The Globalist Reach And Grasp

     I’m sure my Gentle Readers are already aware of British media regulators’ attempt to bend 4chan to their will, under the aegis of Britain’s Online Safety Act. I’m sure you’re also aware that 4chan has “given the Brits the finger.” It was delightful to see the 4chan response, defiant in the face of a threat from an essentially powerless foreign entity. Other American companies threatened by the European Union have bent the knee almost at once. You don’t have to be a fan of Internet porn to applaud 4chan’s boldness.

     While I hope 4chan’s reply will embolden other American companies threatened by foreign busybodies, my main interest here is in whether the episode will teach said busybodies the limits of their ability to assert power. The globalist agenda is to eliminate all such limits. But limits are inherent in all human undertakings, from the septuagenarian desperately straining to thread a needle to the superbillionaire aiming at establishing a human colony on Mars. They’re imposed by our finitude and the laws of Nature.

     Baldly speaking, some people have to be clouted across the chops before they realize that they’ve gone too far. This is demonstrably the case with globalists and political forces. Our reluctance to administer such an update is one of the reasons the national and world situations are as they are. Yet it appears that while they may be late in arriving, appropriate clouts are being delivered to persons who need them. A look at the explosion of patriotic displays among Britons in recent weeks provides powerful evidence. American enterprises that refuse to bow to pressures to “conform” to the “norms” proclaimed by the globalists provide additional support.

     It’s no accident that the “norms” proclaimed by the globalists are virtually identical to the demands of the American Left. The aims of the two are highly compatible, at least in the near term. Were they to succeed in achieving those aims, they might then slug it out for supremacy, but for the moment they’re “fellow travelers.”

     But there’s a larger point to be made in this connection: The “norms” purveyed by those groups require the surrender of individual and national sovereignty. The individual must forfeit his independent power of judgment and decision. The nation must forfeit its jurisdiction – remember the etymology of that word – to supranational bodies unconcerned with national traditions, cultures, and preferences. In that context, the drives for a universal “right” to abortion and the elimination of national borders become comprehensible.

     The Westphalian nation-state was supposed to put an end to such nonsense. Clearly, there’s still some work to be done.