is "globalization" good for you ... ?
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Whether "globalization" is *good* or not is something we can attempt to decide another day, or perhaps leave to our descendants to decide.
What I think we can agree on today is that, whether or not "globalization" benefits us or our families personally, today, depends perhaps on where we are geographically, BUT ...
"globalization" is not a choice for any of us - not something we were asked, or were given opportunity to vote on, to approve - not even to comment.
"globalization" is the product of a small group of deciders who concluded what they believed was the best course for humanity (all human beings), and who then set about to implement their decisions - not all at once, but incrementally, attempting to work within legal structures of various nations and societies, and even religions, so that changes they intended would not be so obvious that any population would raise serious objections to those changes.
As long as a frog is still in water, the frog feels fine though water temperature continues to rise.
As long as a "consumer" has "choice" of "21 different shaving systems" he ignores the fact that he has to shave in order for his family to eat and his children have an education beyond the "public system"
As long as a "tax-payer" has a "choice" to voluntarily sign up for a social security card she ignores the fact that every transaction she makes is recorded by someone, somewhere, for purposes she may never agree to if she knew about them because she is allowed in that way to have a bank account and credit (debt), allowed to work, and to feed her children.
As long as an author agrees to make certain "small changes" to make a book more "saleable" that writer ignores that some finer points were lost on the trip through the publishing house as long as the advance check clears the bank.
Personal Sovereignty - the simple right to choose one's own course in life - is left behind as national sovereignty is also diminished - to make the world safer - as long as we are accepted by, are "acceptable to" our friends and co-workers, as long as our compliance with increasing regulations continues to allow us the chance to "get ahead in life" - opportunities for promotion and "success"
"globalization" helps some people in poor countries live a better life, while most people in those countries continue much the same as before.
The trade off, which was understood as one of the purposes of "globalization" to begin with, is that some people in richer countries have less opportunity, less work, less income, and so in theory, the world becomes a "level playing field" - which of course it does not.
"globalization" is one of many devices which cause whole populations to be divided within, citizen against citizen - causes one population to be seen by another as "taking our jobs" and eventually as enemy so that it is also a device to keep the entire world population divided and in conflict.
Conflict results in more offense, more defense, more weapons sales, more slaughter, more reallocation (massive theft) of resources.
"globalization" was never meant by those who term the poorest of the poor (who are no less human beings than any others) "useless eaters" because they are so poor they represent no "economic faction" which can be *exploited for profit* - THEY DO NOT EARN ENOUGH TO QUALIFY AS CONSUMERS.
So those very poor "useless eaters" are exploited for profit in other ways - used to "better understand" how the human body and the human reproductive system and other human functions react to the toxic chemicals, how they respond to the use of Depleted Uranium in the environment (which also has a profit motive, since as it turns out, "weaponizing" DU is the least costly way to dispose of that toxic material).
Please let me say that I hope "globalization" is something good for you and yours in your lives today.
Sincerely
.
Whether "globalization" is *good* or not is something we can attempt to decide another day, or perhaps leave to our descendants to decide.
What I think we can agree on today is that, whether or not "globalization" benefits us or our families personally, today, depends perhaps on where we are geographically, BUT ...
"globalization" is not a choice for any of us - not something we were asked, or were given opportunity to vote on, to approve - not even to comment.
"globalization" is the product of a small group of deciders who concluded what they believed was the best course for humanity (all human beings), and who then set about to implement their decisions - not all at once, but incrementally, attempting to work within legal structures of various nations and societies, and even religions, so that changes they intended would not be so obvious that any population would raise serious objections to those changes.
As long as a frog is still in water, the frog feels fine though water temperature continues to rise.
As long as a "consumer" has "choice" of "21 different shaving systems" he ignores the fact that he has to shave in order for his family to eat and his children have an education beyond the "public system"
As long as a "tax-payer" has a "choice" to voluntarily sign up for a social security card she ignores the fact that every transaction she makes is recorded by someone, somewhere, for purposes she may never agree to if she knew about them because she is allowed in that way to have a bank account and credit (debt), allowed to work, and to feed her children.
As long as an author agrees to make certain "small changes" to make a book more "saleable" that writer ignores that some finer points were lost on the trip through the publishing house as long as the advance check clears the bank.
Personal Sovereignty - the simple right to choose one's own course in life - is left behind as national sovereignty is also diminished - to make the world safer - as long as we are accepted by, are "acceptable to" our friends and co-workers, as long as our compliance with increasing regulations continues to allow us the chance to "get ahead in life" - opportunities for promotion and "success"
"globalization" helps some people in poor countries live a better life, while most people in those countries continue much the same as before.
The trade off, which was understood as one of the purposes of "globalization" to begin with, is that some people in richer countries have less opportunity, less work, less income, and so in theory, the world becomes a "level playing field" - which of course it does not.
"globalization" is one of many devices which cause whole populations to be divided within, citizen against citizen - causes one population to be seen by another as "taking our jobs" and eventually as enemy so that it is also a device to keep the entire world population divided and in conflict.
Conflict results in more offense, more defense, more weapons sales, more slaughter, more reallocation (massive theft) of resources.
"globalization" was never meant by those who term the poorest of the poor (who are no less human beings than any others) "useless eaters" because they are so poor they represent no "economic faction" which can be *exploited for profit* - THEY DO NOT EARN ENOUGH TO QUALIFY AS CONSUMERS.
So those very poor "useless eaters" are exploited for profit in other ways - used to "better understand" how the human body and the human reproductive system and other human functions react to the toxic chemicals, how they respond to the use of Depleted Uranium in the environment (which also has a profit motive, since as it turns out, "weaponizing" DU is the least costly way to dispose of that toxic material).
Please let me say that I hope "globalization" is something good for you and yours in your lives today.
Sincerely
.
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