Our invisible operating system

One world government is already controlling us

- by NEIL BRYAN

FOR years, people have whispered about a one world government. It's usually painted as a Bond villain cliche - shadowy men in a smoky boardroom, plotting currency collapses, pandemics, wars, and censorship.

It's the sort of cartoonish image that makes it easy to dismiss the whole idea as conspiracy theory.

But what if the reality is stranger, and, in its own way, more unnerving? What if there is no cabal, no singular mastermind, but the system itself behaves as if there were?

Look around. On the surface, democracy hums along. Ballots are cast, slogans change, the faces in office rotate. But beneath the theatre, the outcomes remain the same. Debt climbs.

Surveillance expands. Corporations swell. Wars drag on. The line between government and private power blurs to the point of meaninglessness. Different costumes, same play. From a distance, it looks less like self-determination and more like an operating system, the same code running underneath every new skin.

This is how an emergent order behaves. The political class is temporary, but the bureaucracies, central banks, intelligence networks, asset managers, think tanks, and NGOs are not. They are the deep code, and their continuity outlives every election cycle.