We are living in the second decade, of the second phase of an unwritten strategy of planetary management. The first stage involved the establishment of a web of international agreements and conventions. The second stage involves the construction of a borderless, global information economy. The threat of nuclear, environmental and economic holocaust has hastened this process. Problems of terrorism, the arms trade and human rights abuses increase the alleged urgency for reform.
Planetary management involves some radical changes to the way things have always been done.
No event or decision can be made in isolation. Those days have gone. Our society is becoming tuned into consensus, compromise, agreement and conformity. Indeed, the BBCs James Burke has complained Togetherness is the flavour of the millennium. It is beginning to be politically incorrect even to mention difference.