Like many other people on Earth, my life has been almost wholly occupied by the spectacle of the World Cup over the past few weeks. Unbeknownst to most, halfway across the world from South Africa, the G20 summit was also taking place in and around Toronto, Canada. With a similarly bulbous billion dollar plus budget and a unspoken mandate to control the restless natives (besides the Vuvuzela that, if to be believed, is some sort of indigenous expression of culture) the events bare some resemblance to one another, if only in their supranational tenor.

As the governmental and non-governmental costs for “security” continue to esca....