[quote=zk][quote=Blogstar]Squabbling about what we peons get or don’t get outside of the context of globalism doesn’t seem to make much sense anymore. All most all people of wealth and power have on foot in globalism and are moving the other gradually out of Nationalism. Ron Paul is an exception and you see where that got him. So,yeah it does make sense to see what we get compared to the proles in other regions because it will equalize. Just a matter of a few generations. It remains to be seen if weaker hands will get to keep their property. “Middle class” is a Pavlovian lever that the rich and powerful are not yet ready to give up…kind of like “Democracy”.
Globalism is human social evolution. Nationalism is quickly becoming a smokescreen.[/quote]
Very interesting post. I’ve been pondering the question of by what method America is going to keep its strong, wealthy middle class strong and wealthy in the face of globalism. I must admit that so far I’m stumped. I have to concur with the school of thought that says that, due largely to globalism, the American middle class is not really sustainable in its current form. And I agree with Blogstar that it’s only going to take a few generations.
I do wonder if nationalism will turn uglier in the face of declining wealth for certain nations.[/quote]
It will be interesting. I wonder if there are any good books with well thought out theories on globalism’s evolution up until now, and its future trajectory with commentary on the likely social strategies that will attempt to enable it. Clearly it will not be smooth sailing. My guess is that the age of MAD had a lot to do with the evolution. Globalism is to some degree just the new face of greed. MAD is a threat to the rich and powerful everywhere.
Obviously, the biggest obstacles with the poor are religion and jingoism. Which good book says the world was supposed to end more or less unified? We need some apocalypses and second comings dammit. I think religion won’t be that bad though. Even in Egypt the Islamic rulers are able to scold the zealots when they want to.Nothing a bought and paid for change in propaganda can’t fix.
People who accepted patriotic brainwashing and associated superiority trips all their lives will have a hard time. Can’t really blame them, lots of people are still killing and dieing or being maimed under pretense of Nationalism . Jingoism is kind of a religion here if you post about globalism on a Yahoo thread you can see lots of responses by patriots who will single handedly defeat it with “guns and ammo” from the local Big Five.
As, you say, it will be interesting how those in countries who have had a higher standard of living through trickle down of resources that comes from forms of dominance/and resource management that are not sustainable in a global paradigm. It seems connected to expectations for lower standards of living, or other means of living in the U.S., that a student can know take a course in “sustainability” in high school and even minor in that area at a college like Point Loma Nazarene. It’s like foreshadowing. Lot’s of hints that self reliance/local reliance is in the future.
Recent American laws for terrorism investigation and prosecution, surveillance etc. will be very useful for enforcing globalism as they become more universally adopted in protection of global elites. You are either for globalism, or you are a “terrorist”. The tools are increasingly there to enforce it.
My opinion that a consortium will more or less cooperatively rule the planet in only 3 or 4 generations could be way off. There will probably be many blow ups and failures along the way to what is already in progress and is inevitable. It seems like it could happen that quickly. It would also be interesting to hear what other people who have thought about it more have to say on that.
