canadian news is keying in on that familiar phrase uttered by carney: it's a new world order.
what carney actually seems to want is the old world order in the sense that he wants to bring the cold war back. he claims we're not going back to a post-war order. i think he's wrong, but if bush was declaring a new world order on the collapse of communism that did away with global superpowers in favour of us hegemony, and most of the west went along with it, carney's proposed new world order, full of superpowers fighting and "middle powers" seeking a third way through non-alignment, actually looks a lot like the old one and that is consistent as much of the anglo-american elite never really accepted bush' new world order in the first place, was disinterested in being reprogrammed to fight terrorism and just kept fighting the communists through the post cold war period. i've remarked before that while my heart is in gen x, and i am the last gen xer, i realize that the anti-soviet propaganda pushed down on gen x from every direction, except punk rock, was so immense that we will need to wait for gen x to overturn before the west can let go of the cold war, and it's 2026 and we're still suffering through what must be the last of the boomer presidents. we haven't even got to gen x yet.
so, you can meet the new order. wrong band. it's the same as the old order. wrong song.
wrong square.
wrong date.