Big Brother Isn’t a Government
1984 by George Orwell. It conjures up the dystopian, gray, oppressive world where “big brother” watches every move and controls every action. Creepy indeed. It’s been a powerful image that has created subconscious and conscious resistance alike against a global government. We have learned to fear government, as history has shown repeated examples of government corruption, suppression of human rights and civil liberties, and thought control through manipulation of the media, on a large scale.
Yet, in a global economy, who controls the world, if there isn’t a strong centralized government? The leaders of the economy do. The richest people in the world do. The largest businesses and corporations do.
If we replace the word big brother with Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple, we have the same result. Mega-corps are watching our every move, and manipulating our very actions. They have learned who we are, and can influence us through our devices, our media, and our interactions into doing what benefits them. In the absence of a global government, these mega-corps have begun to control the world.
Think for a moment what the effect would be if Google turned off all of its satellites, GPS satellites included, shut down all of their servers, and disabled all of their software? Global catastrophe. Widespread panic. Fear. Chaos. Navigation across the world would be severely hindered. Communication, especially in businesses, would be temporarily halted. Vast amounts of personal information, passwords and the like, all irretrievable. We would be paralyzed on a scale never before seen in the modern era. And that’s just one of these mega-corps turning the lights off.
Imagine further, if on the same day as Google shuts down, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook collectively shut down everything, including all of their subsidiaries. No more iPhones, no more Samsung phones, no more news feeds, no more fitbits, no more itunes music, no more deliveries, no more streaming, no more Alexa, no more google assistant. Our dependence on technology has become a true co-dependence, rendering the user nearly incapacitated if separated from the technology. If we don’t have a global government, we are passively giving these mega-corps more power than we can imagine to control and subjugate us.
It’s time that we pinch ourselves and wake up from the illusion that government is our only enemy to freedom. The markets, and the economy itself will assume the default role of global controller if left to its own devices. These mega-corps are all “too large to fail” and we know it. They have navigated around our outdated monopoly laws, and have leveraged themselves on a global scale that is no longer effectively governed by a single country. Countries are less powerful every day, as the power of a global economy sees no distinction between Europe, America, or China. Economies are blind, following an invisible and loose set of market rules, rather than strict laws.
We should always be concerned about losing our freedom, being manipulated, and slipping into a 1984 scenario. But I don’t think it’s going to be a global government that is the villain in that story, but rather a few mega-corps silently and effectively pulling the strings on the puppet-shows that have become our lives. In this global economy, the only player large enough to curb and control these economies is a global government. One that is protected through a careful set of checks and balances, that is flexible, and that is fairly represented by every nation and every person in the world. As scary as the idea of a global government is, the prospect of no global government is even scarier when we realize that we’re already being watched, analyzed, and controlled by the mega-corps.
It’s time to act, especially in light of the recent COVID pandemic. There are more issues that threaten the fate of the human species today than ever before, and no single country is able to confront or defeat them alone. We need a united global government to work together for the benefit of humanity to protect our species’ survival, and protect our liberties. Inaction is no longer an option, as our freedom is silently being taken from us without protest. We need to spring to action, to voice our concern, and to mobilize and empower human beings, as a species, to unite with a global government to protect us against individual corporation’s interests. There is no issue greater or more pressing than this.
1984 is here. It’s just not who we expected. Wake up and defend your freedom. Global Government Now.
