, jumping at shadows. And there is a pattern to the timing of the difference. History's Hidden Engine As Shakespeare observed, "There is a tide in the afairs of men": A cycle, an ebb and flow of social mood, between excesses of optimism and pessimism. As near as the science of Socionomics can tell, this is based on the intersection of human herding instincts, and our inability to maintain emotional states idenfinitely. But it drives a great deal of historical phenomenon, in finance, economics, and politics. The short version of the relevant bits is, in times of rising optimism, allegiance circles expand, boundaries and limits (of geopolitical structures, definitions, and behaviors) blur, and forgiveness comes easier. In a word, Inclusion. In times of declining mood, allegiance circles shrink, boundaries harden, and old scores demand settling. Exclusion.And if there's one sort of project that would require extreme inclusion, it's World Government. Application Okay, how does that insight help? What's the predictive power? Financial market tops (and attendant manias) tend to mark peaks of social mood - and the most extreme peaks tend to be violently retraced. We are just off highs in financial markets, which are pretty clearly not going to be matched again for awhile. And judging by those recent financial market extremes, and coincidident popular trends (trannies and such), this was one heck of an extreme - likely of a degree not seen for 300 years. So the reversal can be expected to be similarly extreme.And that means internationalism, ANY sort of internationalism, is doomed. Not that the tyrant wannabes will no longer be interested. Oh, no. They'll just be unable to agree on enough to propel their agenda forward. Their leadership will fragment over ethnic, cultural, and national lines. The UN will fragment. The EU will fragment. Russia will fragment. China will fragment. Heck, the USA might fragment. We will be (re-)entering a period of a default to, not political aggregation, but DISintegration. All of which will bring its own sort of challenges. But Not those associated with potential planetary tyranny. So all those people warning of One World Government are preparing for the wrong war.