It is thus not a question
of sovereignty or no sovereignty, but rather, which sovereignty? The
sovereignty of the globalists is all-encompassing
and all-determining; order extends only so far as the reach of that
sovereignty; beyond is outer darkness. The agenda of free markets and open
borders, on the contrary, because it recognizes the existence of a
creation-order independent of earthly sovereigns, presupposes a multiplicity
of sovereigns and submits to their authority; only it circumscribes that
authority, arguing that the free flow of persons, goods, and services
serves to the mutual benefit of the various peoples and nations of the
world.
The biggest threat to the
limited-sovereignty approach of free markets and open borders is the
welfare state. Where the welfare state is established, there arises a
distortion in the flow of persons, goods, and services. People follow the
trail of handouts rather than the trail of service; instead of pursuing
opportunities for mutual benefit, they pursue opportunities to benefit
themselves by sponging off of others.
The globalist
agenda focuses on various specific issues:
-
The
environment (suppression/canalization of free activity so as to
alleviate environmental impact);
- Wealth and
poverty (right to income, right to job);
- (thus)
Human rights;
- Health
care (right to health care);
What stands in the way
of this agenda is the common-law inspired private law regime which
characterizes as the West and is increasingly becoming the norm the world
over. In a private-law regime, property rights are centrally important,
along with contract and markets. Such a regime acts to break down the
natural barriers of ethnic
The method of choice is to take behavior that is justified in terms of commutative
justice and seek to attribute undesirable effects to it. By doing so, the
very notion of commutative justice and therefore private law, yea civil
liberty, is undermined.
Globalism
is driven by the desire to establish conscious control over a recalcitrant,
essentially alien environment. Eric Voegelin
called it gnosticism
This is why the issue of theocracy,
rather surreptitiously at first but with increasing urgency as the
situation becomes more apparent, reveals itself as the central factor in
the war between conservatism and liberalism, between the Common Law and the
Civil Law.
