A couple things to wrap your mind around
"Those who preached Globalization couldn't tell the difference between ethics and morality. Ethics is the measurement of the public good. Morality is the weapon of the religious and social righteousness."
"In a depressing game of leapfrog, the Yugoslavian settlement competed with a genocide in Rawanda, where half a million people were murdered. this is a remarkable statistic. In a global world of economic and social measurement, we are bombarded daily by apparently accurate statistics measureing growth, efficiency, production, reproduction, sales, currency, fluctuations, comparing levels of obesity and orgasms, divorce, salaries, and incomes. Yet we don't know, or don't care to know, whether it was a million or half a million Rawandans who were massacred."
A little something I kinda liked, well wording wise.
"Ideology, like theater, is dependant in the willing suspention of disbelief."
All these quotes came from "The Collapse of Globalism", an article in the Harper's Magazine, written by John Ralston Saul. He argues that for years now, we have unknowingly been fighting a war against globalism or globalization, the idea that the world is becoming one single economic entity. It's very interesting, at least from an economists prespective. He does make some ecellent points, however does not provide any sort of solution to this problem, other than total reform (something about making world leaders "less impotent"). I can lend anyone the article if they are interested, there are plenty of great quotes from it that I did not use, mostly because they were much more involved, economically, or were just really, really huge.
"In a depressing game of leapfrog, the Yugoslavian settlement competed with a genocide in Rawanda, where half a million people were murdered. this is a remarkable statistic. In a global world of economic and social measurement, we are bombarded daily by apparently accurate statistics measureing growth, efficiency, production, reproduction, sales, currency, fluctuations, comparing levels of obesity and orgasms, divorce, salaries, and incomes. Yet we don't know, or don't care to know, whether it was a million or half a million Rawandans who were massacred."
A little something I kinda liked, well wording wise.
"Ideology, like theater, is dependant in the willing suspention of disbelief."
All these quotes came from "The Collapse of Globalism", an article in the Harper's Magazine, written by John Ralston Saul. He argues that for years now, we have unknowingly been fighting a war against globalism or globalization, the idea that the world is becoming one single economic entity. It's very interesting, at least from an economists prespective. He does make some ecellent points, however does not provide any sort of solution to this problem, other than total reform (something about making world leaders "less impotent"). I can lend anyone the article if they are interested, there are plenty of great quotes from it that I did not use, mostly because they were much more involved, economically, or were just really, really huge.