The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.
Rulers always justify their actions with high words and lofty claims.
They seek to conquer the high moral ground and, with it, the mantle of inevitability . And this is indeed inevitable. Over the centuries, as production processes have developed and grown more sophisticated, their linkages have increased. Marco Polo and Christopher Columbus were just as much globalisers as Bill Gates and George Soros are, if not more so. But this is not what the world's rulers mean when they speak of globalisation and remind us of its inevitability any more than Augustus Caesar and Caligula meant the spread of literacy, roads and sanitation when they spoke of the inevitability of Roman civilisation .