A New World Order Beckons
Westphalia was good
enough. Its products (nation states) have served us for 370 years. They have
now outlived their usefulness. It is time to drop the nation-state and move on
to something else; something more interesting and thrilling maybe. War was one
of the reasons for the creation of the nation-state, no? Or were nations not
meant to bring about peace (the reason we also talk of the Peace of
Westphalia)? Have they? It will all depend who chooses to answer this question. To some, the world is now very peaceful, yet to others we are far from
peace perhaps further than we were then. Haven't we learned better ways we can
fight wars and keep peace, beyond the state, anyway?! So why cling to the
state?
Here
is the thing; partition is a lazy way of resolving conflicts. Humanity must
learn to peacefully coexist. We cannot learn peace by separating every moment
we disagree. We cannot learn this “simple calling” if and when divided and then
condemned into eternal geographical cocoons. We must break open this cocoons
called nations and with that will come true liberation for humanity. Long time
ago Jean Jacques Rousseau may had taught us that we are born free but
everywhere chained. I don't know what (other than religion), is the highest
entity that holds humanity captive as the Westphalian nation-state.
We,
now more than ever, need a better way to organize the netzen, don’t we? A
nation is too small for an evolving citizen of the world. We need to breathe
fresh air; nations are suffocating us! It is certainly already time bad for
nationalists. Someone tell them that we have ears but we just don't want to
hear what they are saying, neither do we want to see what they are doing
although we can see. Humanity needs and craves justice, freedom; liberation. We
simply need our life back. The more reason the Trumps and Brexiteers of this
world are either not reading anything at all or are reading the here/now
history wrongly (tragically so). No human being in their right mind want to be
confined within the geographical space of a thing called a nation-state! The
world is ready for a new order. I don’t know what it will be; I can’t tell if
it will be better or worse (depends how and who will fashion it, why and when),
but it looks like it will be an interesting reality, way too far from the
nation-state as we know it.
A New World Order Beckons
Reviewed by Ibrahim Magara
on
November 30, 2018
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