Aemma
12-26-2008, 07:18 PM
During these few years, there's been much talk of course about a New World Order. It seems that one can read reports on the actual construction of this insiduous entity daily and yet they readily pass by unnoticed by most. But as the masses are reading about the latest hockey, football or soccer scores, or about civil unrest in some remote country or more recently, the tumultuous world markets, 'civil reengineering' is occurring at a seemingly fast rate. We're all too familiar with the great European amalgamation that is going on, but other amalgamations are occurring that will eventually cause interesting moves in position jockeying in this New World Order. The development of the North American Union (and the odd speculative 'news' items on the creation of the 'Amero') is all too real for us here in North America as is the re-shaping of NATO as no longer a militaristic entity but an economic one (See link: one doesn't have to dig far into this website to see that this has been part of the political and economic machinations of some few for a long time now http://www.streitcouncil.org/index.html). And of course, there are newer entities and alliances forming everyday (for instance, the BRIC: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRIC). Who knows what other economic pacts are being developed as we speak!
My point in bringing this up has much to do with the all too-eery mirroring of George Orwell's super-states: Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceania_(Nineteen_Eighty-Four)#Oceania ). Of course there are notable exceptions between the alliances of today and those of Orwell's world. But I can't help but wonder that as our present world's new economic 'super-states' continue to develop, is it feasible to ponder the possibility of corollary concurrent meta-ethnicities developing as well? Centuries from now, when traditional borders will have been things of the past and miscegenation more the norm than not (perhaps), will our ethnicities and cultures still be recognisable do you think?
Cheers for now!...Aemma
My point in bringing this up has much to do with the all too-eery mirroring of George Orwell's super-states: Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceania_(Nineteen_Eighty-Four)#Oceania ). Of course there are notable exceptions between the alliances of today and those of Orwell's world. But I can't help but wonder that as our present world's new economic 'super-states' continue to develop, is it feasible to ponder the possibility of corollary concurrent meta-ethnicities developing as well? Centuries from now, when traditional borders will have been things of the past and miscegenation more the norm than not (perhaps), will our ethnicities and cultures still be recognisable do you think?
Cheers for now!...Aemma