Whether you Agree with the professor or not. https://getpocket.com/explore/item/...lobal-order-is-wrong?utm_source=pocket-newtab The long and short of it is that our current world order was not built the way you were taught it was and the next one likely won't happen that way either. Read it and respond coherently please.
Doesn't seem that anyone else finds it interesting, but I do. I already knew that linking currencies to the gold standard was unsustainable. I also knew about Bretton Woods (actually, a beautiful place, worth visiting for anyone who hasn't been to the White Mountains yet). What I didn't know, but learned from the article is that the implosion of the gold standard set us up for the mega inflation of the 70s. There was so much pent up demand for more money that was suppressed by the link to the gold standard, that it all explosively manifested itself once Nixon cancelled the gold standard, by executive action. Of course, the oil crisis didn't help.
Don't forget there was a lot more crap hitting the fan in the seventies than just here. Britain's post war experiment with socialism was imploding from it's own internal contradictions, Soviet messing about in the third world was threatening vital supplies and the final, much deserved collapse of the old mercantilist system of colonies and mother countries was at hand as well. Note neither Bretton Woods nor anything else worthwhile has yet filled the gap, and the worst part of the Paris climate accords is the tacit agreement that the west primarily the United States will pay third world dictators scandalous amounts of money to make sure that they keep their people living in stone age conditions well into the future while they try to convince their own populations to go and do likewise.
We are seeing today, in a fashion, the idea that the everybody in the world gets a place at everyone else's table. I think the ideological view is some kind of total equality that would turn us into something like a colony of ants or bees, all working diligently toward a common cause without complaint. This is one of the fantasy delusions that appeal to liberals and socialists, but in fact we are not, cannot be and never will be like ants or bees, we are individuals- and our coalitions come from family, common interests, common values, and our drive to excel. A society is kind of like a soup- to have really great results, many thing must be done right. The ingredients must be right in kind, quantity and quality, the process of preparation and timing and sequence of steps must be right, and the preservation of it must be right. While you can just throw everything in the kitchen in the pot and hope for the best, the result will never be excellence, most likely never be even palatable. I'm a strong advocate of following nature's guidelines, because nature works exceptionally well with only a handful of rules. No matter where you look, you find the various kinds of life in nature not in total random arrangement- but in concentrations of similarities. The various species may overlap in an area, but it is rare that they abandon their patterns of behavior to try to be something different, or that they interbreed, even within their own species, where several sub-species may be present. Each may thrive independently, but they don't blend themselves into some kind of ubiquitous conglomeration. In nature, various species and sub-species are adapted to certain conditions- it may be food supply, climate,terrain, or just preference, but each remains free to be what it is and chooses to be. Most importantly- that works incredibly well. Human species, though we differ greatly- are considered one species. In nature, two birds which have adapted different beaks and are hard to tell apart do get labeled as subspecies; it seems that recognizing such traits in humans might be called discriminatory. But we vary far more widely in our mental views and values than we do in physical terms- and that by far contributes to the incompatibility of trying to make us merge into one kind of soup. No other species in the world suffers from that condition, because unlike humans- the level of creative imagination does not run wild or produce fantasies in animals where they can create imaginary worlds as we can. That ability has given us smart-phones and space ships- and wars, tyranny, and all the ugly things only humans are capable of. Millions of species have thrived for millions of years within that configuration, and done so without poisoning the planet or consuming all it's natural resources. However, there is no government, no group intent on forcing them to be what they are not in the illusion that they should all become like ants or bees- which in fact, are all like identical twins in the first place, not individuals like we are. Nature has done this without governments, religions or all the crap humans throw at themselves trying to make themselves functional and fit the vision of some ideology. Nature endows each of these creatures with everything it needs to be successful, and the best way to insure they can- is to get the hell out of the way. We should be taking a lesson from nature- live and let live, each group, each individual- gets to chose it's own way, build it's own house- be it a mansion or a mud hut. Every effort we make to homogenize society has resulted in failure or extreme compromise; you would think that as smart as we are- we could learn from that.
