In one word, what would the goal presumably be for the hidden people pulling some strings? Unification. The task would be to gradually weaken the identities of all nations, through cultural indoctrination in internationalism, blend the economies, erase the borders, and in the end make everyone answerable to a body–overtly, the UN, covertly, through the control of money the world over, the Bank of International Settlements, or something like it that doesn’t have a name that we know.
Plainly, there are many internationalists out there. There have academics and intellectuals calling for many years for global governance, for the sake, purportedly, of peace, and “sustainability”. With regard to the latter word, this is just code-speak for a lack of faith in free markets, and the ASSumption that people are too stupid on their own to avoid the complete decimation of Earth. The environmentalist movement is filled with these people. They don’t understand the role of price in regulating behavior and assume free markets can’t world in a large complex world, when the patent fact is that is the ONLY thing that will work. Central planning does not work.
These people, though, sit on the boards of large banks. They sit on the boards, particularly, of the central banks that determine the financial future of all the worlds nations, and do so largely without ANY legislative or legal restraint or supervision.
In one of his plays–Major Barbara, if memory serves–the Fascist/Socialist (take your pick: he adored both systems) George Shaw portrayed the unification of very large business with socialism. Putting the government in charge of picking winners and losers is very lucrative, if you are going to get picked as a winner. For their part, the Socialists get the power they have always hungered for to punish SOME businesses defined by their non-Socialism as wicked and greedy, and to redistribute their wealth. There is never enough, of course, and they have merely redirected greed–and made it much worse, since it is now legally protected without restriction–but they are willing to overlook the increased poverty they regularly induce by reflecting how wonderful it is to be in charge. One wonders why they don’t install more mirrors to admire their magnificence than they do. Why not relocate the EU headquarters to Versailles? They all fancy themselves Louis 14th’s, but morally perfected, of course.
Several points: Islam is a great instrument of control. It is one of the most static social systems ever devised. They go on century after century without inventing anything, without changing anything. Their system, they are told, is perfect. This does not lead to innovation or social change. What changes have happened have largely been the result of external forces.
The great merit of Islam to a group seeking global control is that it imposes itself across broad sections of the Earth, making the formation of units of political control easy. Once you have a de facto autocracy, all you have to do is keep the leadership fed, and they will do what you want. Easy enough.
Second: Most business owners, large and small, that I have dealt with were periodically assholes. The sampling in my case is pretty large. Capitalism, per se, merely forces (in theory) people to confine their predatory tendencies to a rule bound system. As such, it is much better than war. As such, it is much better than socialism, since the people ruling the government are NOT bound by rules in most cases, either ethical or legal.
The great merit of freedom, though, is that you can leave the company you are at, and either work somewhere else, or start your own company. You can’t do that in socialist nations. It’s hard to start businesses in places like Germany, and Sweden, and France. That is my understanding, at any rate. They have all sorts of rules about who you can fire, so effectively they place restrictions on who you can hire. You have high minimum wages, etc. etc. This is not freedom: it is a curtailment of freedom.
I like to think we are moving slowly towards a much more moral world. That is my hope. Yet it is foolishness to think that moral improvement could come about as a result of the work of people who use deception and force to impose their own wills on the rest of us. Morality is wisdom, which is perception. It is empathy, and seeing other people as living confused and often suffering just like ourselves.
The foregoing is a bit wandering, but hopefully frees up some perceptions for someone somewhere.