................................................And YOU are now, a citizen of the world!
This Third Industrial Revolution of the World has created, and is still perfecting, this new reality for us; Unified, Citizens of the World!
Decentralized, autonomous, Immutable, Public, Open, Ledgers of an emerging cryptographic reality where we no longer tie ourselves to a particular country or set of ideals born in a specific religion nor ethnicity.
Globalization, technology, and computerization have erased the borders of space and time.
Erased the borders within which governments can exercise the power bestowed upon them by prior, weighty social contracts.
The inevitable, temporary, feeling of impotence from the feeling of rapidly disappearing borders has fostered a sense of lost sovereignty and a fear from outside in some.
Seamingly, these new, uncontrolled forces, or uncontrollable forces by individual governments now manifest in the politics of xenophobia and protectionism. Brexit.
Politicians like Donald Trump and Nigel Farage are trying to revive the old powers of nationalism, reversing free trade initiatives, touting the rhetoric of homegrown capitalism, getting tough on immigration, and stoking the flames of ethnic conflict.
Yet all these actions from all formally structured governments and associations cannot halt the zeitgeist of technological change.
Science; technological change will win out. Technological change has won out.
The way we communicate, the way we travel, the way we consume energy has all changed.
Now I ask you, to just sit where you are. Don't speak. Look within yourself, and just feel the warm rays of the Brilliant Light of the Spotless Sun Shine Down Upon You...
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