Well, perhaps I should explain a bit about the last post.
I am not saying that the global financial network is collapsing tomorrow, or that suddenly, people are going to stop trading with China, or going to Europe for vacation, or going South in the Winter.
What I believe is this: Globalism, as one of the essential ideas which animates our culture and gives it direction, is being eclipsed.
I was so happy to get my issue of the Economist about a month ago. I had thought the long quality slide that I had seen in that magazine had finally come to an end. From all appearances, they finally had realized that the giant train wreck known as ‘Globalization’ had finally run out of steam, and been left rusting on a beach. It’s hollow promises now being fully exposed to the elements, the natural processes of decay and re-absorption into the natural ecosystem would begin.
Well, the article was a real let down. The Economist (or at least their writers, their art department may be a different story) didn’t have a clue.
The article was about the collapse of the Doha trade negotiations. That was it.
I am going to get way out ahead of everyone else by making my predictions for the major developments for the year 2007. They will be in my usual insane collection of categories. Also, since I am getting them out this early, I unilaterally annouce that if my predictions come to pass in the closing months of 2006, they still count!
Solveig Singleton is out there again cheering for the new corporate state whose role model is: China. In this short post she dishes India, and those ’silly leftist economics’ that arise when the government is something less than a fascist police state:
An entry on ipwatch.org discusses the access to knowledge/free culture movement in India.
It constitutes another data point in addressing the question of whether the new Asian powerhouse will be India or China… Initially, one might think that India’s history of links with the Commonwealth gives the country a boost, enabling it to serve as a bridge between Asia and more mature economies….China’s.. isolation, historic and linguistic and political, may insulate the country from the worst of the West, silly leftist economics, while India is beseiged with them.
posted by Solveig Singleton @ 1:35 PM | Free Culture Movement
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