Chapter 3
The Old Order
If we consider, even superficially, the current world organization, we notice that the Earth is geographically divided into national areas. There are small countries and big countries, but still nations, and each of them has been formed throughout the centuries by aggregations of micro-systems such as cities, regions, communities, ethnic and religious groups. To every nation belongs its own territory, people, resources, customs, government, institutions, language and history. Every government administers its own national affairs using a different system. The attempt remains for each one to independently solve the problems afflicting that nation. Every day the news broadcast by the media says the world is immersed in a general state of dissatisfaction. Of course the voices originating in each part of the world have a different echo depending on the freedom allowed by various governments. However, the problems that afflict nations are common all over the world. (20:1)

For reasons relating to my professional life I have traveled almost everywhere in the world: North America, China, Africa, Central America, Asia, South America, Australia, numerous oceanic islands, and Europe. I have been able to see for myself that, though those countries were very different (with varying degrees of civilization, with governments and political forms, with people, often very distant in their evolutionary development, with traditions, customs, and religion), they are all afflicted by the same problems. The attentive eye of an analytic visitor together with a dynamic study of various situations help to see that the nations of the world, not only suffer from the same problems, but that none of them is able to solve them. At a first glance furthermore, we can see that the problems are always independent of the reigning political system. In fact there are in the world, besides mixed forms, various types of governments: capitalist, liberal, communist, democratic and monarchic or mixtures of these. People belonging to a country often agree with the political choices made in other states and would prefer to live in other lands. In the same way, however, the very same people envied by those mentioned above, are also unsatisfied with living in their own systems and look with greater hope and faith to other life systems of other peoples. It seems that nobody understands the actual reality which different countries live in. In fact unemployment, terrorism, moral and environmental decline are evils shared everywhere on Earth. The abuse of the working classes exists everywhere in the world. Different degrees of technological progress, that varies in each country, aggravate the situation even more: the Western world often uses low cost labor coming from low income nations. Through this artifice, goods are produced at a very low cost and are transported and sold to high income markets that benefit entrepreneurs with enormous profits. This exploitation, apart from the moral question, is often a negative for high income countries: the failure to use their own workers, which is too expensive, causes unemployment. Youth protest-one of the major expressions of the general feelings of dissatisfaction-is present not only in poor countries or in those where there is a government on the right or in the center, but it is diffused in every nation of the world. Organized crime, as we know, has spilled over the borders of single nations, and has become a multinational. (20:2)

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