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Sure, it takes a certain amount of money/privilege to access this sense. Even the cheapest flight that gives you a view of say the Pacific ocean or the physical non-fragmentedness of the Middle East is several hundred $. That does not make the "globe" in globalism a lie (2/few)
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Just because it's privileged people who are able to see and construct the world as a single, connected place does not mean that construct is false. Just because it's underprivileged people who have a narrower sense of place doesn't mean that narrower sense _isn't_ false (3/few)
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Just because "globalism" has become a synonym for a particular flavor of aristocratic elitist power emanating out of Davos doesn't mean Planet Earth is actually 200 little balls instead of one big ball. All globalisms have a powerful phenomenological foundation (4/few)
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Whenever I'm tempted to forget this and take dumbass nationalist boundaries and reified egregores too seriously, I consider animals and their ways of being on the planet. Like Arctic Terns that migrate 70,000 km roundtrips from pole to pole WITHOUT EVER GOING TO DAVOS (5/few)
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Or cats, which have colonized earth as well as humans. Or erupting volcanoes that affect weather 1000s of km away. Or New World vegetables that are now part of cuisines worldwide. Earth is a far more deeply connected place than our *political* experience of it suggests (6/few)
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tldr: Don't let shitty people with limited perspectives tell you that wanting to experience the planet as a single place is an evil thing or that their maps are the territory. (end/few)
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U can also know that anti-globalism is bunk without flying. Just anti-tribal empathy will do. Or living in borderlands. poor ppl en la frontera know that globalism is true. Even if we can't get a birds eye.
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Seeing huge mountains and swathes of ocean takes my breath away thing to comprehend their size, especially relative to us. I feel ya
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So a local Farmers Market is the complete antithesis of a global food giant like Cargill - how does your viewpoint sit with this? Would you you rather see the market crushed under the weight of the global food trade?
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