We’re all globalists now.
Twitter, Telegram, Substack.
Global reach, global audience, global discussions. That is what it does - it connects and makes the scary far away thing feel real. Our threat evaluation is warped because of it, drawn to images of horror thousands of miles away.
One of the most common ways to get attention and play this game is to behave like a globalist - not a WHO style globalist but the regular normie. One who thinks “wow how cool I can influence and talk to so many people across the world!”
We’re trapped there - the easiest form of content is repackaging of the news - what is the news we repackage? Exactly what the globalists think is important. It is the wool over our eyes that stops us seeing our own issues right in front of us at a local stage. I would hazard a guess most of us have better knowledge of Ukraine than local city elections because that is how the system has been designed.
Geopolitical debate and talk is interesting. To debate the machinations of those in power has always been alluring, but where it happened in the coffee houses of the past about issues that higher ranked merchants could capitalize on or influence now it happens online. All the downsides with none of the benefits.
The illusionary nature of being involved in a global struggle is a powerful one that sucks in adherents across the ideological spectrum. Leaders rise up online, burn bright, then slowly fade away only to be replaced by someone else leading the charge. That charge has largely been the same for 12+ years I’ve been around these political ideas and spaces. They are doomed to repeat the same failings as those who came before them because they are also caught in the globalist trap.
The globalist trap is partly the idea that we need to acknowledge everyone else before we acknowledge ourselves combined with the idea that revealing global wrong doing will right local issues. Both don’t make any sense on examination but the illusion created by online activism suggests otherwise. It is a warm blanket of feeling like you are doing something valuable.
Like any movement it is of course not the masses to blame for this but rather what passes for our own elite. Otherwise smart men have been hoodwinked into thinking that Tweet responding and scoring a few moments of transitory glory and infamy pass for substantial work - worst still they have disenfranchised masses who support their approach because they see the online global world as more real than their local one.
The brutal reality for both the smart leaders and their followers is that their globalist efforts don’t help their local situation. Elon Musk making some negative remarks about the ADL does not stop your local council who are hell bent on having the Police no longer respond to petty crime that degrades your community. Making an argument for the right of Palestinian people to have a homeland online does not impact the rape victims of the grooming gang still operating in your hometown.
People need to get real and escape the globalist trap. Model United Nations and that kind of rhetoric is for children in highschool, it is not worthy of excessive time and effort. Content farming the global news to retell it to a sympathetic audience has a time and place but we drown in this right now whilst mass migration flows continue. RTing the hypocrisy of the ADL online has even less impact than writing a letter to a local representative, but at least the latter forces you to address the local and real problems.
We have to get real about taking our own side and that means caring about other peoples problems less, not more as so many have done in recent weeks.
It's not like those global problems are responsive to democratic pressures anyway, but local politicians might be