Every time I take an international trip and reinforce my physical sense of the world as a single, connected physical planet (views out the window of vast oceans, continental shores etc) I am reminded of the utter bullshittiness of anti-globalism... (1/few)
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How can one reconcile globalism with the basic human urge to territorialize? It seems like statehood is a compromise and somewhat of an attempt to minimize territorial violence.
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I don’t think there’s a basic human urge to territorialize. The reverse in fact. We’re more nomadic than sessile.
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Why should anti-globalists get a vote on global issues? Why should I get a vote on women’s health? Why can’t we have segmentation of voting weight relative to the felt impact of the decision?
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This sort of thing is why I believe in weird ideas like global voting rights for everybody in proportion to how much they might be impacted by any local decisions. There is no local really.
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I think you just found that tone you were casting around for a little while back
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Resentful globalist with a grievance?

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I suppose the worry of a certain strand of anti-globalists is about the world becoming literally a single place through homogenization. Wolfgang Sachs has a good piece titled ‘One World’ that explores this tension and proposes ‘cosmopolitan localism’ as a way forward.
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