Globalists aren't just some shady dudes lurking in the backrooms of the World Economic Forum. We have all been infected with globalist mentality because it's so dominant. Instead of feeling powerless over the imaginary sorcery of Klaus Schwab, we should work hard to eradicate this way of thinking from our own minds.
What does this mean?
It means simply that:
We should go back to thinking that is based primarily on the category of nation-states.
It no longer comes naturally to us, so we should make an effort. Every time the globalist "everybody is an interchangeable widget" idea visits us, we should banish it and ask ourselves, "how would I think about this if nation-states were real and valid?"
Here are some examples.
1. The war in the Middle East. Should we support Israel or Palestinians? This only gets confusing when we start drowning in the globalist widget mentality of who's a bigger victim and who has which rights. If, on the other hand, we look at it from the point of view of which side would happily cut our heads off and which wouldn't, it becomes really simple. Who's on our side? Let's support those dudes and not support their enemy. Who has taken more Americans hostage in the past year? Let's not be for those people.
2. Russia's war against Ukraine. The same principle operates here. Who loves and admires us and wants to emulate us? Ukraine. Who despises us and wants us to die? Russia. Let's not be on the side of the people who want us to die.
3. Snowden. This is a fellow who is giving aid and succor to our sworn, mortal enemy. "Yes, but his life is hard, he's a victim, he suffered badly." Right, and this is exactly - and I mean, exactly - the narrative that justifies open borders. His life is hard, so screw the nation-state. Congratulations, we just reinvented globalism.
4. Pavel Durov of the Telegram. Here, again, we have the idea that an enemy combatant who is a foresworn foe of our culture has some magical rights that he somehow magically acquired just by the fact of existing and that it falls to us to guard these magical rights of his no matter the cost to us. How is this different from defending the right of some ISIS mullah in London to receive large quantities of welfare while rubbishing the country that gives him this welfare?
The social contract of the nation-state is this: the nation-state guarantees your rights in exchange for your willingness to die to defend it. Outside of the nation-states, nobody guarantees any rights. A trick is being played on us. We are duped into believing that there is such a thing as free-floating rights that everybody possesses by virtue of existing. We decide that the nation-state is not necessary because our rights already exist without it. So we dismantle the nation-state and discover that without being minutely defended and enforced by an actual, strong state structure, all those rights are just a fiction.
I'm not a special cookie in this. My mind is as infected with this crap as anybody else's. More so, even. So I make a conscious effort to stop, reorient myself, and think about things outside of the framework and terminology suggested by this noxious mentality. Without everybody making such an effort, we'll never de-globalize.
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