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Bibliography: New Colonialism; the Restructuring of our Global Societies
“World Economic Situation
and Prospects 2019 | Multimedia Library - United Nations Department of Economic
and Social Affairs.” United Nations, United Nations, 2019, www.un.org/development/desa/publications/publication/world-economic-situation-and-prospects-2019.
To the citizens of the planet Earth,
Right now, as we meet, the
planet is going through a difficult and unprecedented time in history. Every
single country is facing an unknown future with health-related risks and badly
needed to restarts our economies. Regardless of what country we are from,
regardless of the distance or economic differences, striving to have our
lives back is a goal that is shared by the entire planet.
Knowing that life itself, except
for the actual rotation of the earth, has come to a halt! We, the people of
earth are in need of joining together to fight this pandemic and improve our
way of life; health-wise and economically. A restructuring of resources and
economic distribution is critical to allow for an efficient restart to our
way of life.
Describing Colonialism
The concept of Economic
Transformation is nothing new, in fact, this idea dates as far back as 1450 –
1750 during the rise of Colonialism. Understanding that the idea of finally
securing trade, goods, resources while realigning financial distribution has
been done already with some favorable results and some not so favorable. As we
learned in our course, the concept and implementation of colonialism were one
that helped shape the modern era the fastest economically speaking. Was
economical change the only difference that happened in the world during this
era?
No, there was the introduction of
illnesses to many regions of the world, decimating populations and weakening
societies strongholds, and the introduction to slavery to allow for designated
labor to produce just the right amount of production to properly and skillfully
increase economic growth to the world economy.
After the black plague was
introduced to world by vermin which infiltrated into the Silk Road trading
essentially degraded every nation's civilization; city by city. Besides the collapse of civil leadership in this chain of nations, economical gain was also
halted and required a reboot aka restart.
How does it relate to our time?
Might this scenario sound familiar?
Is our current situation with COVID-19 a repeat of history just like the
Black Plague? Is this an echo in history for us to experience? How could this
be happening again in the modern-day era?
These questions came to light as we
studied week after week during the Shelter-in-place order, during our financial
halting causing a financial crash on March, Friday the 13th. The new
reporting and happenings began to mimic some facts of what we were studying in
World History.
This was a TRIP, to say the
least, and frightfully scary that it even was happening to us right now let
alone that this happened 570 years ago, already! Are we facing a 21st
century Colonialism as a new world movement? Has this been planned all along
and what should we expect?
Let us take a look at what is
happening today not only in our society but view all the nations as a global market as a whole. In Chapter 12, page 531 it says, “the emergence of a
radically new kind of human society” was to rise from the ruins of the global economic
crash during the demise of the Mongol Empire.
There were new resources where
sought, new methods of commerce and production were created to fuel new growth.
Colonialism created new ways to revive these markets, trade, and labor by the
introduction of a larger workforce. This notion drove civil leaders to step
back and take a larger look at how to fix these issues from a global point of
view.
Having learned that some approaches
failed and were unkind and downright horrifying to even say the least, we
could be looking at a repeat of this order of restructuring again in our
lifetime. Might I be sounding like an alarmist! Or even somewhat crazy? Let’s
see.
UN Agenda for restructuring
In an organized and thought out
agenda created by the United Nations, it says, “The World Economic Situation
and Prospects 2019 offers timely warnings about a range of macroeconomic
challenges facing policymakers as they aim to deliver on the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development.”,
“The intervening year has been
punctuated by escalating global trade disputes and episodes of financial stress
and volatility, amid an undercurrent of geopolitical tensions”. Our fate is
already planned by the select few, monarchs, our politicians and world leaders.
The United Nations, the ultimate
governing body for law and global behavior has outlined guidelines and a course
of actions that need to be taken at a global level to ensure the future of
humankind to exist and succeed in the future. They created a document which
has 17 goals to achieve and focus improvements for the planet as a whole.
Yes, yes, Conspiracy theory comes
to mind when we hear such talk, BUT to actually find information
published and available to all to read was something of a shock. It is like
having an open house at Area 51 for all to see if you chose.
The 246 paged agenda addresses
Regional Developments and Outlooks based on Economical stands: Developed
Countries, Economies in Transition and Developing Economies (which are actually
listed by each nation’s by name).
Globalized
Economical Changes
Coming back to the concept of
Colonialism, a new method of generating trade and economical growth is what
drove to new ideas and ways of development. Working remote has had it’s
positive and negative impacts on our economies but as a whole, it continues to
fuel our global markets in support to the highest levels of online trades and
purchasing every recorded.
It seems to be working, now
what? Well, if we look back in history,
the model shows that as long as we are able to maximize labor efforts at the right level of supply and demand, we WILL be successful in transitioning to
this new way of life as a global community.
People of Earth, be prepared for
what comes next. Know that this process has been set forth by our ruling
leaders long ago. The way we live is about to change, let’s see how well they
thought it all out. The New Colonialism
has begun. Best of luck to us all!
Resources
“World Economic Situation
and Prospects 2019 | Multimedia Library - United Nations Department of Economic
and Social Affairs.” United Nations, United Nations, 2019, www.un.org/development/desa/publications/publication/world-economic-situation-and-prospects-2019.
“Early Modern (1450-1750).”
Freemanpedia, www.freeman-pedia.com/earlymodern.
Strayer, Robert. “Chapter
14 Economic Transformations - Commerce and Consequences 1450-1750.” Ways of
the World: a Global History with Sources, by Robert W. Strayer and Eric
Nelson, Bedford/St. Martin's, 2016, pp. 600–641.
