>>> But the key paragraph is rather starkly clear. <<<
There are other “key” sections:
This is from section 57:
“Hence the principle of SUBSIDIARITY is particularly well-suited to MANAGING GLOBALIZATION and DIRECTING IT TOWARDS AUTHENTIC HUMAN DEVELOPMENT. In order not to produce a DANGEROUS UNIVERSAL POWER of a TYRANNICAL nature, the GOVERNANCE OF GLOBALIZATION must be marked by SUBSIDIARITY, articulated into several layers and involving different levels that can work together. Globalization certainly requires AUTHORITY, insofar as it poses the problem of a global common good that needs to be pursued. This AUTHORITY, however, must be organized in a SUBSIDIARY AND STRATIFIED way, if it is not to infringe upon freedom and if it is to yield effective results in practice.”
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Once again, the magic-word SUBSIDIARITY solves the problem of how to manage and direct globalization without creating a Frankenstein’s monster of an universal and tyrannical governing power.
That’s your problem, Quix. You just don’t have enough faith in the power of subsidiarity!
The last sentence is important. To say that the managing Authority is to be organized in a SUBSIDIARY AND STRATIFIED way means that power will be distributed EQUALLY to all levels of the HIERARCHY. This is to eliminate any possibility of power being concentrated in one or several places, and especially to undercut any chance of there arising a CENTRAL managing authority. The question arises: is there anything that subsidiarity can’t do?
I’ve read that the 10th Amendment to the Constitution is an example of subsidiarity; look at how well it’s functioned to reign-in the powers of our central gov’t in DC! I’ve also read that subsidiarity is a key principle of EU law. And, of course, everyone knows how sensitive to the needs of local farmers and businessmen the Brussels bureaucrats have been.
Also — once again — what’s up with this goal of “authentic human develpoment”? What does the phrase mean, and what does it entail by making it THE goal of all human peoples? I what sense is it a CHRISTIAN goal?
EXCELLENT POINTS.
Perhaps this is to become the new Mantra:
Our beloved Subsidiarity in the UN.
Lofty be your mandate.
Give us this day our TRUTH IN LOVE; our electric bicycle; our gruel; our unbottled ration of water; our hour of electricity; our kiss of the local oligarch’s ring and butt; our ration of Soma; our ration of bread; . . .
Forgive us our individuality as we obliterate the individuality of others . . .
For yours is the homogonized convoluted mushed mayhem of blood-thirsty globalism now and forever . . . at least until Armageddon . . .
/sar