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PREVIEW: Return of the Tribes
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Dec 14, 2006 1:01pm
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•http://www.weeklystandard.com/Utiliti...
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From the page: "There is, indeed, a globalizing class, and hundreds of millions of human beings share the consumer tastes that announce their membership. Such people may well be more at home with foreigners of their own cultural stratum than with their less fortunate countrymen. For the upper-tier of these new aristocrats of globalization, place of residence and citizenship are matters of convenience, tastes, and tax codes. This is a nobility with no sense of responsibility to the serfs, and its members are shielded as never before from life's inconveniences.
"For the billions remaining, globalization and its consort, the information revolution, merely open a window into an exclusive shop they are not allowed to enter. The new awareness of the wealth of others is hardly pacifying. On the contrary, it excites the conviction that they can only be so rich because they stole what was ours.
"The uneven ability to digest the feast of information suddenly available even in the globe's backwaters doesn't bring humanity together. Rather, it disorients those whose lives previously had been ordered, and creates a sense simultaneously of being cheated of previously unimagined possibilities while having one's essential verities challenged. Feeling helpless and besieged, the victim of globalization turns to the comfort of explanatory, fundamentalist religion or a xenophobia that assures him that, for all his material wants, he is nonetheless superior to others."
[via Global Guerrillas]
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