Fact Check Me: The World Is Too Small for Old Politics
(A Manifesto)
The world is too small now.
Not emotionally.
Not philosophically.
Logistically.
Money moves faster than laws.
Information moves faster than governments.
Wars destabilize continents.
Viruses circle the globe in hours.
AI doesn’t ask permission.
Markets already rule us — unelected, unaccountable, invisible.
And we’re still pretending a system designed for horses, borders, and slow news can hold this together.
It can’t.
Everyone keeps saying we need less government.
What we actually need is more government at the top and less at the bottom.
Push responsibility upward, not downward.
Right now responsibility is diluted across:
- Committees
- Agencies
- Jurisdictions
- Elections
- Press conferences
- Excuses
Everyone has power.
No one carries the weight.
That’s not democracy.
That’s plausible deniability.
Local problems still deserve local solutions.
But global problems require global authority.
Climate doesn’t care where you vote.
Pandemics don’t stop at customs.
Trade wars aren’t solved with slogans.
Dictators don’t respect borders — they exploit them.
Fragmentation is no longer freedom.
It’s vulnerability.
We already know this works.
The European Union didn’t erase nations.
It reduced war.
It standardized trade.
It replaced battlefields with courts.
Europe didn’t become moral.
It became interdependent.
War stopped being heroic.
It became inefficient.
That’s governance doing its job.
Wars don’t end because people learn to love each other.
They end when:
- Borders are recognized
- Trade makes violence irrational
- Disputes have referees
Globally, we don’t have a referee.
We have retaliation.
Sanctions.
Proxy wars.
Economic chokeholds.
That’s not freedom.
That’s organized chaos.
Dictatorships don’t survive because they’re strong.
They survive because the world is disconnected.
They jurisdiction-hop.
They launder money.
They play nations against each other.
They hide in complexity.
Human rights without enforcement are suggestions.
Democracy without protection is decoration.
A higher level of responsible government cuts off the oxygen.
Money already flows globally.
Just not fairly.
Capital crosses borders freely.
Labor doesn’t.
So wealth pools upward, nations race to the bottom, and inequality becomes policy by default.
We already have global institutions — but they rule without legitimacy.
That’s governance without accountability.
The answer isn’t no authority.
It’s authority with visibility.
People resist this because it reminds them of monarchy.
Good.
Because monarchy — for all its brutality — got one thing right:
When people were hungry,
they knew exactly who to blame.
There was a door.
A name.
A face.
No press secretary.
No jurisdictional dodge.
No “not my department.”
Just responsibility.
Modern systems tried to prevent tyranny by diluting power.
Instead, they diluted responsibility.
Endless elections.
Endless blame-shifting.
Endless confusion.
Everyone campaigns.
No one governs.
So let’s say the quiet part out loud:
If you want authority — take it.
But take all of it.
Your name on the decision.
Your face on the outcome.
Your legacy tied to the result.
Fewer decision-makers.
Fewer elections.
Clearer chains of command.
More weight on fewer shoulders.
Centralized responsibility does not mean unchecked power.
It means visible power.
Once responsibility is centralized, so is attention.
You can’t hide inside a system when the system has a face.
That’s why corruption thrives in complexity.
That’s why bureaucracy grows endlessly.
That’s why dictators love chaos.
The goal isn’t a king by blood.
It’s a king by consent.
Elected.
Constrained.
Watched.
But undeniably responsible.
Someone who cannot say:
“It wasn’t me.”
Because it was.
And they knew it would be.
People say they want freedom.
What they really want is clarity.
They want to know:
- Who decided this
- Why it happened
- And whose door to knock on when it breaks
Responsibility is control — for both sides.
You get authority.
We get accountability.
You get power.
We get a door.
And when the sky starts to fall?
We won’t riot blindly.
We won’t guess.
We won’t argue about whose fault it is.
We’ll knock.
Early.
Loudly.
Before collapse.
Because once responsibility is centralized, collapse doesn’t come quietly.
It comes with warning.
The world shrank.
Our politics didn’t.
We can either:
- Build a higher level of responsible authority now
or
- Be forced into one later by disaster
History shows which one humanity usually chooses.
It doesn’t say we have to repeat it.
Fact check me.
Power to the people.