by Jim Chimirie on X
Globalism rests on a single assumption. That human beings, given the right institutions and sufficient time, will subordinate their deepest loyalties to nation, faith, language and kin in favour of a set of universal values administered from above. It is the most ambitious political project in human history. It is also the most consistently refuted by the evidence of human behaviour across every century we have recorded.
The border did not create conflict. Conflict created the border. Every boundary line on the political map of the world is the sediment of a dispute, a war, a negotiation, a defeat or a demographic reality that proved too stubborn to dissolve. The Congress of Vienna tried to redraw them rationally in 1815. The Treaty of Versailles tried again in 1919. The United Nations has been trying since 1945. Each attempt produced not stability but the conditions for the next eruption. Borders are not arbitrary impositions on an otherwise harmonious humanity. They are the hard-won acknowledgement that humanity is not harmonious.
The religious dimension alone should settle the argument. The three great Abrahamic faiths have been in structural conflict for fourteen hundred years. Not occasionally. Not as a result of misunderstanding that better dialogue might resolve. Structurally, because each makes an absolute claim to truth that the others cannot accommodate without ceasing to be what they are. Christianity, Islam and Judaism have coexisted. They have traded, tolerated and at moments admired each other. They have not, in fourteen centuries, resolved the fundamental incompatibility at their cores. No supranational institution has altered that by a single degree. The EU has not. The UN has not. The International Criminal Court has not. The World Trade Organisation has not. The incompatibility predates every one of them and will outlast every one of them.