While those in International Finance have certainly played on the implications & the effects of those, who for a variety of reasons--none actually morally justified--have been trying to build "new world orders," the driving force has really been more academic than financial. (Though undeniably, those business interests that operate on the premise that one country is as good as another, so long as they can make money there, have enabled the fantasy seekers to get away with undermining both national sovereignty & the cultural heritages of their respective people's.
Basically, the theoretic internationalists (humanists seeking to get back to a variety of Babel) are as dependent upon the greedy business types, willing to sell out their communities, as the latter are to the fantasy theorists.
I have been fighting these twin evils since High School in 1950--and am truly sick of having to do so.
It's the other way around. The financial community has bought an academe to produce droids to its liking of which it is itself composed. Think of it as an autocatalytic process, but it began with the financial community of Eastern Europe, the Spartakusbund, etc.
I have been fighting these twin evils since High School in 1950--and am truly sick of having to do so.
We all have our different ways of dealing with this. Mine is to re-educate them and back it up with a scientific demonstration project.