You mean like the UK? Unfortunately except for English breakfast and some gorgeous rock music - both difficult to link to the monarchy there is nothing much to admire. Indeed, contemporary democracy is in a crisis and has shown its many deficiencies. Same as in the past - Socrates was democratically murdered, remember? And a communist country was the first to open space for humanity. Still democracy and free markets seem like the most capable systems to produce constantly improving quality of life and will continue to do so if "We the middle-class" keep those two systems in check.

In one word: "Accountable"

That's a perfect argument. Very well constructed. Just one minor flaw. If we apply the same argument to our contemporary life which admittedly is not perfect and is sometimes hell - how will that work our. Does God suffer with us? Actually maybe God does enjoy the diversity of our joys and sorrows in our pursuit of the divine or happiness?

If you don't enjoy it you must be doing it wrong. Philosophy is about the pursuit of the good life. Nothing else. The good life is whatever makes you happy. Sure a cheese cake makes you happy but it only lasts for so long. The pursuit of philosophy is forever. Always faithful, sometimes difficult to understand but always exciting.

That is only true if you subscribe to the Marxist labour theory of value. The truth is that desirability assigns value and it is moderated and measured by money. If that is true, money will never disappear or their value diminished, or be replaced by a crypto currency, because the latter doesn't can fulfil the moderation function only partially.

The problem is in accountability. It's much more easier to control your local council at a town hall meeting than a faceless global company that pays its taxes in some offshore entity. That and the inherent corruption and ineffectiveness of major international organisations like the UN and EU gives globalism a bad name. On the other hand we all love the global internet and ultimately benefit from international agreements facilitating global travel, currency exchange and goods delivery. The simple answer is - globalism is good, but it is still to crude to be satisfactory. More accountability and transparency will deprive it from its bias towards corruption and waste covered by secrecy.