The Sovereign Individual

(David Rockefeller)

Authors James Dale Davidson and the late Lord William Rees-Mogg posit in their book, The Sovereign Individual : Mastering the Transition to the Information Age, that politico-economic sovereignty will eventually be "won" by the individual, you and I. They derive this notion from the expansion of the Internet's cyber-commerce, and the increasing corruption of government which bears remarkable similarities to the suppression and oppression of fallen churches and feudal kingdoms of the Middle Ages.

Although the authors support their theories with centuries and millennia of historical value, they fail to discuss the past 250 years of world history in greater detail outside of taxes, the invention of the Internet and an increase in government corruption in contemporary times. In the past 250 years, the United States only came to what it is today because the individual States of the Union surrendered their politico-economic sovereignty at the signing of the Constitution for the People of the United States in 1789. In 1945, The United States made a partial surrender of its politico-economic status to what is now the United Nations. The United States was not only the first member of the United Nations, but the first permanent member.

(Illustration of NAU)

What was also not discussed was the creation of the "North American Union." This "treaty" between Canada, the United States, and Mexico was meant to create a more "secure" and "protected" relationship between nation-states and is still alive today. Akin to the "NAU" are the 28 member-nations that comprise the politico-economy known as the European Union. The stability of this climate has come under scrutiny because Greece economics and such, however; all member-states work together to aide especially, the "weakest link." Such is true in the United States and at the United Nations. Of course, the book also fails to mention the ASEAN of 9 member-states in South East Asia, so I believe I have made my point.

The direction sovereignty is taking thus far is one in which powers and responsibilities are being surrendered to the "very top." This has been the pattern for the last 250 years at least. This was true for the United States, this has been true for the United Nations, and it has been true for every other "union" in the world. The world operates on two politico-economic facts. One is that if people wish to self-govern, they must learn to assume and exercise the Right of Self-Determinaton. Otherwise, as David Rockefeller put it, "The supranational sovereignty of the intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries." The problem is, as Neo puts it, "choice." We must choose to self-govern and follow international protocol or be governed.