New World Order

Whenever folks get together and the talk turns to politics, religion or other controversial subjets, it is inevitable that someone will bring up the New World Order. The NWO is the ultimate bogeyman - it embodies all imaginable evils into one convenient descriptive - and almost everyone has heard something about it.

But is the New World Order really new? Or is it a new name for something very old?

In order to answer those questions, it requires that the New World Order be analyzed and described in some definitive way - that is, what are the characteristics of the NWO? Is it a philosophy, a religion, a political system? Who wants it?

Truthfully, I think many people have ideas of what the term "New World Order" symbolizes, but I am pretty sure that there are nearly as many definitions of the term as there are people thinking about it.

Over the past seven or eight years, I have invested a good deal of time in learning about the NWO. I've read books and articles, listened to radio shows and archived lectures, and participated in discussion groups both on the internet and in person. Admittedly, my studies have not been systematic, but they have been constant, varied and fruitful.

The assessment of what constitutes the New World Order that I have made, at least to this point in my education, is that the NWO, rather than a tightly-knit, coordinated and impenetrable cult, is really an umbrella label which is short-hand for hundreds, perhaps thousands of various groups and individual persons, who are working simultaneously toward changing the world to suit their multiple and complimentary visions of utopia.

Some of these are fixated on one specific goal, e.g., preventing environmental decline, or redistirbuting wealth, or changing the economic/political systems of the several nations or even the whole world. Others have more generalist visions and seek to integrate economic, politics and religion and synthesize a universally acceptable culture. Some must use persuasion; others have extraordinary power and use it ruthlessly.

There do seem to be some commonalities, however:

1. The centralization of authority
2. Denial of inequality in any form
3. Denial of exclusivity
4. Requiring conformity
5. A dimunition of lifestyle
6. Opposition to private ownership
7. A redefinition of human rights
8. A willingness to use force
9. Disdain for Christian values (and a commensurate dislike of Christ himself)
10. Belief in godless or at least unguided evolution (which they now want to guide)

There also appears to be an invocation of alien intelligence and intervention (some more openly than others). The spirituality of all of these people who come down on the side of support for the NWO is universally pantheistic, gnostic, and humanistic, with a great deal of technocratic rationalism heaped on top.

You could sum it up simplistically by saying: the NWO has an overarching, common philosophy that mankind can, with the right pattern of thought, the aquiring of the right knowledge, the appropriate application of science, under the leadership of those who truly know best (and may or may not be human), evolve to the next level, gods or extinction, whichever is best.

Sadly, it appears that yet another general assumption is that only a few of us are qualified to make that leap.