The new global society?

The Drudge headline on Sunday night says Gordon Brown is calling on the nations of the US and Europe (primarily) to take the lead in forging a new global society. A question: Will the nations of the world openly embrace, with conviction and enthusiasm, the constitution of the United States? Anything less will be unsatisfactory for any true American. No real American will willingly be organized under anything remotely resembling the system anyone such as Gordon Brown (or Barack Obama) might cook up in the Hague.

Brown says the financial crisis of the last two months highlights the urgency of implementing this new order. The problem with Brown - and with Obama - is that they see the entire financial/material order of the world as being based on a zero sum game. In other words, in their view, the material pie is only so big and if the nations of the west are getting big pieces of the pie, that means some other nations are getting smaller pieces, in some cases, vanishingly smaller pieces. Such a view, with its echoes of Malthusian thought and Club of Rome shortsightedness, never accounts for the capacity of human intelligence to invent new ways to expand prosperity and to constantly redefine what constitutes resources.

The Brown/Obama view is simply an essentially Marxist misreading of the forces of history.

The West has created material prosperity for its people not at the expense of other societies but very specifically because of the principles under which it operates, the principles that have guided its social/political/economic development.

If the nations of Africa, for example, embraced - truly embraced - Jeffersonian principles of governance, JudeoChristian values of justice, mortality,, and ethics, and free market principles of economics (the markets, of course, operating under the rule of law), they would find themselves very quickly moving up the economic /material ladder. The fact that the nations of Africa, almost without exception (if there is an exception, please point it out to me) live in kleptocracies and thugocracies has everything to do with their endemic and heartbreaking poverty.

All the well-intentioned (and for the sake of argument, let's grant the intentions are benign) intervention in the world will do nothing, nothing, to solve the problems of third world poverty. An indiscriminate transfer of wealth from west to east and south will only turn the entire third world into a vast, globe-encompassing equivalent of Cabrini Green, a model Obama should well understand.

The leftist globalists, devoured by Western guilt about the rest of the world's dysfunctionality, don't recognize the reasons for the West's material success.

We are in for a world of hurt if the global organizers seize control of the international order in any substantial way.

These people must be fought and resisted with every tool at our disposal.