Phrased as a question then, are we moving towards a world government, and if so, what is driving it?
Let's say there is an intention for the powerful to seek more power. These powerful people are ministered to by managers and operatives, who, in one way or another, owe their success in life to them. Thus, any explicit or even implicit desire by the powerful, tends to lead to enterprising managers deploying operatives to do things that might please the powerful. As Muhammed Ali once said, "Tell me when I'm wrong."
In specific terms, we have the Anglo-American liberal establishment with the biggest piece of the power pie, the greatest reach, the longest head-start, the deepest coffers, the best connections, the most pliable populations, and thus with the greatest inward groaning towards
more power.
The first thing to realize is that this grooming process has been going on for centuries, and is behind the ideological and philosophical meta-political warfare that's been atomized into training the population to believe in mysterious and unrelated pop-ups of random "genius" thinkers or artists, who exist in political vacuums and are washed away by the tides of history. For them, there is no pedigree of epistemological thought, there is no elite-serving intention (witting) or utility (unwitting) behind a Marx, or a Gauss, or a Schiller, or a Poe; there is no history of opposing civilizational impulses locked in mortal combat vying for total control of mankind.
The second thing to realize is that as a result of this grooming process, 99.9% of everything in pop culture is propaganda training the mind to continue to believe in the pop-up random genius worldview, the severing of the mind from the epistemological artery of genuinely human life and genuinely human history. So, instead, we have a pantheon of entertainment "amusing ourselves to death" including softball (RPGs) and hardball (riots) versions.