UN's Delusion of Grandeur

The UN is seeking global emergency powers in case of world wide threats to humanity. The sort of threats they imagine include meteor strikes, pandemics and global warming. In other words, just about anything that can be easily put into a coherent narrative without having to be backed up with any actual facts.

A bunch of unelected bureaucrats believe that they are the ones that have the solution to any and all problems that might ail the world, and that they must therefore be granted sweeping powers to rearrange things according to their vision.

This is of course nonsense. A few thousand bureaucrats cannot possibly direct billions of people. Certainly not now that they have proven themselves incompetent in the face of a relatively harmless virus.

At the very least, the bureaucrats would have to be highly regarded by just about everyone in order to act efficiently as a micro-managing outfit. But people aren't exactly brimming with trust in these people, and ordinary people are therefore likely to either ignore UN directives or skirt the rules in all sorts of ways.

The sheer size of the bureaucracy that would be required for global governance to be implemented implies that there will be corruption everywhere along the line, and hardly any directive will be implemented as intended. If the UN ever tries to act as a global governing body, it will fail miserably. Instead of obedience, there will be anarchy. Instead of centralization, there will be decentralization. People will seek ways to skirt the directives, and they will discover that this can be done by activating local communities, family and circle of friends.

The social contract