New World Order is Big Business as Usual
I was reading some fascinating ideas about our future. It is nothing new that there are secret groups of powerful people working towards a global government, global economy, and global food supply. I suppose it is nothing new about any global businesses as they have been around for some years now. Businesses that have their roots in many countries and their reach goes into many diverse areas.
The most recent, or possibly the first real global business model I have noticed is the business of South Korea. Without going into detail about how South Korea is doing it, they are becoming a diversified company reaching into many facets of our daily life no matter where we live or what we do. Of course there are nay sayers who think the Korean manufacturing machine may fall on its face, and be gone in the wink of an eye.
Looking a little south of Korea is mighty Japan, who has mega businesses in place who are very successful. Companies such as Toyota, who may be owned by a larger company, or in itself owns many smaller companies. Changing direction is Nike, who has gone from a floundering second rate shoe company into a company who not only provides shoes for the world, but clothing and other branded products as well.
Nothing new so far in what I have written. Anyone who sits down for ten minutes thinking about huge companies will understand the same things. What about the long range though? I have no doubt, watching McDonalds moving into the Coffee boutique business, Dunkin’ Doughnuts selling coffee through grocery stores, Phillip Morris quietly moving out of the cigarette business, what else is going on in the big business world that you and I are not aware of?
How many companies have fifty or one hundred year business plans that melt, solidify, but always change as the decades roll on. Will we a century from now be buying our goods from one of a few hundred mega companies who will be selling everything from wheat and rice to electronics, and energy? Is there a new world order lurking out there on the horizon waiting to launch a new government and a new economy?
I doubt a new world order as world government is a possibility as far as my vision carries me. I think there may come a time when almost everyone in the world will be working for a behemoth of a company that produces and sells everything from mops and brooms to state of the art luxury items. I see a time in the future when business will be the world government. What I find ironic is everything is in place and people are being trained to not only accept the idea, but welcome it.
You are reading this right now because you own a computer and purchased a connection to the internet. Some company, a very large company provides you and me, and a large part of the country where you live with this same access. They try to make it as convenient as possible to never have to leave their home page.
Watch the local news each night at dinner time and monitor news on more than one station. You will notice the news is almost identical. Mega portals such as Yahoo, MSN, network news, and your local news feed off each other. News papers and news magazines follow suit. Giant network news is vanilla flavored pudding. Watch all ‘world news’ programs and see how similar they are. They all may be a story or two apart in what they report, with their biggest difference in the order and the potential story slant.
But that only scratches the surface. What really is important is what online role playing games have in common. To be the successful in an online game you have to join a guild, or something like it under a different name. A guild is a loose group of people who have skills that are needed by the group as a whole. The more diverse and needed are the skills, the more powerful the guild becomes. The more powerful the guild becomes the more it can collectively accomplish.
Something interesting about our brains to think about. Our brains do a poor job of separating reality and fantasy. Whether we dream it, daydream it, play it, or live it, it makes no difference to our brains. Belonging to a guild in a fantasy game is no different than being an employee at a mega company.
Being an employee at a mega company, is not much different than joining a new type of political party. Joining a new political party is not really that odd. Millions and millions of gamers out there, slowly having their idea of what is acceptable and what is not modified each hour they play gaining levels or status in their alternate life inside their online game. Then they go into the real world, or do they?
