Since the NWO is coming about through destruction of conditions favoring the existence of sovereign nation-states the United States may indeed fall apart at some point, but most likely not in the way Chittum suggests. The NWO has arisen on the ruins created by devastating European wars and by the collapse of non-Western civilizations in the face of European ideas, power and wealth. Far from an arbitrary invention, it is the logical outcome of intellectual and social movements that have been sweeping all before them for centuries, and its fundamental principles or at least slogans have worldwide appeal. No one defends discrimination on grounds of religion, ethnicity, or sex. Safety, wealth and comfort have become the highest goals publicly conceivable.
Consumer goods are king.
The principles behind the NWO are thus enormously powerful. Much of that power results from the weakening of other principles of social organization. In spite of its innate corruption, the NWO will remain as long as there is nothing to replace it, and it is very good at subverting possible competitors. The destruction of ethnicity, religion and sexual distinctions as recognized legitimate grounds for action is universally praised today as a victory over bigotry, and it leaves little upon which social order might be based other than bureaucracy and markets. Nor is the comprehensive victory of bureaucracy and markets merely ideological.